Ever tried to evade the cops?

[K31Fan]

Ya' know, in your younger and stupider days? Of course, considering everyone here is an upstanding citizen - that would never consider running from Law Enforcement - if you had a "friend" that did it, well...Tell me about that too! [Tooth]

*Lectures on the morals, ethics, or safety of running from LE are strictly prohibited*

[BigBear]

Night time, boonies. Friend knew the back country roads very well. Cop did not. Friend killed the lights, hit the gas, gone in less than 5 minutes. Helped that the car itself was all black, moonless night. lol.

Ticket would've been for speeding... funny how he used speeding to get away from the speeding ticket. Ha.

**I know no first hand knowledge of event. This was told to me by friend.

[ghettodub]

I may or may not have used some creative route choices back in the day...

[micah360]

this thread makes me miss my 1983 VW GTI...

[Bailey Guns]

I was with a friend who was driving and decided to run from Houston PD (back in about 1979). Note: Running from HPD is a VERY bad idea. I would seriously recommend against that.

Different angle - 14 years on the job, 14 pursuits. Average of one per year (although most were at the SO...the PD where I worked had a very restrictive policy...only 1 pursuit while there). Never lost one.

Longest was from 44th & Ward to Georgetown...in heavy snow! Shortest was maybe 2 blocks. Never had anyone hurt except the bad guy. Had two patrol cars damaged, 1 seriously, from the bad guys intentionally hitting me. One guy forced me off the road into the side of a rock embankment.

Had one kid in a Corvette run from me...I did 129mph in a Caprice on Hwy 93 to keep up with him. He didn't know how to drive, though. We wound through a bunch of the back roads up around 93 and Leyden Rd and worked our way east. He bailed from the car in the parking lot of some park on the south side of Arvada. Started hauling ass across the park in the dark with a bunch of us on his tail. Apparently he didn't know there was a concrete lined drainage ditch about 3' deep and 5' wide that ran through the park. He ran right into it. We were standing there kinda laughing at him (while waiting for EMS) because he really looked to be in pain. Broken clavicle, broken femur, couple of broken ribs and a shit load of concrete rash as a result of hitting the far side at a full sprint. Wonder if he ever ran from the cops again?

[BigBear]

Wonder if he ever ran from the cops again?


Dad always said: You can run from the man, but you can't run from the radio. You WILL get caught eventually.

[jerrymrc]

I myself have never but back in 78 or so my buddy tried in his 65 mustang. lasted about 2 miles on I-5 in Tacoma. He got off in some hood and got about 3 blocks before we were boxed in.

So then I drive the car to the track (now called pacific raceways, then SIR) and his brother is asking where he is. In jail, need $100 to get him out.:)

This did teach me a lesson though. Always have a $100 bill in your wallet in wash state (back then) and it paid off when I got pulled over for 80 over the limit in 79. [Tooth]

[2008f450]

Dont know if this counts. Was with a group of kids. We were all about 7,8,9 years old. Playing Army with our pre orange thingy guns. A really low LAPD helicopter went over slow and someone in our group pointed his plastic replica M-16 up at it. Well it turned around and started to try and track us all as we ran and split up. 10 mins later there were at least a dozen LAPD cars driving all over the neigborhood looking for us. Never got caught. Mom wondered why we came running into the house and were in our room cleaning on a nice sunny day. [Beer]

[twitchyfinger]

I grew up on two wheels thanks to my pro guns & hunting Grandfather who not only introduced me to firearms but also motorcycles and convinced my parents to buy my first dirt bike a 78 Suzuki RM50. From the age of 10-20 I raced motocross and was always looking for a place, an empty field, anywhere I could find to ride my bikes most of which were not legal places to ride. Needless to say I have run from and evaded the cops many times on my dirt bikes!

As a result of growing up on motorcycles and living the term WFO one can only imagine what I would be like when I turned 16 and obtained a drivers license. My first ticket of course was when I was 16. It was in front of Highlands Ranch high school where University turns into Lincoln Ave back when it was first being built, Lincoln ave was still a two lane road and nothing else was out there. I passed a cop in my parents brand new Fiero GT showing off for a friend and had the pedal pegged WFO! When I saw the cop I just KNEW I was busted. I slowed down and pulled over before he even was able to turn around. The cop pulled up came to the car and asked said "Well I am glad you pulled over do you have any idea how fast you were going? I clocked you doing 100 mph in a 50 mph zone!" He then proceeded to write me a 14 point ticket. Lost my license for a year. After a year I still could not drive due to not being able to afford insurance. Ever since that experience I learned that driving is a privilege and not a right.

