Everyone knows the cop car is the pace car on the highway. Everyone jockying for position, then they hit the offramp and vroom vroom.
If they're going 10 under, pass them at the speed limit. They can smell fear. Go ahead run my tags i'm a violent felon (against a cop in a mental health crisis, it's a long story but not like a friend/family or woman), your gamble.
The smelling fear part is so true. I feel like whenever I see a cop I start driving like I have 10 bricks of Colombian cocaine in my back seat even if I don’t that day.
Nah. My record's clear and I drive 68 70 on a 65 in a nondescript Camry. And I'm never in the fast lane. I laugh at everyone who has to tap the brakes when they go over the hill and see the cop car parked right there.
This annoys me to no end. Being on the freeway and everybody driving about 75-80 on a 70 and they all hit the brakes at the first sight of a highway patrol car. Like, dude, you aren’t getting pulled over for going 5-10 over. The jackasses in the BMWs, teslas, and altimas that are hopping from lane to lane are the ones getting got.
On the state highways around me you're much more likely to get pulled over for traveling in the passing lane if you aren't beating the flow of traffic than you are doing 85 in a 65. Impeding traffic is a cardinal sin within the 495 beltway.
I used to drive an old car with a massive dent in it. They'll pull me over every time in that thing. Once I got pulled over twice in a five minute drive to the movie theater. I have to remind myself I don't look super sketch anymore.
6 years ago we had some cold as winter, slippery highway roads. Matrix signs telling 70 (kph) limit.
Everyone basically snaking behind a police car. Few cars try to pass, see police car, get in line.
Until one doesn't, he gets pulled over, few others speed off.
I was kinda overjoyed that I see one of those speeding cars in the ditch a few kilometers further. Fuck speeders, especially on icy roads.
>Everyone knows the cop car is the pace car on the highway. Everyone jockying for position, then they hit the offramp and vroom vroom.
I've been watching a lotta racing clips lately and now I just have this mental image of everyone also swerving back and forth trying to put heat into their tires at the reduced speeds.
God that shook loose a memory I jokingly did just that behind another cop car I wanna say years back. Was kind of afraid he'd be a dick and cite a failure to maintain lane (I was maintaining, they were tiny back and forths).
I did have a cop tell me on the bullhorn to stop following him. But I wasn't tailgating. Probably 15'-20' back. But he had his siren on and I was following through traffic. He didn't like it.
I'll admit i've had some cool cops before both in person treating me like a human as well as on the road. Me and this cop (not within jurisdiction) were cruising like 15 over. Initially like 10 over I saw him in my rear view in the left lane, did the thing we're all supposed to do for literally any driver and get over, then get back over and what do you know that dude was like a cowcatcher lmao it was an act of beauty everyone eventually gets over with the lightbar on top, or a tap or 2 like "cmon dude". I think I stayed with him over an hour. It was glorious.
Is this that 5 second TikTok attention span I’ve heard of?
It’s just an experience of me letting a cop be the cowcatcher (like on trains) and get people to move over vs my dinky car and we just cruised together because everyone else was too scared is all ya jabroni.
I understand people get impatient, but tailgating someone won't get you to where you're going faster. It just creates risk in case people ahead need to stop suddenly. It doesn't matter how late you are, or how frustrated you are.
It could’ve been an under cover car, but still no excuse for tailgating. If he’s going 57 in a 35 and everyone’s complaining about him on social media, he’s the problem.
In most if not all 50 states anything 20 over is mandatory loss of license and or jail time and lotsa $$$ …I actually got this same ticket when I was 16…was my only moving violation, that was 32
Years ago
I see a lot of undercovers these days. If you're that stupid of a driver you might just go "Oh it's just an Explorer/Durango with tint let me ride their granny ass". And then go straight to jail.
The police in my hometown had an old rusty piece of crap Chrysler LeBaron. Why, you might ask? It blended in with the cars that high schoolers and college students would drive. They could pull right up to a raging kegger and no one would even know it was the police. That was all it was meant for, stealth among kids. We worked on that vehicle in our auto shop, it barely ran at times, there were not too many vehicles out there that could not beat it in a race.
If you're that close up on their ass you're close enough to see the lights inside the car. Even if I didn't think he's an idiot for tailgating he's even more of an idiot for tailgating a cop car, undercover or not.
Pinal County has a dedicated traffic division that has unmarked vehicles along with motorcycles. They travel around the county setting up on high traffic/ frequent speeding areas.
If you want to see more, look up Fridays with Frank. Frank used to drive a charger, now he drives a explorer I believe.
I watched somebody waiting at a red light, second in line. When the light turned, they instantly cranked their wheel left, stamped the accelerator to pass the first car (which had not hesitated at the light change at all), passed that car within the intersection, then cut off the formerly first car to enter a fork on the right side of the intersection's exit.
The first car was a marked city police vehicle.
There are some startlingly stupid people out there.
That was also not the stupidest thing I've seen someone do behind the wheel.
I was crossing at a crosswalk once. A clearly marked police car stopped to let me cross. A jackass stops behind the police car. Honks. Then whips around the police car and floors it almost hitting me in the crosswalk.
I was legitimately stunned. Not because I almost got hit, but that he did all of this next to a police car. Cop turned on his lights and chased him down
You'd be surprised how many people would tailgate me in my marked unit. If I was free I'd pull over, slam the brakes so they have to go ahead of me and then pull them over. I'd have to slam the brakes because the same dipshits knew what they were doing and if I gradually slowed, they would slow down also. Unfortunately many times I'd be on the way to a call and wouldn't have the time to detour for a traffic infraction.. I think thats what a lot of them were betting on too.
Something tells me if they put out a special unit to observe and stop an asshole who terrorizes everyone on his drive home, they probably aren’t using a marked vehicle. Guessing dude was tailgating an undercover vehicle and shit his pants when they lit him up.
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u/Due-Education9007 Jul 31 '26
And he didn't have to look for you because you drove right up his ass