Cops
 

Has anyone gotton pulled over for hypermillng. Im afraid when im doing 40 in a 60 that im gonna get pulled over for some b.s. reason. anyone else feel the same way?

no---but I have had cops follow me for awhile to make sure I wasn't drunk or something.....

Not yet...

Now that I'll jinx myself...

I think they are relaxed to see slower drivers. Unless you're driving erratically, then the target factor is reduced.

So, if you get pulled over, what kind of ticket could be expected?

But no, not yet...

I've been followed but thats about it

I've done 45mph in a 62 mph zone (it was an undivided highway) and a police cruiser passed me like I was driving normal. Even if they do signal you with their lights/siren, I don't think they can do anything in terms of a reprimand. I've also EOC'd right past police and even started my engine when the lights turned green right across from them. If they were to ask anything, I'd probably say that I'm scared of my car overheating.

yeah i was thinking they might say somthing about the eoc i guess not

Been followed, but not pulled over. I save my pig experiences for other moments.

https://miami.media.indypgh.org/uploa...structions.jpg
^Dealing with police resistance in an anti-coal demo in Key Biscayne^

https://repete.transcendentfilms.com/...l%202/09_9.JPG

That one isn't me. I'm the photographer, and got plenty of **** at that demo from the cops.

https://repete.transcendentfilms.com/...l%203/08_8.JPG

https://repete.transcendentfilms.com/...%206/10_10.JPG

Our nice friendly FBI agent watching over a demonstration against the Green Scare. Not once did he come down from the balcony and say hi. I went up to introduce myself, but for some reason three other cops came up behind me and made me leave after I took that picture.

Hockey4mnhs -

Not yet. Once, I have EOC'd passed a cop car driving in the other direction at night. His window was probably closed or maybe he'd noticed something. So far so good.

PS - I was thinking that if you had a really good recording of an engine sound and really good external speakers, you could "press a button" and the cop would hear a normal running engine. Hee hee hee ;) !

CarloSW2

Ive never been pulled over for hypermiling. I know lakedude over at green hybrid got pulled over. Cop thought he had a drunk I'm sure. Ive had them look at me funny tho. Here we have max and min. speed limits on a lot of the hwy's. On Hwy 75 its posted 65 mph max and 40 mph min. I rarely push the min. In my mind its just to slow. Its there for semi's and other large heavy hauling or towing rigs. I will at times let it roll down to say 50 mph. My normal speed is between 55 and 60.

I did get pulled over years ago by a Oklahoma State Trooper for going to slow.

Story time:

Years ago I had a slant 6 Duster. My first wife, myself and a very good friend of ours were going down interstate 40 heading east in eastern Oklahoma. My wife had some hearing problems but could feel everything. She told me the car was doing something funny. Sure enough I slowed back down to 55 mph. Speed limit was 55 back then. I heard it. It was throwing a rod. Big end was letting go. so here we are blasting down the hwy in the Duster, drinking beer, smoking weed at 3am in the morning and not a soul on the hwy. I pull into a truck stop,,, get some gear oil and put it in the old beast and we go on down the road. Im trying to get it home to Ft. Smith. The engine not worth a hoot to start with. It gets worse and worse. Im down to 35 mph and waiting for the rod to go thru the block. Only 20 miles form the house. Al;l the sudden the whole country side turned RED. Crap a Statie. Just at that moment Jimmy just open a OZ of weed to roll one of his huge Jimmy joints. He thru the weed all over the car. Beer cans laying all over the inside of the car and we each had one in our lap. Ok its jail time. He walks up I offer him a beer in jest as I brush bud off of me. Jimmy lays in the back seat laughing his arse off. The cop ask me to turn the car off. I tell him. If your going to take me to jail cool... The beer and weeds mine. Let them go,, but if I turn the car off it wont start again more than likely. He said it is making noise isnt it. Orders me out of the car. ( Here we go ),,, But no he brush's the bud outro the way and kicks a few beer cans around then starts rev'ing the crap out of my car. He's trying to blow it up. Then looks up at me and tells me its the wrist pin. Yes sir I answer. He then tells me to get to car on the old hwy and good luck getting it home. I was in shock. He moved on and I stayed on I-40. I wasnt going to get on the old hwy and mess with the hick fuzz in Muldrow, Roland and Moffett. I was going to make the Trooper arrest me if thats what it took to stay out of those places. The reason he pulled us over was because I was doing 35 mph when min limit was 40 mph. I did my best to keep it on the high side of 35 mph and we made it home. I'll never ever forget that night. Never

psy

Jesus Christ! I don't have anything to top that, but I've come close.

Here's another long story.

One night when I was a freshman in college, , my roommates a few friends and I go on a bender. We get completely hammered, half of us are completely stoned, then we decide that it's time to steal ****. We go out around college and start grabbing everything that isn't bolted down, but nothing that was actually worth anything. I grabbed a handicapped parking sign halfway across the campus and run back with it. By the time I got back to the dorm, everyone else had already brought loads in. We had traffic signs, cones (eventually we stole the entire UPD cache of cones), wood palettes, beach chairs, and a host odf other goodies that we grabbed just because we could. At the time, my friends and I were reading alot of Hunter S. Thompson. We unanimously decided to push it as far as we could, so we smoke a bowl of some great weed, grab a bottle of whiskey, and the six or so of us pile into the back of Andrew's Jeep to do some raids on the surrounding communities. We stole a few tiki men from an outlet mall, some lawn gnomes, and a newspaper box.