I have told many that speeding ticket story and almost everyone always says I should have just kept going instead of pulling over. Going that fast you probably could have ditched him. I always reply with I have evaded the cops many times in my younger motocross days. Pulling over that day, facing my consequences, and learning a valuable lesson probably has saved my life and many others as well.

[Sixgun]

Have I ever tried to evade the cops? Everyday my friend.[ROFL1]

[Elhuero]

try to evade the cops? done a lot of dumb things but never anything that dumb.

[OneGuy67]

I grew up in Unicorporated Arapahoe County, which is now Centennial and me and a couple of buddies were playing with our BB guns one night. We were 13 or so years old. We were doing bad by shooting out street lights and some homeowner association owned lights when a Arapahoe County Sheriff's office Deputy showed up. I'm guessing someone saw us and called on us.

We ran into the mortuary grounds and were able to hide in an area where they were developing more of the land for the mortuary and it had some holes and depressions while they were moving dirt to smooth it all out for development. The deputy never left his vehicle and parked only 30 or so feet away from us and was using his vehicle mounted search light to look for us. The light swept over us a few times and we waited there, crapping our pants, for a long ass time before he finally gave up and left.

As a cop, I've had a few run on foot and a few run in vehicles. Most were eventually caught. A couple did get away (restrictive chase policies).

But, I'll never forget that night at the mortuary!

[CrufflerSteve]

Was about 13 or so and shooting some fairly large home made rockets with some friends. The police got called and we ran. A couple of us made it across a highway with such heavy, fast moving traffic that it was amazing we survived. One friend chickened out and got caught. Being a kid he ratted us all out so it wasn't exactly successful evasion.

Some years later I was doing dumb things with some dumb friend when the police tried to arrest us. We got away that time and I decided to have a better class of friends since I probably wouldn't be allowed to own firearms if we'd been caught. I never thought guys carrying all that gear could run so fast.

Steve

[Ranger353]

...I have told many that speeding ticket story and almost everyone always says I should have just kept going instead of pulling over. Going that fast you probably could have ditched him. I always reply with I have evaded the cops many times in my younger motocross days. Pulling over that day, facing my consequences, and learning a valuable lesson probably has saved my life and many others as well.

Excellent story. Good ending too.

Cheers
[Beer]

[Chad4000]

I never have, but this one time I was blazing down this road on a my sportbike and passed a cop that was parked doing about 90 in a 35. I could have ran, it was at night, I knew the back roads, and there was a straight that I could have lost him on. But I pulled over. I was pulling to a stop as he was pulling out of his parked spot. I was off the bike, waiting for him when he came up. I think he was just happy I didn't run. He said he couldn't let me all the way off so he gave me a seat belt ticket lol. Yes, on a motorcycle. Haha

[Mtn.man]

When I was a teen we lived on the 5th green of an exclusive golf course. I was the Dark Dirtbiker who rode the course doing wheelies and jumping greens and stuff.
Cops would chase on the road but noone could catch sunrise rider.

came home though one Sat morn after my adventure and my Dad was waiting in the garage.

Woulda rather gotten caught by Da Man.

[Colorado Luckydog]

The stories I could tell.....

Short answer. Yes I have, but things were different in the 70's in Arlington, Texas.

