66jack

Boy did i luck out tonight...left a little show shine, hit the freeway and ended up behind some 18 wheelers.
When he moved over I took off...but...
TO LATE
CHP LASERED ME....
I seen him bail into his cruiser, caught up to me and lit me up...but i had slowed down...
Gave him everything he asked for as he told me my speed...83mph in a 70mph, was waiting for the book to be handed to me to sign my driving rights away...

HE LET ME GO WITH A WARNING........

THANK YOU OFFICER...

Railroadman

I bet you'll never do THAT again!

GeoffM

Whats the point in getting " a fast driving award" without the certificate

66jack

I definately was kissing some butt....but his warning went a long way...

Him saying, 80 is 80 and i would hate to have them scrape you up off the highway, especially in this car.

I haven't had a moving violation since 1996...it was in my PU in about the same location...

Powderboy

Not sure if its legal in CA but in WA you can use laser jammers.

66jack

Illegal as Hell...

http://www.radarbusters.com/californ...awsarticle.cfm

Powderboy

Ah, got it. I can neither confirm or deny that I’ve used a laser jammer but I hear they work great. At least in WA. I was aware radar jamming is a big no no in all states.

Lou64

I had had my car for a few months doing work on it to get it in decent running order and was driving it for the SECOND time. I still had out of state plates, forgot my proof of insurance and had no proof the car was even mine, as the registration was in my mother-in-law's name.

Got off with a warning from the IN state police in a Mustang GT. Considered framing the warning as a "first of many" in the Vette.

C6Matt

do you get written warnings?

66jack

Verbal, in my little episode...

capevettes

Glad you got a warning In almost 30 years of Police work, I never wrote a Corvette. I also haven't had a ticket myself in over 35 years

Frankie the Fink

The cops who patronized the sandwich counter in the little small town drugstore I worked at sometimes challenged the high school kids that ate there to drag races in their police cars. 50 years ago of course !!

capevettes

Yep Frankie, Those were the good old days. Now everyone watches everything. Almost makes it difficult to be a regular guy on the job now.

astronomy133

If you'd have been going faster than the speed of light the laser wouldn't have been a problem...

vettsplit 63

About a year ago I was coming back from some training when I topped a hill and met a red 70 model LT1 coupe. My radar was screaming. I turned on him and by the time I got to him, he had already pulled over. He told me that he was on a test drive to buy it, and was just running it thru the gears. We looked the car over pretty close, and I told him it looked like a really nice car, but I hoped that he didn't make a habit of that. He was pretty shocked when I turned around and went back to my car, turned around and drove away.

Frankie the Fink

Most LEOs are great folks -- you do have the occasional jerk though. I was coming home from a show late one night in Maryland on a back road with no lights and some guy was just hanging off the rear bumper of my '66 Mustang fastback mile after mile. Clearly goading me to jump on it and leave him. When the road opened up to 4 lanes, the guy passed me and sure enough it was a local county cop. My instincts paid off...

On the other hand a different cop from the same county let me go a year later after he caught me clearly ******* the car down the highway (fast!). I got a good talking to but showing respect and being polite pays off with these folks...

Willie'sVette

Interesting timing...I had just said this very thing last week , in one of Ratdog's threads, ...here's the copy & paste;

Any cop who's a couple of years out of the academy, knows that a older, well dressed guy, driving a classic car is not someone who is gonna cause him problems....in other words...he's gonna let a lot of things slide.

Got my license suspended TWICE driving my Nassau Blue vette in the late 60s...unless I'm doing 50 in a 25MPH zone, any cop today who sees me in my Nassau Blue is only going to think, "Damn...bitch'n car"

....of course, if the cop's female, she'll be saying, "Damn, bitch'n driver"

Oh big deal!....I could say the same thing!.....now....what I couldn't say & won't say is, "I haven't been pulled over in over ____ years"
...no further explanation coming

Makes it real hard to treat the really bad people of the world in the only way they understand...again...no further explanation...

MarkL36

Agree with all of the above. Police go on first impressions, if they sense an attitude then they will throw the book at you. My daughter dates a detective in the county where i live, and when I got pulled over for not wearing a seat belt recently, I refused to name drop like my wife does, and got off by just being polite to the man.

Frankie the Fink

Men are at a horrible disadvantage in such circumstances...we don't have cleavage... We are reduced to simply groveling...

Willie'sVette

Not in San Francisco.