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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 09:10am PT
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Anybody else get two speedos in three hours? My excuse of trying to get away from the
Mt St Helens eruption didn't cut it. Of course, technically, I got the first one while headed
towards the eruption BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT and the phuktard cop didn't tell us.
So much for "To Serve and Protect". I guess he was just bent from seeing me drifting out
of the curve as he went into it. BFD, I was in my lane! At least those dirtbags in the back
got the car aired out before I pulled over.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 20, 2017 - 10:42am PT
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My wife likes fast sports cars. She also likes it when I drive. So there we were going up CA14 between Landcancer and Mojave. The road was empty, we were talking, and I was paying zero attention to the speedometer, which is not exactly the most prominent gauge on the Porsche dashboard. Then I saw the CHP go by in the opposite direction. I took my foot off the gas and glanced in the mirror to see him pulling a fast u-turn across the median. I also saw some sort of Toyota sedan thing gaining on me and then passing me at high speed. Whew.
The cop came beside us, no flashing lights, looked at me and signaled with a hand gesture "PULL OVER". Then he hit the lights, jammed ahead and pulled over the other guy. There we were, Toyota in front, cop in the middle, and us in back. The cop went up and talked to the other guy first. Then he came back to us.
"I pulled you over for speeding, do you know how fast you were going?"
"No sir, I wasn't paying attention until I saw you. I realized I was going too fast and I slowed down." Magic words.
The cop went up, used his trunk lid for a desk, wrote the other guy a ticket and gave it to him. Now it was just him and us.
"You really don't know how fast you were going?"
"I'm sorry officer, we were talking, I wasn't watching my speed but when I saw you I slowed down."
"I had you at 97 coming over the rise." I was surprised. He continued, "Okay, you sound fair enough. The other guy insisted he was doing 75, and he passed you." He bent down to take a closer look at us. "I don't suppose you see a lot of dead people in your line of work?" He didn't wait for an answer. "You know, I really hate when I have to watch what's left of a nice looking couple like you get scraped up out of the sand after your car went end over end across the desert because some tweaker cut you off!"
He continued his lecture as we sat in stunned silence. He pointed out that we weren't on a freeway. Despite the traffic lanes being separated by a median, dirt roads intersect with the highway at regular intervals. "You see those trailers out there? Every so often one of those damn tweakers decides to drive out and get on the highway... Your car handles pretty well I bet."
"Yes Sir."
"Well it won't handle so well going end over end across the desert after some tweaker pulls out right in front of you."
Once satisfied that he had made his point he ended up giving me a warning. To this day I never do more than five over on that stretch of road.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 10:55am PT
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^^^^ What they really hate is all the paperwork.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 01:25pm PT
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^^^^^ Was driving through a remote stretch of southern Idaho just north of
the Utah border in a Pontiac LeMans. I came over a crest with one of those
huge valleys spread before me with the road going straight as an arrow.
I put the hammer down on the Hemi and had a nice easy 110 going when I saw
four cars come over the crest towards me from about 4 miles away. My inner
radar detector alerted although the real one didn't. I backed off to 95.
My 20/15 still couldn't pick out a tool ride when we got down to a mile so
I held my speed. Hey, I was only doing 25 or 30 over! When we got down to
a half mile I got suspicious about the third car in the file. When we got
within 300 yards I saw the bumper pads for pushing cars off the road and
locked 'em up at the exact split second my detector went off. He was otherwise
unmarked. Smoke billowed from the wheel wells and I was down to the limit
in a second. As he went by I saw him look down. I figured I was toast
but he didn't do a U turn. He must have pulled the trigger when he picked
it up but before he got it aimed at me which was enough for my top-of-the-line
detector. When I hit the crest leaving the valley and got into a big
curve I ran her back up to the ton++ mark and made for the Utah border.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 20, 2017 - 06:52pm PT
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Left the Great Ski Race in a US government truck driven by a friend who always drove fast and was blind as a bat...This was when they still had kegs at the finish line...We were sh#t-faced but not enough to hamper our driving skills....WE were going 85mph down I-80 when we blew by a NHP who immeadiately pulled out and chased us down...I thought we were going to jail and told my friend that i was going to get out and run for it if the NHP got squirrely....The NHP guy was cool and couldn't have been over 25...He gave my friend a $15.00 waste of resource ticket and let us off...As he started to walk away my friend told him that i was planning on running for it if he got squirrely...The cop smiled and said have a nice day...He had to have smelled the apple bong..
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2017 - 08:07pm PT
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I got pulled over in Manila, well actually my driver did. The traffic is so slow that the cops just walk between the cars and cite people for doing what ever you could possibly do going 1.5 mph. Anyway I think my driver got busted for being stuck in an intersection while the light was red. Not that you'd know since the traffic lights are single led bulbs behind some colored plastic.
In any case my driver was bummed because it takes a long time to take care of a simple ticket. No mailing it in, he'd have to spend a whole day in court not counting the commute time. He lived about 4hrs away.
Anyway he slipped the cop 200 pesos (about $4.00 and we were good to go.
Another time the same driver went through an uncontrolled intersection without looking and we got T Boned by a Jeepney. The driver lost his job.
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