Not all the way home. But I was driving an a CHP officer in one of those huge Crown Victorias started tailgating me and I pissing myself

What do you do if the CHP is tailgating you seriously, you cannot go faster and if you pull over they might catch you

A british cop on the internet advises I should have called the police, but I need a backup plan in case that doesn't work (anyway they were already there). Please help

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Oh god I am turning into the last THRAWN

illawlegalz

Two options from me.

1. Pull into a driveway and pretend you're going into the house. If the cop hasn't left, since you dont live there just knock on the door and pretend you're doing door to door stuff.

Or my favourite option..

2. Depending on how close the cop is behind you, slam your brakes on suddenly where there is a place it wouldn't be expected.. In the middle of the road for example. Hopefully he'll slam into your car and you can charge him for following too closely or tailgating, whatever. All you have to do when you're filing the report or whatever is say you thought you seen a cat or a dog running across the road and didn't want to hit it. You weren't paying attention to the cop in your rear view mirror following you so closely because you were too busy paying attention to the road ahead and didn't notice him since he didn't have a siren going.


EDIT: Why were you nervous? If you weren't speeding or going too slow, regardless of whether he was following you or not.. I don't see how you were nervous.. Unless there was something... Illegal going on? Perhaps possession of some illegal materials? Some kind of a plant maybe?

I AM A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

I'd probably do the same thing I do anyone tailgates me. Flash the brake lights, and if they still don't back off, slow down to three or four MPH below the speed limit and let 'em wait to get wherever they're going.

This is not legal advice.

Are you sure it was a real cop? Around here people buy old cop cars and act like jerks because people think they're undercover cop cars. |:

annnnnnnnnnnyway...


I had a cop tailgating me once. Pretty much waiting for me to screw up. He eventually pulled me over and asked me why i was "Trying to get away" from him. I think I switched lanes like 3 times so I wouldnt be forced into a turning lane and then be in unfamiliar territory.

The cop was really aggressive, determined to catch me in the wrong for something. I just sat there and told him I wasn't familiar with the roads. He eventually said something along the lines of "fine just get out of here, and if you have something you shouldnt have in your car... well you got away with it." I was like.... uh. okay? (The weirdest thing he would have found was a beach ball i guess)

It's unnerving, but if you're not doing anything wrong you'll be fine. Even if you have to deal with a cop thats a jerk. Come to think of it, I should have gotten his badge number, but that probably would have pissed him off even more >_>

I do this. But I also tailgate people if they are going slow, then they do this to me and I am like "JACK ***!!" as I swerve off the road to avoid crashing into them.

I've done the pull over thing before, but it didn't work. As soon as I put on my blinker to go in a driveway he turned on his lights.

The other day I almost hit some ***** with no brake lights. I swerved to avoid her and almost hit a cop in the other lane.

Screw cops.

mb, what exactly is wrong with my plan? It's not like he could get in trouble or anything, so long as the cop was actually following too closely. I mean obviously if the cop was a distance away it would look stupid/suspicious, but when I read his post I was under the impression he was literally on his ***. I'm not sure of US traffic laws, but I'm fairly certain that where I live there is a law that says "you must have _____ distance between your car and the one in front", any closer and you can be charged for following too closely. If that was the case here for him, he could argue in a court that he did see something or thought he did, and slammed his brakes on in a reaction to it, it would be the police officer's fault for following too closely. At least, that's what I can recall being taught in law. He could also have said he dropped a drink, or his wallet, or whatever and slammed his brakes on in reaction to that. There are a ton of excuses for slamming your brakes on that could apply for that scenario and if the cop slams into him for following too closely, it's the cops fault. There is no way arguing around that. To insurance companies and in the eyes of the law, you "MUST have care and control of your vehicle at ALL times in EVERY situation". Otherwise, you are at fault.

Most people don't realise that half the questions a cop asks you, legally you are under no obligation to answer and can literally tell the cop it's not his business to know such a thing. For example, I was in my car one night and got pulled over randomly while driving. My girlfriend was in the passenger side seat, not saying a word. The cop came up to my car, and looked in, got my ID and registrsation, etc. and asked my girlfriend if she had been drinking. She simply looked at him, and very calmly said it was none of his concern, and that was that. He couldn't ask anything to her beyond that as first off, he has no business questioning her and no right to do so. There was no reason to suspect anything in my car, on my person, or about her. We were simply out for an evening drive, and we weren't driving erratically or fast/slow. So he could not fall back on that reasoning. It wouldn't hold up in a court if it went that far. Therefore in the eyes of the law she can legally say "That's none of your business if I have drank earlier tonight. You pulled him over, not me. So deal with him" or something to that degree.. Usually a little nicer so you don't sound so incriminating. However, a simple "That's none of your business" will suffice in most scenarios.



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I actually almost got into a small accident once with a cop that wasn't my fault. I was in the right hand lane on a one way street heading straight, and the cop was in the left hand turning lane only.. When the light turned from red, we both went straight, and I yelled out my window at her for being a complete moron and almost hitting my car.. It was summer and I had my arm out the window hanging down the car, my hand literally touched the passenger side of hers, which was the initial shock that sent me into my flip out. If she moved her car closer and I didn't notice until it was too late, it could have crushed my hand easily.

She didn't chase me or anything.. She just looked at me and turned away into her proper lane. The accident would have been her fault, and I reacted like any normal human being would when they are about to be run over or have a limb crushed by someone that shouldn't be driving..

