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Old 12-02-06 | 06:44 AM
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Gotta love small towns

Well on the way to dunkin donuts this morning, I was going down my road which has quite a few nice curves in it and as I went around around curve fast, I saw this truck pull up to a stop sign from another road. I keep going, come to my first stop sign and go onto another road, the speed limit on this road is 30 MPH, and now I'm doing 50 which I usually do and this guy is behind me going the same speed. Of course, I'm taking the corners a little bit faster then him since he is in a truck. We'll anyways, I get to Dunkin Donuts and he pulls in to another spot for Dunkin Donuts and we both go in. Now the first thing I noticed was "OH ****!, he's a cop" but it was all good because he was like "Well that was fun driving huh?" Now I'm nervous and other stuff but he was like "It's all good, I just wish my truck could take corners like your car can".

He was off duty, thank god I think. It is nice to know the cops in the town and luckily there are only 2 of them in my town!!

The other cop saw my 1984 Nissan 300ZX once and his jaw dropped opened, which I found funny.
Old 12-02-06 | 06:55 AM
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haha thats awesome. i remeber i'd go out to another city (big, tampa) and watch the "races" which was really just a bunch of hondas, but there was a few of us in rx-7s that would be out there, so i'd go just to talk to them. anyway, we all pulled into a gas station w/ all the ricers, and cops pulled in, because the whole gas station gets swamped with cars, and anyone there to actually GET gas, can't. The 2 cops go up to us, and turns out, the lady of the cops, a first gen was her first car. and the other cop, was looking for a good project 1st gen, to make into a race car. So we talked for a good while, haha, even got the phone number of the one guy. Anyway thats about all i got that relates to your story.

by the way, do you have any pics of your 300zx? my friend had an 84, i loved that thing, but he got the rotary bug & has a 79 rx7 now, lol.
Old 12-02-06 | 07:09 AM
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I had a cop pull me over. I thought I was done for. I had just gotten it, uninsured, taking it to work on the exhaust. He walks up to tell me my right headlight was aiming a little down, then asked how I liked my wankle.
Old 12-02-06 | 07:14 AM
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Yeah, here is a pic of my previous car. A 1984 Nissan 300ZX 50th Anniversary Edition Turbo.

Old 12-02-06 | 08:24 AM
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About 13 years ago when i still smoked cigaretts, i was driving home from work, it was late around 8:30 i think, just before it gets totally dark but not quit light either, anyways i was tired and didnt see the other car behind me when i flicked my cigarett out the window "yes yes i know i shouldnt have done it in the first place , fire hazard ". After it hit the windshield of the car behind me it took all of about 1 nano second for the pretty red and blue light bar on top of the car behind me to start makeing those colors that most of us dont like to see, especially when we are the focus of those lights being on in the first place.

so i pull over, the STATE BULL walks up to my car, and goes through the standard Lic/Reg/Ins rutine <--spelling? when he gets done checking on me and my car ....get his.... he asks me if i have anymore smokes on me. im thinking ok he wants to take them away. so i give up my smokes, and he says " no i only want a few till myshift is over

Soooooo i gave him the rest of my pack and promptly drove NICELY home. And when i think back on it i think it was his way of saying "ok we both know what ya did, so lets not beat a dead horse, but sence the horse is dead can i have a few?"
Old 12-02-06 | 10:27 AM
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Back when I was thinking of selling one of my playtoys 13B s/c 74 Rx4 a guy over to look at it. I showed him time slips, yada yada. Anyway he couldn't believe what I was telling him and wanted a demo. I took him out to a little area I knew of new subdivision no houses no cars and gave him a demo from launch to 3rd gear (about 90mph). Sure enough just as I start to shut it down my luck a city cop shows up from no where. Can't run that's stupid anyway so I shut it down. The guy riding with me gets out and talks to the cop turns out he is a county sheriff's deputy looking for new playtoy. Long and short of we shoot the crap for about 30 min about the car and engine etc and I am on my way. Oh yea the Deputy didn't buy the Rx4 said it scared the crap out of him but he did buy my T2
Old 12-02-06 | 10:48 AM
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These are awesome stories. Keep it up guys.
Old 12-02-06 | 12:37 PM
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I just wish my small town had a bend in a road.....any bend. pout
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three years ago I was leaving my high school 1/2 way through the day. I was driving down the road twords the intersection. There are no bushes, nothing blocking my view of the intersection, so I see the cop sitting on the side road, waiting for speeders. I'm going exactly 15mph, cruising along, and the sign where the speed limit ends is maybe 100 ft after the intersection, but its long after the schools property is gone. So just as I get into the intersection I start to speed up to 35 mph, and am doing 35mph by the sign. I get down the road a little ways to see the cop behind me flashing the lights.

So I pull over, he goes through the rountine, I explain why I sped up sooner than the sign, he comes back and says. "Well you where doing 35 in a school zone, so I'm going to have to give you a big... warning." He started laughing really hard, probably at the nervous look on my face, I thought he was going to pee his pants laughing.

So some where in my city is a cop that likes to scare HS kids.
Old 12-02-06 | 02:38 PM
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I used to be a cop downunder, I had a system, if they admitted the offence I let them go, if they argued I booked them, I hated traffic anyway, felt like a hypocrite so I became a Detective.
Old 12-02-06 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by aussiesmg
I used to be a cop downunder, I had a system, if they admitted the offence I let them go, if they argued I booked them, I hated traffic anyway, felt like a hypocrite so I became a Detective.

