Well one got away from me tonight, ditched me in the burbs.

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Posted: 11/2/2009 7:43:09 PM EDT

Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:44:07 PM EDT

[#1]

[note to self: when passing cop with busted tail light, cut into subdivision and park in driveway lights out]

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:44:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Was this the first one?

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:45:23 PM EDT

[#3]

Subdivisions FTW!!!

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:46:04 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Was this the first one?

Yep.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:46:10 PM EDT

[#5]

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:46:32 PM EDT

[#6]

I could never pull that off, my car keeps the lights on for 15 seconds when you shut the car off so you can find your front door......

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:47:03 PM EDT

[#7]

Been there done that, also rolled a car TRYING to do that. I recommend stopping now

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Posted: 11/2/2009 7:47:26 PM EDT

[#8]

There is plenty of fish in the sea.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:48:11 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

[note to self: when passing cop with busted tail light, cut into subdivision and park in driveway lights out]

This.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:49:30 PM EDT

[#10]

Fuck...

The world is a little less safe tonight...

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:49:58 PM EDT

[#11]

Bama, I want to hear a story about you in a foot race, some fence jumping, avoiding watch dogs, a tackle and all the while with that helicopter search beam right on you.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:50:25 PM EDT

[#12]

That kid totally dusted the fuzz.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:50:56 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/JoshSC/csb.jpg

LMFAO!!!

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:51:13 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Been there done that, also rolled a car TRYING to do that. I recommend stopping now

.

In my previous cop job, a guy tried that with a brand new mustang gt, rolled it down an embankment. Totaled, insurance company would not pay. Ha ha.

ETA: He then tried to sue me the and the department for chasing him. Case dismissed.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:51:19 PM EDT

[#15]

Did it in a cornfield once.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:52:20 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
[note to self: when passing cop with busted tail light, cut into subdivision and park in driveway lights out]

This.

I've caught those before also. Take your chance with a fix it ticket or $1500 in fines.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:52:31 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Bama, I want to hear a story about you in a foot race, some fence jumping, avoiding watch dogs, a tackle and all the while with that helicopter search beam right on you.

Fuck that, if there is a chopper overhead (which we don't have here) I'm not chasing them on foot.

Let the stupid fuckers run I'll catch up to 'em in a block or two when their gasping for air.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:53:21 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Bama, I want to hear a story about you in a foot race, some fence jumping, avoiding watch dogs, a tackle and all the while with that helicopter search beam right on you.

No helicopters. But do you remember those shoes that would light up with every step? Not the best thing to wear while running from the popo.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:53:23 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Were you going to notify him, or cite him? Just curious. Never had it happen, wasn't sure of SOP.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:54:14 PM EDT

[#20]

Them Dukes, them Dukes!!!

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:55:46 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Mabey he lived in the subdivision and the broken taillight obscured his turn signal.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:56:29 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Were you going to notify him, or cite him? Just curious. Never had it happen, wasn't sure of SOP.

Fix it ticket. Put some red tape on it within 72 hours the ticket goes away. He was probably drunk or something else was going on.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:56:31 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Did it in a cornfield once.

In my previous despicable life of crime I did it on foot once. Parked my car in Albany, OR and cut across the street in the middle of the block when I heard the Meter Maids wrapped out Cushman headed down the street to nail the jaywalker. I cut through the service bays of the old Ford garage, around the corner and through Grays Furniture (had to dodge a couple salesman in there too) and back out onto the street. Saw her driving slow around the block once then she gave up and went back to collecting revenue the easy way.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:57:33 PM EDT

[#24]

Well just make sure you pull over 2 for your quota on your next shift

Stay safe.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:59:06 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Were you going to notify him, or cite him? Just curious. Never had it happen, wasn't sure of SOP.

Fix it ticket. Put some red tape on it within 72 hours the ticket goes away. He was probably drunk or something else was going on.

Do fix-it tickets require court or any kind of apperance? I've never received one.

Posted: 11/2/2009 7:59:54 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Mabey he lived in the subdivision and the broken taillight obscured his turn signal.

I could see down the main road of the two subdivisions, if he was traveling normal speed, I would have seen him.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:01:39 PM EDT

[#27]

A couple of friends (so I heard) ditched a cop in the desert outiside Henderson. They killed the lights and remembered a crucial obstacle in the "road"-an abandoned freezer laying pretty much across the whole road. Skated around it, but the dust mixed with the highbeams on the cruiser made it invisible...

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:01:56 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Well just make sure you pull over 2 for your quota on your next shift

Stay safe.

It's suggested we make three contacts per shift. This is not a required ticket, just make three contacts. I have no requirements on writing citations. Call volume, etc..exceptions.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:03:16 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

Were you going to notify him, or cite him? Just curious. Never had it happen, wasn't sure of SOP.

Fix it ticket. Put some red tape on it within 72 hours the ticket goes away. He was probably drunk or something else was going on.

Do fix-it tickets require court or any kind of apperance? I've never received one.

