What is your favorite 'I almost got busted" cop story?

I've got 3. I'll try to keep them short.

1) Picked up my brother from work in my old S2000. I'm going 75 in the slow lane on a relatively empty highway (it was nearly midnight). Someone began tailing me, so I sped up. He speeds up. I sped up some more; he speeds up even more.

Eventually it becomes a race. I'm beating him by several car lengths when I suddenly see lights flashing behind us. I immediately take the next exit while my opponent continues speeding down the highway. My brother looked back and saw the cop chasing the other dude.

I honestly think that would've been jail time for me if I had gotten caught.


2) Hit WOT on an on-ramp. Easily doing 90+ by the time I'm merging in traffic. Suddenly hear this voice like it's coming from a loud speaker shouting, "Slow your ass down!"

Look to my left and there's a cop car with 2 police officers in it. They were glaring at me angrily. I slowed down, and then the cop said, "Say, 'Yes, sir'!"

I mouthed it, but I was confused a bit. Unless he was reading my lips, how the hell would he have known what I was saying? I didn't have a speaker phone.


3) In my Cobalt SS, I was driving to work. Some dudes in what looked like an Integra Type-R (could've just been a body kit, but idk) kept revving at me at every light we'd stop at.

I ignored them at first, but when I was roughly 3 blocks from my workplace, I figured I'd show them what this baby could do.

Light turns green and I take off like a jet. I realize the Integra isn't even trying to keep up. Look back and hear the sirens.

Uh, oh.

Pull over knowing the Integra guys are having a good laugh at my expense.

Cop let me go when he saw me in my work uniform. All he said was, "Working man, huh? Next time you watch your ass. I patrol this part of town and I know what your car looks like. No warning next time."

I thanked him and went on my merry way, feeling like I had a bowel movement.

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