Temperamental, you were driving without both hands on the wheel. Unless you were performing a maneuver that would probably count as driving without due care.

The cop following me was hanging his arm out the window

I don't believe there are any laws here that dictate you must have both hands on the wheel at all times. It's recommended, but not a law.

I had a cop who thought I was high on something for God knows what reason. I was so appalled that he threw me off guard, I told him that "I hope you take me in for a blood test so I can laugh at how stupid your assumption is in front of everyone". Needless to say he let me go without even checking my car, but he was pretty pissed. I would have been even more pissed if I had someplace to be, but I was just driving around :/

Granted. I know that much, and if I had gone to the point of having to go to court the insurance would have surely nailed me for that. However that was not the point and as the story points out, it didn't get to that level now did it?

The female cop just turned her car left and continued down the steet towards the Police station.

I was thinking about being a cop at one point... but I would be the worst cop ever ...

"Oh holy crap you blew a .7? You live just down there? Ok I guess I'll let you go...Damn dude that's impressive. We gotta party sometime"

"I'm going to have to confiscate this stuff.... yea....."

Naw J/K. But seriously. I would be a horrible cop. I would feel bad giving people tickets and arresting them. And I would have to actually go the speed limit. Man that would suck.

Well yeah, that would make it illegal to change gear.

Yea because intentionally causing an accident isn't illegal or anything.

Pretty much nailed it on the head right there. I wouldn't be a good one either. I can't arrest people for reasons that go against my moral beliefs just because "the law states otherwise". **** that.

I almost got plowed by one of those large ambulance-turned-CSI vehicles the other night, because the ******* was tailgating me and I slowed down for a yellow light. He decided to server around and run the red, no lights or anything.

Who the hell slows down for yellow lights?

Yellow means prepare to stop/go.

durr.... But how would the cop prove he intentionally pressed his brakes JUST for the sole purpose he would crash into him?

What good would come out of you managing to get someone to mangle your back end?

Again.. I said as an option for the cop driving too closely to him (which I am not even sure he was), if he really wanted to get the cop in trouble, that was a possible alternative. Regardless of what you think about the idea, the simple fact remains that if the cop was following literally too closely, he would get in severe trouble for it.

It's also not meant as a serious alternative... I didn't expect him to go out and do it. However, I have done it plenty of times to *******s that ride too closely behind me, it's not my fault if they hit me. And their insurance company that has to pay mine would and has agreed (one incident).

You're a moron. I'm not talking to you anymore.

You still didn't answer my question


But thanks for doing me a favor?


RE: My last post. "It was not meant as a SERIOUS alternative". Although, it does and has worked for others in the past.

Arsewipe.

Speed up.

God Bless America.

Thrawn, you just go the speed limit. Or, yeah, I might have slowed down a few mph just to aggrevate.

I know a few of the cops here, and they tell me they try not to follow anyone TOO far (anyone obeying the traffic laws, that is) because they know it freaks people out.

1. I am Canadian.

2. I was going 10 above the speed limit.

3. I'm talking about in scenarios where there are these idiot teenagers that want to go OMGFAST because they've got their first car mommy and daddy bought them for a present, and now they think they're the kings of the roads by driving on other people's asses beacuse they aren't going 20+ over the speed limit. Sadly, because the place my parents live is an old country setting, there are a lot of long roads where idiots fly up and down like speed demons.. There have been at least 10 family pets (dogs/cats/etc) killed in the last year because of it on two streets alone. The one my parents live on and the one perpendicular to theirs.


EDIT: It's funny how many people here still take literally every word you write seriously. Sad Panda.

holy crap you are a panda?

Only the sexual harassment kind.

So because you were already breaking the law you're not ok with going faster?

What law am I breaking?

The road laws in this particular area specifically state (as they are posted on the roads some ways up) you begin to get ticketed/point deductions after 15 miles above the speed limit.

Another example..Ask anyone that lives in Toronto about the 401 and what speed they regularly go at.. The limit is 100kph, but almost everybody, cops included, travels approximately around 115. If you stay under 120, cops at all speed checks will let you by. I don't know how many times I took the trip from Toronto to Peterborough, going 118 on the highway the entire time (cruise control) and gone by a speed check with the cops waving hello as I went by.

And I would rather not go faster thanks. If you're in so much of a hurry that you need to go 20 or 30+ above the speed limit, you should get some better time management skills and leave for your destination earlier. I'm also not going faster just because the guy behind me wants me to, or because he wants to go fast himself. He can become a professional race car driver if he wants to do that.

If you can go 15mph over the limit then it isn't a limit. Just because cops don't stop you doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law, it means they're crap at their job.

I hate being pulled over. In Georgia, the law is that if you take a drug test and fail, even if you're not on any controlled substances when you were pulled over but it's apparent that you have been in the past month, they can get you on DUI. ******* law.

But there's nothing that being courteous and sober and clean of anything illegal can't get you out of. That being said, I have only gotten 1 speeding ticket and everything else was verbal warnings for inane things like tail light being out or something.

That's probably true.. But that's not my problem now is it? I'm not the one getting paid to do their job.

I really wish I could get that signs picture. I'm going to look on the OPP website for it if I can.

... Wait .. What?

First of all - Who's giving the drug test? And it's made public record/Available to cops?

But ok you fail the test. You're completely sober the next day, and get pulled over. You get a DUI?

That has to be one of the most retarded laws I've heard in a long time.