Chris Weekly: Reports are that you were stopped by John Q. Law on 64 E en route to Chris: There’s nothing I’d rather do.
So, we’re on I-64 heading east just outside
As we continue on down the highway, an older model Japanese car with a missing headlight blows by us doing 80+ and changing lanes like crazy. We figure that the cop will be along to pull this guy over because we had just passed the trap. So the cop does come along but gets behind me and pulls us over! We never even got out of the left lane and you can be sure I dropped my speed back to 70 after passing him.
He gets out almost immediately and I have my window open ready to give him my license. First he asks if I know why he pulled me over. I’m like, “Because I was going 70 or just a mile or two over?” And he says, I clocked you at 83. We’re both like, “WHAT?!?! We just got this car and this is the first time I’ve used the cruise control, but I can assure you we were in the right lane and nowhere close to 75 much less 83.” He then walks to the front of the car and looks at the front plate but more importantly, the lights. He asks if I have my high beams on. I say no.
At that point he must have realized his mistake because we also mentioned how an older model silver car with one headlight passed us like a madman and he was really cool from that point. Just said that he had to run my license and if nothing came up we’d be on our way. He goes back to the car and a minute later comes back and says we’re good to go and be careful pulling out. I was calm but deep down sweating it bad. Makes you think; you can be adhering to the law and still get pulled! Needless to say I pulled out “safely.”
CW: Anything good come out of it?
Chris: Yeah, at least I got to use the turbo and accelerate like hell out of there. Safely.
1 comment:
Chris,
way to keep your cool in the face of a potentially dangerous situation. Way to keep calm and infrom the officer of the speedster that whipped by you without even a thought. Very impressive work.
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