ok , im young at 17 and drive a 2001 mitsubishi eclipse gt, paid for by me.
one night i was mad and decided to drive fast as hell..

i was cruzing along going fast doing 83 in a 35( no cars in sight,straight road for miles, figured it was safe) and a cop appered behing me with his lights on. knowing the cop was after me i started to pull over but the cop passed me so i kept going at about 65mph at this point. about six seconds latter more cops just apear behind me so being curtious i pull over to get out of thier way forgeting i was speeding. i thought they where going for the other guy.

i was pulled over by 3 cops at gunpoint for careless driving,dragracing,and avading arrest


i couldent figure out how i got the dragracing charge, a little latter while thier writing the tickets another cop pulls up with a 60+ year old man in the back who was the supposed other racer. i was catching up to his car when the first cop appered.
i guess they thought he was winning the supposed race at 35mph...... the speed limit
anyway he got off
and i was charged $265 for careless driving and the judge dropped the avading arrest caus i admitted to being a ignorant kid....which i realize i was that night. ...but only that night.....well and on the weekends.......and

 

Man, I have a story about that. I am very pro-police, 99% of them are good people who are doing a great service for our country and communities. One of my gripes is ignorance though, it's a general pet peeve with ignorance when it comes to motorcycles, not just by the police. I think our country needs to take teaching other drivers about motorcycles seriously.

So here's why I say this. Two of my friends were going down I-95 in North Virginia on their bikes. I would have been with them, but I was sick and stayed in that night. We almost never speed on the freeway, but that night there was nobody on I-95 and they were coming back from the dragstrip. They were cruising along, tucked behind their windscreens, going about 90-110 down the freeway. They came up on some cars, so they slowed down and got out of their tucks. When they did this, they noticed red and blue lights. They looked back, saw the cops and pulled over. One cop car flies in front of them tires smoking and screeches to a halt to "block them in". Two other cars pull up behind, and all these cops are shouting and screaming with their guns drawn to get down on the ground. My friends are kind of confused and shocked. The cops think they are resisting or something. They start to lie down and these two cops practically tackle them, and put their knees in their backs and handcuff them. Let me tell you, that doesn't sound fun, nevermind with your helmet grinding on the pavement because you can't exactly lay flat on your stomach with a helmet on. These cops stand them up and are screaming about how they finally "caught them" and were saying stuff like, "you thought you could outrun the law huh? we showed you!" They were way pumped up, just like cops aren't supposed to get. The problem with police and motorcycles a lot of time is they get so hyped up on adrenaline because they know how potentially high speed a chase can get, so it seems they tend to get a little excited a lot of the time. My friends are telling these guys, "we were not running! You can't see anything behind you on a bike, especially when tucked down" The cops did not believe them and even though they didn't change speed for several miles, and they were both on bikes capable of 160-175mph, the cops still said they were evading arrest and kept talking about how they "caught them and cut them off" even though they were pulled over before the guy "cut them off".

Anyhow, it was crazy, I had to go bail them out of jail. Did I forget to mention all three of us were in the Air Force, and worked at the Pentagon, and neither of them had gotten a ticket or ever been arrested before. When it went to court the cops were all there, and stood by their story, basically screwing my friends by their ignorance. Both of them had to spend a day in jail after the court hearing, and had rediculous fines and probation. Luckily neither lost any rank.

Ok, so that was a long story, pretty wild though. Ignorance about motorcycles bugs me, hence part of why I stopped riding.

 

its funny how some cops love to exaggerate the trouble you are in

but they know its their word against yours once it comes court time.. which i think is pretty lame considering the advantage they posses

 

Does anyone know if the dragracing bill passed in the Texas house? I don't know if the Democrat's being on the lam last week affected this or if it was going to be up later in the leglislative session.

 

what drag racing bill? I don't see how they could abuse that term any more than they do already. Did you know that by their law that if you and I are going down the freeway at 5 miles over the speed limit, side by side, we can be ticketed for drag racing? The definition in the law is like "two cars traveling in the same direction at a speed exceeding the speed limit". Total BS.

 

Cops are just on a power trip. They think they can do wutever they want.

 

Did a little research. Basically there is a bill before the Texas house that will increase the penalties for street racing.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...lature/1892938

 

I'm sorry, how do you die drag racing? I can't imagine how I would get in an accident racing from light to light. You'd have to be a real idiot it seems like. I mean, if you do it on a busy street, or when traffic is around, I guess that's possible. I would like to see the percentages on these racing deaths, my guess is 95% or more are from people 20 years old or younger.

Inexperience kills.