Only once in Colorado but was not my idea. The guy that was driving decided to. It ended up okay but could have gone bad. If they would have caught us, I don't think they would have gave a rats ass that it wasn't my idea.[Rant1]

[TFOGGER]

About 25 years ago, I went to Bandimere for the Friday night drags, and being a kid, I of course unbolted the mufflers on my car for "maximum performance". Well, someone oiled down the track, and as a result, we didn't finish racing until well after midnight (this was before Morrison made 'em shut down at 10). Being too lazy to crawl under my car to put the exhaust back on in the middle of the night, I decided to drive home with open headers. As luck would have it, as I was getting off of 6th at Garrison street, a Lakewood cop was getting on at Kipling, then obviously heard my obnoxiously loud car and decided to have a chat. I saw him heading towards me, so I made a quick right, then made the first left into the Meadowlark subdivision, then made several more turns, and turned into an empty driveway, killed the lights and engine, and ducked down. Maybe 10 seconds later, the cop cruises past at about 10 mph with his window down, listening. We continued to play tag around the neighborhood for the next half hour or so, then he must have got a real call, as he turned on his emergency lights and hauled ass outta there. I'm pretty sure he would have caught me sooner or later, because there was no hiding in that noisy bastard...[PoPo]

[Lex_Luthor]

I noticed a cop speed gunning people as I was ripping down the street way over the speed limit once. I ducked into a neighborhood, made some turns and went to the other side of the subdivision and went in the opposite direction. Thankfully, I never saw the officer in the rear view.

[weirjf]

Sort of... buddy did while I was in the truck but it was the MPs while on base. They were way back and at night so I said "hit your lights, engine-brake to 2nd and take it into the woods 500 yards up". He went to 3rd, pulled off way early and we ended up in a ditch.

Marines... we never do things the easy way unless we have a generous supply of explosives

[sbouslog]

I have a rule that if I am on 4 wheels I pull over. If I am on 2 wheels go faster. I don't know if this is true or not but I was once told that there is a no chase rule for motorcycles in Denver. Sold the bikes so now I always pull over. FYI if you pass a cop on I-25 and you are doing 125+ mph by the time you downshift into 4th and pull back the throttle you can't see if they have turned on their lights to follow.

[K31Fan]

I have a rule that if I am on 4 wheels I pull over. If I am on 2 wheels go faster. I don't know if this is true or not but I was once told that there is a no chase rule for motorcycles in Denver. Sold the bikes so now I always pull over. FYI if you pass a cop on I-25 and you are doing 125+ mph by the time you downshift into 4th and pull back the throttle you can't see if they have turned on their lights to follow.

[ROFL1]

[mcantar18c]

Here's a good story for ya. And yeah it was me, not a "friend", I'll grow a pair and man up to it [Tooth]

Senior year of high school, heading home from a party in the early morning hours.
Buddies had all got hammered, I've never enjoyed being drunk (its a "loss of control" thing for me, I don't like putting myself in positions where I don't have 100% control of myself) so I'd only had a couple beers, and as I was the only sober one there I drove em all home in my buddies car... an early 90's 240sx he'd squeezed around 400hp out of with dual turbos.
We'd dropped off the other two kids and were on our way back to my buddies house. We'd been good friends for years so I new his neighborhood pretty well.
Cop lit up behind us as were were coming up on the entrance to his neighborhood, still don't know what it was for. We were both shipping off for the Army a couple weeks after graduation and knew the tickets we'd be getting would screw that up for us... I wasn't close to drunk but I knew it'd still show up on a breathalyzer and didn't want to lose my shot at the career I'd been planning since middle school, and I certainly didn't want to be responsible for losing his for him.
Cop was about 3-4 car lengths behind us. I slowed down as we came up to the turn for his neighborhood like I was gonna turn in and pull over... soon as I came around that corner I dropped 2 gears and took off. Came around the next corner and killed the lights. There was a guy a block or so down from his place that had a habit of forgetting to close his garage, so I headed there doing about 60 and sure enough it was open. Pulled into the garage, shut it off, and ducked down, cop drove right by. Gave it a few min and headed to his place.

Was is a good idea? Probably not. Would I do it again? Hell no.
But it worked [Muaha]

[rondog]

Only once.....many, many years ago. Didn't work, it was ugly. Destroyed my mom's Delta 88 and three parked pickups, lucky to live through it.

[blackford76]

A few times, but now I just pull over. But in my Crown Vic they just smile and wave.

[roberth]

Yes, 3 times in the late 80s and early 90s and I didn't get caught, it helps to know the area you're in and stay off side streets. I rode crotch rockets and I was fearless back then. Never crossed my mind to try it in a car.

