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It was quite sad actually. Cherry picked on a highway, I was following 2 cruisers. All 3 of us got pulled over, and the cop said to the 2 cruisers, "Okay you 2 are free to go." WTF? I guess if you're riding a red sport bike you're automatically guilty. If you get caught going 40km/h over the speed limit you get impounded for 7 days, pretty stupid rule as your basic rights are violated on the side of the road. You cannot dispute the impound.
That being said a few weeks ago myself and 2 friends went riding early on a Saturday morning, we go early to avoid cops and traffic. So around 8am, back roads, we pass a ghost SUV cop traveling the opposite direction at 130 in a 60 zone. The guy leading, and myself second, take off. We hit the highway, and just gun it, we're going 240+ at this point. About a kilometre up the road we turn down this little side street. The last guy in the group was playing catch up. He rolls in 30 seconds later, with the cop on his tail.
So the cop gives us an earful, asks us WTF we were doing. Friend says "We're just out having some fun." Then I chime in, "I think a little too much fun." So more lectures, then says he's going to run all of our records and wants to know what he's going to find. "Just speeding tickets from 3-4 years ago." So cop goes and sits in his SUV for 15 minutes, during that time more cops show up. So now we think we're getting impounded for sure. Cop comes back and says, "I looked you guys up, you were right, speeding tickets few years prior. So we're going to be handing out some pretty big speeding tickets today, we should be impounding your bikes" blah blah blah. He writes out the tickets, we all got $196 tickets! That's one of the lowest where we are, we were all STUNNED. We should have ended up in jail. The cop didn't even say anything about us trying to run from him.
We got off seriously lucky that day, horseshoe up our ..... for sure.
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