Oh No Caught By The Cops In The Vette

[Douglas G.]

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One great police story deserves another....This is Canadian story ,RCMP and km/hr.
RED CORVETTE. OLD PEOPLE
A Calgary senior citizen drove his brand new red Corvette out of the dealer's showroom and down the road.He floored it to 130 km/hr, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
"Amazing," he thought as he flew down the Trans-Canada highway towards Banff,pushing the pedal even more.Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol car behind him, blue and red lights flashing.
He floored it to 160 km/hr, then 180 then 200.
Suddenly he thought,"What am I doing? I'm too old for this," and pulled over to wait the RCMP's arrival. Pulling in behind him. the Officer walked up to the Corvette ,looked at his watch and said "Sir my shift ends in 30 minutes.
Today is Friday. If you can give me a reason for speeding that I have never heard before, I'll let you go.
The gentleman paused, then said, "Years ago my wife ran off with an RCMP officer.
I thought you were bringing her back.
"HAVE AGOOD DAY,SIR," replied the Officer

[Stewart A.]

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Good story Doug LOL. Stewy

[Steven G.]

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Another cop/vette story, After closing down the last water hole in the next state, I dropped off my beer drinking buddy around 4:00 in the early morning in town and got the red lights behind me and knew I better hide my beer. The officer came to my car door and asked if I had just squeeled my tires, the 70' L-46 coupe had cragars, wide tires and hooker headers with chrome side pipes that may have caught his eye, I said no, not me, and the arguement began. It was a hot summer early morning and my friends father was drinking coffee on the front porch before going to work and saw what was going on and told the officer the car making the noise was on the other side of town. Then the arguement got more intense, my friends father finally told the officer get the hell out of here or I am calling the state police !! Shortly afterwards we heard the sound of tire squeeling across town and the town cop quickly took off, I didn't get an apology from the cop or a DUI, so I went home with my seventy's story and all was well. Steve

[Stuart F.]

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So Stewy, what was my story? Chopped liver? Perhaps you went to bed.

I have another good one, but I'll save it for another day - primarily because this is a Vette site and Vette new, I was in the Army and took life a little more seriously - bang! bang! and all.

Stu Fox

[Stewart A.]

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Stu you have plenty of good stories that was a good one. Yeah us folk get up as you guys are going to bed. It gets very quiet on the site some days I often see only 2 people on the forum !! I haven't struck just myself on it yet. Stewy

[Kenny C.]

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OK hears one of literally dozens of stories I could tell that are all absolutely true but so outlandish you all likely wouldn’t believe me. And some as recent as a month ago! No I haven’t entirely grown up yet. This one however is one of my first zingers, I was 18 and had just bought my 69 L46 vette (over 30 years ago) I was cruzzing Van Nuys Blvd. for those of you from back east who may have never heard of the Blvd it was the biggest and most crowded cruzz street in the county back then. I was stopped at a traffic light feeling rather full of myself being a young punk kid with a smoken set of wheels. Just before the light changed a little V8 Ford Maverick pulled along side. Well it was being driven by a girl who happened to be a local newscaster’s daughter and she was shooting rev’s at me trying to chose me on. Well I just couldn’t have any of that; I certainly wasn’t going to be shown up by this spoiled little girl. So the light changed and I floored it and dropped the clutch, I was burning the tires off that car, side stepped it into second as I was drifting across the intersection. Then it happened out of the billowing cloud of smoke came the faint glair of red cherries! After I composed myself and got he car to the curb (all the passers by just howling with laughter) up came the cop, book in hand and shaking his head. The first words out of his mouth “What’s your middle name A Hole”? Don’t you even look in your rearview mirror before pulling that kind of stunt I was right behind you at the light? Needless to say I was rather stunned, I just replied that it wasn’t my middle name but probably should be. Just as he was about to start to write I said “well here come number one” he says really you’ve never gotten a ticket before? I said nope not even pulled over (a total lie I used many times with success) he closed the book! He said he wasn’t going to give me my first and that he had seen the girl egging me on but was surprised I fell for it. He warned me not to be so stupid and be more careful. Now you tell me you think that’s the kind of thing that would happen today? Good times and every word of it the truth. I have bunches more stories like that, maybe someday I will share them with my son, along time from now.

[Stuart F.]

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Ok, Ok, here's my last one (all in an effort to make Stewy feel better); My last car before going into the service was a 57 Bel Air post which I raced successfully for the better part of the 1960 and 61 seasons. I had built a 295 ci SB and ran a 4-speed for the last half of 61, down in the low 13's, taking B/S and stock eliminator on a regular basis. The last day I raced it I dropped the drive shaft out at over 100 mph - busted off the starter, all the mounting ears from the transmission, and messed up the E-brake linkage. I replaced the cast case on the BW with an aluminum one, but sold it as I knew I would sell the car before going in the Army. To keep it running, I put the original 3 speed w/ overdrive, still with the 4.56 rear, back in. To control the O.D. better, I installed a hand switch which effectively gave me a 6 speed set up. One evening I was returning from Milwaukee on old highway 41 south and took off from the highway 100 stop light doing a full red line in all six gears. Just after winding out near top in 6th, I spotted a Wisconsin State Patrol pursuit car heading north - and he saw me. This was a new 61 Dodge painted red and white instead of their usual blue and gray. He did a U-turn and started after me and my thought process went; " he's in a hot new Dodge pursuit car, he won't call ahead due to his ego". And I bet on it. My buddy with me kept track of the distance and determined he was not closing, and I asked him also to spot the highway 20 exit, which he did. I then began my down shifting w/o braking to continue showing tail lights until I turned off, at which time I killed all my rear lights (we all had kill switches), and beat a mean chogie east and he went by like a bat outa south bound.

