only run from the cops when you have a decoy

Amen to that Sam.
They have my total respect and running away from anyone in a car is stupid regardless the reason. I could never live with myself knowing I maimed or killed someone pulling such a stunt.

 

No runnin' from the law. No gettin' pulled over. Not even movin'. I was stopped at a red light, middle lane. Highway Patrol next to me in the left lane. Left turn arrow turns green and the left turn people make their turn. The cop, sees them move and moves into the intersection when his light is still red. When he realizes he's done the dumb move and is sitting out there embarassing himself, he flips on the lights, hits the gas and turns left like he's after somebody. He got down the street about a block, and turned off the lights and drove away. Some times even cops do dumb things. I laughed my a** off for the next three miles.

 

We did some dumb things when I was a kid.. I got pulled over after 9, before I was old enough to drive after 9, at least 20 times before I ever got a ticket. And there was this time an off-duty cop "arrested" me for loitering - at the place I worked at the time... Chief of police had me sign a release saying I wouldn't sue them over that one, so that tells you how good their case was. Same cop later fired back at some guys who had hostages in their car with them, don't know how he kept his job.

I had a buddy once that kept looking out the back of the car one night when a cop started following us, he'd turn around and lean with his hands on the bottom seat cushion. Three guys in a car late at night, they thought maybe he was stuffing a stash of drugs, so they pull us over. He had to drop his pants on the side of the road - funny now, but pretty traumatic for the kid at the time. Of course, no one had any drugs at all.

Anymore though I behave pretty well. Cops are just guys with a job to do, too, their job is just a lot riskier than a lot of others.

 

Hmm let's see, the cop gives the kid the benefit of the doubt and doesn't write him, and then the kid screams at him, and still no ticket..yeah that could happen.

 

I got pulled over while driving my 50 in teh suburbs (city cops don't care about anything!) I had year of manufacture plates on and he thought they looked odd.
Where are your 'real' plates?
In the trunk!
That's a good place for them.
I had to explain Illinois law to the COP... you can run YOM plates if you have valid plates in the car somewhere.
He didn't seem to know that blue dots are illegal in IL... and I didn't remind him

He then proceded to tell me all about the 80s Monte Carlo he was restoring. I bit my tongue

 

I just felt I should post a reply because people have great stories and can see that this was just a story of my interactions with the law in a manner that seemed harmless to me,but it pissed of some senior members. I have respect for the law and the last item I was stopped by a cop he basically told me to fight the ticket in court because he only wrote me the tickit because I was involved in a crackdown on a certain road that the ricers tend to favor here in town. He was cool, I respect cops and the work that they do, which is why I felt it was appropriate to explain the details of the situation, no one was harmed by a police chase because there was'nt one, I pulled off the road and shut my car down and my lights off and sat on the side of the road there was a satin black 51 plymouth shortly behind me, I turned off and he went straight and the cop pulled him over he mixed words with the cop, they were both hot collared and when all was finished the cop left the scene he was cooled off and they shook hands before he left the cop told him to have a nice night. I parked my car at my house and that was the end of the night. No wreckless driving or hell on wheels car chase, just a case of mistaken identity. sorry to the old timers who I offended I just wanted to learn some tales of mischief from other hambers, did'nt mean to cause problems. thanks Ray and thanks to those who had good tales to tell.