I wouldn't even think of trying it now. Too much traffic and cops are too well trained.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Not me!! But a friend of mine is a crazzzzy man!! He's a great guy and rides a crotch rocket better than any one I have ever seen. He and his friends have been in a couple of movies for their riding abilities. He admitted to me he has run from the cops more than 60 yes 60 times and never been caught!! [Beer] to my friend!!

[mcantar18c]

But in my Crown Vic they just smile and wave.

[ROFL1]

Next time I get pulled over, I'm gonna tell em "you'd better let my go officer, I pay your salary!"

I've never understood the whole "cops are evil" mentality that a lot of kids I knew growing up had. Yeah, some cops are dicks, but not all. I've been hassled by cops in a shitty mood for 45 min for a simple 5mph over in a school zone, and I've had cops let me go for running a stop sign cause I pulled over as soon as I saw him before he even had a chance to flash his lights.
Best encounter with the 5-0 I've had was a $200 speeding ticket lol. I put 37s on my truck and forgot to recalibrate the speedometer, so I was going 10 over in a school zone and didn't realize it. Pulled over, cop came up and clearly explained in a reasonable manner that I'd been speeding and then actually showed me the digits on his radar gun as he said it. I told him about the tires and he told me he had to give me a ticket but to fight it and gave me some suggestions on what to say. Wrote up the ticket and that was that, all in about 10 min.

[hurley842002]

Here's a good story for ya. And yeah it was me, not a "friend", I'll grow a pair and man up to it [Tooth]

Senior year of high school, heading home from a party in the early morning hours.
Buddies had all got hammered, I've never enjoyed being drunk (its a "loss of control" thing for me, I don't like putting myself in positions where I don't have 100% control of myself) so I'd only had a couple beers, and as I was the only sober one there I drove em all home in my buddies car... an early 90's 240sx he'd squeezed around 400hp out of with dual turbos.
We'd dropped off the other two kids and were on our way back to my buddies house. We'd been good friends for years so I new his neighborhood pretty well.
Cop lit up behind us as were were coming up on the entrance to his neighborhood, still don't know what it was for. We were both shipping off for the Army a couple weeks after graduation and knew the tickets we'd be getting would screw that up for us... I wasn't close to drunk but I knew it'd still show up on a breathalyzer and didn't want to lose my shot at the career I'd been planning since middle school, and I certainly didn't want to be responsible for losing his for him.
Cop was about 3-4 car lengths behind us. I slowed down as we came up to the turn for his neighborhood like I was gonna turn in and pull over... soon as I came around that corner I dropped 2 gears and took off. Came around the next corner and killed the lights. There was a guy a block or so down from his place that had a habit of forgetting to close his garage, so I headed there doing about 60 and sure enough it was open. Pulled into the garage, shut it off, and ducked down, cop drove right by. Gave it a few min and headed to his place.

Was is a good idea? Probably not. Would I do it again? Hell no.
But it worked [Muaha]

and that happened what, 2 years ago? [Tooth]

[Ridge]

All ya gotta do is get out of their search area for a minute and your wanted level disappears...

[gnihcraes]

good stories^^ not sure I can compete.

16 or 17, was at a friends house, party going on. I didn't drink. Another friend called, and believed someone was hiding inside his house and he needed help, he was really scared. (Why he didn't call 911 or PD, I dunno)

So I'm handed the keys to my friends 67 camaro, with about 5 other guys, we race through Green Mountain in Lakewood to help this other friend in his house about 1-2 miles away. Its late, I'm blasting around a long sweeping curve, (by two schools) and end up passing several Lakewood officers on the side of the road for some other situation. Oh Crap! I just keep on going, you can see them step into the street with their flashlights as we disappear into the darkness at a high rate of speed. I'm sure they came looking for us...

Finally get to the guys house and kill everything, wait a while before heading back out. Never did find any reason for the guy to be scared in his house, nobody was there but him.

1967 Camaro: 327, Muncie 4 speed, limited slip, unknown HP! was built buy another friend in Chicago where it easily did 11's in the quarter. The car was previously used to evade Chicago PD several times so I've been told.

[Ah Pook]

Short answer. Yes I have, but things were different in the 70's in Arlington, Texas.

