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!

*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.

[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.

[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.