If your anything like my old man, i am willing to bet that above and beyond anything els you hate domestic violence calls.
Old 12-02-06 | 04:39 PM
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About 20 years ago (when I first got my lisence), I used to go out after snow storms at around 3am and the cops and I would chase each other around the back streets just playing around. I think that these days most are required to check their sense of humor at the door when they report for duty (along with common sense in some states)...
Old 12-02-06 | 04:42 PM
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sometimes we would find open parking lots in the winter and sort of screw around in them when they were covered with snow, well there was one night last winter where it was about 1am or something and no cops and it was a pretty clear lot no light poles or anything, we're screwing around when suddenly the cop pulls up, says he was watching for the past 15 minutes or so and it entertained him pretty well, he then left and did a few donuts as he did, we also got a picture of my daily driver (ex cop car) next to his current cop car was pretty sweet but i cant seem to find it atm.
Old 12-02-06 | 04:50 PM
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These are some good storries haha, once I was being brave and stupid. It was about midnight so i decided nobody would be arround so I drift this wide intersection and never even noticed the cop siting at te stop light to my left (the direction im turning) and in the middle of the power slide i look over and make eye contact with HER as she smiles... now.. I don't know whats more eerie. the fear of getting caut knowing they are out there or getting caught and the cop not doing anything about it??
Old 12-02-06 | 05:21 PM
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These are some good storries haha, once I was being brave and stupid. It was about midnight so i decided nobody would be arround so I drift this wide intersection and never even noticed the cop siting at te stop light to my left (the direction im turning) and in the middle of the power slide i look over and make eye contact with HER as she smiles... now.. I don't know whats more eerie. the fear of getting caut knowing they are out there or getting caught and the cop not doing anything about it??
haha awsome!, kinda remindes me of tokyo drift but you didnt get the ladies #
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Originally Posted by Stoner_Eyez
Yeah, here is a pic of my previous car. A 1984 Nissan 300ZX 50th Anniversary Edition Turbo.

Wow, thats nice. Great stories guys, I love them
Old 12-02-06 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Stoner_Eyez
Yeah, here is a pic of my previous car. A 1984 Nissan 300ZX 50th Anniversary Edition Turbo.

50th AE? Love teh Z31 turbo, though with the turbo sideskirts.
Old 12-02-06 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by aussiesmg
I used to be a cop downunder, I had a system, if they admitted the offence I let them go, if they argued I booked them, I hated traffic anyway, felt like a hypocrite so I became a Detective.
Yepper, no matter what happens, the cop is always the bad guy at a domestic, if they don't pull a gun first.....

Death messages are a close second though, I had to tell an 85 year old man his last living relative had passed away, that one one was really bad.

Back on thread now...lol, I lived by the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne and those roads were the bomb, no straights more than 100 yards for 30 miles, I once passed a cop at high speed there and never saw him again.

I was passed by a Vette once, when I was working, he must have been doing 140 MPH, just waved him goodbye, my cop car had no chance against that one, it was a POS straight 6 Commodore.
Old 12-02-06 | 07:15 PM
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If your anything like my old man, i am willing to bet that above and beyond anything els you hate domestic violence calls.
How could you not hate domestic violence calls? The cop hears it and says, "Yes, I get to go visit a guy who beats his wife."
Old 12-02-06 | 08:05 PM
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Does anybody else find it funny that the cop was going into Dunkin' Donuts?
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Ya^, thats great.
Old 12-02-06 | 08:42 PM
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hahaha in my small town, somone had told the police that i was driving unlicensed and uninsured, so my brother happend to be talking to the police one day, and the cop told him that they were looking for this really nice little red mazda rx7, and the cop asked if he knew anything, my brother knowing exactly who they were looking for, (me) said he didnt know, hahahaha but it was pretty cool having the cop say i had a nice car lol
Old 12-02-06 | 08:59 PM
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Driving on a two lane country road with a lot of big hills I was hitting them pretty hard and fast. I popped up over the top of one hill and right there coming towards me in the opposite lane was a deputy. I was doing about 90mph at this time. He just looked at me with a neutral face. Turned his head as I passed as if he was thinking of three pointing it. At that point I dropped it in third and red lined away from him taking air on a few hills.
He never turned.
Old 12-02-06 | 08:59 PM
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Yeah, the cops in my town are great. But if you go 2 towns over. you have to deal with some ****** for cops..if you go 3-5 mph over they will bust you and there smiling about it. There radar happy 2 towns over.

I was driving in the subaru once, with a mustang on my back going 70 in a 55 and i went by the chief of police and he just waved at me and I waved back..the guy in the mustang, put the brakes on though...
Old 12-02-06 | 09:04 PM
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By the way... best bet if you're flying through country roads that you know very well and you happen to come across a cop coming towards you is to just drop it and pull as far as you can. By the time he turns you're gone and on your way home. I've done it quite a bit. Went 100mph passed a parked cop one time. Thought for sure he was going to pull out but there was a line of cars coming towards me so he couldn't make a move till they passed. I was gone. Never pulled. I was sweating for a bit though cause I slowed passed the line of cars. Passing cars on two lane country roads bugs me at high speeds so I have to slow for it. After they were gone passed me I red lined it out of there.

NEVER PARK IN A DRIVEWAY! True story a guy at my high school became the laughing stock when he pulled into a driveway to duck off the road. He pulled into the driveway of the cop who was chasing him.


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