Have you ever tried to outrun the cops?

3 Times but only with the Hyabusa...and when I was a lot younger.

[willie]

on a motorcycle

numerous times

never caught



to avoid a monster ticket/ adrenaline rush....not to mention- because i could.

[Blarg]

Why obviously, in a car?

[TheMainEvent]

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Why obviously, in a car?

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As opposed to on foot, not as opposed to on a motorcycle.

[Koss]

I'm going about 90 in a 70 MPH zone and look to my left and see the cop car right there gunning people. I see him start to try and pull onto the highway after me so I dart off the nearest exit and start booking. Of course he has absolutely no trouble following me so I just give it up. He asks me where I was going and why I got off the highway. I told him I was looking for a place to eat and he tells me I've already passed everything. Thankfully he stopped talking and gave me the ticket for the full 90 in a 70. I suppose that could have been a lot worse.

[mlagoo]

oh im not an OOT regular but ive got a crappy one.

im like 17, headed to some interview. im driving on a suspended license because i had already got three speeding tickets, which apparently means your license is suspended for 6 months in MD. who knew.

anyway i liked to drive fast back then, so i was doing about 100 in a 55, as a cop drove past me going the opposite direction. i also did not know, at that time, that cops could clock you going the other direction, so i made no attempt to slow down.

i see lights come on, and freak the [censored] out. i immediately turn down the first right turn i see, which happens to be a ridiculously bumpy, treacherous dirt road, which i proceed to fly down at about 60 miles per hour. as i'm driving down it, i can see the cop in my rear view, maybe about 3-400 feet behind me.

i remember as im driving that i have a friend who lives down this road, so i fishtail my way into his driveway, thinking i had lost the cop. i decide that i'll walk up to my friends door, as though i was just going for a visit, and i normally drive 60 miles/hour through twisty bumpy dirt roads.

unfortunately, about 5 seconds later, the cop pulls up, starts freakin out and cursing at me, arrests me, curses at me a whole lot more, and "takes me down to the station." i then had to call my mother and explain that while i had been arrested and her car had been towed, i was still a good kid and she should come pick me up. thankfully, she did.


pretty big bummer though. next time i'll just pull over, or have a faster car.

[_Kevin_]

The down side simply is so much greater than the upside I wouldn't even seriously consider it.

The closest I've come was about a split second before I pulled over (and I KNOW I would have gotten away). I was decending a mountain road in a sports car when I came around a hair pin turn and their was a cop in bronco going the other way. He flipped on his lights and I pulled over. 40 seconds later he pulled up behind me after going around the hair pin and making a u-turn. I clearly could have out run him but why. I paid my $120 ticket and moved on (I had more than $120 worth of fun on the drive up). When he left, I told my wife I would gladly pay anothe $120 for the ride we had going up [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].

[TheMetetron]

I've done it and gotten away, but not in a car (at least not when they were close enough). It was on foot once and on foot and then into a car once. Both times it was for worse reasons than the poll allows.

[jba]

you need to have some find of "just committed a felony" option for the second poll. for example, what would a bank robber choose there?

my friends and I torched a billboard in the middle of some podunk town, did that race through neighborhood and hide in a driveway thing. there was twice we went through an intersection and like two blocks down the cross street a cop was driving through other way. I thought we were toast, our car reeked of gasoline.

[surfinillini]

once in college I ran and got away, our campus town had the wierdest rule, 19 to get into the bars but 21 to buy booze. either way, I was a young freshman and used a friends ID to get into the bars. As we left our friends apartment, some of us had open bottles as the campus cops cruised by.

They saw us, immediately stopped, flicked on the lights and backed up. We all dropped our bottles, ran back into the complex into random apartments of people we knew and didn't come out. Cops caught two of my friends, the rest of us jumped off the balcony and cruised off into the sunset.

It was close...