Best police encounter??

Discussion in 'Kill Stories (Where Hemis Never Win)' started by no car, Dec 9, 2004.

  1. real82it

    real82it Silver Level contributor

    Summary:

    State cop, in front of another witness, threatened to " drag me out of that car through your window and beat the s*** out of you" (me) if I said another word....this was after I swear I respectfully questioned his decision to write me a ticket for not using my turn signal to take the off ramp from a DEDICATED off ramp lane.........only to find out my buddy with an identically painted car had out run a state cop in the same area a few weeks earlier......

    Transporting my gun in my back waistband to my car getting ready to go to my job as a security guard, I open the door to my driveway to see a cop standing there staring at a strange truck in my driveway. I am scared to death because I have a concealed weapon ( against the law). He says the truck is stolen and asks if I know anything about it. Of course I did not.....but did one of the dumbest things I have ever done and did not disclose the gun to him. I managed to answer all his questions and then back into my house without letting him see the gun. Too close...

    Lastly, I was driving my 455 GS and sped up to pass a VW bug so I could make a right hand turn a little ways up the road. Next thing I know, cherries in the rear view. Cop goes full felon mode over his loud speaker once I stopped "turn off the vehicle.....roll down your window....with keys in hand put your hands out the window and drop the keys on the ground....now get out and get on the ground face down...". I had no idea what he thought I did....he then approaches and informs me he had pulled me over for drag racing the VW bug! I couldn't help it.....I laughed OUT LOUD, tried to explain what I had under the hood and that I wouldn't waist my time.......wrong approach, just made him more angry. He wrote me up for drag racing and wreck less driving - a 1 year mandatory loss of license in my state. So I went to court and the judge threw it out because, at the time, state law said that a drag racing charge required both parties to be cited....thank goodness....(law has since been changed).

    I hope those are the last ones.....
     
  2. no1oldsfan

    no1oldsfan Well-Known Member

    Hey cool post. Can I have more than a couple? Err...

    Here's one. I was a doorman/bellman at the time. Got off work about 11pm. Nice summer night. There was this squirrel that lived by us that always thought his 318 Coronet was fast. He would always try and speed by our house and we would all laugh. Young me (was I really young?) thought about how funny it would be to go roast my tires in front of his house. His house faced a Church parking lot. I was driving a 70 Cutlass SX with a 455 and 2.56 posi. That torque and those gears was so much fun. Anyway. I cruise around the block to check and clear the scene. All clear. I pulled right in front of his house with my lights off. I am already laughing. Start power braking my Olds. Get the smoke nice and thick. Roll off the brake and lay these awesome stripes all the way up the block. I am dieing laughing. I get to the top of the street. Stop at the stop sign. Look to my right and all this thick white smoke rolls by me. I am busting out laughing. Look to the left and there is a cop sitting there doing paperwork with his lights off. I already had my left signal on. I took a left and just pulled over. He swung around with just his spot light and overheads on. I thought oh great here we go. He comes up to my car and says do you want to tell me what all that was about back there? This is a true story. I acted all stressed and told him that some kid in a Mustang came shooting out of his driveway and his dog was chasing him. I had to hit my brakes to avoid both of them. He kind of looked at me sideways and went back to his car. He felt my tires and said out loud "Good thing your tires don't feel hot or you would be in trouble son" ??? I am like what the h? Surprised his hand didn't melt into those new Radial T/A's ha ha. He comes back to the car and hands me my license and tells me that he is going to go check the marks and see if my story jived. If not he would come visit me. I never heard a thing.

    Sorry for the long story I can be good that way. I have plenty more...
     
  3. MikeM

    MikeM Mississippi Buicks

    Here's one nobody can top. Short and sweet.

    Turned left onto a four lane highway at 2am, but into the second oncoming lane. Screech. Missed a head on with a police car by just inches.

    Never drank and drove again. Almost 20 years ago.
     
  4. WILD KAT

    WILD KAT Well-Known Member

    Cool Stories!!!

