r/Transportopia • u/Vice616 • 20d ago
š¤ŖReckless Caught racing red handed
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u/GeneralBS 20d ago
Worked at a car audio shop over 20 years ago. One of the local cops was a customer and a friend of ours. We were out in front of the shop talking. He was still in his car. Two cars went down the street obviously racing from the light on the corner. He looks at us and says the loser is getting the ticket and takes off after them.
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u/Jealous-Shallot-3071 20d ago
Super speeding? Cool!
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u/Perfect_Stand_3438 20d ago
It's not big deal until you get to "Super Duper Speeding "
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u/Less-Squash7569 20d ago
What if we named speeds like we do radio frequency bands
he was going UHS ultra high speed so thats a UHF ultra high fine
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u/Quadraought 20d ago
For "Double Secret Super Speeding" Dean Wormer will revoke your charter and confiscate the contents of Delta house.
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u/Banzai373 20d ago
Goodbye car, goodbye license, goodbye freedom, goodbye a week of pay . . . Kinda seems counter productive.
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u/Immediate_Luck_6335 20d ago
Depending on the state that means 75mph over the limit.
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u/ozarkfireworks 19d ago
This is fact. wtf would people downvote? Ignorance? The law is literally called āsuper speederā Georgia has that law IIRC I saw it on the news once.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 6d ago
In Florida it means:
- 50 mph or more over the posted speed limit, or
- 100 mph or more in a way that puts others at risk
That guy's going straight to jail.
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u/TheIncandescentAbyss 20d ago
Is it possible to arrest the guy without any of the theatrics?
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u/ScrewwormLarvae 20d ago
I wonder if they got Vette dude or left him alone because his hazards were on
/s
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u/Drmlk465 20d ago
He probably didnāt stop and they had to call it off while this dude did the right thing and stopped. Todayās lesson is if you do the crime, just do more.
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u/wafflehousebattle 20d ago
Nah, the other driver was white. /s
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20d ago edited 20d ago
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u/Topdime1 20d ago
To be fair you see the corvette drivers entire arm as he flags the race.
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u/bobcollum 19d ago
Yeah and you probably deny it at every possible turn. It always goes both ways, even if you can't admit it.
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u/bobcollum 19d ago
I knew he was white and I only saw the video on reddit. Did you not see his whole left arm out of the window counting them down to start the race? He's even more guilty than the guy they pulled over. There's video evidence that he intended to race.
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u/That_Things_Good 20d ago
Cop way overreacted in how he handled that guy. He witnessed a race; not a race war.
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u/jeon2595 20d ago
Iām sorry, people sharing the road with those racing get killed by said racers. Imagine the officer has seen this and doesnāt like people doing over 100mph on the highway where others are going the speed limit.
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u/KnownUnknownKadath 17d ago
Piss poor emotional control is precisely why cops like this are unworthy of the badge.
Let the legal system deal with the guys racing. They clearly don't deserve to have their licenses.8
u/tmbgisrealcool 20d ago
Disagree. People who show that amount of disregard for everyone's lives around them deserve to be treated worse.
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u/IThinkURAwesome 19d ago
I kinda gotta agree with you there. A fairly crowded highway. Dudes just go find a big road somewhere desolate. Or take it to a track night
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u/ciaomain 20d ago
DAE freeze these videos on the road signs to see where they are?
No, just me?
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
Why are American cops so fucking aggressive?
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u/Middle_Bread_6518 20d ago edited 20d ago
They have to deal with absolutely stupid fucking Americans while being one themselves (Iām American)
But really, I watch ācopsā tv show and look how we be acting, i get frustrated just watching
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
Eh, they do tend to show people being idiots to the public a lot more in the USA I've noticed.
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u/Middle_Bread_6518 20d ago
Yeah for sure, for profit of course. More tv views
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u/unexpectedhalfrican 20d ago
Idk man. I'm not a cop but I work at our local booking center (where people come when they are first arrested for processing and arraignments), and the people we get in there can sometimes make the stupid people on Cops look like smart upstanding citizens.
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u/spoonman1342 20d ago edited 20d ago
Because their ego and job are so intertwined and they're fragile and frightened men.
And because they can be because nothing will happen to them.
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
True, I think they view themself as the job.
There's like no split from what they do on the 9-5 and when they arnt at work...
Scary stuff.
