Fwd: Run off the road stories

[Michael Barry - Pooka Stew <mbarry@pookastew.com>]

"STUPID" = getting out of the car and walking towards a cop who has been
told you have a gun.

Mike


>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:17:03 -0400
>From: Marc Getty <marc@getty.net>
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>Hell, my friend and I had some luser in a Rav4 pull a gun on us in the
>middle of
>a 4 lane highway at 2:00 in the afternoon on a Saturday this past January.
>Apparently I was only going 5 MPH over the speed limit and this was not good
>enough. So he not only pulled a gun out, but he rolled down his window, and
>stuck his entire arm out the window waving it at me and my friend. All of this
>in slow traffic in the middle of the afternoon for all to see. Ahhh,
>Feasterville in the Jetta, what memories.
>
>I had the quick thinking to pull out into oncoming traffic, nail the gas
>and fly
>up the wrong side of the street and flagged down a cop that was a 1/4 mile
>away.
>The almost funny part was once the fuzz pulled over the Rav4 the guy got
>out out
>the Rav4 and approached the cop in a 'what the fuck' kind of way. Why almost
>funny? Because the cop came damn close to caping his ass right there and then.
>If he did give him lead poisoning, which he did not, that would have been
>funny.
>But unfortunately the guy dropped to the ground as per the cop's orders.
>
>Turns out the dood had big time bucks and came to court with multiple lawyers,
>he pled down and only got probation. Fucker! Now if I did that I just know
>that
>I would be bubba's girlfriend for at least a year.
>
>> Brings back memories of being in N. Conway, NH, maybe 10 years ago, in my
>> '84 roc.  At a stop light (I was waiting to turn left) with my old GF in
>> the car, a carload of kids pulled up behind beeping and yelling for me to
>> run the red.  When it went green I started to go, but they cut me off on
>> the inside and went left, yelling and throwing beer cans as they went by.
>> 5 seconds later blue lights went on behind me, and we laughed thinking they
>> were bagged...then he pulled ME over for the driver's side tail-light being
>> out.  They carload of drunk kids was not even out of sight yet.
>> I was stunned, not only cause he pulled me and not them, but because I had
>> just FIXED the stupid tail-light.  I got out and tapped it and it came on,
>> but he not only still gave me a ticket, he ran my license and tried to
>> arrest me for a speeding ticket I got in 1980.  He only let me go when the
>> GF cried and cried that she couldn't drive the stick home and he couldn't
>> take me away, etc.
>> So the moral of the story is...actually I don't know what the moral of the
>> story is.  Use better electrical tape?
>
>> >i had a simlar run in like this a couple weeks ago and finally lost all
>>trust
>> >in the asheville police dept. being in the mountains of western nc, we have
>> >or fair share of hillbillies and goat fuckers. but anyway me and two other
>> >scirocco guy were going home when some asshole almost hit the white 16v and
>> >kept antagonizing us. so we left him in out dust only to be caught by a
>> >redlight and 30 seconds later i was almost rearended aat 40mph+(been there
>> >done that in my first rocc). but anyway gouing throught downtown i purposly
>> >ran a stoplight with a police cruiser waiting to cross the
>>intersection. tha
>> >dumb ass redneck followed me. with great surprise no blue lights. but wait
>> >there is another cruiser in front of me at the next light i start
>>flashing my
>> >lights and blowing the horn, the stupid cop looks at me like i'm crazy,then
>> >just takes off through the light. then another cruiser comes along and i
>> >blocked the intersection and told him whatwas going on(this was in a time
>> >period of about 30 sec) meanwhile the redneck realizes what's going on and
>> >tries to evad the cruiser by driving on a sidewalk. but after all that work
>> >to get police assistance it kinda wasn't worth getting to follow the cop
>> >through down town at 80mph. oh well.
>
>-Marc
>
>'74 VW Thing - http://getty.net/thing/ FORSALE in Philly!
>'81 Jetta Diesel gone to the scrap heap after 178,000 miles
>'84 Jetta GLi SLC with only 164,000 miles
>'87 Scirocco 16V with 164,000 Miles, just got it on 7/2/99
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