met the coolest cop ever....

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swinger340

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Decided to take the swinger cruising around yesterday. Pulling out of a local store after being easily provoked I decided to lay a 150ish ft posi strip. Shortly there after getting pulled over. Sweating bullets and thinking I was screwed the officer simply asked me if I was interested in selling the car. After telling him not really, he told me he has a 70 340 duster and we talked for about 20 min. He is a part time cop at 2 local town departments and does custom stainless exhaust on the side. Lucked out this time..
. I'm glad he is a Mopar guy..
 
Cool story !!
I posted something about a year ago I think it was and I didn't get a ticket .
I had a few times I should have got a ticket and didn't .
I hate that sinking feeling when you see the blue and reds the
Wah wah waaaah !!!
 
Cool.

Reminds me of two cops in my city back in the mid-70s. They were Mopar guys too and would let us hang out with them on slow nights. One night of boredom resulted in a demonstration of the latest radar technology of the day. They let a buddy of mine make a high-speed pass in his 1964 Sport Fury to show us how it could register acceleration as well as speed.
 
:D I got pulled over awhile back too.
The Cop asked what kind of gas mileage I get, and I asked him "Normally, or that block where you clocked me?"

Got a 30 dollar, no points ticket for wasting finite resources.
I always hated that one, because it's MY freakin gas after I pay for it and I could pour it out on the ground and light it if I damn well wanted to. :D

Wasting finite resources. :wack:
 
My plates/insurance ran out at midnight,, so on the final drive of the day, I lit it up,, all the way thru 1st and 2nd (30 mph zone),, and was backing off as the radar car came into view...

I just basically pulled in behind him, he hadn't even put on a lite or nuthin,, and waited for him to come to my door,, - gave him my documents,.. explaining the car had been in storage, and was going back into storage again for another 4 or 5 years.. He walked around the car,, told me I had a nice car,, and he used to have a Dart,, not as quick as mine.. gave me back my docs,, told me to take it directly to storage, which I did... no ticket... my lucky day..
 
TrailBeast said:
:D I got pulled over awhile back too.
The Cop asked what kind of gas mileage I get, and I asked him "Normally, or that block where you clocked me?"

Got a 30 dollar, no points ticket for wasting finite resources.
I always hated that one, because it's MY freakin gas after I pay for it and I could pour it out on the ground and light it if I damn well wanted to. :D

Wasting finite resources. :wack:
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Damn....I thought I was the only one to get one of THOSE tickets. Mine was I got clocked at 65 in a 55, the Superstition Freeway going thru Tempe. DPS stopped me took my documents and came back with the ticket. I asked him what it was for....apparently DPS does not write speeding tickets for 65 in a 55 they give these instead. Anyhow, after he said wasting a finite resource I looked at him and said Huh? He repeated it....after the fifth time he said wasting gas. Went to see the judge and got it tossed....the DPS officer did not show up....
 
I was still in high school, just swapped a 318 into my 66 barracuda Formula S and got it running. (when I got it, it had a 273 with a huge hole in the block from sitting with no antifreeze in it) It was about midnight and I went down to hiway 167 in the valley and opened it up to see what it would do (long straight and flat, nobody around).

Probably 115-120, I backed out of it, "cops sit radar under this overpass coming up," I announced to my friend, and my little bro and his friend that were in the back."

Anyway, I got pulled over by a lady cop. I told her I had just got it running (no hood still and I was in jeans and a t-shirt, still all greasy from the install).

"You were going over 10-over", she said, "try to keep it down". that was it!
 
Get some real brownie points and let him put stainless exhaust on your car.
 
All my buddies who had chebbies were the one's who got all the noise/speeding tickets. Me having the only Mopar out of the gang was never handed a ticket,lol.

One night I drove home from the drag strip, open headers of course, in my 71 Swinger 318. Went immediately to the cruise route which included going through the McD's parking lot. A bunch of my buds were up there hanging out, so I left the exit and hammered it, swingin right with the rear of the car coming around and engine turning about 5G, and I hear faint yelling.."COPS!!" Well, when the car came around, there was a city cop sittin in the parking lot watching, lol. I went right across the highway into a grocery store parking lot and shut if off waiting for him to follow.
He slowed down heading in the opposite direction, rolled his window down and just said, "Don't do it again." And kept on driving, lol. Didn't even stop, lol.
 
^ that reminds me of my favorite story- used to be with the traction bars I had, if I feathered the gas I could spin'em, if I hammered it I had tons of traction.
So this one time I feather it around the corner, put the back end out, and hold it out there for about half a block. Then realize the car coming towards me, about a block away, is a ghost car. He turns the lights on, I turn right at the side street and he comes up behind me. He comes up to the car and says "car goes sideways when you do that, huh?"
I say "...yeah, a little..."
He says "well you have a nice car, keep it on the road!" and walks away.
 
