Have you ever run from the police and gotten away?

[Wcross]

I have once in my life. I was driving down a road late at night and came upon a car driving at about 15mph in a 30mph zone. I decided to pass them (in a passing zone). As I pulled alongside them the car started racing me. I should have backed off but being 19 years old I wasn't going to do that.
As luck would have it we passed two sherrif deputies parked in a school entrance. We were side by side and I don't know if the cops even got a good look at my car. I saw the lights turn on! There was a small hill right past the school with a subdivision entrance at the bottom. I killed my lights, let off the gas and downshifted without touching my brakes. I pulled into the first driveway and shut her down. I saw both deputies fly past the road after the genius that started it all. I then fired her up and took the backroads home. I did see that the two cops had the other car pulled over up the road.

Tell me about your escape from the law! (If the statute of limitations has not run out yet I don't want to hear about it!)

[underpants]

1. Yes

and NO

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

2. One time I was a passenger in a car. A super cool 1987 IROC with

the dumbest driver ever. We were going from suburbs,driving into Chicago on the Eisenhower.

Oh wait, my mom reads DU... never mind.

:hide:

[DS1]

4. You could have left out 'dumbest driver ever', the '87 IROC

part of the story took care of that :-)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

6. Heh, yes... you're right.

[Wcross]

5. We all had friends that we wouldn't let drive.

I was the designated driver of my group of friends. We tried other drivers but it always reverted back to me. My buddy Matt was driving home from a bar one night with a carload of people. He was drunk and we were all stupid. He was driving a 67 GTO. He lost it off the shoulder and started hitting mailboxes (4-5 boxes) and ended up in a front yard. What did he do? He did about 3-4 doughnuts, tore up the yard and left. I saw the people in the front door as we drove away.

My buddy Eric drove ONE time when we went out drinking. We were leaving the bar and the space in front of him was empty and he was driving an old beat up pick-up. He "thought" he had enough room to squeeze between the cars but he was wrong. He got through all right but not without the sounds of grinding metal.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

7. But, was the 67 GTO OK??

That's a bad-ass ride....

[Wcross]

8. The right front got banged up real good.

He fixed it fairly quick. It as a blue rag top and he had done a lot of work on the engine (he had a "six pack" carb on it-I ain't a car guy so I don't know what that means). I was always afraid to ride in that thing cause he always wanted to "see what it could do".
Much to my suprise he is still alive today and didn't injure anyone with his antics.

[Serial Mom]

12. Ok, you can tell me about it now,

but wait, your kid is getting to that age ....

[Lisa0825]

3. YEP!LOL!

Just ask Baylonsister!LOL

I went for a long time (about a year and a half) with expired license and inspection stickers. I needed a bunch of repairs, but the car wasn't worth it, and I didn't yet have the money to get a new used car or the repairs in order to get the inspection. Anyway, enough excuses... NOW I am legal!

I became pretty skilled at spotting police cars at a distance so I could make a quick turn or match my speed to the surrounding traffic to hide. But twice, I was spotted, and did the zig-zag through the neighborhood trick to get away. Once I parked behind a Chruch's Chicken restauranat for 20 minutes to make sure he wasn't still looking for me!LOL!

I'm glad those days are over! Driving was always so stressful for me!

[no name no slogan]

9. Once

I was fourteen, and I was stumbling home from a party, where I had just drank a 750ml bottle of Canadian whisky all by myself in a couple of hours. Yes, I got sick, and unfortunately most of it ended up on me.

It was the middle of January in Minnesota, so it was pretty cold, and there was at least two feet of snow on the ground. It was a little over a mile walk to get home, and I was going alone in the middle of the night. I was walking down the street (no sidewalks where I grew up), and probably weaving/stumbling pretty badly. Cars were driving by and honking at me, so I must have been pretty messed up.

Anyway, I'm doing my damndest to walk straight and stay on the side of the road, when I look up and see a cop cruiser go past me the other way. Oh crap. I just kept my head down, and kept on walking, and peeked over my shoulder, hoping the cop didn't see anything suspicious.

Just as I turned around, I saw the cop fire up his car's searchlight, and do a u-turn. Oh damn, I knew I was in trouble. I shot across the road and into somebody's back yard. I ran the last quarter-mile and cut through back yards in 2+ feet of snow to get home. Thankfully my mom had taken off for the weekend and I was home alone. I locked the door behind me and killed all the lights, hoping the cop hadn't follow me.

I tossed my soiled clothes in the washer, and crawled into bed, and watched some late-night concert by the Who on TV. I puked a couple more times before I finally fell asleep.