Yeah, there wasn't much to Arlington in the '70s. :D

[sniper7]

only in my 99 passat. was going only 20 over in a 45 mph limit, he was going the opposite way, I passed him, watched him hit the lights and start to flip a U'y to come after me so I quick turned right into a neighborhood and made a right, a left, another right, came out on the road I was just on and continued on my way. he had turned into the neighborhood so he was busy looking for me as I kept on my way!

had one on foot. was at a buddies house and nobody was 21. cops showed up and were going to give everyone MIPs. we were hiding in the bathroom with a couple girls, and trying to hide in the shower, one kid broke a window trying to get out but a couple cops had the house surrounded and we pulled him back in, then the knock at the door that forced us to open it and everyone was pulled into the front room. we walked past the cops at the front door, ducked into a back bedroom and dove through the screen. this was a double-wide, and we were at the front. needless to say, the tongue was still there. I had a bruise for a couple weeks. my buddy that dove first bent his truck key into his thigh and punctured skin.

from there we bolted and luckily had the fat cop. just me and my buddy now on foot. we heard a car coming, so we ran out into a field (this is in sterling on the outskirts of town), laid in the grass as the spotlight went over us a couple times then we heard the car drive further down. we took off again, got to a small car dealership and caught out breaths when a cop pulls in and starts lighting the place up with his spotlight. he both hopped on the bumper of a tahoe and ducked under the window as he drove through looking. once he left we took off through more fields and my friend called a buddy to get a ride.

as we were running across a field, we saw a couple more cars looking for us where we had to drop down in the rows (this is in december, all corn is cut and fields plowed). we were in full sprint when all of a sudden my buddy yells "STOP!" too late.
I fell into the ditch at full speed. he said it look like wiley coyote. ditch was an angled down cement sided, dirt bottom ditch. i hit the lower end of the cement, rolled down, kinda caught my feet and ended up in the freezing 6" deep water. luckily i was on my feet but sunk it to my knees.
My buddy comes running up, sees if I am okay, which, being drunk and with an adrenaline rush I was fine, so I thought.

his friend shows up, we crawl out of the ditch and head to the guys house.
I knew nobody here except for my friend and the guy whose house we were at, so I trusted nobody.
once we got to the house, we chilled out, tried to warm up, when we here a car roll up outside...COPS.
we went out the back door and took off. we were still on the outskirts of town so took off for the fields. we got out in a field and were catching our breath when my buddies phone rang...female cop tells him he has a warrant out and if he doesn't return to the house the cops will be coming to get him in the morning. they want to know who his friend is and we both need to go back to the house and get our MIPs. like I said...nobody knew me. he got ratted out, but wasn't about to rat me out.

He said he was alone, continued that claim and we had to separate. I, in my infinite wisdom, got turned around and ended up going the wrong direction for 2 miles, until i realized where I was when I saw the wal-mart...about 5 miles from his parents house on the opposite side of town.

I started across more fields, continued to see police cars patrolling the streets. I later found out that sterling police, logan county sheriff, state patrol were all after us.

I had to and weave my wave through fields for the 5 miles, cross a highway, railroad tracks and more fields and roads along the way. closest call was at the john deere dealership when a cop pulled in spotlighting and I had to hide in the wheel of a huge 4wd and wrap around the tire as he spotlighted.

My buddy tried calling me as he got his MIP and was wanting to pick me up and get me back to his parents but I didn't trust anyone and said I would get myself home, and would scope out for cops before I came in.

I finally got to his parents property, circled around the place in the trees and found it to be safe, came up to the window and crawled in where he was waiting.

At that point I realized I was at least in stage 1 hypothermia. shaking uncontrollably. My pant legs up to the knee were literally frozen. rock solid. I only had a t-shirt on as I left my leather jacket at the party house, so the 10 degree weather had done its toll, plus being wet. I got in a sleeping bag and shook for probably a good hour before being able to control the shaking somewhat, then finally passed out.

one hell of a night!



only other times were when i had to run on dirtbikes or 4 wheelers in places we weren't supposed to be, but that was easy to get away because we knew every spot and areas cops would never be able to get to.

[Irving]

My cousin was driving my 1996 Acura Integra GSR, because I had a red license for points accumulations. *This was well before F&F came out Graves ;)* We were leaving The Loop (the Westminster one) heading south down Wadsworth, going up the hill towards say 70th, 76tth, or Pomona?

