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lietuviai · #16 05-09-2008, 12:04 AM

I got a mirror broken on my pick-up once from a lane splitter when I used to be stuck in LA traffic. I was minding my business so it was like the a-hole got too close to me. I have no sympathy for arrogant lane splitters.

mgburg · #17 05-09-2008, 05:35 AM

About 2-3 years ago, I was coming up the off ramp from Eastbound I-90, up to a set of lights. I stop and wait...

The lights changed green for me (It's about 0330), but for some unknown reason, I stayed stopped...then I saw it...

Out of the corner of my eye, about 3 blocks to my left, I noticed a "glint" of light and then "NEEEEYOUNNNnnnnnn" - A crotch-rocket rips past me - probably doing WELL OVER 100 m.p.h....

I wait a few seconds...

Then, here it comes...a WI. State Trooper Crown Vic, doing a "power-slide" from the exit ramp from Westbound I-90, then "red-lining" his tach, past me...

Two things: If I had pulled out when the light had changed, that damn bike would have gone right through my vehicle, with me, having his front tire tatoo'd on my left side...he had NO LIGHTS ON at all and even less brains...however, he did have a helmet on, for what little good that would have done him IF I had pulled out...

Second thing: I don't know if they have them now, but that trooper should have had a photo-gun or video camera when numbnutz went blazing by. I'm going to check with a retired Trooper friend of mine this weekend to see if they finally got that straigtened out...

BTW, they never caught that excuse for DNA...

But another one wasn't so lucky...

Last fall, I just turned onto a frontage road about 8 miles from where the above had taken place...sure enough...double-yellow line and a little Ninja-tweet comes tearing up my back bumper, then swings out into on-coming traffic, causing me to hit the binders and head for the stones on the right...no one gets hurts, but NOW I'M PASSED THE POINT OF BEING PISSED...

I gun it and start after NumbNutzNinja...I don't have to go too far...as I clear the rise in the road, I see him turning into a BP/Quiznos and he ducks behind the store (this place is on the right, go to the left and it's an entrance ramp for the East-bound traffic on I-90, go straight, it takes you to the rest of this story.)...I pull into and behind the store...there's Mr. NumbNutz...sitting on his bike, just as he's removing his helmet, he sees me...I'm already getting his plate number - he then reaches down (TOO LATE!) and bends his plate inward and upward so that it can't be read.

I'm on the cellphone w/the 9-1-1 dispatcher...they are going nutz!!!

"WHERE ARE YOU? YOU HAVE HIM IN SIGHT? WHAT'S THE PLATE NUMBER?"

Yep, smartass was running from three different agencies...and they lost him about 8 miles before he passed me...

As I'm giving the description of everything I'm seeing (bike, plate, his leathers and helmet, hair color, sex (no, thank-you!), facial features...) he spooks and decides to take off...he heads up the frontage-road extension...small problem...it goes east about 1 mile, then you HAVE to turn left, pass under the interstate and you "T" into a county road that has the next nearest intersection either back west at the ramp area where he had just come from, or one more mile east, in a little town that's about to become the 4th of 5 agencies NOW involved in this chase...

Sure enough...I head up the road where he disappeared, turned left and crossed under the interstate and was greeted by a State Trooper at the "T" - he guided me towards the right and said, "Pay attention to the officers on the scene, but stay back."

I drive up, pull over and I'm greeted at my window by a county officer...he's got paperwork already for me to fill out...numbnutz's bike is on its side, his helmet is across the ditch in a field and he's sitting under a tree with bracelets on...

No less than 8 cars are on the scene...

Turns out the little pube was only 17, it was HIS DAD'S BIKE, and dad was up north in Eau Claire county someplace getting pulled over by the State Troopers to get him to come on down and deal w/his kid.

The kid? He apparently had stopped but he didn't get the bike shut off FAST ENOUGH for the officers that were out of their cars...they slammed him and the bike to the ground before anything more could have happened...

I guess the site of a few hand-guns, yelling cops and an idling bike would cause some confusion as to where the key was to shut it off...

Didn't matter...

Cops - 1
Dumbass Pube - 0
Prize - One Super-pissed Father - to the loser!

Now, what caused all of this fun and frivolity?

Pube-boy was speeding...32 in a 25...he didn't want to get caught getting a ticket on his dad's bike...

DIGRESSION AHEAD!!!

And this is the type of person that's capable of voting for the next leader of the free world in less than 2 years?

God help us, 'cause we be doin' it all wrong!

LUVMBDiesels · #18 05-09-2008, 08:29 AM

I was going up the Garden State parkway with the family in the Suburban when two idiots on crotch rockets came up at 100+ I had to do emergency evasive manuvers to get out of their way as they were taking up most of the two lanes. I then camly reached for my cell and dialed 911. gave the staties a description and where they were. About five miles up there they were in the middle of a pile of trooper cars. Turns out they were wanted as well

Moral of the story -- If you are wanted by the cops ditch the rocket and steal a Toyota pick up or something inconspicuous.

Also if you piss enough people off one of them is gonna dial 911