    I better not say anything... They still searching for me :Brow:
     
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  5. sky64

    sky64 bill merrick- RIP

    I guess of the many,my race with a 67 GS400 in downtown GR Mich.I had my hopped up 59 Bonny Convert.When the green lite turned we hammered it.about that time the red lites came on across the other side of the street.I haden't noticed a cop car.I put the GS out of his misery and he saw the cop lites and hit a right at the first side street.my girlfriend told me what the cops were doing,trying to get out of traffic as we ran hard to the upper side of the main drag.I made the last yellow lite and took a right turn.100 feet down was a parking garage and I pulled in and we watched the cops fly by from the 2nd floor.I was so pumped I couldn't drive.my girl friend had to drive us out the back entrance and home.
     
  6. Doubleclutch

    Doubleclutch Well-Known Member

    GREATEST NATURAL DRIVER!!!!

    Back when, I lived in a small town and we had a lot of encounters. A friend named GATOR showed me an escape that I would have never had nerve enough to try. We were in his 59 Chevy 348 with 3-2s flying low to meet some girls and red light came on. We were running about 80 on a two lane secondary road and immediately moved it up. We had some lead since the HP had to do a U turn to chase us. We came to a overpass and Gator pulled it down with no brake lights to about 50. We topped out and went out of sight to the HP, he locked it up , spun the wheel and caught a wild 180 with guard rails on both sides. We met HP at the top doing 45!!!


    This was so long ago that the judge (after several offenses) would keep GATORS license in his drawer during periods of suspension and gave him a letter permitting him to drive to work.
     
  7. GSX4me

    GSX4me Well-Known Member

    1989, smalltown, IL, just after getting my '71 Skylark restored as a Yellow GSX with Stage 2 hoodscoop, pulled up to a stoplight, and right next to me was an even nicer '68 GS400. As I'm revving up, waiting for the light to change, then I notice the Illinois State Police patch on his shoulder... (oops), the light changes, and that '68 smokes the tires and leaves me sitting there for the smoke to clear. He waited for me at the next light, rolled down his window, and explained he was off duty, so I could have a free pass, because he wanted to see what another Buick could do. Even with a GS350-4 under the hood, I was able to smoke the tires and leave him sit until the smoke cleared!
    We complimented each other's Buicks, then went our separate ways, to find out later, the same body shop restored both of our cars!
     
  8. SteeveeDee

    SteeveeDee Orange Acres

    Heh, on my way home today, I swerved into the #1 lane and sped up to 75 mph (standard practice on the 118 fwy, or you'll get rear-ended) and was buzzing along in my DD, when I see a CHiP at my right door, giving me the "dad glare". I gave him a cheesy grin and slowed down. He sped off, and then slowed down again to intimidate some more "felons". That would have been my first speeding ticket since 1976. I've spent a lot of time in between not getting caught, for as much as 80 over the speed limit (posted for 40, racing like a big dog). That particular race, I had a '66 Le Mans with a 400/400/3.23 posi. It'd lay 30 feet of 11" rubber stripes upshifting into 3rd. Good times!
     
