Best police encounter??

Discussion in 'Kill Stories (Where Hemis Never Win)' started by no car, Dec 9, 2004.

  1. My3Buicks

    My3Buicks Buick Guru

    Immediately sent me on my way
     
  2. 300sbb_overkill

    300sbb_overkill WWG1WGA. MAGA

    Shouldn't be to hard on the guy for doing his job. If the car was stolen I bet you wouldn't of minded so much if he stopped the guy that took it.
     
  3. My3Buicks

    My3Buicks Buick Guru

     
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  4. gscalifornia

    gscalifornia Small blocks rule!!

    He told you exactly why he stopped you and everything he said was correct. You had classic plates which DO have restrictions for use. I wouldn't have been upset with the officer, he was just doing his job.
     
  5. My3Buicks

    My3Buicks Buick Guru

    Oh please, He knew there were restrictions, but there was nothing that I was doing that would have indicated in anyway that I was breaking any of those. He obviously didn’t know the law well since he made mention of the headlights, any idiot would know a car of the 60s had sealed beam headlights. I guess you had to be there and to have seen his attitude when He first stopped me to get the entire picture. Also I doubt his captain Would’ve replied as he did if he didnt think the stop was unwarranted. Isn’t it also odd that I’ve traveled all over the country for the next 30+ years and never had it happen again? And by the way, I typically travel at night so I’m in that situation often. Typical cop sympathizers
     
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  6. MrSony

    MrSony Well-Known Member

    In my regal I was out in the evening, not quite dark, but dark enough to where you need lights on, with my friends. The trans used to slip (cheap stall :p ) and I got mad about it popping out of gear at a stop light. So I mashed it. Car revved to about 4k and banged into gear, did a rolling burnout through the intersection right past the cop, who by the way had is lights on. He pulled me over, asked what the hell was that, I told him the transmission was slipping and that smoke was transmission fluid, which it was barfing at the time. He just told me to go home and fix it. I don't get into it with the police on a daily basis, all my other encounters can be counted on one hand, and none have ended up in me getting a ticket.
     
  7. Kenny462

    Kenny462 Gold Level Contributor

    my latest encounter was my doing 75 in 40 zone .cop followed me for seve ral blks before the dreaded red lite. cop was a very young man very nice. total blown with my red 72 car. even put away his ticket book. after 45min of bs I felt very hopeful .as he walked to the pd car he suddenly turned and said-----here is your ticket. cost me $350+day in driving school. + when I got home had face the real judge. informed me another ticket -out the door you and the red car go!!! I am now 77yrs old and much smarter.kenny462.
     
  8. faster

    faster Well-Known Member

    Ha, ha, ha... "The Real Judge"!



    Gotta tell this one...

    College in 1971 I dated a girl going to school with me from a small town whose father was the chief of police. I used to drive a 61 Chevy Biscayne and had to go through her town on my way home on the occasional weekend so I would drop her off and pick her back up. Anyway it is summer and I would ride my motorcycle to her town a few times a month to see her. Her mom wants to have a surprise birthday party for her husband the chief, thinks up a plan and has the three other town officers in on it. So I let her and her daughter (my girlfriend) and the three officers talk me into being the bait to lure him to the party.

    She tells me where he is setting up radar on a road coming into town. I'm coming to visit on this Sunday she wants to have the party, wants me to blast past on the bike, not stop and make him chase me to the party in the town square. I can't believe I'm gonna do this as she says keep him busy and out of the center of town for at least 5 minutes while everyone sets up. So I borrow a buddy's Norton Comando because he knows my Triumph Bonneville and stop a couple miles up from him waiting for the appointed time.

    Sooo, here I come, he is right where she said he'd be and I go through the 45 about 60, he steps out to wave me over but I breeze past. He runs back to his car to pursue. I turn left and right making him slow down and turn a lot so I don't have to go fast and really piss him off. The whole time I'm thinking he's gotta figure this out as I'm not really trying to loose him. I finally lead him to the town square, stop where the tables are set up, shut off the bike as he comes screaming up. He gets out madder than all get out making a bee line for me in spite of the crowd and I'm thinking I'm going to jail. His wife gets between us saying surprise with everyone else and the three officers laughing histerically at his dillemma of "how does he shoot me and call it justified". His daughter hugs him saying don't be mad at Mike, mom, me and your three officers put him up to it. He's calmed down now but comes up to me and says "if you ever pull another stunt like that you will spend a week in my jail".

    We all have a great time but I don't touch anything alcoholic!

    Mikey
     
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  9. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    20200414_190752.jpg Realized that I had posted my story here a few years back so here is another...

    In Denver in the mid to late eighties we used to cruise west of the city on West Colfax. (Kids today have no clue) One night I was in my 442. I ended up being in the center lane at one of the busiest intersections. Wadsworth for the locals. I had a later 70's Camaro and a 68 Firebird with a small block Chevy and no hood pull up on either sides of me. They were jawing back and forth. I yelled at them. **** neither of you are beating this Oldsmobile. Pissed both of them off. That light turned green and I pulled both of them like a Mother (never lost in that car). I went for second gear and noticed three Lakewood cops stuck on the opposite side of the street. All their lights came on instantly. I didn't even back out. I hit the highway and never looked back.
     
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  10. Brandon Cocola

    Brandon Cocola Well-Known Member

    I got pulled over by a state trooper for a headlight out, I couldn't get the light out to replace it. Not 3 miles after I got pulled over I got pulled over by a sheriff he walked up and said licence please, I said let me guess headlight as I handed him the ticket. He said who beat me to it, grazani (or something like that) God dam it. Walks up taps on the light and said I tried have a nice day.
     