The next morning my mom came home, and took me out for breakfast-- and was none the wiser.

[Wcross]

11. Thank god for lazy cops!

I guess it was either follow your trail in the snow or go to the doughnut shop?
I had a similar experience. I was leaving a party because there was a group that had the idea that fist-fights would add to the fun of the keg party. As I was walking up the road with a buddy (stumbling badly) a cop pulls up and gets out. I remember saying "gooood evening occifer". Just as he was about to say something a carspeeds by at about 90mph. He says "wait here" and jumps back in his car to pursue the car. We looked at eachother and started laughing our asses off as we walked away.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. No, but I've run from a spider and gotten away!

[miss_kitty]

13. Yes

I wasn't driving though. It was a 57 chevy. And the getaway MO of the driver sounds much like yours, only he WAS the genius who'd started it all.
And it was 1971. We didn't kill anyone, we were just high and hotrodding around. And the driver was a client of my dad's (an alleged car thief!).

[skygazer]

14. Many times - it was a favorite Friday night game

This was back in the 70's and it was in Vermont and New Hampshire where there are plenty of back roads and byways to hide on. We'd purposely blow through some little town doing about 90 just so the local cop would chase us, then we'd tear all over the place and lose him. Most towns only had one or two cops on duty late at night and we were all driving nice cars back then - my girlfriend had a '69 GTO that would fly.

It was stupid and dangerous and we were lucky none of us was either killed or arrested (or that we didn't kill someone else) - we were always drunk and stoned at the time. But there really was very little else to do for entertainment in that time and place.

[HuskerDU]

15. Yes, but only on foot. However, it has always been a

fantasy of mine to pull a 'Dukes of Hazzard' type escape from the 50.

[merh]

16. Yes.

I had a mispent yuth! :blush:

[Squatch]

17. One time, I evaded a police officer.

Heading from Wichita Falls to Dallas at about 95 mph. Dark, dark night. A trooper heading in the other direction gets me on radar.

Luckily, the road took a bend, blocking his view of me before he had a chance to turn around. I ducked into a gas station (first coasting to slow down then using my parking brake), pulled in next to a semi, turned out the lights, and waited.

Zooooooooooooom. He must have been doing 125 mph. So, I go in, grab a Snickers, then get back on the road...this time doing 60 mph.

[pitohui]

18. yes

but i was falsely accused & i was fairly confident that they would not look for me a second time

i could hear them talking on their radio as i exited stage left, there was no real sense of urgency

perhaps they even knew it was a he sez, she sez dispute & they were wasting their time

i think there should be more arrests and prosecutions of those who file false police reports

[LaraMN]

19. No, but as a true Minnesotan I can say

that I have hidden from the police in a snowbank.

[Ratty]

20. On a bike once

I've had amazingly bad luck with police and my bike. I've gotten three tickets riding my bike. Once I did something illegal and saw a cop, oh shit. I saw him slow and get ready to turn around and come after me so I darted down the sidewalk of a oneway street. I know how tenacious they are so I went halfway down then turned into the parking lot of a small apartment building and hid. He didn't get me that time.

[Spirochete]

21. I did it once on foot...

When I was about 15. Ran across a couple yards and vaulted over a fence - only to land on a tricycle someone had left there. Good thing the cops didn't see which way I went, because I could do nothing but lay there in pain, not daring to make a sound, and unable to get up, for quite a while.

[petronius]

22. Lots of times...

...but I doubt if they were ever really chasing me. Mostly just running when we saw a cop notice us skateboarding where we weren't supposed to be.

[Karmageddon]

23. used to all the time when we were kids

In the winter when we were bored we used to throw snowballs at cop cars just to get them to chase us. We knew all the shortcuts and all the yards with either no fences, or holes in the fences (small enough for a 14 year old to fit through but too small for an adult), all the yards with dogs, etc. Was great fun.

[Lilyhoney]

24. As a teenager, my friends and I ran from the police all the time.

We all grew up hanging out at the park and various other areas of our little world.

The police would come and chase us around, like a game of cat and mouse.
Usually at nite. We were usually drinking and smoking pot. Some were out past curfew.

It was exciting. We hopped fences and ran thru yards and hid in basement stairwells and open garages.

It was our neighborhood. We all knew it like, well, as if it were our home.

Every once in a while someone would break an arm or hurt something, but for the most part no one got hurt. And no one went to jail.

The jail thing came a little later in life for most of them.

But that was 15 years ago. I would not run from the police now.

[Tafiti]

25. A few times...

...but all on foot. You know, at a high school party, underage drinking, cops show up, yada yada yada...I got away.