The only lesson I learned from that episode was a new found confidence that I could maintain a cool train of thought under pressure - which probably served me well in the following 9 years in SEA - both in the Army and working as a contractor.

P.S. Has the statute of limitations expired yet?

Stu Fox

[Stewart A.]

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Good story Stu. I've been thinking it's just so much easier to drive sensibly. I might just give that a try. Stewy

[Stuart F.]

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Stewy;

That's a wise outlook. As I'm now in my 70th year of life, I too have come to realize that the value of my Vette is much more than money. It has been my friend for nearly 45 years now and represents significant intrinsic value to me and my family. I flog it on occasion to clear out the cobwebs and massage my own ego or as heart therapy, but I'm also conscious of the fact that it is made of old metal and fiberglass. Just like I can no longer "over do it", I must not push it too hard either.

Stu Fox

[Sandra H.]

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Just remember Stewart......some mistakes are too much fun to only do once.

Sandy

[Stuart F.]

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Wow Sandy!

That is "loaded" advice. I like your outlook.

Stu Fox

[Sandra H.]

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Thankyou Stuart.
Sandy

[Richard W.]

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I got pulled over two weeks ago for the first time in many, many years in my 2001 red coupe. The officer got me going 51 in a 35 limit with a long-range head-on radar shot. He U-turned behind me with his lights flashing and came after me. I was already stopped by the time he caught up with me. He asked for my license and insurance and went back to his Crown Vic. Five minutes later he came back and handed me a written warning. I was completely shocked. All he said was: "Try to keep it under control". They are still out there!

[Rick S.]

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After 30 years in law enforcement and 7 years working in a local district court, I have to laugh at all the stories. I must admit to my own indiscretions and will admit to never getting "caught".

Rick

[Jim S.]

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My Classic Speed Story:

In the late 80s I puchased a 65 corvette roadster, Here in Phoenix Arizona. One day a friend of mine invited me to a Party in Flagstaff so I took the vette up there just for the fun of it. Flagstaff is about 160 miles away and about 7000 feet up in elevation. On the way up I took the freeway all the way and didn't get on it too much.

Well after a full day of drinking and partying I left around 9:00 PM for home .I was in no way incumbered , but I am sure I didn't think about a breath mint either.
While driving out of town, the thought came to me that on such a" Beautiful Night " with a "Billion Stars" overhead , I should drop the top and take the back roads home . So I did just that !

Now as a set up to the story the back roads are a maze of switchbacks and rolling hills with no people, no towns and no lights of any kind . Therefore the speed limit is 40 MPH with lots of "Slow to 25 to 15 MPH" at the curves.

It was amazing ! Not a sole on the road in either direction. Just me and a cool breeze with a canopy of stars overhead ! I felt like the Omega Man ,and was looking up at the stars on the straight-a -ways and pretending to be at Sebring during the curves.

Suddenly a pair of head lights broke over the horizon in my rear view mirror. I was irritated because it ruined the whole effect . So I sped up a little in order to lose them and get back to my "only person on Earth" feeling again.

That worked for about 30 seconds , then the lights appeared again in my rearview. I decided that since I had a corvette, and whomever was in back of me didn't , I would lose him once and for all !!

I went through the next couple of Straight-a -ways at 90+ Mph and took the next few curves at 60 Mph ,tires squealing all the way ,and laughed about how I ditched that clown !

Within another 30 seconds "that clown" was back. This time with lights flashing. It was a Highway Patrol Man.

Needless to say He was not happy when he approached my car. He asked me to get out , patted me down ,where he most certainly could smell that I had been drinking earlier, and then asked me for my paper work.

After going back to his car for the usual search for Wants and Warrants he came back to the car and asked me to explain my "reckless behavior". As I was certain that I was going to jail , my only thoughts were about whom I should call to get me out .... So not being able to think of anything clever to say, I told him the truth. "I was enjoying the drive and feeling like the only person in the world until your headlights ruined the whole effect. I was therefore just trying to recapture that feeling "."The best way to accomplish that, I fiqured ,was to lose you " !

Well honesty must indeed be the best policy because he let me go ! He said and I quote " I will turn arround and head back and let you have your" feeling", if you promise to do it at the speed limit from here on ! I agreed , and drove the rest of the way home enjoying the solitude and the stars. The silence, only occasionally broken by the sound of grateful and relieved laughter.

The End.

Jim