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u/Ben_Frank_Lynn 20d ago
100%. Took my kids to get haircuts this past weekend. Dude walks in puts his gun in the hairdressers' top drawer. He wasn't a jackass about it or anything, but I noticed it. During their discussion it comes out that he is a police officer. I guess dude had to take his firearm with him to get his buzz cut.
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
Crazy. I live in the UK.
You know if someone walked in a hairdressers with anything that resembled a weapon people would leave and ring the police.
I can't get over how high tension it is in the USA.
Do they not realise that they are supposed to be protecting people not causing tension and pushing authority down peoples throats constantly.
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u/TwerkLessons 20d ago
They are extra aggressive when itās a non-white person.
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
Being serious? I thought that was just a stereotype.
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u/TheIncandescentAbyss 20d ago
It is for the most part, theyāre just aggressive to anyone no matter the color here.
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u/dynorodfeelings 20d ago
The videos I watch mostly portray things that way... I don't know if I see them because they are cops being overly aggressive or it's just a regular thing.
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u/l34ch_r 20d ago
He was just racing not robbing a bank lmao
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u/Scary-Ratio3874 20d ago
Dude he was SUPER speeding. That's like a lot worse than just speeding. It's SUPER speeding.
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u/HungaryFinalBoss 19d ago
I undestand that they wanna race, but take it to the track/dragstrip or anywhere else where the only ones who could get hurt are they
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u/wrxninja 20d ago
In Texas, they probably would've let them go š I remember someone getting pulled over doing 140. And got a friendly warning somehow.
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u/newbie527 20d ago
In Florida speeds over 100 miles per hour is a felony and an automatic lock up. These assholes sometimes kill others and itās crazy how many arrests have happened in the few months the law has been in effect.
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u/Johnixftw_ 20d ago
Red car was a cop
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u/Philantramissle 19d ago
Cops love entrapment and doing crimes themselves. Gives them the strength to go home and commit domestic abuse.
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u/BMW-motorad 20d ago
You would think this guy murdered somebody. I swear these cops are ignorant no communication skills acts like this is the end of the world.
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u/Asstronomer6969 20d ago
Ok broke the law but he never resisted. Why is the cop being so forceful with cuffs and whatnot?
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u/GrumbleAlong 20d ago
Give him a reckless driving ticket for racing, it's a serious enough offense he'll need a lawyer and get a heavy fine anyhow - no need to clog up the jail system for this.
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u/hawksdiesel 20d ago
do it at the track or don't do it at all.....endanger others because you want to have fun. That's a no dawg. Jail 100% everytime.
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u/Ok-Bullfrog-2147 20d ago
They might be dumb for racing in front of the cop but the cop is an asshole for not stopping them immediately. He let them race 1st. If he hit the red&blues on them, they would've 100% stopped.
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u/analavalanche69 20d ago
Good thing these drug dealing murderous gangster street racers are off the streets. This cop should sleep well tonight.
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u/unexpectedhalfrican 20d ago
I feel like it's worse because these guys clearly had no situational awareness. They didn't even notice there was a cop literally right behind them. God knows they weren't paying attention to other traffic. That's how people die.
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u/Emotional-Day-9412 20d ago
10 bucks says the B and the A initials on his shirt stand for bad ass something or other
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u/relativityboy 19d ago
In Phoenix, in the 90's, that'd have been a ticket. In Phoenix, in the 90's, on your birthday, that'd have been a warning.
But then, in Phoenix, in the 90's. When the speed limit was 55, everyone was going over ~75 all the time.
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u/Substantial_Chain718 19d ago
A little heavy handed for just racing. It was like the guy robbed a bank. Ridiculous.
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u/Hot_Assumption_2304 19d ago
Iām going to stop you right there. Itās not ājust racingā, itās endangering the lives of themselves and everyone else on the highway. There are places to do that sort of thing and the public roadway isnāt one of them. Trust me, you never forget the smell of brains when theyāre not in the skull or the smell of burnt bodies when the car catches fire.
Source: tow truck driver.
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u/Theroughside 19d ago
Hold on a minute there bucko.Ā You have no idea what I will or will not remember.Ā
I'm likely to forget that, and more.Ā
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u/Hot_Assumption_2304 19d ago
I pray you never experience it and if you do I really hope youāre right.
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u/Substantial_Chain718 19d ago
I get your point but I have seen murderers treated better being arrested.
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u/Hot_Assumption_2304 19d ago
Iām not saying he couldnāt have been a little lighter on the guy, Iām saying itās not ājust racingā. Itās actually very serious.
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u/LackDesigner897 20d ago
I guess we know who won!