Well anyway, we get back to the campus completely smashed (I don't remember all of this, but most of it was on video), someone has to piss, so we stop next to an empty cop car to piss into the gas tank. We then key the ****er and throw the now empty whiskey bottle at the car as hard as we can cracking the windshield.

After this we precariously drove back to the dorm and start to unload. The hatch must have been open for two seconds when the cops arrive. We didn't even see them until they were about 100 feet away. Everyone splits with the newspaper box half in the trunk except Andrew. I turn around as I'm trying to discreetly stagger back to my dorm, and see Andrew flagging them down, and I'm thinking that he was selling us out to save his own skin.

We all made it back into the dorm room without any police trouble, and start looking out of the third floor window to see what's going on. The red and blue lights aren't on, but I see Andrew chatting with the cops. The cops then move the newspaper box in between the parking spaces so it's out of the way, wave to Andrew and then leave.

Andrew gets up to the dorm room and we naturally asked him what happened. He flagged the police down and told them that some crazy drunks were trying to put it under the rear wheels to try to block him in! In the mean time, the Jeep is obviously full of stolen goods and all of the newspapers from the newspaper box, and te trunk was open. Basically, there were alot of loose ends that the cops didn't see.

Unfortunately, some girl who was not invited to the party who we had to throw out earlier in the night was talking to the cops because she was wandering around ****-faced. In her drunken rambling conversation with the cops, they tell her about what happened, and she told them that it was us.

The cops came back later that night and took pictures through the rear window of the jeep of all of the stuff, and the next day, there were cops parked in the parking lot waiting for us. They were knocking on our door for two hours one day, and since we couldn't hide the stuff (too much of it), we chose to not answer the door as we were looking through online legal resources to see if we had the right to ignore them. Turns out that we did, so eventually he got bored and went back down to his car.

At that point, since Andrew is the only person they know was involved, he decided to go down and talk to them. They told him that they came back and took photos and that they were trying to get a warrant to search the dorm.

At that point, we knew that we were ****ed. The entrance to the dorms were all exposed to the outside air, so the cops could see our only exit from their parking spots. We couldn't get anything out, so we mobilized a distraction.

All around campus were these blue pillars with a button on them that will put you in immediate contact with the pigs. We got every friend we could to press the buttons on about 10 of them far from our dorm, making the cops leave for a potential emergency. This gave us enough time to get some of the stuff out and move our cars into the spots that the cops could see the dorm from.

The cops came back a few minutes later and got other spots in which they could still see the hallway, but not our dorm. This gave us enough space to go out the back with the stuff and walk along the beach about 1/4 mile to dump it in a secluded parking lot.

We got it all out under the eyes of the cops then put in an anonymous call about the stuff being dumped there.

The next day, the cops got their warrants. We had everyone involved bring their trash over and dump it on our floor so that the cops would need to sort through garbage in order to search the room.

It was so great. We became legends on campus after that.

At no point during this were any of us sober enough to legally drive.

lol those were the storys i was lookin for! iv gotton pulled over but it was for speeding 90 in a 65 ooops.

havent been puilled over but have been harassed by cops several times. followed alot, etc.

one time i turned onto a 4 lane highway and there was a local cop sittin on the shoulder (this was at 8pm) so i slowly accelerate past him because my exhaust is loud and didnt wanana get pulled over for that. so about a 1/4 down the road i gun it to get up speed and far away from him i see him turn on his headlights and mildly fast come up behind me keeping hsi didtance so im liek ok whatever. i was engien braking with my turnsignal on to get into a turn lane and he starts tailgating me. like extremely bad. i couldnt see his headlights he was that close. then he backs off then speeds up again then backs off. then flashes his highbeams at me several times, not his lights just his highbeams. so im waiting in the turnlane for the green arrow just waitign to get pulled over once i turn. he follows me for another 6 blocks still doing that speed up slow down thing as im putting along doing the speedlimit. so im getting quite nervous at this point so i just decide to turn into the kmart parking lot and go inside. so i find a parking spot and notice he just pulls up somewhat near the front entrance and turns off his headlights but leaves his parking lights on. so i just kinda quickly walk into kmart and when i came out about a half hour later he was gone. later that night i went over to a friends house and started checking to see if somehting was wrong on the rear of my truck as im checking all my lights i notice one of my tag lights is out ( i have2) and so i guess thats what the problem was. but if it really was the problem wouldnt you think he would either follow me and then casually tell me in the parking lot that one of my tag lights was out? instead of being a total **** about it? I even asked a friend of mine who is a cop and he said yes that would be considered police harassment.

funniest thign i did once tho was it was snow packled roads and i did a mildly big fishtail around a cornner to a grocery store parking lot entrace but keeping it under control and going slow and after i do it i notice a cop car behind me do the excat same thing so i was thinking uhoh now im in for it. so i just go find a parking spot but the cop just keeps going and parks and goes in to eat at subway. lol it was kinda funny to see.

When cops pull that **** on me, I have no qualms about approaching them on it. By law, they have to give you their badge number or name. Get that and file a complaint.