Run In With The Law
08-01-01, 12:02 PM
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Run In With The Law
yeah, I was blasting through my fave set of curves last night at 80-90 (pretty typical), having a blast, and get to the top of a little rise and there's a cop waiting...he immediately pops his blue lights on before I even get to him....I floor it in fourth.....110....look in my rear view and he does a u-ie to come after me and totally loses control of his car!! he is sitting completely sideways in the road!! finally he regains control, turns off his lights and starts coming after me. I motor through the next stop light just as it turns red....never saw him again
I can't even imagine what kind of trouble I'd get into with a 500 hp Supra or something
I can't even imagine what kind of trouble I'd get into with a 500 hp Supra or something
08-01-01, 08:25 PM
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Man, that's bad ***. That kind of stuff scares me. I fear the day when I have to run again. If they ever catch you it's over for driving. I'm glad you got away
08-02-01, 01:56 AM
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Almost the same thing happened to me friday. I was about 1/2 mile from my house and I am motorin down the road and let off and I am going 50 in a 35 when I see the cop. He slams on his brakes and turns his lights on as I go bye. He is trying to do a U-turn and there is a truck right on his *** when he slammed on the brakes. he hesitates to do the U-turn with the truck on his ***! I was watching in the rear view and see I have a chance! I mash it and tear down the road doing about 90 take a hard left on my parents street and the second driveway on the right is my house! I turn in the driveway hard hoping he hasnt caught up enough to see me turn. Go down the 600 foot driveway and hide my car behind my dads truck. Jumo out before the cop can see me in the car and I run into the house. My knees knockin hoping I wasnt seen. I dont think the cop even pulled a right onto my street. I think I lost him in the curves before I even took my turn. I was waiting for a visit but nothing. Looks like i got away. Usually I wont run unless I know I have a very good chance of getting away and that I wont have to drive like a mad man and maybe kill someone or myself. Thats why I watched him and saw he had little to no chance. From a dead stop he would have had to had some wild **** to catch up and I was so close to the house I had it in the bag. Dont try this unless you know the roads and they are empty and you have a huge jump.
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08-02-01, 08:27 AM
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The only times I've ever ran from the cops was with my T2 in Okinawa Japan. If anyone knows about Oki, I was going down 58 right before Camp Foster started doing about 160kph. There was a JP car that just pulled up to the intersection as I was cruising by. Either he didn't see me, which I doubt, or just thought it hopeless to catch me. It was a black car, black wheels, quiet exhaust and just had running lights on. The JP's in Japan don't give chase to many street racing cars in their standard cruisers. They have hopped up Skylines, Tourer V's, and Aristo's. The first 2 of which aren't even made in the US and Aristo's are some model Lexus.
08-02-01, 10:41 AM
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My only experience 'running' from the cops was in an 84 peugeot station wagon, which at the time had an expired tag. I was sitting at the stoplight when the police cruiser pulled up in the adjacent lane behind me. I saw that he saw the expired tag, so I turned right and he changed lanes and followed, not turning on the lights yet. The light up ahead was just turning red and traffic was coming out, so I made that right turn just in front of the traffic, putting a ton of cars between me and the cop. I motored away in leisurely fashion, making a few turns to throw him off the track.
08-02-01, 11:09 AM
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08-02-01, 11:10 AM
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Had a good one last night, goin to a friends house last night, doin about 95-100 and a cop went by me in the opposite direction, he immediately slammed on his brakes and went to make a u turn, i gunned it, the roads are curvey so he really couldn't see me all the time, i hit about 130 and began slowing down to take a side road, flipped my lights off and coasted around the corner at about 30. used the ebrake to stop and i see him fly by with his lights on. It was dark and i was hidden by a nice little hill.. I waited a few minutes and i get back on the highway, i start headin in the same direction and what do i see agiain, the same damn cop headin back by me, he flips around again and on come the lights, i pull over, he immediately comes up to the car and looks at me, looks at my car and immediately apologizes and says he was looking for a dark colored corvette and lets me go.... SWEET
08-02-01, 01:08 PM
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A friend of mine tried that, but got caught...now he's still cleaning up the freeways of Southern California for community service. Cops gave him a brake cause once they followed him thru a couple of turns he just pulled over...he was driving a 12 sec civic at the time hahaha.
08-02-01, 02:04 PM
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see the thing in cali is that you will have helicopters on you in no time, out here in illinois (middle of nowhere), there is no chance for that, yeah the cops have radios but they aren't equipped with E.S.P., they cant really anticipate your moves.......
