Ijust recently got away by accident more than on purpose. Cops were going the opposite way when I blew a stop sign on a right turn. They flashed their lights on me and I pulled over, waiting for them to complete the u turn they had to make I decided a sfer spot to pull over was 1 block ahead. They went screaming right by me with the sirens going thinking I had ran.
As above…by accident.
I had a Yugo (ha!) that billowed white smoke like a pope chimney. I passed a cop sitting in his hidey-spot and I turned right onto a side street. Yes, I totally smoke-screened a cop and accidentally eluded him.
I know this is old but I just want to point out that a lot of this is wrong. I have no idea why the case was dismissed.
In New Jersey police have the authority to arrest for a crime anywhere in the state. Police officers are not just ordinary citizens when off duty or out of the town they work in.
Traffic offenses are not considered crimes so:
On any street that shares a border between towns jurisdiction is shared. Tickets can be written on any of those roads and heard in the court in which the officer works.
If the offense occurs in one town (where the suspect vehicle is) but the officer happens to be across the border in another town when he observed it there is no problem with jurisdiction. There is no force field between towns. All that matters is where the offense occurred not where the officer happened to be standing.
Also where the cars wind up stopping is irrelevant. Again, it is where the offense occurred.
If an officer observes a traffic offense which occurred in another town he can still write a ticket but he would have to go to that local court and fill out a ticket there. His issued ticket book is specifically for his local court. The courts only have authority to rule on cases within their boundaries.
I have no reason to doubt that delta had a case dismissed. But it was either because of a different reason than he believes or the judge was wrong on the law. They don’t like to believe so but there are times they need to be educated on the law too.
Re: educated on the law…
Yeah, one time I went through a red on my bike…cop pulls me over, I start to stammer something about “I was just trying to anticipate the green…” When he says, “You don’t have a helmet or lights for your bicycle”
Well, you don’t need a bicycle helmet in this state, but I wasn’t about to tell him that after going through that red light.
If you said you out ran anyone in a Yugo I would have called you a damn liar.
Or, maybe they weren’t after you in the first place?
Two quick ones
First, Houston had its own version of “Cops” in the eighties “City under Siege”, now this was must see tv because you might see someone you know*. HPD are doing a buy/bust at an outdoor crack market in a park, which was adjacent to a bit of woods. One perp takes off, running into the woods, he has a few cops after him and a cameraman in tow. Cops lose him, spot him, lose him, spot him over and over again. Finally they nab him. The cops are making fun of the guy, telling him he could have got away and the perp is confused.
“Look at your feet”
He is wearing running shoes with little lights that flash in the soles as you run.
Second, had a friend in Dallas that outran the cops in his Honda S2000. The next week they were waiting for him, in the exact same place. He ran and they had a roadblock, he went to jail, for a long while.
*Earth(I went to Hs with this schmuck) got busted at Numbers(dance club) for selling X, comes out the front door in cuffs, face unblurred, screaming “They set me up man”. That was quality television.
Capt
And a rare triple-zombie at that! OP in 2010, resurrected in late 2012, mid-2013, and now early 2014. This topic must be striking a chord with some people!
Zombies are extremely good at repeat-offense fleeing law enforcement.
Well its been over 30 years, so the statuette of limitations is in effect. So I will relate a story about my cousins and I outrunning two cops one time. We all had Chevy Corvairs. They were red two door models. We were road racing with each other. Imagine three small red cars passing each other on a twisty two lane blacktop road. This road wound through the countryside out of a big town toward the ocean. It was eighty five miles of twists, turns and hills.
This road by-passed a small town. As we passed this small town going way over the speed limit of 25 MPH, the town cop got us on radar. He commenced to whirl his flashing light. We did see him and I, tail end charlie, slowed down to pull over. The cop passed me to get the front guy. The second guy, Bruce, slowed to pull over, and got passed. Now the first guy, Adam, slowed down to pull over, I passed both the cop and Adam. Then Bruce passed both the cop and Adam. Next the cop passed Adam but a second cop, I will call cop2, pulled out from a driveway and followed me. I slowed to pull over, and Adam zoomed past everyone to take the lead. Bruce soon followed. The lineup is now Adam, Bruce, me Charlie, cop2, and last, cop1. We were doing about 100 MPH!
