Yes, back in 1971 I was in my 1965 mustang going through the gears from a 20 roll on stretch of road with no traffic late one night. A police officer was sitting in a parking lot I flew by and lit up his lights. I was quite a ways ahead of him so I ditched into the neighbor hood I lived in and thought I lost him. WRONG, he was sitting in front of my house waiting for me. It was my girl friends cousin, he was laughing his head off. Asked me if I wanted to spend the night in jail? Told him no. He laughed some more told me to slow down and left. I got lucky that night....When I became a firefighter in the same city he was a cop he came to visit me at the station I was assigned to and of course he had to tell the guys this story...

Trucky911

 

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For all you runners. Congrats,you have something in common with the Ahole in the article.

 

I did once when I was young, stupid and drunk. I wouldn't even consider it now. I have too much to lose.

 

It doesn't make you a yuppy. It makes you a sheep. You don't get a felony for not understanding what he mouthed from his car. I would have done the same as the OP. If he would have chased me, with his lights on, I would have pulled over. If he asked why I didn't "stay right there". I would have said " I though you were saying "nice bike".

 

Ancient years ago in my youth (young and stupid) I was on the way to a wedding, where I was part of the grooms entourage. I had been delayed getting on the road thanks to Uncle Sam and calculated that at an average of 90 to 100mph (200 miles away) would get me there on time. I was screaming down an eight lane freeway in a 1965 Mustang when I noticed a statey on the frontage road that kicked it into high gear and hit the lights. I immediately pulled over into the slow lane just as the road went over a rise and down a fairly steep grade. The statey went flying by me as I was sequestered in a group slow moving vehicles. I pulled over at the next exit and called to say they would have to get someone to take my place at the wedding.

 

I wouldn't exactly call what you did running. If he didn't have his lights on and wasn't following you, you could easily say you didn't hear him over your pipes

I would never run when a cop was chasing me, but I have happened to take the next exit a few times when they had to go a long ways to turn around and couldn't see me turn. If they followed me I would have pulled over and I wasn't speeding after I turned off so I wasn't a danger to myself or others. Could have easily played off that I didn't see them and had to turn there anyways. Plus, if they're not behind you with their lights on how do you know they're after you?

A couple of my buddies in high school learned you can't out run the radio the hard way. They ended up face down at gun point in the middle of main street. Cost him about $5k and his license for a year.

 

Yuppy, sheep, you can call me whatever you want. At the end of the day, it was still a stupid thing to do.

 

I was drag racing a GTO one evening in my 69 Chevelle 396 SS back in 1969. A state cop saw us going to the local hwy we all raced on and followed us with his lights off. I had just put a set of 456 gears in the rear end and even though I blew the doors off the GTO, I realized I could not get away from the trooper. I pulled over and lost my license for 90 days.

Later after I became a Deputy Sheriff, the trooper laughed his A$$ off telling everyone about it.
I also pursued several who thought they could out run my police car. Some could some couldn't. My department has since adopted a policy that the officer can terminate the chase if he deems it a greater probability that an innocent person could be injured as a result of the pursuit. So for all you bad boys riding those bad bikes maybe...just maybe the officer has called off the chase and you ain't so fast after all. lol just saying.

 

I used to do it all the time on my RD 400. If they weren't close enough to ID me, I was "gone"
Now if they were any kind of close, I pulled over so fast it usually surprised them.
First year on a street bike, and I had a dozed plus tickets. Most were for insufficient crash bars, or no helmet. Only one true moving violation. Now the number of times I did elude them escapes me. Lets just say, (Lots) Lol :-)
Last time I was over Twenty-one, and only once in my car. Shooop, I was gone then too! May not have been faster than Motorola, but quicker/smarter! I never got caught if I ran.
And of course I wouldn't dream of doing it any more.
To old and brittle!

aka Bob

 

I would have done exactly the samething. Just the other night I was cruising down the street and came up next to another bike, a softail, he hit the throttle and so did I, the next thing you know we were doing over 80 in a 45. Sure enough a ,let's say cop out of political correctness and the weiners that like to whine alot on this board, passed and immediately did a u-ee. We hit the intersection he went one way I went the other and I took back streets home. I took the money I saved from the ticket I would have gotten and bought me a really nice T-Bag for the bike. Oh yeah, just cause you get away doesnt make you wrong! Its the pu#@ies that just sit there and take the revenue collecting that gives us all a bad name!