  9. 401Riviera

    401Riviera Well-Known Member

    This happened to me a couple months ago after Chicago got hit with 4 inches of snow. My daily driver is 1983 Toyota Corolla 4 door with cut exhaust and a cold air intake. Yeah, i know, its not a Buick. But the car was free, so i'm not complaining. AND ITS REAR WHEEL DRIVE:grin:. My buddy has a V6 Chebby S10 with cut exhaust. We decided to go look for a place to have fun. Everything had been plowed and we drove around for an hour looking for somewhere to drift and do donuts. After sitting in a parking lot thinking of a place to go. I got the bright idea to go to a local cemetery. The cemetery has many straight and curved paths with lots of sharp turns. Sorry if this offends anyone... My friend is buried in that same cemetery and we always joked about honoring eachother if one of us died in a car related way at the place we were buried. Me and my buddy got into the cemetery and immediately started womping the throttles with our steering bottomed out in either direction. Got up to a whopping 50 miles an hour sideways in the cemetery, luckily there were no headstones, just lots of trees. Our cars exhaust cut through the cold, still air like a knife through butter. Going tandom, drifting through curves and corners, my buddy clipped my passenger tail light braking the lens and leaving pieces of my car behind. I didnt really care because i was having so much fun. After about 15 minutes we decided to split since it being 2 A.M., there were town houses near by and we were sure someone would have definitely called the fuzz by then. So we left the cemetery with our lights off and flicked them on once we got to the biggest intersection. We got stopped at a red light and pulled up next to eachother. We were both grinning ear to ear and laughing. Then flashing lights caught our attention, we immediately got serious and watched two police crown vics race past us through the red light going towards the cemetery. Me and my buddy look back at the same time. THEY TURNED RIGHT INTO THE CEMETERY WHERE WE JUST EXITED LESS THAN A MINUTE BEFORE HAND. Me and my friend took off when the light turned green and went back to his house. We were in awe thinking about what coulda happened if we didnt leave when we did... Not an encounter but a very close call. But what happened a week later is the kicker...
    I was driving home from a friends house at 3 a.m., and i had 3 beers about an hour before hand. I was about two blocks from my house when i got lit up. So i pulled over, got my wallet out and all the other credentials. I was very nervous since i had no idea why he pulled me over (not to mention i had been drinking, and i'm only 19). He comes up to the car, i greet him. He seemed to be in a good mood. He asked where i was going, told him that i was goin home from a friends. He checked all my info and came back to me and asked "do you know anything about people drifting in ***** cemetery last thursday?" I looked at him all confused. "No officer, i wasnt even out that night." Dont know about you guys, but i'll lie my A*S off so i dont get a ticket or get thrown in the slammer. He laughed and handed my info back "Crazy kids these days, your passenger tail light is cracked, Have a good night and drive safe." My car is very well known by the law enforcement in my town. And to this day, i never fixed that tail light.
     
  10. buickgs462

    buickgs462 Well-Known Member

    OK here it goes . Now My kids does not even know about this . when i was 19 i had a olds. cutlass 455 i drove from portsmouth ohio to mason ohio. I use to drive 32 st. rt. I was pulling doubles and it was a long way to drive so i use to sleep in the car by a truck stop in brown county off a side road in a corn field figured i was safer there then at the truck stop . So anyway i was late to work one night had the olds runing at about in the 130's in the slow lane and seen the state patrol coming the other way on 32 right in front of the truck stop. The patrol car turned into the fast lane and the guy must have thought that when i past him he would just get behind me and pull me over . Well I know its not right to run from the law i learned the hard way not in this case though. So i hit the brakes came threw the entree way of the truck stop i think i was doin about 80 mph the car washed out sliding with the front pointed at the freeway . I seen the state trooper spinning out in the middle of 32 so i cut the side road that was gravel headed to the field that i use to take my naps in dust was heavy to and it was almost dark i hit the lights off on the car put it in "n" hit the E brake and slid down in the field. So the rail road tracks was just past this area when he came out of the dust he had and up gade that must have been 8 to 9 feet high to get over the tracks . Now you ever seen the dukes show well he hit the track i don't know how fast he was going but let me tell you he could of cleared my car about three or for times on the other side of the tracks. After that i put the car in reverse backed out of the field and went to work . The next week i got pulled over for doing 65 mph in a 55 zone . He asked me if i was the guy running from him last week . I said no sir i'm visiting family in mason . he gave me the ticket and i was on my way .
     
  11. Richard Elbon

    Richard Elbon Well-Known Member

    Not car related but cop related, I was driving a tractor trailer for the phone company years ago at night,pouring down rain on I 5 in Tacoma Washington near the Tacoma dome. I was moving pretty good but the tachograph was showing 55. I get pulled over by a WSP car. He comes up to the door and said “do you know how fast you were goin son?” I said 55. He sez you were going 67 in a 55 SMARTASS. I said my tachograph will show how fast I was going.Got it and showed it to him, 55,he looked at it and changed his attitude completely. He slaps me on the back and said have a good night. Found out a couple days later that a recent trans change was done without changing the speedo drive. It was off 12 mph
     
  12. Donuts & Peelouts

    Donuts & Peelouts Life's 2 Short. Live like it.

