Who has run from the cops?
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Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Michigan
A friend I was with tried to run in a saturn... He was going 70 in a 25 to see how fast he could get his saturn going... A cop was going to other way and he gunned it and turned onto a main road... Not to mention we were about a block from the police station, we were all drunk, and about 4 cop cars later... He should have got wreckless, DUI, and MPI. He got off with 15 over, the other kid in the car along with I got warnings for underage drinking. I may have run 4 or 5 times on my sleds, and 2 or 3 on my dirtbikes... But who hasnt....
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Tampa, FL
I drove my 2002 Nissan Maxima off the side of the road and ducked from the cops once. Streets were wet and I was coming off an exit ramp at too high a speed. Lost traction and slid of the highway into the median. Hit about 30 pine sapplings, blew out all four tires and totalled the car (pine sapplings "whip around" rather than snapping off)
I drove it back to the highway and parked in a motel parking lot. A security guard came out and asked if me and my buddy were alright. We said yes, and told him we'd just lost control. He called the cops anyway.
I ran on foot, behind the motel, jumped the barb wire fence into the wooded area, crossed over another interstate and hid out at the truck stop about a mile away, with my buddy in tow.
We got a ride and drove back by. about 7 state patrol and 4 or 5 county mounties were all over my totalled Maxima. They impounded the car, but I got it out the next day. They wanted to pin a DUI or fleeing or something, but I wasn't drinking and there wasn't really "an accident scene"; it was a 1 car accident.
Once in high school my buddy had a trick 92 Mustang 5.0 with nitrous, cams, pulleys.. built.. we outran a couple of city cops pretty easily. Which was stupid, because in my small town they already knew who we were. We got busted for that one the next day.
Have ran many times on motorcycles. Generally they just won't bother trying to chase a bike; too fast, too much risk of injury for a traffic stop. The one time I got popped for racing was when they brought in about 15 cars and 2 choppers to the bridge and closed in on us. I couldn't get away. Must have been 50-60 bikes and they caught only about 5 of us. No felonies on that one, but a bunch of misdemeanors.
Now, at age 31, it's not worth the money for a lawyer or the stress of jail time any more. I just pull over and take my lumps.
I drove it back to the highway and parked in a motel parking lot. A security guard came out and asked if me and my buddy were alright. We said yes, and told him we'd just lost control. He called the cops anyway.
I ran on foot, behind the motel, jumped the barb wire fence into the wooded area, crossed over another interstate and hid out at the truck stop about a mile away, with my buddy in tow.
We got a ride and drove back by. about 7 state patrol and 4 or 5 county mounties were all over my totalled Maxima. They impounded the car, but I got it out the next day. They wanted to pin a DUI or fleeing or something, but I wasn't drinking and there wasn't really "an accident scene"; it was a 1 car accident.
Once in high school my buddy had a trick 92 Mustang 5.0 with nitrous, cams, pulleys.. built.. we outran a couple of city cops pretty easily. Which was stupid, because in my small town they already knew who we were. We got busted for that one the next day.
Have ran many times on motorcycles. Generally they just won't bother trying to chase a bike; too fast, too much risk of injury for a traffic stop. The one time I got popped for racing was when they brought in about 15 cars and 2 choppers to the bridge and closed in on us. I couldn't get away. Must have been 50-60 bikes and they caught only about 5 of us. No felonies on that one, but a bunch of misdemeanors.
Now, at age 31, it's not worth the money for a lawyer or the stress of jail time any more. I just pull over and take my lumps.