Originally Posted by Tristor (Post 3249549)

As someone who has received many many many speeding tickets in my life (no need for more backstory than this) and have been to court for many of them,...………...

Originally Posted by Impureclient (Post 3249491)

Makes you wonder what the police would do if you pulled up their rear bumper like OP experienced. They'd probably just move over, even if they were blocked like the OP said he was, and just let you by. /S

If everything said so far is truthful, speeding up a little to let the jerk by shouldn't be a reason to throw the book at him. The more I think about how it went down, the more it seems like it was entrapment with the Charger being cop #2.

Some people may find this hard to believe but law enforcement actually do lie sometimes. I posted a few months back in here how I got pulled over for speeding. I got in my car with a pile of takeout food and watched a cop sitting in an
adjacent parking lot sitting there waiting. I watched him pull out after me as I very carefully watched my speed pulling out and the next mile I drove to not go over even 1 mph since it was clear what he was going to do. Then, the liar,
pulled me over saying I was speeding. Not even getting into all the other details of what happened in him looking for other things to find I did wrong, he then said he had another call to get to and rushed off letting me go.

There are bad apples that work as grocery baggers, hair dressers, garbage men, and certainly there are some that work in law enforcement. They just get a pass most of the time as grouchy or "seasoned" verterans that have been through
it all and firing a cop for doing a poor job/being a jerk is like getting a President impeached. I totally believe the OP and think he was either railroaded here on purpose or that cop just really sucks at his job.

Originally Posted by Tcoat (Post 3249212)

I would love to see one officially documented "scheme" such as this. They can catch plenty of speeders without baiting people. Just the timing required to have the other car up to speed in traffic while the cruiser came from the other direction would be quite a feat to pull off.

Originally Posted by ermax (Post 3249214)

The first thing that came to mind as reading his story was that the charger was a cop. I’ve see several stories of cops in unmarked cars riding ass trying to instigate a race. Seems borderline entrapment to me.

Originally Posted by Howaitoguru (Post 3249218)

Wouldn’t this be some form of entrapment though? Isn’t that illegal?


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Originally Posted by why? (Post 3249590)

They have a radio. They talk to each other. It is not about speeding, but reckless driving and racing. There are always plenty of cops on highways to actually write the ticket up. Where the other cop comes from isn't important. This is widely done and widely known to catch "street racing" everywhere. It is so common that up in Mass they have at least a half dozen cars people have actually identified are always police and they know the license plate numbers the police use. Baiting people into speeding is something undercover cops do as much as possible. Nothing new.



Complete entrapment. But that might not be illegal in all states.


Depends on state law. You are in Georgia, so it is probably totally legal.

Originally Posted by Tcoat (Post 3249591)

Yes they have a radio. If the cop car had been on the same side of the road then there could be a remote chance that it was planned. This scenario is just far too complicated to have been a planned trap even with communications. It would take split second timing to pull off as described.
It was just pure bad timing and dumb luck that got him caught.

Originally Posted by why? (Post 3249593)

There are plenty of cops on the highways....

Originally Posted by why? (Post 3249590)

Complete entrapment. But that might not be illegal in all states.

Depends on state law. You are in Georgia, so it is probably totally legal.

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze (Post 3249598)

Ummm... not trying to come over as an a$$hat but why didn't you just get back into the slow lane and let the tail-gating car pass?

Originally Posted by Howaitoguru (Post 3249606)

The slow lane was full and they didn’t leave enough opening to get over I even put my blinker on for a moment and tried to merge.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 3249609)

Overall, it sounds like you were stuck in a bad situation and it ended up poorly for you.



Probably not much else we can do to help you here other than the advice to lawyer up and have it handled that way.

Originally Posted by Howaitoguru (Post 3249612)

Yeah I found one already. $1000 he’s worked the court I’m going to. Knows the judge. Says he should get the reckless and racing dropped and I should end up with a speeding ticket

Originally Posted by why? (Post 3249593)

There are plenty of cops on the highways. I'm sure there was one a mile behind him and a mile in front. The guy on the other side just got lucky and hit it at the perfect time. Coincidences happen, and don't mean that is was planned or not.