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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:51 pm

Often when I'm sitting in traffic, which is often, I wish, fantasize even, that a genie will appear to grant me 3 wishes. Well aside from wishing for an unlimited, never-ending supply of $$$$ & my dream closet which would, in a perfect world, rival the size of a football field & be designed like a piece of pop art (think Lichtenstein) & neatly filled with all the accoutrements every fashionista needs to survive, with a cute little escalator to shoes/accessories, a bridge leading to the jewelry section w/ a little bonzai forest growing underneath & the room itself would be kind of bizarro Hansel & Gretel, ok well I'm getting off track w/ this closet fantasy.

Anyway, the 3rd thing I'd definitely wish for is the ability to make the traffic disappear, like in Bruce Almighty. In fact i have tried to command the other drivers to get out of my way, with an iffy success rate that probably has nothing to do with my verbal commands.

Well I was flying along as conditions permitted and the genie so to speak appeared!! jump_4_joy

A cop car gets in front of my car. Ordinarily I would have been fuming that someone got in front of me period plus sort of cut me off too, but he was going even faster than me, so how can I complain at such a twist of fate? I must say it has never happened to me that I got to directly follow beind a cop car, there have always been other cars between me & my genie, which means I could only really go at my normal speeds. But it has finally happened!! First of all, 95% of cars are doing what they can to immediately get out of the way so they can act like they were going the speed limit (much love to those drivers). Then there are the ones who don't get out the way but slow down to 5mph below the speed limit (these drivers should be shot in the a$$ @ dawn). Although there was a silver lining to even this despicable situation, weaving in & out of traffic w/ no opposition whatsoever!!! The best part...taking curves at 90-100mph. I was so invigorated, adreniline bursting out of my ears, I could have cried when the cop got off the highway. Crying or Very sad

I feel like it's my lucky day. Maybe I should play the Mega Millions Laughing

Just had to share this magnificent experience.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Nice...

I doubt that could happen here.... even in emergencies the police do about 40 in a 30 zone Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:16 pm

I am so sorry. Sad

Emergency or no emergency, the cops here drive like bats out of hell & they refuse to pay their red light tickets when just randomly running red lights in non-emergency situations. Evil or Very Mad

I'm certainly not opposed to driving like a bat out of hell, I just don't like that they can do it w/o fear of a ticket. It's just not fair!

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

I watched one of these cops and cameras programs once. It had an insane manic doing a "dangerous" 92mph down the motorway. The very next day I was passed by a police car going fast, with no lights or siren going. Since he had caught me by surprise and I wasn't doing the speed limit myself I decided to see how fast he was going. 95mph.

Another time I was driving along minding my own business when a car overtook me, and then overtook the car in front. In doing so he left almost no time to get out of the path of a car coming in the opposite direction. The car coming in the opposite direction was a police car. It switched it's lights on, turned round behind me and came racing back. It overtook me, and then in overtaking the car in front of me, it did exactly the same thing as the car it was chasing had done. I suppose it isn't dangerous driving when they do it.

Yet another time I went out to buy a bag of chips (french fries to the yanks). Due to various factors this involved a trip of a few miles. On the way I passed a police station, and a police car pulled out and followed me all the way to the chip shop. Of course, we did the journey at 30mph. The police woman and I each bought our lunch and then I made sure that she was in front for the return trip. We went back at 40mph.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:58 pm

I wonder what would happen if I outfitted my car w/ a radar detector & camera & sent the pics of the cops speeding to the police department or if I took out an add in the paper to publish the pics, or if I put the pics on the web. This is another thing I fantasize about when I'm stuck in traffic & see the cops doing whatever they damn well please.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:50 pm

^^ If you fancy publishing pics of LEOs acting like idiots, PM me. I can link you to a site that might be interested in such a thing, but its wayyyyyy political & I'm not going to post it and end up hijacking this thread with debates.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:52 pm

^^PM sent

Edit: Something weird happened & it posted same post 3x, deleted 2. Wink

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:40 pm

I used to like driving fast. In fact, on a motorway, I would never travel at anything less than 100mph. I had a SAAB 900 turbo that used to cruise very nicely at 120mph. A 6 month ban soon put a stop to that.

Now I only ever go over a ton if I'm pretty sure there are no cops around. I normally hover around the 95mph mark. It's points and a fine if I get stopped but at least it's no ban.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:42 pm

Public transit systems FTW!

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:53 pm

Amazingly I've only ever gotten 1 speeding ticket in my life, which wasn't my fault. I could have been arrested for how fast I was going...in a school zone during double fine time no less, but he knocked it down to the minimum, $36 & no points, b/c again, I didn't mean to be driving that fast, which is actually the truth. I always try to keep it reasonable in school zones. My baby maxes out at 160mph, the # is there taunting me every time I get in the car...but one day, one day...

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

@thefife: My fantasy is stopping one of the speeding police cars, strolling up to the driver's window and asking "is this your car, sir?"

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:05 pm

my wife has only one speeding tic. in her life and it was in a chevy sprint. a one liter 3 cyl. car. when she had her 454 big block caprice. never once did she get pulled over.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:14 pm

@thud

Does your fantasy include asking the offending officer to "please step out of the vehicle sir?" or saying "sir, I'm going to need you to go ahead and put both hands on the hood of the vehicle" or "can I take a look inside the vehicle sir?" Laughing

I wonder what those speeding cops are hiding in their cruisers. Bank loot?