Pulled over for speeding

[rbmac52]

I never, ever carry retirement credentials and simply pay any tickets I get. I've had 2 or 3 since retirement. If I got one for every time I was 10 over, I'd have to have a reverse mortgage to pay them.

Promised myself once retired that I would never, ever tell officers who stop me how very important I used to be.

I do carry a "retired LEO" ID card along with my Texas Qualification Card wherever I go because I am always armed and both authorize me to carry concealed in all 50 states and US territories.

However, like you, I don't need to tell anyone about my past life. In fact, when people ask me what I used to do, I tell them I was in Waste Management, which is not entirely untrue.

 

[dmar]

I think that was the Volvo 240. A couple of police departments in New Hampshire had them to test. At least that's where I remember seeing them in the mid 1980s.

They also had a taxi package, which had most of the same components except for the engine.

Police and Taxi packages offered by the major manufacturers were very similar because police and taxi duty for automobiles is not all that much different except for the speed part.

North Conway, NH had Volvos for their police cars for several years in the late 70s/80s.

 

[Bald1]

About 1982, driving a 1975 Trans Am with a built 455 in front of a B&M hydro 400. Late in the evening after 2 weeks on a drilling rig, running across N Dakota to see a girl in Minot. I am going about 80, but slow coming up on some tail lights. Look it over at about 65. Back end of a Dodge with 3 people in it beefy rear tires. No cop car has three people in it, right?. Give it some throttle an start to pass and he bumps the throttle too, figure he wants to go, so pull it down into 2nd and mash it Pull ahead and am hitting near 100 when the lights in his grill come on. Hit 3rd and chirp the 60 series radials and toll up past 150. Flick on quartz lights in my grill. He can't keep up and am pulling away, but not very fast and we are eating up some serious real estate. At 150 a mile goes by every 24 seconds. I figure he will have an HP coming out of Minot running hard. So, I am running out of time. I got maybe 3 miles on him and see the edge of a top sign ahead so I shut it down and took a hard left onto a gravel road. Bummer, dead ended in a farmers yard within half a mile. Cuffed stuffed. Deputy drives my TA while sheriff drives me and the prisoner they were hauling to his county jail. Million questions. He can't believe his 440 would not stay with my car. Finds out I am just a wild roughneck with no criminal record. Calls my home county and they semi vouch for me. Ex Marine as was he. I am showered and dressed in coveralls when he finally relents and lets me bail my self out for $500 if the girl some to get me. She does. They were some interested in the guns in the trunk, but, I had a N Dakota hunting permit. Got that drivers license revoked in N Dakota. But had a spare in another name anyway. The good old days. Now days it would have new way way worse. But hey I had gotten away with it 3 times before only in Montana where I knew all the roads. Ya I was a wild on in my 20s and early 30s.

Last ticket I got was about 7 years ago in Idaho. Driving about 65 on a 2 lane road. Habit because in Montana most 2 lane roads are 70mph. I have been pulled over in Montana a few times since I move back. for speeding but as I am a friendly polite old fat guy with a Sheriff and Peace officer sticker on my bumper, they just give me a warning.

Great story. U had me right up to when you said you chirped tires at a 100. Hmmmmmmm

 

[sigp220.45]

The last time I got pulled over I was transporting an Apache guy from Dulce NM to ABQ for an initial appearance. He has gotten into a knife fight and won, which will get you prosecuted in the federal system.

He was an interesting guy. He had been to Paris with the modern version of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, which apparently is still popular in Europe.

I rolled through the notorious speed trap of Cuba, NM, and got the cherry lights in the rearview.

Hahaha, my charge laughed. You're gonna get a ticket………..

I told him to play along and look scary.

The officer was from the Sheriff's Office. I had tint so dark on my G-ride I had to roll down the windows to change lanes in broad daylight, so he was appropriately on guard.

I rolled down all four as he approached. My guy, chained up in back, bared his teeth and growled. The Deputy looked at my creds and I said: Sorry, buddy. I'm running a little late getting this hombre to court. I'll slow down.

He said, Naw - haul ***.

My guy cracked up as we pulled away. He said: So thats what its like to get pulled over and NOT get a ticket!