We get stopped at a light between an MKIII Toyota Supra (N/A) and something like a Pontiac Grand Prix or a Chevy Lumina Euro Sport. Light turned green and we all raced. We were winning when a 5.0 came cruising over the hill in the other direction. 5.0 instantly flipped a bitch and threw on the party lights. Everyone panicked and slammed on the brakes, shooting us (in the middle lane) even further ahead of the pack. The Lumina pulled over to the shoulder, but my cousin took a left at the top of the hill (there is a stop light there now), then we took the first left into that apartment complex. We ducked into a spot, just in time to notice the stupid kids in the Supra following us! All of us got out of the cars and just stood around in the middle of the complex. We watched the cops drive around the complex for like an hour.


Years later I had a 1990 Acura Integra RS. That one actually had some balls because I turbocharged it. Not like 11's fast, but a 13.8 at Bandimere on bald tire with an open diff and a trap speed of 106mph. I couldn't drive it very well. One night, I saw this 60's Camaro that you could tell was in the middle of a restoration by some similarly aged high school or college kid. I was driving passed it in the opposite direction.

About an hour later, I left where I was to go home, and came across the same car. He was going the general direction that I was, so I stayed with him for a few miles trying to get him to race me. He was apparently on his way to the Hamburger Stand at 6th and Union. Anyway, on Simms between Colfax and 6th (heading southbound), I finally got him to bite. Poor guy had no idea what was coming. My car was a total sleeper and looked like a piece of junk. I don't think the other guy had anything done to his car, probably just bought it. Once he started to go, I left him behind so fast that I actually felt bad. We both saw a cop do a U-turn in the rear view. The Camaro immediately slowed and got over, I just took my foot off the gas, but didn't slow down. I coasted over the hill at 6th and pulled into that hotel there, parked, went into the lobby and took a dump.

I've been pulled over many times, and while I was young, I was let go EVERY single time I actually deserved to be pulled over for driving stupid. Now that I'm older and don't drive crazy anymore, I haven't been let off at all.

I've fish tailed passed a CSP in a Camaro while I was doing 90 mph and was let go.
I passed an officer going the opposite direction while I was straddling the double yellow line (I was apexing those turns behind the Taco Bell at I-70 and Kipling) and let go.

Now I'm old and my car sucks balls.

[Irving]

I started across more fields, continued to see police cars patrolling the streets. I later found out that sterling police, logan county sheriff, state patrol were all after us.




For a bunch of drunk minors?

[sniper7]

For a bunch of drunk minors?


yep, there is literally absolutely nothing for them to do in that town. any kind of disturbance and every cop in on the call. I am not joking when I saw a cop lives on every block in sterling. you can drive through that town and depending on the time of day you will probably see some kind of law enforcement car on just about every block.

I am just glad I didn't grow up there, I would have been in serious trouble.

every single kid I ever met from sterling has at least 1 MIP or DUI or multiple speeding tickets. I feel bad for the people there. nothing to do, small town and a disproportional amount of law enforcement.

The next day we found out there were over 20 officers looking for the 2 of us. I don't remember the exact number, but I remember it was in the 20's.

[Irving]

Well, that is quite the story sir. Glad your arms didn't fall off from frost bite.

[bryjcom]

Ran from the cops a few times. Never got in a car chase though. Most of the time it was for stupid shit. Skateboarding, being in the park after dark, that kinda stuff.

First time was when I was about 10 years old. My friends and I were shooting bottle rockets and we found a 20 foot piece of PVC. So we took it, set it up on the large brick wall that went in front of the entire length of the apt. complex and were shooting bottle rockets through the PVC and into the street. Well we managed to hit a cop car that just happen to be passing by so he came through the parking lot with his spot light. We saw the light and ran as fast as we could down the main road in a drainage ditch and made it to the opposite side of the complex. We were all standing there on the corner thinking it was all over when the cop rolled up.

We were so dumb and young that we didn't know to keep running.........

[bjl913]

I had a close call once. I wouldnt really call it running as much as I would call it making the other guy get the ticket!

