Today, after driving a few hours late at night I decided to entertain the car tailgating me by not letting him pass. After doing this for 3miles, reaching 93MPH, I decided to let the car pass me. When I switched lanes, the car tailgating me light up in red and blue. It was a cop. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was tailgated by a car with his high beams on for an hour. Any time I changed my speed or lane, he would do the same. I finally managed to get away from him because a cop pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket. FML
Today, I was tailgated on the highway. There was a car in the lane next to me, and my tailgater was WAY too close to risk slowing down, so I sped up in order to switch lanes, which bumped me over the speed limit. That's when my tailgater turned on the flashing lights. FML
Today, I pulled up to the stoplight near my house. It was dark with no traffic and the car behind me kept edging closer and closer to me. I finally got fed up with waiting and the car and ran it. In fact, it was a cop and he was trying to read my license plate because the back light was out. FML
Today, a cop almost rear-ended my car, slammed on the gas with no warning, swerved around me, flipped me the bird, then cut me off and then drove a full ten miles under the speed limit. When I changed lanes to overtake him, he pulled me over for road rage. FML
Today, the car in front of me was going slow and I flashed my lights and honked. I floored it and passed the car, flipping off the driver. Just as I went around the next corner, I got pulled over by a motorcycle cop. A few seconds later, the guy I flipped off drove by honked and waved. FML
Today, while driving I saw a police car riding along next to me. Thinking about the news recently, I decided to give him a quick thumbs up and a smile to lighten up his day. He looks back, smiles, flips on his siren, and pulls me over for not paying attention to the road. FML
Today, some aggressive asshole was tailgating me on my way home, bumping into me twice. I got scared and kicked my car into high gear and got out of there. Seconds later, a traffic cop came out of nowhere and pulled me over for speeding. FML
Today, while driving home, some idiot kept tailgating me, so I slowed down, hoping he'd overtake me. He didn't, so I pulled to the side of the road. He did the same, in front of me. He kept toying with me until I crashed into another car trying to speed away from him. FML
Today, I got pulled over for speeding and got a $200 ticket. After I pulled away, I decided to warn the next car about the cop up ahead by flashing my headlights. The next car was another cop. He didn't appreciate my "help". FML
Today, I was driving home from work and noticed the car behind me was tailgating me pretty badly. I was starting to get angry with the driver, and kept glancing in my rear view mirror at him. While I was doing so, the traffic ahead of me stopped, and I rear-ended the car in front of me. FML
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GameRater01 0
score one for karma
ddrluna 2
I slow down for tailgaters. Wouldn't change if it were a cop. It's one of those moments where you just pray a deer would jump in front of you so that you could slam on your breaks and the moron would crash right into you for following too close.
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orca99 0
double post: @ Dooms_Day (#128) The heck they are! County and city police only need a high school diploma to be hired. They are as skilled as your average substitute teacher. You have to be a highway or state patrol to get specialized training. That's why it's illegal for things (not, they aren't people here) like sheriffs to pull you over for less than 10 over the limit. Because they have NO training. Duh. And as for the rest of us 'street racing:' Are you SERIOUSLY gonna tell me that Jeff Gordon isn't a better driver than a pig? Really? Some of us have had defensive driving, stunt driving, actually race cars, and other things. The cops aren't better trained. And next: Let's do some physics, shall we? Let's say this was a dry road, so the coefficient of static friction is about 1. To drop 3 miles per hour, from 93 to 90 would take him .3 feet, which at 90 miles per hour is .003 seconds. Now the cop is traveling 3 miles per hour faster. Let's say there's a distance of 5 feet between them, shall we? The cop is going 4.4 feet per second faster than the OP. At 93 miles per hour, your car won't cruise without cruise control or your foot on the gas. Since speeds are changing, the cops foot is on the gas. It takes the cop over 3/10 of a second to realize what's happened, an additional .3 to get his foot over, and then slamming his brakes, he MIGHT be able to drop that same 3 miles per hour in .3 feet. He's really close to hitting the OP, and the OP only slowed down 3 miles per hour. If the OP slammed his brakes, he could stop within the length of a football field, and the cop would have creamed him. The cop rear ended him, meaning he was following too closely, and therefore he is fined, not the OP. Sorry to tell you.
shmaller 0
This happened to me last Halloween. A cop followed me and my buds in a car for a good seven miles from their house to mine, from their neighborhood all the way to mine. Since there were a couple guys in the trunk of my Jeep, if I had stopped even a couple feet short, the pig could have seriously hurt or even killed one of my friends, just so he would have a better chance of handing out a ticket. The police have no respect for other people, all they care about is making others' lives miserable for their own sadistic pleasure. I don't get why you would set a quota for the number of times your piglets have to fine the people who fund your paycheck. The entire system is disgusting.
christopherlove 0
You did not deserve this. **** that cop, and all tailgaters, badge or no badge.
PredyJessica 0
idiot.stop driving dunk!
Kampex 0
Arrested for assholeish behavior
shmaller 0
This happened to me last Halloween. A cop followed me and my buds in a car for a good seven miles from their house to mine, from their neighborhood all the way to mine. Since there were a couple guys in the trunk of my Jeep, if I had stopped even a couple feet short, the pig could have seriously hurt or even killed one of my friends, just so he would have a better chance of handing out a ticket. The police have no respect for other people, all they care about is making others' lives miserable for their own sadistic pleasure. I don't get why you would set a quota for the number of times your piglets have to fine the people who fund your paycheck. The entire system is disgusting.
arioch_fml 20
All honesty, that's incredibly stupid. Why the hell would you throw extra people into any vehicle? If that cop would have rear ended you, resulting in your friends getting hurt or killed, I'd still put 50% of the blame on you. It would be his fault sure, but you willingly decided to let people ride in the trunk, no matter how you think about it you can't place all the blame on him if it happened.
BBkid 0
U so ******* deserved that u prick
WONDERWB 2
Both of you were wrong. The cop for entrapment (by law definition) and you for failing at driving. Second, how about reporting him by calling 911? They can handle that and if it's in the system and the cop announces himself as the guilty party, well it can result in a suspension. At least here anyways. Legally they cannot do this, but do because they have a quota to fill. The idea is to call them out on it and obey the law so they can't pull you over. If they do, you can get out of the ticket.
ILoveMyLifeSoMuc 0
when in doubt, dont look like a dumbass.
ILoveMyLifeSoMuc 0
well you shouldnt have been going that fast in the first place but that cop was being a total asshat.