| I was making a run from a pool tournament to the gas station down the road. The road we were on merges with a 4 lane highway and only has a yield sign. There was a tanker at the merge waiting for a car to go before merging. So I'm still a ways back watching all of this. After the car goes by, the tanker pulls out into the right lane. By the time I get up to the tanker he is already well out of the way and I kick it over to the left lane. Coming up the road I get into the left hand turn lane for the next light. I had a friend with me and we were just BSing blah blah and he realizes I need to continue on further before I make my left turn (at the next light) so he tells me and I get back into the left side lane to continue straight through the intersection. Keep in mind, we were always rolling as this turn lane is hella long and there was no traffic except for the tanker and a car quite a ways back. So I proceed on to the next light, but as I'm sitting there I look into my rearview and note the appearance of the headlights. Crown Vic. Damn. All this time I'm thinking everything's cool. So the turn light goes green and I proceed. Once I get through the turn, I see him hit his high beams and then the gumball machine fires up. Christ! Now what?! I was not speeding or driving agressively or anything! So he comes up to the window and asks for my driver's license. I hand it to him and he starts on with "The reason I pulled you over speech.." This kid was a young buck obviously with nothing better to do... him: The reason I pulled you over was because back there you got into the left hand turn lane and then got back into the highway.. me: Where was this? him: Back there at 53rd street, you got into the turn lane and then got out of it, but you didn't signal that you were getting out of the turn lane. me: *Chuckle*: kindof technical isn't that officer? I think it was pretty obvious I was trying to get to 43rd street and got into the wrong turn lane. (with a grin on my face). I mean, COME ON. Is this cop that much of a f*ing idiot that he couldn't figure out what that was all about? Yeah, you are supposed to use your turn signals, and I did - when I got INTO the turn lane. But then I realized that I didn't need to turn there so I moved back into the straight lane - there was no traffic except for him waaay back there and the tanker ahead of me in the right lane. So he goes into defensive mode after saying that: him: Well, I'm not going to argue it with you, you are supposed to signal your turns. me: There's no argument, I didn't use my turnsignal to get out of the lane just like you said, but I think you saw what was going on. He is slowly stepping in the direction of his car as I'm finishing that statement and he quickly says "I'll just be a moment." So I'm like "Well I'll be goddamned. This SOB is going to give me a ticket for some lousy shit." I've driven agressively, I've driven fast, I've driven against other drivers on public roads, and the best they can do is a freakin' failing to use a turn signal citation!? For fuck's sake. So he comes back rather sooner than I expected and I turn and look. He's just got my license. So he hands it to me and says: him: "Mr. Powers, I'm not going to give you a citation, but you need to drive less agressively, keep the speed down and no street racing." Roll on the fucking floor and laugh my goddamn ass off. I just get this cheezy grin and he continues on to ask: him: So is this really in the 12's? Heh, I still had my dial-in numbers (yellow) on my car as well as my shoe-shine white car number. "281 - 12.80" me: oohhhhh. Yeah I forgot about those numbers. =) BUt yea, its running 12.73's @ 112MPH in the 1/4. him: Nice. I have a Cobra, so.... - with this cocky look on his face.. me: Do you take it to the track? him: No, I dont have the money. me: Money? Its only $15 to race. him: No, money in the car. me: Oh.. I like the brakes on the Cobra - nice sized rotors.. I actually converted this car to use those rotors.. Made the diagram for the caliper bracket and had Stuart & Assoc CNC machine them.. Those ford rotors really helped to slow my car down. And when I said that, I had the biggest "eat my shit" grin going on inside.. Ford parts on my Nissan to make it go slow. ROFFLMFAO He took a quick peek at the front wheels, nodded and said "Nice".. Then he repeats himself about the driving agressively/speeding thing and tells me to have a good night. I think he was just pulling a reason out of his ass to pull me over to see what I had going on, but damn it is unsettling to get pulled over and start thinking about being in a courtroom or taking a boring ass driving class. :-/ I feel like such a putz too because I took my camera setup down a while back.. They stopped harassing me so I quit eating up hard drive space.. I think I am going to put it back up before next week tho.. I have a tendency for these things to come in clusters. ARrrrgh.
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