lucky

 

I had a similar experience years ago. My friend and I would go out on the weekend and go driving in the afternoon. We would drive one of his cars and then I would get one of mine. Normally driving 3 or 4 different cars, all high performance.

Well he was driving very spirited but not crazy. Got pulled over and the officer came up and realized we were in 1967 426 Hemi. He was impressed and we spoke for a while. He let us go and just said to slow it down.

About 1 hour later we were in the 1966 Shelby Cobra (2 seater) and being "good", at least at that particular time. Blue light came on behind us and we pulled over. The officer walked up and saw us. He said "you guys again"?. We said yep, did we do something wrong? He said no, he just wanted to see the car. So we started talking again. A really nice guy on a nice afternoon.

 

So.... he gave you his phone number and asked if you wanted to go out sometime as he let you go with a warning instead of reckless and excessive speed and you said yes... so you kinda have a date huh? and you didn't even have to show him your *****!!!! ... Just kidding

See now If i was the cop I would have cuffed ya driven you bout 10 miles down the road and then had a change of heart and let ya out to walk back and learn your lesson all while my buddies stripped your car of any cool go fast stuff for my own personal off duty corvette toy...guess thats probably one reason I never became a cop

 

I did that once, but it was a good deal more than 128.

In Mexico....

 

This is America isn't it? The land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE? And sir, you were driving an American icon, correct? And you thought you were going to get a ticket for using 4th gear?

 

Man some really funny stuff here, Ive been laughing reading everyones responses, I know some are curious about where he was sitting at, I still am as well, I know that area very well, there are not many places to hide, its like he came out of thin air. I was so nervous during our conversation that I never asked him where he came from.

And I agree with Narco, There are many great officers of the law out there, I know that for a fact.

 

I got caught doing 80 in a 35 in East Oakland once; it was rough then, but not like now. East Oakland, CA--where they haven't been tolerant of anything in a looong time...

I'd overslept and was delivering newspapers before my auto-painting class. It started at 0700. I usually got up at 0300, but overslept by an hour; if I didn't shave time, I would be almost an hour late for class--two "lates" and you were struck from the roster.

As the cop walks up to the window, he says he's been trying to catch me for the last 45 minutes. He said he first spotted me back at 38th Ave, but I turned up the street and he lost me. Then he saw me 10 minutes later at 44th Ave, and tried to catch me again, but again I had turned. This went on 'all' morning until he caught me at 83rd, at the end of a straight run of about 1/2 mile to the second delivery route.

He said, "what the hell are you doing?"
"Delivering newspapers. I'm really late... I've got a class to get to after I'm done, and I thought 'I couldn't be late for that' and the lights are all green at this time of the morning and the street's abandoned, too, so..."
He waved his flashlight into the back seat and saw the stack of newspapers I had left bundled and rubber-banded.

"I figured it was something like that. I've watched you speed for months now. Usually, you're only 10-15 over the limit. Your get out of jail card just expired. You're gonna be late to class, right? If I ever catch you over the limit again, I'll write you up for this morning's 80. That sound good to you?"

"Yazzum! I'm gonna be late. It won't happen again."

"Right. On your way. It's gettin' daylight. You're gonna be late."

I had to tolerate the speed limit for almost another 9 months before I could quit that miserable job... Oh, sure, I cussed the damn 35mph sign a lot, but I never complained.

 

Nice to see common sense, but I wouldn't push my luck either.

 

dashcam/GoPro footage, or it never happened

 

I'd be happy to take you for a ride and show you first-hand. Just make sure you wear your Depends, I don't want a mess in my seat...

 

That's really awesome to hear, ever since I got my Vette it's opened up a whole new world of people to me. Everyone is quite nice

 

Anything over 100 in Oregon is bad. My car and sport bikes live 0-99 on the street. Glad you didn't get impounded.

 

Being a retired star packer has its perks too. I've been pulled over a couple of times by young PD guys who have come on since I left almost 10yrs ago. Each time I follow the same rules I expected from the public when I was doing the stopping. Yes sir, no sir, all the while keeping my hands on the wheel with my windows rolled down and engine off. He'll take your license and proof of insurance back to the cruiser, run you for valid OL and warrant check on you and the car. They come back and give a verbal warning and have a nice day. I'd be more cautious though if I was in State Trooper territory as they're not always as understanding of speeding retired cops.

 

No thanks, your next little adventure might not end so luckily


Hopefully, not this bad!

 

Glad that it worked out for you OP! See not all of us LEO's are bad. I have given more verbal warnings for speed than I have for speeding. I am a car guy and I respect other car guys. If you are weaving in and out of traffic and driving like a moron then you WILL get a receipt for my services, but on a dark lonely road with nobody around but me hiding in the dark a warning sometimes is all it takes.

The ultimate goal is to change behavior and if I feel a warning will change the behavior then that is what you will get.

Where was this cop friendly thread a week ago when there was a LOT of cop bashing in another thread?

Moral of the story...I am sure the OP will think twice about doing that again....cops mission accomplished!

 

Go buy a lottery ticket !

 

Just put the transmission back in my 00 formula. And was driving in on a major 6 lane highway where the limit was 35mph. Weird I know but there was many businesses to warrant that speed limit. Anyways a guy in a 300 wanted to test his car using mine as a baseline measurement gauge. Went through three gears (auto) and being about 6 cars ahead of the 300m. As i was letting off I saw the officer on the side of the road. I pulled over and waited for him car off and hands on wheel.

He came up to me asked for license and registration and insurance. Said he clocked me at 105 in a 35. Received a stern talking to. Told him I just got car back together and was trying it out. I also told him as soon as I saw him i pulled over so I wasn't relying to flee and knew I was wrong. Got my ticket which required to be seen in court.

Judge asked what I was doing so I told him same thing. Now here's the funny part. While the judge was deciding what to do he said well it is a 6 lane highway so he could see why I did it on that highway even though it was a 35mph zone. Gave me the max fine of 500.00 and sent me on my way. I was floored by that comment and so was most of the courtroom.

As I was walking out of the courtroom another officer commented at me that he would have towed my car. I told him glad I got a cooler officer than you are to pull me over. He really didn't like that retort.

 

For all my miscreance, I can honestly say that law enforcement has been very kind to me in my various misdeeds. I've only had one officer (amongst probably 50) that really gave me a rough time when it was absolutely not warranted. (Kind of makes up for the many times when it was).

However, those were in years past, and in today's world, you did indeed get very lucky sir!

 

You are a "LUCKY SOB". Some cops have a little common sense.

 

You are one fortunate man, my friend.

It takes a lot of restraint to drive these cars "legally".

I'd only had my car about a week when I was entering a downhill freeway on-ramp at about 90MPH, then I merged with traffic and saw a CHP go by. Lucky for me he was on his way to another accident.

I slowed down a little after that. I thought of possible jail time, car impounded, ticket cost, insurance increase and figured it just wasn't worth the risk.