  11. Golden Oldie 65

    Golden Oldie 65 Well-Known Member

    I was 18 years old and had a `67 GTO with a 400HO and TH400. I was cruising our local spot where pretty much everyone went on weekends. It was in Janesville, WI where the 'circuit', as everyone called it, was 3 lanes one way for about a dozen blocks or so, then jog over a block and cruised 3 lanes back the other way. I raced a 2nd Gen Z28 Camaro up courthouse hill, then jogged over a block and was headed back east when I was pulled over. The cop was nice enough. When he asked to see my license and saw that I was from a neighboring town he simply said he was going to let me go as long as I agreed to leave town and not come back that night. Of course, I agreed. The reason, he said, was because he did the same chit when he was my age. Before I left I asked him, "Just curious, but why did you pull me over instead of the other guy?". He kinda laughed and said, "Because you won". Good night, officer :D
     
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  12. Prairie Piston

    Prairie Piston Well-Known Member

    There was a time when I would get pulled over every weekend by the police. I picked up my friend and his brother to go cruising. The older brother wrote on the window f*** you pigs. We laughed and his brother in the back seat wrote it backwards so you can read it properly from outside. We laughed and the brother wiped it off his window... my buddy in the back didnt. Well we were underage and cruised by a beer store to see if we could get someone to bootleg for us. Well there were two cop cars with their lights on shining into my car as I drive by. I’m sure y’all know the rest of the story.....
     
  13. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Gosh, There were so many run in's with the cops back in the day its tough to pick the best one. many of them ended up with me going to jail. I was actually was arrested 3 times in 1 day for DWLSR. First 2 times I bonded out and walked back to where the car was parked. 3rd time they didnt let me out.

    Probably back in 78- 79 I was driving a 65 chevy van with a 327 and a glide behind it. 4:11 factory posi rear. MT50's and little pie cutters on the straight axle. Was rolling through the local supermarket parking lot and saw a big wet spot in front of the garden center. Water Box! Rolled through it without a second though and roasted the 50's. Huge cloud of smoke. Admiring my handy work in the rear view mirror I see the red and blue lights coming through the fog. Fat ticket!

    Another one. Flying down the road in a rural part of Pinellas county near Indian rocks beach in a 73 Delta 88 2 door. Not a rocket but still would roll pretty nice. Blast by a parked cop. I saw him, he saw me and I pulled over. Fat cop walks up and says Son, You get my fastest speeder of the day award! Me being the smart ass I was says " Great, do i get a prize?" I did and it was around 300$ and 3 points.

    Few years back I was in a local parade which was part of the celebration for the Olustee civil war battle here in North Florida. My sister was part of a Mustang club and they were driving in the parade. Sue asked me if I wanted to join in. I brought the Riv, we all lined up and got put towards the rear of the parade. People on the street were yelling "Light em up" So what else could I do? Little bit of power brake as we rolled along here and there . Got up in front of the judging stand. The mayor and town big wigs up there and I do a very slow controlled smoky drift around the last corner. heck there was a float in front of me and didnt even come close to it. Cops swarmed, surrounded the car, spectators booed the cops. I thought those guys were gonna beat my ass. Ended up getting a reckless driving ticket. Retained a local lawyer who for just a minor fee of 1000$ got it thrown out of court. Seems that a parade is by nature an
    exhibition and I was only exhibiting for the crowd. If I was to get ticketed then the horse that crapped on the street or people throwing candy should be charged with littering.
     
  14. Brad Conley

    Brad Conley RIP Staff Member

    Dennis, that was the best $1000 you ever spent for a lawyer. Only a lawyer can come up with that excuse!
     
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  15. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    Side note. A few years later I was at a car show and a guy comes up and says he saw a car like this one do a burn out in the parade. He was on the judging stand with the mayor and big wigs. Told me everyone up there loved it and they felt the cops over reacted.
     
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  16. lemmy-67

    lemmy-67 Platinum Level Contributor

    Drinking beer -w- friends on shore of Hudson River near Pirate Canoe Club, cop pulls up, gets out of cruiser, peeks into front seat of one of our cars & sees the Rhinegold 6-packs and says to himself: "oh my g**, times are tough, aren't they? Wouldn't even confiscate that sh*t...just dump it right into the river."

    Says we're on Conrail property & have to leave, and just lets us all go home.
     
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  17. BUICKRAT

    BUICKRAT Got any treats?

    I can't talk about mine cause I'm pretty sure a few state cops still want a piece of me, but I had to put that car in hiding for a few years, and when it came out, it was a different color.
     
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  18. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    I so hear you. I had a driver version of this car with a white top. Had a 455 and nobody expected it to be fast. I raced everyone. I know they looked for my under cover car many times.
     

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  19. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    Then I got a car just like this minus the wing and W-30 option. Had the hood factory though. Learned to miss blending in ha ha.
     

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  20. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    So I got my 442 at 18. We used to street race on the outside of town. I had been there most of the day with this girl I knew. We were about to leave and a guy in a 72 Chevelle asked me to run him. No hood nice nice car. Rebuilt 454. I am all stock. I say ok. He can't run it all in. Very fresh motor. We go. I pull on him way more than he expected. We run hard. I look ahead. I can see a cop off his bike with a-radar gun in the weeds. I back out. They finally pass me thinking I broke. I hung a u turn. Came down told people to scatter. Hard left. Hard right.... Into that car. All of a sudden cop heading towards me comes right at me. I pull over and here comes the cop in the weeds. Man he was pissed. Told me if that girl wasn't with me he would have taken me in. 85 in a 25. Speed contest. Careless driving. Wreckless driving. 26 points. Ouch
     
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