A Note to The CT State Trooper Who Pulled Me Over
09-16-2013, 09:32 AM
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A Note to The CT State Trooper Who Pulled Me Over
First of all, thank you for this "gift". I'm pretty sure this will never, ever happen again. Story is as follows:
I'm running late to a PCA autocross event yesterday morning and stopped at a rest stop on the highway to punch-in the address on my portable GPS. Accelerated hard onto the highway to merge with traffic. See a Crown Vic coming up fast and then he hits the lights and I pull over with the hazards on.
HIM: License & registration (very sternly)
ME: Do you need my insurance card?
HIM: No, license and registration. Now.
ME: (hand it over and am figuring out how to explain the ticket to my better half)
HIM: What is the rush? Where are you going?
ME: An autocross in Hartford (point to helmet in the footwell)
HIM: Where? What is the address?
ME: (give it to him)
HIM: (heads back to his car & returns one minute later)
HIM: How long have you had this car?
ME: 10 weeks (sinking feeling)
HIM: Where did you buy it?
ME: LA (really bad feeling about this)
HIM: Have you done some work to it? I heard you pulling into the rest stop
ME: Yes officer (sinking feeling gone - suddenly optimistic)
HIM: Do me a favor - when you pull out, hit redline in 1st and 2nd and have a nice day
ME: (stunned). I'm sorry, can you repeat that officer?
HIM: (repeats). I'm a car guy. Have a nice day.
ME: (still stunned & nodding absently). Thank you for this gift officer.
So I obliged and then stayed at the speed limit for 10 minutes waiting for him to pass me. Never saw him again. Giggled like a school girl for the next 20 minutes while grinning ear-to-ear
I'm running late to a PCA autocross event yesterday morning and stopped at a rest stop on the highway to punch-in the address on my portable GPS. Accelerated hard onto the highway to merge with traffic. See a Crown Vic coming up fast and then he hits the lights and I pull over with the hazards on.
HIM: License & registration (very sternly)
ME: Do you need my insurance card?
HIM: No, license and registration. Now.
ME: (hand it over and am figuring out how to explain the ticket to my better half)
HIM: What is the rush? Where are you going?
ME: An autocross in Hartford (point to helmet in the footwell)
HIM: Where? What is the address?
ME: (give it to him)
HIM: (heads back to his car & returns one minute later)
HIM: How long have you had this car?
ME: 10 weeks (sinking feeling)
HIM: Where did you buy it?
ME: LA (really bad feeling about this)
HIM: Have you done some work to it? I heard you pulling into the rest stop
ME: Yes officer (sinking feeling gone - suddenly optimistic)
HIM: Do me a favor - when you pull out, hit redline in 1st and 2nd and have a nice day
ME: (stunned). I'm sorry, can you repeat that officer?
HIM: (repeats). I'm a car guy. Have a nice day.
ME: (still stunned & nodding absently). Thank you for this gift officer.
So I obliged and then stayed at the speed limit for 10 minutes waiting for him to pass me. Never saw him again. Giggled like a school girl for the next 20 minutes while grinning ear-to-ear
Last edited by lakid042; 09-17-2013 at 06:14 AM. Reason: Typos
09-16-2013, 01:23 PM
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Congrats on the car
Congrats on the car
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09-16-2013, 09:20 PM
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09-16-2013, 09:37 PM
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LOL that is fantastic. Wife and I got pulled over a few Friday's ago and got let go after the guy was in the car maybe a minute. He did a full 360 of the GT3 with his flashlight inside and out. (Admittedly I cringed when he went to the front and saw no front plate so I assumed at least that was coming). His only comment was you were speeding a little, stop driving like that...then let us go.
Pretty sure he was just wanting to check out the car and had nothing better to do that night since we were in the deep burbs of Boston lol.
Pretty sure he was just wanting to check out the car and had nothing better to do that night since we were in the deep burbs of Boston lol.
