Last year, on the way back from a party that I'd had a couple beers at, I accidentally blew through a red light. My buddy was saying "you ****ing idiot" There were no cars coming from either side so I morally did feel bad but I half way through the light I was just thinking "fvck it, too late to stop. My bad!". Then, I looked around and what I saw hit me like a shotgun to the forehead. All my friend said was "Fvck." And it was enough.
There it was... A police car in the oncoming lane, 3 cars back in the line. An ordinary vehicle but the writing POLICE on the side and the cruise lights on top made it more than a car... it was a monster.
My adrenaline was flying and I was remember thinking to myself "Do I pull over, or keep driving and wait for him to stop me." Being young and stupid, I kept driving, eased me foot off the accelerator and just cruised down the road. I looked in the rearview mirror and sure enough there was the police car, red/blue lights blazing. The funny thing was, he was sort of stuck. He was tailgaiting the car ahead and the car behind him was doing the same thing. I knew it was my moment to shine, I had tossed the dice and my fate was up in the air. I took a right turn at a small sidestreet into a suburb. As we turned I looked back at the cop car, he was making a 200 point turn to get out of his predicament, apparently the guy behind him was a jackass. So, I turned onto the side street and pulled into the 3rd driveway on the right, tucked myself in in front of a car parked near the end of the driveway, and flipped the engine off. We got out of the car and went to hide in some bushes around the side of the house. My buddy is calling me a fvckup and how he was going to turn himself in and everything. Hearts beating like crazy, we waited. And waited.
Finally the cop car came screaming around the corner. I guess running a red light + evading arrest is not something to be taken lightly. He screamed past, lights flaring, illuminating the entire street in turns of blue and red.
And past us he went. He must have thought we kept driving.
At the time I felt as if I hadn't taken a breath in days. I looked at my buddy and he looked like he did something bad in his pants. Of course he didn't, we're not pansies, but that was the face he made.
I knew it was time to make a move, while we still had the initiative.
We got in the car and pulled off the sidestreet heading left, back the way we came. Getting home was a terrifying ordeal, paranoid glances left, right and rear making sure there were no cop cars.
We made it home alright, and despite barely moving a muscle, we were covered in sweat and breathing hard.
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My buddy tells the short version of that story all the time. Our saving grace was the cop car getting stuck in traffic while trying to make a U-turn, giving us enough time to make our getaway.
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I have a few more police stories, but they end with me paying a hefty fine
There is one where I puked all over a cop, inside his car. He wouldn't let me out and I was cuffed so I threw up all over the back of the grate, some of the smaller chunks flew through the grate and hit the back of his neck...
But that's another story.