I just don't pace. I let then go and then resume my speed. I would have to say you have some killer luck.

 

yea,,, i dont know if id follow him up to 120! haha

 

yeah a cop flashed his lights at me for "pacing" him at 60 in a 45...i was more or less actually tail-gaiting him..

 

haha,, tailgating, pacing... whatever

 

right.

i also have heard that they are supposed to have their emergency lights on anytime they violate a traffic law though. at any point they dont have the emerg light on while committing a traffic offense, they are subject to the law as well. i saw that on court tv once on some show, dont remember, but it was pretty recent. they were talking about stop lights in specific, so im not sure if it applies to speeding as well without lights.

very rarely do you see a cop here with their lights on responding to calls. only when they pull people over. if you see a cop with his lights on and responding to a call, you know something is up, and there is typically a few others right behind the first.

 

in Texas MARKED patrol cars do not have to follow the vehicle code, the reason they dont put their lights on 9 times out of 10 is when everyone see's red and blues the first thing they do is slam on the brakes. i was a Jailer for 3 years and rode with cops on patrol often, believe it or not you can actually get to a call faster by NOT using your lights or sirens. The only time they really use them now is when in a high speed pursuit, entering intersections or when lots of traffic is around ( i.e. freeway, expressway, etc) i didnt believe it either till i rode with the guys and one night we had to go to the same location 2x, the first time we used red and blues (fight in progress, weapons involved) and it took us 8 min at 120+ to get there (constantly had to slam on the brakes due to people we ran up on slamming on the brakes). (its a rural county, large area low pop density.) 2nd time just plain fight from the SAME location (running RADAR) it took us 4 min with no lights to get there. (people moved over when they saw us coming or we just went around them, no one slamming on brakes)

 

Fayetteville, the local police here are complete ********. Usually the troopers are fairly cool.









I wasn't really paying attention to how fast we where going I just maintained about 20 yards behind him.

 

hahaha, yep. Wait, am I allowed to use common sense here?

 

I'm sure there's some embellishment for a better story .. if not, you really don't notice a difference between avg. 60 to 80 cruising and when you're doing 120 mph !??!?
the wind force alone anything over 100 ... well i'll stop now as i'm bored of typing lol

 

Yeah I know what the wind feels like at over a hundred. Thus the reason I slowed down when I looked down to find out how fast we where going.