My first run-in with the law
Ok, here's my tale of my first ticket:
I was 18, and I had just finished swapping the beat 267 in my MC for a 74 CMJ 350 (from a Caprice cop car) I threw a Holley Street Dominator intake, and 600cfm 4bbl on it, and was eager to smoke some tires. So I though what better way to show off my "new" motor that to go cruise the local loop at High St (Pottstown PA). I called my cruisin buddy and we hit the road. I had been there before and knew there were cops everywhere, so I pretty much kept my reserve the whole night--until I rolled through the McDonald's at the end of the loop, there were some Ricers/tuners that had made fun of my car before. The one proceeded to do a pathetic rendition of a burnout in front of me. He kinda just chirped his tires going over the speed bump too fast. "stupid ricers:, I said to my friend. He said "Are you gonna continue to take thier $hit, why don't you show em what you got now?" I was like " I don't know probably get busted by the cops". But being young and stupid, I threw caution to the wind and laid the pedal to the floor.
The rear of my car immediately broke out in smoke as the snow tires spun. I kept my foot to the floor as I made the left turn out of the parking lot, kicking the back end out. I looked back to a crowd of dropped jaws and cheering. I had never felt such an addrenaline rush! I went threw the traffic light at the next intersection. Then I saw the red and blue lights, and I felt my heart jump into my throat. I pulled over feeling awesome and sick at the same time. I rolled down my window and prepared for the worse.
The cops words were pretty much as follows: "Nice show ya put on there. I watched the whole thing from accross the street where I was sitting. I haven't seen anything like that in a while! Then he asked me what kind of engine I had. I replied. "It's out of a cop car sir" He just kinda smiled at me and asked for my liscense and etc. He went back in his car for what seemed like forever. My friend just kept telling me how stupid I was and why I didn't see the cop. I told hiw to fvck off and asked him the same thing. We both laughed about it.
The cop finally returned, handed me my stuff and took out his ticket book. "I'm fining you for reckless driving", he told me. He handed me the ticket to sign, and gave me my copy.
So I ended up paying a $108 fine and got 3 points on my record. About 3 months later I got caught speeding and got 2 more points. It took me about a year to work up enough courage to go back up there. Now my record is totally clean again and it's nice paying lower insurance rates. But I gotta say the looks on those punk@ss ricer kids that night was totally worth the trouble.
Ok, here's my tale of my first ticket:
I was 18, and I had just finished swapping the beat 267 in my MC for a 74 CMJ 350 (from a Caprice cop car) I threw a Holley Street Dominator intake, and 600cfm 4bbl on it, and was eager to smoke some tires. So I though what better way to show off my "new" motor that to go cruise the local loop at High St (Pottstown PA). I called my cruisin buddy and we hit the road. I had been there before and knew there were cops everywhere, so I pretty much kept my reserve the whole night--until I rolled through the McDonald's at the end of the loop, there were some Ricers/tuners that had made fun of my car before. The one proceeded to do a pathetic rendition of a burnout in front of me. He kinda just chirped his tires going over the speed bump too fast. "stupid ricers:, I said to my friend. He said "Are you gonna continue to take thier $hit, why don't you show em what you got now?" I was like " I don't know probably get busted by the cops". But being young and stupid, I threw caution to the wind and laid the pedal to the floor.
The rear of my car immediately broke out in smoke as the snow tires spun. I kept my foot to the floor as I made the left turn out of the parking lot, kicking the back end out. I looked back to a crowd of dropped jaws and cheering. I had never felt such an addrenaline rush! I went threw the traffic light at the next intersection. Then I saw the red and blue lights, and I felt my heart jump into my throat. I pulled over feeling awesome and sick at the same time. I rolled down my window and prepared for the worse.
The cops words were pretty much as follows: "Nice show ya put on there. I watched the whole thing from accross the street where I was sitting. I haven't seen anything like that in a while! Then he asked me what kind of engine I had. I replied. "It's out of a cop car sir" He just kinda smiled at me and asked for my liscense and etc. He went back in his car for what seemed like forever. My friend just kept telling me how stupid I was and why I didn't see the cop. I told hiw to fvck off and asked him the same thing. We both laughed about it.
The cop finally returned, handed me my stuff and took out his ticket book. "I'm fining you for reckless driving", he told me. He handed me the ticket to sign, and gave me my copy.
So I ended up paying a $108 fine and got 3 points on my record. About 3 months later I got caught speeding and got 2 more points. It took me about a year to work up enough courage to go back up there. Now my record is totally clean again and it's nice paying lower insurance rates. But I gotta say the looks on those punk@ss ricer kids that night was totally worth the trouble.
