I get off of work at 2:00 am so the roads are always fairly empty. I work right on the freeway so as soon as I turn out of the parking garage its a straight shot along the feeder onto the freeway. It works really well as I am usually in the mood to get the hell out of dodge when I leave work. Once I get on the freeway I have about 7-8 miles untill I exit onto the feader. Once on the feader I have an entire mile to slow down and take a right on one of the streets. Usually on thurs. fri. night everyone is going at a good clip. I would say 80 mph sounds about right, but other nights its just us lamo's who have no life and work untill the wee hours of the morning and around 2:00am we are limping home to fall safely asleep not wanting any excitement. Last night I get off work and I'm on my way home to finish a paper before class at 8:00am so I'm moving at a clip, round 80mph I would say. About halfway home a stealth comes by going about 85 so I pick up my pace and start trailing him. Eventually were going around 100 mph and with no other cars on the road you all know this is just about as much enjoyment you can have in your mark. This is where the mark IDLES. Im cruzing without a care in the world untill we get to the freeway exit. He's getting off on the freeway exit also and while we head toward the exit I'm thinking to myself there aint no way Im getting off the freeway at 100mph without a radar its just stupid right? I slow down and he keeps going 100mph exiting. There was a little bit of traffic coming up to meet us(me) as we exited and as I merged at 55mph I saw a cop in the far right lane. I look ahead at the stealth and its WAAAAAAY up there obviously still going 80-100mph (its a very smooth exit ramp and feeder) so I look back over at the cop. You know what that mo-ferker did. He flashed he lights. That's it. Guy was going over twice the speed limit hell almost tripple the speed limit and the cop just flashed his light bar. Didnt turn on the siren or anything.

Im thinking those lucky dogs just lucked the hell out. Seriously, they plain lucked out. So I turn right and head to my house and turn into my neighborhood. I decided I need something to eat and turn around to go back to Whataburger for some tasty treats and as I exit the subdivision I romp on it. There's no one on the road so Im going 80 easy by the time I see the cop coming the opposite direction. HAD TO BE THE SAME COP. lol He just went up to the light on the feeder and took two rights and there he was catching me going over twice the speed limit. heh I got my Whataburger thanking my lucky starts.

Sorry for the boring read but Im sitting at work bored out of my mind right now.

What... do what?

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"oh god I'm glad I'm not in high school anymore"

um...that really isn't what is going through our minds when we stop someone for say, well, driving twice the speed limit.

Why is it the cops must be being racist every single time we stop a minority? Could it be they (the minority) were doing something wrong?

I'm female, but I don't assume that is the reason bad things happen to me. Sometimes things just happen and your race, sex, color, age has nothing to do with it. BUT, if you think everything is race related, then you will certainly make yourself feel descriminated against. Bad ##### happens to all of us.

I'm not trying to say that you've never been the victim of racism, but give us a break sometimes. Your race is not nearly as important to US as it is to you.

BTW, I'm in a marked police car whan at work, but I don't have a radar and do not stop speeders unless they are driving recklessly. It's not my "thing." If I do happen to stop someone, their attitude is the most important factor in deciding if they get a ticket or not.

Just FYI

I'll crawl back under my rock now...so blast away.

One time i was driving my S10 with flames (sold now) delivering pizza. It was pretty late, not many people on the road. I go through a turnaround, and i see a car coming. So i just floor it through the stop sign, because i know if i stop, i'll have to wait for the car. I didn't even slow down for the stop sign. Sure enough, it's a cop. Lights come on, i pull over. The cop doesnt' even get out of the car. He shines the light in my eyes and pulls next to me. He rolls down the window and says "Stop sign means stop, not floor it to beat traffic." I apologize, he sends me on my way. Gotta love it when they're playing "catch and release".

thats only started happening to me since i got this car and that was before i put the rims on. i wonder if ill get the same treatment now that the cars flashier.

-Paul
Miami

You obviously are not a minority.

I know it sounded like I was basically pointing finger at every cop but you got to see it from my point of view when you have officers harassing you about where you work, WHY I’m driving this car, how could I afford this car bla bla bla.

I've never gotten pulled over for speeding in my mark but I have come up to DWI checkpoints where I actually had an officer smirk at me almost laughing one time when I answered his question: “who's car is this" I said “mine” He then asked to see proof, so I should him proof, he then told me to wait because he was going to have my information ran on the computer to see if it was correct......yea.

I've had this happen to me numerous occasions. I especially love to cross the border they must like me there because I normally get told to pull over the check station to have my personal things searched.

They pull out there fancy little hammer and start pounding away at my car, get the dogs out and have them sniff everything in my car while leaving there drool and hair all over it

You actually might be a nice officer but I don't know you same as the other officers that don't know me. Everybody prejudges somebody by there appearance, I have long hair, Mexican, and my choice of clothing is really relaxed, sandals, shorts, and t-shirts. Now do I look like the kind of person that would own a luxury car?

Not all people see past your apperence, they judge you right away.

I guess I've just had real bad luck what do you think?

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"oh god I'm glad I'm not in high school anymore"

i have gotten nearly the same reaction from cops, i think it mostly has to do with my age rather than race.

I have gotten pulled over multiple times, one time i got a full car search, they tore through everything and why? because i was going 6mph over!

I agree with steph on this one, race is not as important to most cops as it is to you!

Dan O
4th Yr. Mech. Engineering Student
93 Mark VIII 73k

Oh and I am getting sick of this everything is about racism crap. Whenever something happens with a white person towards another non-white person, its because of race. that is such b.s. its only an excuse because it can be 1. its the simplest way to look at things. that crap really pisses me off. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but its not every damn time.

"Damn, you got beat by that Lincoln?!"