I ran away with a wild chase with my Vett 17 years ago.I was doing 110mph and got clocked. I see him about a mile back and gun it even more. The first exit I get on the LIE I get off and zig zag all different streets. I ditch car in an empty lot and hide for about 1 hour.Thank god I didn't get busted. I would be dead.
I figured if you get clocked at over 100mph, you're going to jail one way or the other. So if you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly bear. One time I did the zig-zag thing. The other time was on a highway and I took them on a 5 mile run at over 160mph. The cop that clocked me didn't keep up and after about 3 miles there was another cop waiting in the median. But he had no chance starting from 0. I made it home safely both times. It's a rush, but I don't think I'll do it again. It would depend on the situation.
Not necessarily, I was clocked at 105 in a 50 just about a month ago in my Tran Am. Cop let me off with a 5 over.
I was gonna run, but there were tons of cars in front of me and some twisty curves, had it not been for the extra cars, i woulda been gone! I know the area like the back of my hand; curves, and loooooooong straights.
I don't know if i'd run in the viper though....as there are only 3 all black GTS's currently registered in Michigan (last years stats). So it kinda narrow's it down a little.
Ran seven times in one week on my motorcycle in Houston years ago. Once in college with a girl yelling and hitting me in the back of my head , while I was running from 4 cop cars on my Honda 450.(they caught me). Twice from DPS Mustangs , they hate to lose. Three times from County , they are easy . I had to bury my bike and take off my shirt and act like a jogger in Houston , to get away , and the best one was when I ran out of gas while running and coasted into an open garage , slammed the door and turned around to see a lady doing laundry with a toddler next to her. I held my finger up and said SHHH as the cop went by , then pushed the bike the other way and stashed it behind a convience store , and hung out in the woods untill dark. All this was many years ago , now I stop.
yes, twice. Both times on foot. Cops will never give chase if they have to physically run after you. Good thing i through the donuts the opposite direction i was traveling. [img]/images/graemlins/yes[/img]
Back when I thought that I was immortal (but in retrospect just foolish)
I outran many cop cars. Once I was in a Fiat and hotdogging around town, squeeling the tires, I suddenly spotted a cop car with his lights flashing behind me. I knew the area really well and tore into a small business parking lot at full speed with the cop car a half block behind me, but there was one building on the edge of the lot and as he went in the driveway that I just used, I went around the building, back onto the street, and back into the same parking lot, now following the cop. I could see his trunk as exited onto a one-way side street, and I took the other driveway out onto a street that was going the opposite direction and drove home.
I later had a '69 Plymouth Belvedere (like the Roadrunner) with a 440, 6-pack, and mag wheels. But other than the wheels it looked pretty plain. I used to take off in speed bursts, screech the tires, or run it up to 130MPH quickly on the freeway for a rush. Well, one of those times on the freeway I saw the lights come on and I just kept the gas buried and took the nearest exit, doubled back on the cloverleaf going the opposite way on the freeway, took the next exit and pulled into some strange (to me) apartment building carport and parked the car. I got out and started walking and saw two cop cars pulling over a white 60's Chevy Impala just on the freeway exit.
Another time I was spinning the tires and I spotted a campus cop car two blocks back rounding the corner in a hurry. His lights weren't on, but I knew that he was after me. I was about 2 blocks from the freeway onramp, so I floored it and the cop's lights came on. I was full throttle going up the (happily empty) onramp and I was expecting the cop car to be right on my rear, cresting the roadway onto the freeway any second. But it was one of those Chevy Citations, and by the time I saw his lights as he got onto the freeway I was already taking the second exit about a half mile down the road.
So I've eluded the cops about five times total, but I wouldn't want to leave the impression that I was some slick customer who always got away.
One time I was foolish enough to do a all-out 1/4 mile run right next to the local doughnut shop at 1AM. I didn't see the cops, but I definitely got their attention. I rounded the corner to my mom's house and sat there listening to the end of the song on the radio, and then got out. I was at the front door of the house when two cop cars came screeching around the corner like in a movie.
The cop said that I was going 125MPH in a 25 zone, and was going to write me up for speeding, wreckless driving, exhibition at speed, and no registration in vehicle. Of course at this point my mom drove home and asked what the problem was. She argued that there was no way that I get up to 125MPH in just 3 blocks, and then the cop outlined all of the mods that were in my car (formally a cop car). But in the end he told me that his partner had driven the same car as me too fast, and killed himself wrapping it around a tree, and he never wanted to see that happen again. Well that deflated that big chip that I had on my shoulder, and I felt pretty stupid. He dropped the other charges and only wrote me up for speeding and no reg, and I went to a level two driving sholl and got it off my record.
But I got 7 tickets in 6 months of owning that car (2 in one day), and sold it.
I had my driving record sealed at 18, and mellowed out long since then.
There's almost no chance that I would think of trying to outrun a cop today. Especially in the extra-visible, rare, Viper.
I only really race at the track now, and have a totally clean driving record. I've been pulled over a few times in the Viper, but no tickets so far.
If I were to have ever done anything like that, it would have gone something like this:
Returning from a date at about midnight on the highway between towns, top off the car, nice night out, going about 85 in a 65, when all of a sudden, the V1 goes off HARD, directional arrow pointing forward. Well, given the signal strength, it was clear the piggie was just ahead and used his instant-on radar feature, so there was no particular reason to slow down or jab the brakes. Immediately thereafter, the patrol car was visible in the center median area, but with no lights on since they don't do that until they are well underway after you to minimize the chances of you making a successful run for it. Glancing back, there was no room for the cop to pull out before the next car back, but it was also clear that he was going to dispense a ticket, running instant-on and the speed at the time. With the intervening car now in the way, the accelerator found itself deeply lodged into the floor, and soon enough, the next highway exit came up, but it had only been a mile, so there was still time for piggie to see the getaway. This led to the decision to go for the next exit, known to be 4 miles further down the highway. During this stretch of driving, the highway seemed to be extraodinarily tight and curvy, and shortly thereafter, a view of the speedometer showed a reading of 155MPH (earlier may or may not have been faster) - guess that explained why the highway seemed to have such tight curves! Getting off at the next exit, something seemed wrong with the tranny, and coming to a stop at the end of the exit, first gear would not engage - oh crap, might get busted! But after some forceful effort, it engaged and a clean getaway ensued, with the day after test drive on the car revealing that 6th gear had been fried! No ticket though :thumb:
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