(03-11-2018, 11:22 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Well, at least you were sober.

(03-11-2018, 10:39 AM)reuben.ahmed Wrote:  I don't know how anyone else would react to being tailgated at night like that.

(03-11-2018, 03:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Instead of cutting back and forth between the middle and left lane I would have gotten in the right hand lane and let him pass.

(03-11-2018, 04:07 PM)The Real Deal Wrote: My experience with being pulled over is that police officers will usually get up close to you to run your plates before pulling you over, that way they know what they are working with before stepping up to your car. So I’m not so sure this is abnormal or that he was trying to cause  you to speed.

(03-11-2018, 12:27 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: I thought he was going to pull me out because I was fatigued. I've been pulled over before so it's a routine/boring process to me at this point (lol), but I'm sure I showed "signs" of being intoxicated based on how sleepy I was lol.

(03-11-2018, 06:18 PM)Millhouse Wrote:  Fyi for what it's worth, I am white, so skin color played no role in this cop being a ****.

(03-12-2018, 08:14 AM)grampahol Wrote: When people get behind me in traffic day or night and I think it's because they want me to speed up I almost always take my foot off the gas and slow down  ..I'm under zero obligation to ensure they get to where they're going on time even if they're about to give birth in the drivers seat.  
The "JEEEZ! I thought you were an ax murderer!" excuse never works..  
All that said you would probably hate getting behind me in traffic. I'm usually obnoxiously slow in traffic AND I LOVE driving 10 miles with the turn signal on.. lol

(03-12-2018, 10:15 AM)BengalHawk62 Wrote:  Holy crap, I just chewed out this exact person this morning on my way into work today.  It was an old man who merged into the fast lane, cutting me off, to let other cars in.  but he stayed in the fast lane even after everyone and their mothers passed him in the right lane.  he even kept his left blinker on the whole time.  when I finally got the chance to get around him....in the right lane.....as I passed him I waved at him and told him in no uncertain terms who I thought the #1 seed really was in the NCAA basketball tourney.  then as I was passing him, he decided to speed up and I had to drive upwards of 85 mph to pass him, when we were only going 67-68mph in the fast lane.  that's another pet peeve of mine.  So I had to explain to him just exactly what I thought of his mother, his unborn son, his super nice '02 Chevy Suburban with rusty wheel wells and rear fender, and his impeccable driving abilities.


I don't know what it is about road rage, but I will wish very very bad things on you if you decide to cut me off or drive like an idiot out there.  I understand why people from Iowa have the acronym Idiots Out Wandering Around. 

(03-11-2018, 10:39 AM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: So a couple weeks ago I was driving home at night. A car comes out of nowhere and is right on my ass (65mph lanes where most people go 70).

I'm driving in the middle lane, and the headlights of a car are right behind me, so I go into the left lane and and he follows me (right behind me again). Half a mile later, I switch back to the middle lane to get him off my ass (the lanes are clear open) he switches right back, so as soon as I see him switch back to the middle lane, I go right back to the left lane to keep him off my ass and he turns on his cop lights - lol. That was suspect driving!

He said "I was following you for a mile there, you were speeding going 80."

I didn't have the guts to tell him, "well do you think I was speeding or changing lanes because you were 1ft away from my bumper the whole time and I can't tell that you're a cop car in the dark? 1 mile of a stranger doing that, I'm going to either speed up or slam on my brakes, which is better?". To be frank I don't care about the money/points, but I feel like this is a tactic he/they have been pulling on other helpless drivers.

Yes, I am going to speed up (in my Honda FIT which takes 10 seconds to go from 70-80mph) if I sense someone is driving erratically tailgating me at night! I should have gone to trial and embarrassed him if he showed up, and asked how many times he's pulled that maneuver on others.

Sure I was speeding, and I guess he had nothing to do with it lol. I wonder how many wrecks cops actually cause instead of help stop by saying "you need to slow down", looking at autobahn statistics, where people know you better not get into that left lane if you see porsche lights from half a mile away.

It's one thing to radar me going 80 off the side of the road, it's another to try and cause the crime, lol, I don't know how anyone else would react to being tailgated at night like that. I don't like going fast in my Honda Fit, it struggles to keep that speed anyway. If he caught me in the other car, I get it.

(03-11-2018, 03:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Instead of cutting back and forth between the middle and left lane I would have gotten in the right hand lane and let him pass.