I was driving my dads Kenny Brown Panther Crown Vic about 8 years ago. Fun car! Miss it!!! Supercharged making 350hp and running 13's!! Probably more car than an 18 year old kid should have been allowed! I was driving on a 6 lane wide portion of a road who's name I wont mention. I was sitting at a light and a late model Camaro pulled up next to me. Looked to be a guy in his mid 30's with a cute girl riding shotgun. I figured it would be fun to try and embarrass this guy with nearly 2 tons of fun! Even if I didn't pull ahead, I was sure it would be a fun matchup! So needless to say, after a little bit of revving and him laughing at me, the light turns green. Off we go! I took him by about a car length through first gear to about 50mph, but he was already in second and pulling up QUICK! We both hit 3rd at about 80mph and the were neck and neck until about 110... Next thing I know there is an unmarked cruiser flipping around and hitting his lights behind us and the light we were coming up on was red! Mr Camaro got off the gas before I did allowing me to get in front of him and get over to the right. Camaro stopped in the middle lane at the light and I took a right, blowing the light, and punched it! I watched the cruiser pull in behind the Camaro in my rear view... At this point I was only about 2 miles from home so I hurried there and parked the car in the garage! I kinda feel bad for Mr Camaro, but better him than me!!!

Now I wouldnt even dream of doing anything stupid like that, let alone driving dangerously on the street!

[Irving]

Anyone ever been the chaser in a car chase? I've done that twice.

[clublights]

High powered sportbike, combined with young age, add a dash of tickets with the officers saying each time " I'm surprised you didn't run" and still giving out said tickets......... well .. Let's just say I didn't get any more tickets cuz they never got the chance to talk to me again.

It was almost too easy to run on the bike.

Thank God i've gotten older and not had any tickets in so long anyways that even if I did get pulled over I'd just take the ticket and deal with it.

[JohnTRourke]

There is no try

There is only do

now that I"m an old fart, I don't even go over the speed limit.
[Bang]

but when I was invincible (17/18 years old).....................

[Mtn.man]

I'm still invincible,,,, but then there are those days when ths body goes on strike.

[Lex_Luthor]

No cops around for this story, but it is by FAR the most stupid thing I have ever done behind the wheel. I was about 17, and I drove a Honda Civic hatchback, swapped motor, kinda the same stuff Irv was talking about. We went to a movie at the Westminster Promenade with a friend whose curfew was midnight. We figured the movie would let out at about 11:50, and he only lived a couple miles from the theater. Movie ends, we check the time. 11:56, shit! So we sprinted to my car, I floored it out of the parking lot at 11:57. No time to wait at the light. I turned left down the wrong way on left side (parkway style median in the middle of the road). I was doing 80-100 on that street, light is red, no cars around. I let off the gas and skidded the right turn onto 112th around 60 mph. Luckily the rest of the lights were green, and no cars around, I flew over Sheridan at about 95+ mph. I pulled up to his house at 12:00 and he walked into the front door. After prying my hands from the wheel, I did the required 25 mph to the other side of the subdivision where my best friend lived.

NEVER AGAIN, I promised myself.

[Cman]

Back in the earlier 70's my wife and I owned a blue vette with a white convertible top. My wife used to race cars and I had built up that 396 so it would really move. On the way to drop me off at work we had an argument. After she dropped me off on south nevada she shot up north as fast as that vette would go. When she got to the horse statue on Platte she stood on the brakes and slid around the corner and came face to face with a cop sitting in traffic at the light. He turned on his flashing lights and she hit the gas pedal. She got to 90mph then made a right followed by multiple lefts and rights. She was going fast enough with enough turns she lost him. Luckily he never got the plate number. We were a marked car after that and got stopped for routine checks. HAHA. Wish I hadnt sold that vette!

[sniper7]

Well, that is quite the story sir. Glad your arms didn't fall off from frost bite.

I still look back and am amazed at how stupid that was an how close I came to being in serious trouble health wise.
but every time we drive by that ditch when I go up and see him we have a good laugh!