When I was younger and still had my 72 charger with a built 340. A bunch of us were hanging out. I dont know why but I got the urge to do a smoke show which turn into a dounut in the middle of town as I came around I saw a Town cop pulling up. My friend are laughing there as-es off I had my heart in my throat. I shut the car down jumped out opened the hood and told the cop the throttle stuck. He just asked if I was allright, I said I might have to go home and change my underwear he laughed and said is it ok now i said the return spring fell off..Yes.. He left, and I heard about the big save for years...Bill
 
RustyRatRod said:
Get some real brownie points and let him put stainless exhaust on your car.
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I got a business card from him, and may just do so. My exhaust is descent aluminised but never been happy w the bends over the rear. Will need bigger exhaust anyways if that is where the 416 makes a new home.
 
swinger340 said:
Decided to take the swinger cruising around yesterday. Pulling out of a local store after being easily provoked I decided to lay a 150ish ft posi strip. Shortly there after getting pulled over. Sweating bullets and thinking I was screwed the officer simply asked me if I was interested in selling the car. After telling him not really, he told me he has a 70 340 duster and we talked for about 20 min. He is a part time cop at 2 local town departments and does custom stainless exhaust on the side. Lucked out this time..
. I'm glad he is a Mopar guy..
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You do that here and they take your car off you, a big $$$ ticket, and a court appearance......and if you get caught again doing that in the next 5 years, your car is gone....they crush it....as well as a big $$$$ ticket, and another court appearance, and loss of licence.

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This is a mates car, it was in a wedding, and the cops took it......first offence. It's an aussie 1968 VE Valiant sedan with a 360 and 727. It does high 11's on street tyres.
 
Mine wasn't in a mopar, it was a few years back driving cab a Roadmaster wagon and I was flying down a back road probably doing twice the speed limit and went through this intersection that had a good dip in the road but a cop was sitting a the red, and when he pulled me over he was laughing saying that was the best thing he ever seen, he never seen a wagon get air before, then just said slow it down a bit.
 
what are you guys talking about " wasting finite resources". It has been a very long time since I have gotten a ticket. you mean they will give you a ticket for wsting gas now........... damn, I better not get caught starting my car in public anymore. cuz I am wasting a finite resource everytime I start it.
 
trudysduster said:
what are you guys talking about " wasting finite resources".
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Most communities pass these laws to discourage cruising. If they see you pass by more than twice, they can write you a ticket even if you were really not breaking any laws.
 
One time a bud of mine was downtown at like 2am in his 89 Chevy 4x4 and got a wild hair to pull a movie stunt move.

He started out in reverse going like 40mph then wipped the wheel around to swing the front of the truck 180* and keep going forward.
Right when he wipped the truck around he came face to face with the headlights of a Crown Vic, who just happened to sneak around a corner in mid turn, LOL!!
The officer got out, walked up to his truck, and said, "What the HELL are you doing??!!" Buddy just told him exactly what he was doing, lol. Officer told him to go home and if he seen him one more time that night he was going to jail!! LOL

I knew the officer and that same officer was the one who would always ask me if I spanked anyone on Bear Creek Rd with my Dart over the weekend! :)

Darned small towns of 5000ppl and a total of 6 officers, lol!
 
Only ever met one cool cop.

I was driving my '74 through town (2010, I believe) and it was HOT that day, I had the A/C cranked up and the 340 was not happy. It was pushing 245+ degrees when moving, all of a sudden the ignition starts breaking up from the temperature. I whipped the car into the only open parking spot...

A Handicap Parking Space outside the cop shop. :prayer: I'm sweating bullets as I got out of the car (both from the heat, and being parked illegally outside the heat's base) As I'm lifting the hood, a cop walks by and I said "I know I shouldn't have it parked here but I didn't have a choice, it's overheating and I had to get it off the road. I'll have it gone as soon as it cools down a little."

The cop says "Don't worry about it." He looked at my car and says "I think I have some antifreeze in my car if you need some." :glasses7:
 
74Dusted said:
Only ever met one cool cop.
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I know several and most are just hard working guys trying to make it to the end of their shift so they can go home and see their families.

The new guys on the force are usually the tools that are on a power trip and want to get back at all of the guys that picked on them in high school. Just my observations from working in a garage that serviced PD cars.
 
Drg racr said:
Well I am a cop and I've let a lot of guys off just for being honest with me.
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I work hand in hand w a lot of Maine st troopers on night detail when we do night work. A lot of descent guys. Just doing there job. I even got a 95 mph escort for 20 mi. In my work truck. Kinda cool.
 
Drg racr said:
Well I am a cop and I've let a lot of guys off just for being honest with me.
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well good for you! I wish more of the boys in blue was like that around here.:thumrigh:

Then again I wish some of the boys in blue was around to catch some of the totally some kinda special stupid s%&t I see happen on the roads. But you guys can't see everything that goes on infortunately right?
 
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