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04-02-13, 06:00 AM | #1 |
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Stopped after high speed chase
After leaving work around 7:30 I was stopped by the law in South Houston. The officer said "I stopped you because your headlight isn't working." I was on my 1975 Suzuki 380.
I had seen the cop car a few minutes earlier, probably before he saw me, and made sure I came to complete stops at the intersections. I said, "well, the headlight works, I switch it on when it gets dark." I showed him the switch. He's too young to remember the days when bikes had a headlight switch. Then he said, "It took me a while to catch up with you, you were haulin' ass". I paused to consider how to reply. I'm on a motorcycle with 32 HP, dude! But I didn't say that. "Well, I may have been going a little fast," I replied with pride. You never win when you contradict a police officer, so wth, I may as well accept the compliment. Several times he asked if he knew me, I looked familiar. I get that ALL the time, I don't know what's going on but people are always saying I look like this guy or sound like that guy....weird. Maybe the officer thought I was a city council member.... He asked me to sit tight while he ran my licence. As the denizens of the hood passed by with their borrowed Family Dollar shopping carts, I nodded, "yeah, that's right, I'm an outlaw..." The officer returned, thanked me for stopping, and admitted that the problem he may have had keeping up with me had something to do with the speed bumps on the ~3/4 mile street we had just traveled down. "You were going through the gap in the bumps, I had to slow down and pass over them." Hmmm... yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Anyway, no ticket! The officer was professional and I have to laugh, a little bamboozled by the headlight switch.
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04-02-13, 06:23 AM | #2 |
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Not sure if I should laugh or not.... It's a good story though.
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04-02-13, 06:35 AM | #3 |
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Was it Neal profiling maybe?
What happened to all the standard questions a police officer likes to ask? Are you carrying any drugs, weapons, nuclear bombs? Mind if I take a look?
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04-02-13, 06:37 AM | #4 |
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So you skated out of a ticket? You benefitted from the public good? He should have drug tested you.
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04-02-13, 06:50 AM | #5 |
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Better yet, a roadside strip search.
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04-02-13, 06:54 AM | #6 |
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I find this story hard to believe. More likely this unrepentant biker sociopath was doing at least 27 in a 25 zone. And rigging his headlight just to mess with some poor public servant's mind? Pure evil!
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04-02-13, 07:00 AM | #7 |
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Not to mention the massive air he was getting by hitting those speed bumps at 27 MPH. Probably jarred that officers' teeth out trying to catch him.
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04-02-13, 07:24 AM | #8 |
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AND stripped searched you to make sure you didn't have any 'contraband' on/in you.
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04-02-13, 07:52 AM | #9 |
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I'm guessing you were not wearing a one piece leather suit with knee pucks. Because, that always leads to a fun conversation when pulled over by the police.
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04-02-13, 07:54 AM | #10 |
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STOOPID COPS!
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Guess he was just jealous that his patrol car doesn't match up against a 1975 GT380
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Guess like most other bikers you're not a great fan of speedbumps. HunterICX
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04-02-13, 10:36 AM | #12 |
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Wow, if that cop only knew! He had a brush with the infamous "Motodude."
Good thing you weren't in Ore-gone, there's no such thing as a "warning", they just write you a ticket. It hurts their donut fund.
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04-02-13, 10:40 AM | #13 |
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i remember my old Suzuki dirt bike when i was a wee kid had a headlight switch.
headlights are automatic on so many vehicles today - i hate that. My fiance's are automatic, mine arent... every time i drive her car she grumbles because i throw it in park and turn off the lights "Baby dont do that because now they wont come on automatically" -wow- sorry about costing you that millisecond it takes to twist the knob
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04-02-13, 10:48 AM | #14 |
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The real reason Neal wa stopped...
Kid stuck his tongue out at the cop.
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04-02-13, 10:55 AM | #15 |
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another way to draw unwanted attention...
Stop doing this, Neal.
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