[rondog]

Jeeze, what a bunch of hooligans there are here! Hooligans with guns now.....http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/rinselman/smilies/killersmiley.gif

[ldmaster]

Back in California there was this community college, Cosumnes River, and it was surrounded by a 10 ft earthen berm, lots of grass too. So one night we were jumping the berm in an old Willie's korean war surplus jeep. It had an overdrive box and could go 50mph, downhill. Swooping up the berm that surrounded the parking area was easy enough and not horribly dangerous, always got the front wheels a bit in the air, and the berm was unimproved, just packed dirt and weeds. It was just fun and we were finally done, when we saw this caprice roll around the corner of the front break in the berm around the parking lot with it's lights running.

I was the driver, and figured if I was going to be caught, it wasn't going to be because I gave up easily, besides, the jeep wasn't mine and I didn't want to get it impounded. The college layout was a square with buildings set on the edge of the square, with the interior one big park, all set on a 10ft hill (all manmade) and I drove up a service driveway into the quad area. Threaded my way through the walkway lights and small trees that dotted the quad, my lights were off and the moon showed me what I need to see to avoid things. His lights were blazing and looking back my friends saw the lights on the car shudder and shift as it hit trees and the small 2ft high shelters they put the walkway lights in (lights were off in the college since it was midnight). I got to the back stairway, which was another 10 ft higher than the front and went down it - about a 40ft long stairway. We made it to the back exit of the college to stop and see the caprice waiting at the top of the stairs - then it plunged downward and we could hear the undercarriage scraping the steps.

The back road into the college was a divided road, with about a foot high wall that enclosed bushes and trees for a visual barrier and it was about a mile long. About halfway down there was a break in the foliage, and I cut across the division into a neighborhood. The caprice screeched to a halt at the division, and gave up the chase as he had probably figured out I could do this all night.

The next day in school, I was a student there, there was this big story about the chase and all the damage that had been caused to the campus by the police car, it also mentioned the police car had to be towed. I was always careful to not damage things when doing a little boonie crashing, hell, I'd done it for at least three months already, all the damage that night was caused by the cop.

I'd gotten away a couple of times before, ALWAYS in a woefully underpowered 4 cylinder clunker, and it was never speed that won the race, it was always knowledge of my terrain!

Today, I think, if I were caught doing the same thing - I'd be serving major prison time.

Thank god for the statute of limitations!

[K31Fan]

All ya gotta do is get out of their search area for a minute and your wanted level disappears...

I've tried that before....but I can't help myself.....I wind up killing another hooker and they're after me again! [ROFL1]

[Clint45]

A few times, many years ago, in another state, if I was driving at high speed on an empty highway at night and passed a State Trooper I might've taken steps to avoid getting a ticket -- but I figure if you've got a good head start it isn't really much of a chase, especially if you just pull off the road and wait for him to pass by. And if he doesn't actually put on his flashing lights it doesn't count as "eluding", right?

I see that here in CO it is a felony to "elude" the police, and that means no more guns for you. Better just to pay the ticket.

[colocowboy01]

Back when I was a kid I lived west of Loveland right by the Devil's Backbone. I had a 1970 Ford pick-up with a 390, and it would fly. My brother and I were coming home from town heading west on Hwy 34 at a good rate of speed, like dumb teenage boys do. We were just starting up the hill that the Devil's Backbone is on when a cop car crested the hill heading east into town. The red and blue lights came on, and as soon as I saw that I downshifted and hit the gas. My brother was hollering at me trying to figure out what I was thinking. The cop car got to the bottom of the hill and turned around in a restaurant parking lot and started back toward us. I keep accelerating over the hill and when we had crested the hill and the brake lights could not be seen by the cop I hit the brakes and turned hard onto a little service road that ran along the face of the Backbone, and led into our little neighborhood. We flew down that little road and slid into our driveway and ran though the garage, jump up on the fence and waved at the cop who had topped the hill and was accelerating west passed Sunny Jim's candy store on Hwy 34.

That is the one and only time I every tried to outrun the cops. I figured it was best to stop while I was 1-0 and could retire undefeated. My brother became a cop and I don't drive fast anymore(I am turning into an old man). [Beer]

[Circuits]

I maybe did or maybe didn't once kill my lights and floor it when I saw the cherries light up. Maybe did or maybe didn't make it to an exit before being reacquired and hide out behind a McDonald's dumpster for about 30 minutes until I got back on the highway.

I maybe was or maybe wasn't about 16 at the time.