luck sob

today i was on my way over to drop my front zo6 wheels off at a shop a buddy of mines owns way out in the bonnies. well on my way back home i was on this long ass stretch of road and i just had to do it...yup see how fast she will go up to. well after i hit 130 i started to slow down and i dont know why but i just did. as i started to slow down i noticed my radar detecter going off on ka band. i was like fuck. sure enough comming the other way on the other side of the road was florida's finest...damn state trooper. for those of u who live here in florida u all know those guys are asses all the way around and they love nothing more than throwing your ass in jail. well today was my lucky day. since he had to get to a u turn spot which i had just passed, i just went ahead and pulled the hell over, hell i was caught red handed lol. so after he pulls behind me he gets out askes me where was i in a hurry to get to. i told him i wasnt going to lie i had a stall converter put on the car and i just was testing the thing out, and this long empty road was just tempting to me and i know it was wrong. he asked me to come sit in his car and we would look and see what he could do for me. so naturaly i went to the back dooe, and he fucking laughed at me and was like naa u can sit up front. this guy was fucking cool as hell. he pulled my driving record up on the laptop he had on board and was showing me my record and what do u know, liscence was suspended for paying my insurance late. he told me it wasnt a big deal just get it taken care of asap, gave me my license and insurance card, told me it was my lucky day and sent me packing. he said he clocked me at 108 but i slowed down fast as hell and he laughed. and let me go. i guess when u dont act a ass when u get pulled over and be a dick to the cop u may get lucky. i just had to tell u guys this story i should be in jail right now, and the f1 should be inponded as we speak lol. damn that was long as hell to type lol

Damn, you did luck out. Some cops are cool and you did get lucky to be caught by one. Must have been nerve-racking though. I hoped you learned your lesson (probably not)...
but its good to hear from ya'.

Pulling over before they get a chance to get behind you has worked everytime for me, shows them you know your wrong and they don't have to drive like crazy to catch up to you. Easy way to get on their good side.

I love cops like that. Back when I had little tires on my Jeep to pass inspection it slipped out of gear and ended up in the middle of the road outside of my house. Well at about 1 a.m. I get woken up by a siren and lights flashing through my window. The cop was cool about it, and he asked why I took the big tires off and I told him it wouldn't pass inspection with the tires sticking out 6 inches past the fender and he said "Hell, who cares? Put the damned things back on there."

Isnt' it an awesome feeling when they catch you red handed and let you go.

i did NOT know cops on the other side of the highway had the ability to clock. i thought radar guns only work at 90* angles. (headon,from the side, behind..so on)

hell yeah they can get u from in front of u...it was a road that was 2 lanes in each direction with a small median in the middle. speed limit goes up and down from 45- 55 depending if u are comming up on a residential area. but yeah they can clock u front back and side to side...(thats a song right lol). and he was a cool old guy...chewing gum and everything. he really said come on back here and lets see what i can do for u. i was thinking slap the cuffs on me and take my car away on a flatbed, but he really looked at my record told me to take care of what i needed to and let me go. shook my hand and everything

The last cop I talked to was an ass. My neighbors called the cops on me for 'noise' because I ran open headers for a few days after the header install. They called at 7:30 in the evening and I got a knock on the door around 8. I didn't even drive the car that day. Won't go into details...

Man, you lucked out big time. These Florida troopers are no joke. I remember when I came down to Tampa to buy those t-tops from you, there was like a whole line of troopers (must have been like 10 of em) sittin in the median of the northbound traffic on I-75, a couple miles north of where I-75 branches off and I-275 begins. Man was it crazy, they had one cop standing out in front with the radar gun and he would just start peggin people, and flag the next cop in line to go pull them over.

Tell the truth...GENIUS, do you have big brakes on your F1 or something?

I have a story. On the way to Albany, still on Long Island on the expressway, it was starting to rain and my dad was in the car with me (in my 240sx). I started using the brake around bends and he's afraid we're going to hydroplane but I tell him I know what I'm doing. Then we both decided on a good average speed of 75 and not to go above it. Well I did, in the rain and we passed a cop hiding in the divider, and what do you know, stupid me brakes lightly and quick and my dad's like, geezus you don't brake when you see a cop. This time the cop for sure saw my taillights red but he can't do anything about it. my dad tells me his buddies are going to catch me in the act up ahead so I try not to do it again, in the rain mind you. AGAIN I see a cop and brake from 80 to 70, my dad panics, this time I did it so fast the cop wouldn't see me braking, haha. I saw one last cop and did the same thing and got onto the bridge and out of their hair, never pulled over. I was just trying to catch up to my mom because we started off late. I also blame rock music.

stupid me brakes lightly and quick and my dad's like, geezus you don't brake when you see a cop. This time the cop for sure saw my taillights red but he can't do anything about it.

I know when I'm in a similiar situation like that, I use my e-brake. Works like a charm, and no lights to worry about.

i guess when u dont act a ass when u get pulled over and be a dick to the cop u may get lucky.
absolutely true. i learned this first hand when i did that long burnout in front of my school last year. got pulled over by a trooper (generally referd to around here as the ass holes of law enforcement). told the trooper i was "just" learning how to drive a manual and let the clutch out too fast :lol: . he said i had a good attitude and he let me off with a warning.

Radars can radar cars in any direction and more than one car. You did get lucky, next time he probably won't be so nice haha. How's the car doing?

dam your lucky, im always nice(only 2 time iive been pulled over) speeding ticket i got away with, but an asshole cop gave me a ticket for a burnt out taillight

Nice, and yea, I've always found that basically bending over for them lol will work out the best

yeah i have an upgraded break system on the car now (ebc) they are sweet. and the car is doing fine, she will be all normal once i get my front rims back. i also have the front lip on her now so she looks like an rs like she is supposed to now. the jackass who owned her before me somehow riped it off the car. the holes were in the bumper for it and striped. so i know it was on the car at one point. i kept the one off the black rs and i painted it myself and its on the car now. looks great. but on a real note, i couldnt beleave how calm i was knowing how fast he clocked me at. and im sitting in his car asking about his laptop and how fast the car was lol. just shooting the shit with this guy

You got real lucky.

One time back in '88, I was busted for "expired tags", but the plate on the car really didn't belong to the car so I was cited for fictitious plates, driving on a suspended license (yes, I was an angel on the roads back then LOL), no insurance and oh yeah, expired registration. I sat in the back seat of the cop car (a Celebrity 2.8 liter, wow performance!), and talked to the cop through that Lexan shield - after a while he just wrote me tickets and told me to walk home. I'm sure the conversation I had with him helped keep me from going to jail that night. Afterward, I parked the car and did not drive again until 1993 once I was able to pay off the fines and get my license back.

damn 5 years later......thats a minute. and im glad that trooper didnt make me walk home, that would have been a loooooong walk lol