RE: pre-LI cruise cop encounter

[Tim Irwin <timi@Interlinq.com>]

Sorry, but the "Safe and Prudent" was outlawed as unconstitutional by the
Montana State Supreme court. Something along the lines of not specific
enough (gee, how could that be). I think they're now basically back to the
slap on the wrist/fiver for small violations and escalate reasonably quickly
up to kiss your insurance rates goodbye.

-----Original Message-----
From: Khan Klatt [mailto:kmk@pacificrim.net]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 3:56 PM
To: jettaglx@igtc.com
Subject: Re: pre-LI cruise cop encounter


At 6:23 PM -0500 2/1/99, Greg Coe wrote:

>Now onto the story.  I was on I95 in New York Saturday night heading to
>Chris's house.  There is a section of the highway where there is a huge
>underpass about 1/4 mile long.  I just couldn't resist listening to my VR6
>totally uncorked under the overpass.  I lowered the windows and jumped on
>the throttle hard.  As I was enjoying the sweet techtonics music, I noticed
>a Z28 camaro, windows tinted black, pacing me.  I looked at the speedo and
>noticed 120 mph coming up fast.  The passenger window of the camaro went
>down, the driver glanced over, then rolled up his window and dropped behind
>me.  I slowed to a "reasonable" speed and about 1/4 mile later I see strobe
>lights blasting inside the Z28.  Oh shit- jail time for sure.  I was
shaking
>like crazy as I pulled over.  The cop just asked me for all the usual
>bullshit (license, etc.), and returned to his car.  He came back 10 minutes
>later and gave me my stuff.  Then he says "You were having fun back there,
>huh?"  I nervously replied "Well, ummm.......yes."  The cop just smiled and
>said, "Why don't you try NOT having so much fun for a while; have a nice
>night son."  That was it- I was speechless, and proceeded the rest of the
>way to LI at a cautious 65 mph.  I still can't believe what actually
>happened!

You gotta be joking me. If I believed that there were cops this cool
everywhere, I'd speed all the time! (as it is, I VERY rarely take the car
above 5mph above speed limit)

Someday I'm driving my car out to Montana, where my definition of "safe and
prudent" is about 120mph.

-Khan
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