08-02-01, 02:15 PM
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That was the good thing about po-dunk Missouri too. It was easy to get away from the cops, especially on the country roads where they Y off all the time or gravel roads that are to damn dusty to follow anyone, of course, that being the cop behind you.
08-02-01, 02:32 PM
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i was driving on rt 80 here in NJ, followin a speeding pickup in my fd. we are going about a 120 weaving through traffic. he cuts off a big rig. i slow down. then i hear over a bull horn "license plate xxxxx you were doing 120mph back there SLOW DOWN OR YOU WILL BE WALKING!" look to my blindspot state trooper looking very ANGRY, slow down to speed limit. wave to cop. then he procedes to chase the truck or had something more important to do. either way i got a stern highspeed yelling at by a state trooper. 
i'm very lucky guess he like my car 
i'm very lucky guess he like my car
08-02-01, 02:42 PM
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I think cops are more likely to give a person a speeding ticket if they have a car that shouldn't be going that fast rather than a car that was made to go that fast.
08-02-01, 09:28 PM
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I don't usually run, but I just got a ticket a couple of months ago and I figured this one would be reckless driving or some ****, so I decided to go for it...
the key is to stay as calm as possible and don't drive over your head, just maintain a steady fast pace, put as many cars as possible between you and the cop, and get off the main drag as soon as possible....block off your license plate light for night driving, too, that helps
btw, after I got my car safely in the garage and the door down I walked outside...about 5 mins later the cop is driving through the neighborhood real S-L-O-W...lookin around...I waved at him, ha
I used to run alot on the motorcycle....on a bike I feel much more confident because the acceleration and braking will lay waste to any car out there, plus you can pass multiple cars in your way like they are standing still
the only way I kept my license as a teenager was a combination of my dad being a cop (getting me out of at least 10 tickets) and running...pretty dumb I know, but what can I say, I'm a speed junkie....
the key is to stay as calm as possible and don't drive over your head, just maintain a steady fast pace, put as many cars as possible between you and the cop, and get off the main drag as soon as possible....block off your license plate light for night driving, too, that helps
btw, after I got my car safely in the garage and the door down I walked outside...about 5 mins later the cop is driving through the neighborhood real S-L-O-W...lookin around...I waved at him, ha
I used to run alot on the motorcycle....on a bike I feel much more confident because the acceleration and braking will lay waste to any car out there, plus you can pass multiple cars in your way like they are standing still
the only way I kept my license as a teenager was a combination of my dad being a cop (getting me out of at least 10 tickets) and running...pretty dumb I know, but what can I say, I'm a speed junkie....
08-02-01, 10:54 PM
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Hey Vosco,
Don't ya hate that blind spot on the FD? I had a cop down here in Tx do the same thing to me.
Now I learned how to drive on a late model Camaro, but that C pillar has nothing on the FD's!
Don't ya hate that blind spot on the FD? I had a cop down here in Tx do the same thing to me.
Now I learned how to drive on a late model Camaro, but that C pillar has nothing on the FD's!
08-03-01, 06:01 AM
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Same thing happend to me about 8 months ago. To bad I was not in my FD. I was driving a 1994 Porsche 968 6spd. Cop was after me for about 2 miles at about 135mph. He was way behind me, I still cant believe they still use crown vics after people like me and all of you, You'd think they would use there mustang GT's like they did in the early 90's. On the turnpike radio station the cops were announcing a red 2 door car "Most likly a VW Carrado" that made my day. Now I just have to get a RX7 as fast as a Porsche 968.
08-03-01, 09:36 AM
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Originally posted by Rix7
Aren't cops supposed to go to some driving school so they can learn to control their car in situations like that?
Aren't cops supposed to go to some driving school so they can learn to control their car in situations like that?
Those Crown Vics are fairly impressive for a domestic. Here are some of the things they have over the norm.
Stronger A-Frame
GT rated tires (though with stock aspect ratios)
Harder suspension
4.6 DOHC or a 350 DOHC (Saw this a few years ago,) tuned by Ford Motorsports
The ECU is made and programmed for the police by Ford Motorsports. When the car is retired, the ECU has to be removed and sent back to the factory. There are some tight controls on it.
Still, they hate us because our car's 10% contribuition to our driving is enough to get away from one of them. Now get a group and some choppers, that might be a different story