Then on a long straight stretch, another red Corvair came from behind all of us at over 120 MPH and passed us all! The driver honking and waving the whole time! The police turned off their sirens and slowed way down. My cousins and I just kept going. We knew that the 4th Corvair was driven by our other cousin, Ruth! We followed her to our favorite cafe on the beach. A good time was had by all.
I guess that those cops assumed that we were just playing with them and that we could outrun them any time we wanted to. If so, they were wrong. I was almost out of throttle. Bruce was flat out, but Adam still had lots of throttle left.
Note: all names have been changed as has the colors of the cars. We all had 5-way seat belts, roll cages, fire extinguishers, CB radios, and police scanners. We were fearless! It also helped that we knew that the cops could not talk to each other as their radios were on different frequencies.
For me the ratio of run/getaway is 1 for 1 or 100%.
A Darwin Awards statuette?
The successful evaders who’ve posted here would have enjoyed the Cops episode where a squad car chases a fleeing motorist into a hilly meadow between trees. The car gets away, the officer stops to reconnoiter the situation, then notices smoke starting to billow from under his squad car (hot metal parts have ignited the dry grass). Pretty soon, in spite of applications from his fire extinguisher, the car is completely ablaze.
Embarrassing to say the least (the fleeing motorist is reportedly caught nearby).
If you look to the left of the “z” key or to the right of the “/” key, you’ll see a larger key labeled “Shift”. It is used to make capital letters. Try it sometime. 
Seriously, it will make your posts easier to read.
I don’t know why you believe this.
If you’re running AWAY from a cop or cops (which is indeed the proper direction in which to be running), then you’re not likely to be shot.
'Coz it’s really, really hard for a cop to claim that the dead guy with a bullet wound in the back was threatening his or her life.
Unless that suspect/perpetrator/bad dude is running towards people while armed and threatening violence while the officer is giving chase.
Guess you’re not from Los Angeles…or New York…or Chicago…or Baltimore…or…
Back on topic:
It’s exceedingly rare for those “World’s Wildest Police Chases” type shows to broadcast a genuine escape, but there’s one event that does often make the rounds. Guy in a red convertible eludes the San Diego police and successfully reaches the Mexico border, where he jumps the fence and disappears into the Tijuana slums. However, the TV postscript is never the same – one version says he was captured by Mexican P.D., while another says that he did get away, but since he left behind several kilos of cocaine, his drug dealer buddies were likely to be seeking him…
I can confirm I ran away but my friends were caught. I was a kid and we were doing stupid pranks 
We even had code-names for each other. But one of those dumb mates of mine said the codename and then my real last name when confronted by the cop and his parents! Though I never heard from the man!
This was a specialist but he was alone so it’s really a wonder he even managed to catch two of us. Just like fish seek protection in numbers so should you. Great numbers multiply strength and confuse. Several cars vs one or two helicopters in an area would almost certainly grant success for some of you if you split from what ever point of convergence you begin from.
Tho try to behave! Be nice
Zombies are terrible recidivists.
I found this thread searching related topic through Google.
Ran from 12 three times.
Once in a fuckin’ 06 Sonata in 2009. Lol. Ran a stop light by accident… Saw them hit the lights from a Zaxbys parking lot by the intersection. Dipped on them on Cobb Pkwy… Pulled into a shopping plaza, hit the lights, hopped out… They came flying in the lot. Not looking toward the space I parked in between other vehicles. I hopped back in and exited the lot.
Last year, State Trooper. Caught me in a speed trap on 85. I gunned it up the nearest exit… Hopped out at QT and fled on foot. I got caught two days later trying to get my car from the impound. 2 months, time served… Trust me… It could’ve Bern ALOT worst had I not ran and got my persons searched.
Yesterday. Speed trap… In Cobb. Pig on the side of 285 hopped into his cruiser as I flew by in a 2014 Mazda 6. I took off… Got a gap between me and five O. Took the first exit… Lost sight of him… Then I immediately exited back on to the highway. Hit 130 through traffic… Took my as home.
It is a known fact that Corvairs are unsafe at these speeds.
I’ve heard they’re unsafe at any speed.
So…36?