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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 11:25 PM
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Well this is an odd story, but a humorous "race" nonetheless. I was driving my grandparents 96 Ford Explorer, cursing at about 80 or so on the freeway. Its was 10:30 at night, and off behind me i see some ******* in my lane coming up on me fast with his brights on. There was no other cars on the freeway so i i decided to change lanes and mash it. Maybe he had more momentum, i dunno, but i pulled for about 5 secs then came flying up to me. As he was walking up I was thinking "damn this explorers slow but i wonder what car that is." He slows next to me at about 95 MPH and shines a flashlight in my window, so I'm going wtf what an ***. Then i see the sheriff emblem on the door. Well needless to say i slow way the hell down then start to pull over, he does too. At about 30 MPH, he suddenly takes off and leaves me as I'm pulling over. Thankfully my heart started beating again and I crawled home. I got beat pretty damn bad...

Well thats the story, lock it if its off topic. Ill post some LS1 ones once i fix my VATS problem.

Have a good day all
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 11:41 PM
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wow!! lucky you!! I bet he was Laughing his *** off @ you!
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 02:03 AM
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Most sheriffs wont pull you over for speeding, they arent required to write ticket to maintain their employment. Sheriffs are elected so they dont want to **** people off, btw ALL cop cars are slow as crap.
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by capn smokey
Most sheriffs wont pull you over for speeding, they arent required to write ticket to maintain their employment. Sheriffs are elected so they dont want to **** people off, btw ALL cop cars are slow as crap.
It's their radios which make them fast
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 03:19 AM
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yep...can outrun the radio....or the helicopter
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 03:42 AM
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You'll get a call later if he was busy and just got your plate.
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by hot black trans-am
You'll get a call later if he was busy and just got your plate.
Doubtful
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 10:50 AM
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this story ******* rules lol
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Originally Posted by capn smokey
btw ALL cop cars are slow as crap.
we have some quick Mach1's and some new Chargers SRT8's that can catch most speeders running around down here..
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 12:03 PM
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All i know is that Crown Victoria sure handled my ***. But i was driving a 6 cylinder Ford so what did i expect.
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 12:04 PM
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All of a sudden we see this black dude in a Zimbabwe track outfit come running past both of us.
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 12:43 PM
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lol. That kind of sounds like something that would happen in Super Troopers.
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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by danielgoforth
All of a sudden we see this black dude in a Zimbabwe track outfit come running past both of us.
lol you joke but it can happen...
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by hot black trans-am
You'll get a call later if he was busy and just got your plate.
yea that might be why he took a look at your face with the flashlight.

but it can't be legal to shine a light in someones face like that.
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by capn smokey
btw ALL cop cars are slow as crap.
You haven't seen any SRT8 Chargers have you? Come on down to Selma. Spend around 2-3 minutes driving here and you're almost guaranteed to see at least one.
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 09:29 PM
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Charger cop cars? I'm from the valley but haven't seen any.
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 10:17 PM
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we've had chargers for a good while here in Splendora tx
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 10:56 PM
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Yeah we got new charger city cop cars here only v6's ones for gas milage

but State police post has undercover pewter camaro ls1
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