On the way home from the Orlando meet Saturday evening, my fiance and I were heading home on I4. The particular stretch we were on had 4 lanes. We were in the 2nd inside-most lane and there was a person going only about 50 in the left (inside) lane, and the person in front of us was not going much faster. My fiance, who was driving my car because I don't like driving on the interstate or unfamiliar places, decided to go around those people. He switched over to the 3rd lane and was going about 80mph, when some ******* in an older model maroon-colored Ford Taurus pulled out right in front of us, only to go about 65mph. My fiance had to slam on the breaks to keep from hitting him. When we got a chance, we passed him.

We went back over to the 2nd inside-most lane and were cruising at 90, when the ******* in the maroon Taurus came up directly beside us on the passenger side. He was so close to my car, I thought he was going to hit me. I said "Goddamn, what is this ******* doing?" I told my fiance to get over into the inside lane to try to get away. We switched to the inside lane and he followed.

Suddenly, I saw red and blue lights turn on behind us. The ******* in the maroon Taurus was an undercover cop.

My fiance pulled over and the cop got out and nicely asked him if he could see his driver's license. I asked him if he needed to see my registration and he goes "Nah, I can pull that up in the car. No need to make you get that out." He went back to the car and did what he had to do. About 3-4 minutes later, the cop came back and said "I'm sure you know how expensive this could have been. You guys can't be in that big of a hurry to get back to Mulberry (laughs). Be careful." He walked away. A few seconds later after we cranked up the car, he came back up to the window and he said "Oh yeah, nice 'Stang. It sounds good. I'll keep my lights on and stop the traffic so it'll be easier for you to get out." We thanked him and went on our way.

We got VERY lucky, to say the least. I felt bad for calling him an ******* after that, but my god, I almost had a damn heart attack. My fiance thinks he must have had a thing for 'Stangs. Even if he didn't, that was awesome of him. So thank you to the '*******' cop in the maroon Taurus on I4 near Lakeland and Kathleen for letting us go.

 

God damn that's crazy, what are the chances it would be an undercover cop. You indeed did get extremely lucky, but it also sounds like the cop wasn't driving appropriately either.

 

Damn u did get lucky. All the florida cops that I have ever run into have been complete *********, whereas this one seems like hes only 1/2% ********.

 

Wow! I would pooped myself haha

 

Here's a good one.
My uncle was in his "95 F-350 (with a 460 and a 3" Flowmaster exhaust with the cats cut out and the intake restrictors cut off) behind a Chevy Lumina and an Olds Aurora. These two got stopped at a light with nobody around except him right behind the Lumina. They start revving them up at the light like they were about to race. When the light turned, they hit it and he decided to make them both look stupid.
They were going as hard as they could with this truck right on their ***. The Olds moved over in front of the Lumina and my uncle pulled out and passed them both giving them both an earful of exhaust.
Next thing you know the Olds puts on his lights. They were both undercover narc cops.
The cop asked him what he was doing back trhere and re sheepishly replied being stupid.
They said be careful and let him go.

 

Haha, you definitely got lucky there!

 

DO you have a radar detector?

 

wow suprised he didnt say something bout your tint. lucky you

 

very interesting story. i did not know cops did that. was it an older SHO, or a newer one?

 

Damn lol. That could have really sucked. I wonder why he felt the need to get so close though.

 

He may not have even radar'd you. When I was cruisin 75 in a 55 once I passed a cop (it was ***** dark out at night), and he was unmarked. He pulled up next to me, matched my speed, and turned on his lights before he ever got behind me...

 

Cliffnotes?

 

tint's arn't illegal in florida.

unless a cop REALLY wants to **** with you, its one of those non-enforced laws.


Honestly in miami its extremly hard to get a ticket too. All the cops are young guys who dont care. Iv been going fast on the turnpike, like 86-90 in a 55-65 and i just see cops fly by me.

 

No, he wasn't driving appropriately at all. Most cops around here can't drive, anyway. A lot of them think everyone else has to obey traffic laws, but they don't.

Same here. I was like 'oh, ****-****-****-goddamn' when he pulled us. I'm glad he wasn't a complete and total dick.

Yes. I know it is a cheap one, but it usually goes off... and it didn't make a sound. Which leads me to believe he didn't have his radar on.

Nope. I rolled both my windows down once he was behind us. He didn't really even get directly next to the window. Kind of stood by the driver's side quarter panel and just leaned forward.

A piece of **** old Taurus was what it looked like.

I don't think he did, either. That's exactly what happened to us. I think he didn't have his radar on so he just matched our speed. Either that or maybe he had a dash cam which would have proved he was driving like an idiot if he gave us a ticket and we fought it.

Either way he was nice and I wasn't about to bitch at him for anything, especially after letting us go.

 

LOL! Val, that's crazy! Lucky You!

Speaking of cops, has Slim been on here lately? Or have I just been missing him?