    I have gotten away on foot and in car, 4 times. The best encounter is none. The most memorable one evolved a helicopter on foot. All in my youth. Don't want to open up an old bag a chips, but I wish I had better stories to tell...
     
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  13. papa roger

    papa roger Well-Known Member

    I've been lucky and never got stopped till last summer. I worked at the hospital in town for 24 years and know all the town police and one we will call Kenny is one that always has his stern unbreakable cop face on. I was going home from getting gas and cleaning my Regal up for the home town car show the next day. I turned on to M94 and see some young guys working on a roof who take notice of the Regal and start staring so I hammer the peddle to give them a show. Lots of tire and engine noise with nice black strips left on the road but I get out of it fast and don't get up much speed. One block down the road I see lights in my rear view, it's Kenny. I pull over and wait for the bad **** coming. He comes up to my window as if he doesn't know me and I know he does so I'm thinking oh boy here comes the ticket. Kenny says " what happened back there " putting on my best I am sooo sorry look I say " well I don't think I exceeded the speed limit but I may have made a little noise " and with that Kenny starts laughing and shocks the hell out of me,almost scary. He asks if I'm in the car show tomorrow and I say yes I am so he says good now just take it easy ok and I say I will. He says thank you and I say No Thank You ! Roger

    On The Eighth Day God Created Buick
     
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  14. PGSS

    PGSS Gold Level Contributor

    Never got a speeding ticket but I still cringe 30 years later to how many people I could killed when thinking of my stupidity as a young driver. Burying the speedo with my 66 GS with 3 other friends in the car and all 4 tires being re caps and the cross member part of the frame into its first rotting stage... Another example in my 73 Riv when I again hit 120 on a very well driven main city road that widened a little for a stretch of maby a mile and heating up the brakes while trying to slow down to the point that they were just about useless and if I didn't have an extra say 10 ft, it could of been horrific..If they had radared me that day, in that location I probably wouldn't have a license still to this day.
    Anyways........:rolleyes:Back in the day as that stupid kid I lived in a quiet town and one night with 73 Riv I randomly turn on a quiet street of the maby 6 parallel one's that all had a little decline at the top. I put it in first and just punch it on and off 4 or 5 times going down this hill just to hear all 4 barrels open and the dual exhaust 455 sound that we know...Of all streets of all times in this quiet city, at night down at the bottom there were 4 or 5 police cars that had been called for something else and about 10 cops just flag me over laughing their butts off. I wasn't really going that fast at all, just maby 30, 35 tops but it sounded like it could of been a 1000..So to explain to what I did was useless..
    This Riv was a recovered stolen and someone had put a board of plywood in to were the sun roof was stolen and painted the vinyl roof with a brush.. They got a kick out of mocking the car, thats for sure..I did get ticketed I think for noise violation or something.
    I guess this is one of those had to be there story's..
     
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  15. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    My idiot friend was on the road for a ship inspection in a port area he had never visited before. On the way he blew through a school zone and got pulled over. Expensive ticket.
    Cop runs his license and sees that it is clean. Cop come backs to the car.
    Cop: "take off your seatbelt".
    Rick takes off his seatbelt.
    Cop: "okay, I'm giving you a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt".
    Rick: "WHAT? You told me to take it off!"
    Cop (Patiently): " The fine for speeding through a school zone is $350 and 3 points. The fine for not wearing a seatbelt is $25 and no points. So you are getting a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt."
    Rick: "No! I had it on! You saw me!
    Slightly Less Patient Cop: :Sir, listen up: The fine for speeding through a school zone is $350 and 3 points. The fine for not wearing a seatbelt is $25 and no points. So you are getting a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt."
    Rick: "BUT YOU TOLD ME TO TAKE IT OFF! You KNOW I was wearing it.".
    (One or two additional exchanges along the same lines omitted during which he insisted he had his seatbelt on.)
    Exasperated Cop on fourth ot fifth try: "Okay buddy -- let's go over this one last time: The fine for speeding through a school zone is $350 and 3 points. The fine for not wearing a seatbelt is $25 and no points. So you are getting a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt."
    Rick, finally having an a-ha moment: "Ohhhhhhhhh. That's right. I guess I wasn't wearing my seatbelt."