[neuvocat]

26. I did one time, but your story is better.

I didn't have my car registered and the cops were tailing me when the light changed. I knew how close you could get for it to cross a yellow so I went for it and the cops had to stay behind when it went red. Pretty ballsy stuff though and I can't believe I got away with it.

[xmas74]

27. Yep.

High school friend's stepdad was a police officer. He caught us out way after our curfew (he was on duty) at the donut shop. He could smell the pot on us. He wanted to teach us both a lesson and began to reach for his cuffs. We ran from him. He pursued us on a footchase and called for backup. We both outran him.
Of course, we got busted for it the next day. No arrest but major punishment that neither of us actually observed (good thing for ground floor bedrooms!).

[jpak]

28. Yup

:evilgrin:

[Wcross]

29. Bump for the night people. I want to hear some stories! n/t

[liberalitch]

30. teenager with a joint....

turned onto a street into a driveway, turned off the lights and laid down (Galaxy 500.... bench seats)..... he went right by.
I knew the hood and knew he had to go all the way around a big ol' circle.... I pulled out of the drive way after a minute and drove out the way he went..... so essentially I was following about a blcok and a half behind him

[Scout1071]

31. Possibly. On foot. As a teenager.

But I can neither confirm nor deny.

[Redstone]

32. I was once barreling down a country road in my A4, which

made a loud BA-WAHHH sound when it hit about 4500 RPM and the secondary intake runner opened up.

I was really hauling ass, going about 70 in third gear in a 25 zone, when I passed a State Police cruiser going the other way.

I could see his brake lights go on before I went around the next corner, so I hustled into a convenient driveway about a quarter-mile up the road for a three-point turn and punched it back opposite to the way I had come.

Sure enough, the cop had turned around and was absolutely HAMMERING after me when he saw me approaching him in the opposite direction yet again and flash past (we must have had a closing speed of around 100, maybe more).

Fortunately, I didn't have a front license plate on my car, and there was a convenient side road, which I knew branched onto other obscure side roads leading all over hell and gone and ending up in four or five different towns.

I knew the cop would be on the radio by then, so I picked several in succession and took my sweet time before re-emerging onto anything remotely like a main road two hours later.

Boy, was that fun. I really liked that Audi, even though it was a hunk o' junk, quality-wise.

Redstone

[TroubleMan]

33. As Tron said: I plead the "FIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFF!!!!"

[argyl]

34. Over thirty years ago I was at an apartment in Dallas with a lot of weed

on the premises.At least 50 lbs., real serious weight at the time. I happened to be on the balcony of this second floor apartment when I heard the doors getting kicked in.There was a knotted rope tied to the railing so I was able to climb down and get away.It wasn't my place and I had no financial stake in the reefer but I'd have still have gone in and probably gotten a pretty stiff prison sentence.

Haven't smoked dope or used any other illegal substances in years but that little close call isn't what caused me to change my ways.

[Az]

35. Yes.... more than once

(disclaimer, these acts were done in my foolish youth, do not try this at home)

Word of advice... if you pass a police officer while going over 120 mph do not slow down. While speeding down one of the local freeways I came around a turn at very highspeed and saw a police car parked on the side of the freeway doing radar. Descisions ..... slow down, speed up, or other.

I chose other. I hit the first exit ramp I saw and got on the access road. I saw the police car come barreling down the freeway all lights and sirens blairing. Being the crazy person I am I got back on the freeway and followed him. Never realised I was behind him.

My second event occurred due to being angry and driving. I found myself at a store picking up stuff for the family against my will. So in a desire to get back home quickly I found myself stuck behind a long line of cars going far below the speed limit.

This was unacceptable. So looking ahead I noticed there was no traffic in the oncoming lane. So I hit the gas and started passing multiple cars. While mid way through passing the line of cars I saw a car turn into the oncoming lane. Anger blinding my better senses I decided to press forward and at the last second slipped back into traffic. Effectively playing chicken with the oncoming car.

A sudden notion struck me. As it was just past dusk I could not make out the car I had just played chicken with while facing it I turned around to find it was in fact a police car. Not having much time to act I waited until it started to turn around (U turn). During its turn I killed my lights and took a hard turn (no breaks) into a subdivision and took off throught the streets. I saw the lights speed by down the road behind me and parked.

Don't do anything like this. Its stupid.

[HEyHEY]

36. Yup - I jumped out of an Airplane with millions of dollars!

Seriously though, yeah I have... I ran a stop sign (Well, roll stopped) and he saw me, I saw him turning around in my rear view, I made a quick turn into a neighbourhood and winded my way around and hid until I knew it was safe.

And then the hundreds of tims as a teenager