try to evade the cops? done a lot of dumb things but never anything that dumb.
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try to evade the cops? done a lot of dumb things but never anything that dumb.
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!
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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
Excellent story. Good ending too.Originally Posted by twitchyfinger
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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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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