Fix the issue, get a police officer to sign your citation stating the issue has been fixed, turn it in during regular business hours to the court clerk, the citation goes away like it never happened.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:03:25 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bama, I want to hear a story about you in a foot race, some fence jumping, avoiding watch dogs, a tackle and all the while with that helicopter search beam right on you.

No helicopters. But do you remember those shoes that would light up with every step? Not the best thing to wear while running from the popo.

"WTF how is this cop able to follow me in the dark!?!"

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:06:35 PM EDT

[#31]

Sounds like a pretty slow night...

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:10:49 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Sounds like a pretty slow night...

Four citations, six vehicle stops, one dui, one burglary in progress call (not a burglary, just a crazy/drunk lady), one response with fire call. Not slow but no overly busy.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:14:20 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Been there done that, also rolled a car TRYING to do that. I recommend stopping now

.

In my previous cop job, a guy tried that with a brand new mustang gt, rolled it down an embankment. Totaled, insurance company would not pay. Ha ha.

ETA: He then tried to sue me the and the department for chasing him. Case dismissed.

The officer who I'm pretty sure I was "running" from (I put running in quotes, because one turn and then a roll hardly constitutes stellar driving OR effective running) is the one that gave me a lift to the hospital to check on my girlfriends hand full o' glass. She was also nice enough to not mention she'd tagged me for 10 over, or that I was a fucking idiot teenager.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:16:23 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
[note to self: when passing cop with busted tail light, cut into subdivision and parkback into driveway lights out]

remember it was a tail light (rear of vehicle)

I when down that road (subdivision once in the late 70's)

, popo had to go all the way down the block to turn around (concrete median)
we took a walk throught the subdivision. Cop saw me walking and stomped it, I just looked at him and didn't run (act normal, wave him by). He figured I mustn't be the guy he wanted.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:19:37 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

YEAH!

Way to stick it to the man Lester!

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:21:51 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sounds like a pretty slow night...

Four citations, six vehicle stops, one dui, one burglary in progress call (not a burglary, just a crazy/drunk lady), one response with fire call. Not slow but no overly busy.

At least they are not some crazy female and drunk male domestic disturbance call, you'll survive to post another day on ARFCOM, LOL

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:24:33 PM EDT

[#37]

Many years ago an acquaintance related a clever method for evading the long arm of the law.

Seems he was exceeding the posted speed limit by a wide margin and saw a police car pass by, in the opposite direction. Knowing the cop would turn and chase him, he turned in to a side road and killed the lights. One of his front marker lights was burned out and he knew it would make the car easy to ID. He didn't want to sit and hide for the rest of the night, so he devised a plan to get home without getting fingered.

So what does he do? Gets out and removes the other marker light bulb. Pulls back onto the highway at a stately pace and makes his getaway. Criminal mastermind, I tell ya.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:24:50 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

WHAT?! You didn't use your Batman tracking device gun??

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:25:01 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

YEAH!

Way to stick it to the man Lester!

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!

Exact same spot the night before my last TX visit a DUI put me in the ditch after almost hitting me head on.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:25:07 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I could never pull that off, my car keeps the lights on for 15 seconds when you shut the car off so you can find your front door......

If it's GM turn it off them turn the light switch on then off. Presto no lights.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:27:50 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sounds like a pretty slow night...

Four citations, six vehicle stops, one dui, one burglary in progress call (not a burglary, just a crazy/drunk lady), one response with fire call. Not slow but no overly busy.

At least they are not some crazy female and drunk male domestic disturbance call, you'll survive to post another day on ARFCOM, LOL

Actually, one of the other guys had answered a so called domestic call there tonight. I just happened to be the closest unit when the burglary call came out. He and I were discussing his call at the PD while we were both doing paperwork. I had left before him, heading back to my patrol area when the call came out.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:28:26 PM EDT

[#42]

Sounds like Bama was bored, tonight. For LEOs, this is a good thing.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:37:17 PM EDT

[#43]

these are the cop stories that i like hearing about

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:41:55 PM EDT

[#44]

You just witnessed an alien abduction.

Watch your cornhole - you're next.

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:44:56 PM EDT

[#45]

Ill try to get my taillight fixed next week on payday

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:45:06 PM EDT

[#46]

This one time in high school while driving a bit excessive I passed the county 5-0...ducked into my subdivision...turned onto my street & pushed the button on our new garage door opener

...next thing i heard was the cruiser going by at at high rate of speed.

7mm

Posted: 11/2/2009 8:47:17 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Traveling along a windy, narrow road, about 2030. Vehicle goes by me with a busted taillight, turn around watch him go over a slight hill, I top it and he's gone. I know he didn't out run me. Cut into one of the subdivisions.

YEAH!

Way to stick it to the man Lester!

WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!

Exact same spot the night before my last TX visit a DUI put me in the ditch after almost hitting me head on.

And out comes the sympathy card.

Be careful out there man, you know I love ya (in a non-gay way that is).