    I suspect the cop still tells his buddies about the idiot he pulled over in a school zone.

    I woulda ticketed him after try no. 2.
     
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  16. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    Driving up 95 through South Carolina with the family. Pull into a gas station at 2:00 A.M. in the pouring rain. Five state troopers parked, standing inside seeking shelter from the rain and eating donuts.

    One asks me where I'm headed, I tell him, chat a bit. Then say in front of his buddies "Nice to know y'all are in here -- guess that means I can really open her up heading north."
    Cop just drawls "You go ahead and do that -- I'll catch up."
     
  17. WQ59B

    WQ59B Well-Known Member

    Similar story to toomanybuicks' : got pulled over in a tiny town in a '64 Catalina doing 53 in a 30. Town uses State troopers.
    Said he was going to give me a seat belt ticket.
    I asked politely (initially not understanding) 'Isn't this car exempt from seat belt laws?'
    'Oh, I guess you want the speeding ticket then.'
    "Nope, seat belt ticket is fine, thank you."
     
  18. faster

    faster Well-Known Member

    Worked for Kawasaki back in the early 70's while going to college. We got the first 1972, H2, 750 two stroke triple in Western NY. Boss told me to take it home for the week and break it in, yea, no problem. Put about 500-600 miles on it and asked the boss if I could drive it to Syracuse to register for my next semester, I'll have it back Saturday and he says sure. So I'm heading east on I-90, stop to get a cup of coffee at a rest area and a young State Trooper is checking out the bike when I come out. "This is one of those new Kawasaki H2's isn't it"? Yes sir. "Is it as fast as they say'? Oh yea. "I wanna see it go, race me to the next exit"! What? No you'll arrest me! "No I won't I just want to see if it as fast as they say".

    We line up on the on ramp, he has an unmarked dark blue 1970, 440 Fury I. There is no one on the highway so I motion to go. He takes off smoking the tires, pedals, hooks and takes off. I've been practicing so I launch it hard, rip past him halfway through second and stay on it through fourth before easing back, shifting to fifth and holding at about 135-140. Get to the exit and stop on the ramp as I don't want to go through the toll booth, he pulls up 30-40 seconds later. He walks up and says "Gawd that thing is fast, saw three trails of blue smoke and you were gone". "Can I ride it"? Sure. I give him my helmet, he blasts up the ramp stops at the toll booth talking to the attendant and goes right while I'm sitting on the trunk of the Fury. He comes back 4-5 minutes later down the ramp the wrong way, hands me my helmet and says "I will never get on one of these again, they are suicide machines, please be careful and thanks". He backs down the ramp and I never see him again as I do the speed limit 65.

    Mikey
     
  19. My3Buicks

    My3Buicks Buick Guru

    30 plus years ago I was coming home from a Buick club Great Lakes regional meet in Canandaigua New York. I had gone to the banquet and didn’t get leaving New York until about 10 PM and was driving home as my local AACA a chapter that I was an officer was having our yearly show that next day. About one in the morning I got stopped for no reason other than harassment. The officer came up and wanted to know why I was driving that car with classic plates after dark and where was I going with it as I was only supposed to be using it for shows, club functions and personal enjoyment. I looked at him and said, well frankly it’s none of your business, but I’m on my way home from a Buick club Show where I took first place with it, I’m on my way to an AACA club show And I was enjoying the hell out of myself until you ruined my eve . And by the way, the car has modern sealed beam headlights so the headlight stipulation does not apply to it. I then proceed to ask fir his name, badge number And suggested he tell me to be on my way instead of wasting my time.
     
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  20. rkammer

    rkammer Gold Level Contributor

    .................and he responded how? ;)
     

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