"Come Race Me Bro" Encounters

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Teseo

I tought this happen in the place i live, seems this a MO for the police and i bet in canada
theyre underpaid too

No the police here are very well paid.
This isn't really even a "new" tactic for them as back in the 70s they had some old Dodge Darts that they would use as radar cars on the side of the highway. They would tag you with them and then a marked cruiser would pull you over.
It does make good sense to use the resources you already have. Once they clock a few hundred thousand miles they just send the cars to auction so they still make even more money from them.
They do buy purpose built cars as well but since the Crown Vic is gone they are usually one of several different makes/models.

[Teseo]

"Mine's" doesnt give a crap until spoted something like Porsche, Lexus etc.
My car its orange, i hope those bastards dont think my car its a "exotic" or expensive.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Teseo

"Mine's" doesnt give a crap until spoted something like Porsche, Lexus etc.
My car its orange, i hope those bastards dont think my car its a "exotic" or expensive.

Mine too and so far they have left me pretty much alone.

[ImBatman]

On a major freeway last night, an older Chevy Silverado that was lowered with blacked out 22's pulled up next to me, hesitated, and then gassed it. Now when I say gassed it, I don't mean he took off and left me in his dust. He hit the throttle and he either had a muffler delete or had just had his exhaust system fall off because this thing was crazy loud, but he didn't go anywhere. He just barely started creeping ahead of me. He waited for me to catch up (I stayed the same speed the entire time BTW) and then he "floored it" again.

Now I was getting a good laugh out of all of this, and for a second, the high-school version of me wanted to smoke him just because he was one of the few on the highway that I could pull away from... BUT, I had just been at TopGolf and consumed a few beers (still under the legal limit) so I decided that it probably wasn't a very good idea to give the 5-0 any reason to give me a hard time, no matter how tempting a W in my FRS was.

My intuition paid off because we topped the next hill and a state trooper was posted on the side of the highway just waiting for someone to be doing exactly what we almost did. The Silverado slammed on his brakes to avoid being obvious apparently and I went on my merry way to escape the long arm yet again.

I'm pretty sure this guy was driving the Silverado:

[ame]http://youtu.be/UfHtcUZXljw[/ame]

[LucidMomentum]

I haven't had any major issues with law enforcement, even with the third brake light being relocated and the different badges.

However, I'll often run into passive aggressive racers who will try to cut me off or speed up to catch up to me. I think it has something to do with the TRD exhaust and how it sounds loud even when I'm at 2k RPM.

[Hydaral]

Originally Posted by Kiske

The local PD has 2 dark blue unmarked 2013 mustang gt for this purpose. The only give-a-way is the rear plates. Even the lights are all hidden behind the grilles. I wan't to say the windows are blacked out (darker than the legal limit) but, I haven't seen them in the day time.

I wonder if they have any problems with people claiming entrapment?

[tahdizzle]

Originally Posted by Hydaral

I wonder if they have any problems with people claiming entrapment?

Its not entrapment. Unless the cops are instigating street races.

If you are next to a car and you try to get that person to race you. That is all one sided.

Besides they get away with it in prostitution, so why not street racing? :P

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

Its not entrapment. Unless the cops are instigating street races.

If you are next to a car and you try to get that person to race you. That is all one sided.

Besides they get away with it in prostitution, so why not street racing? :P

Also drug deals, bait cars (for theft) and just about any other "sting" type operation.
No idea about the States but here the only way it would be entrapment is if they actually said something like "Lets race".

[Hydaral]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

Its not entrapment. Unless the cops are instigating street races.

If you are next to a car and you try to get that person to race you. That is all one sided.

Besides they get away with it in prostitution, so why not street racing? :P

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Also drug deals, bait cars (for theft) and just about any other "sting" type operation.
No idea about the States but here the only way it would be entrapment is if they actually said something like "Lets race".

I thought that's what they were doing, driving up next to a mark and revving, or whatever it is they do, this basically means "let's race" in street racing circles, no?

And as for the prostitution thing, as I understood it, the UCs don't actually solicit the mark, they wait for the mark to approach the UC.

I can't say I've had much experience with either.

[tahdizzle]

Originally Posted by Hydaral

I thought that's what they were doing, driving up next to a mark and revving, or whatever it is they do, this basically means "let's race" in street racing circles, no?

And as for the prostitution thing, as I understood it, the UCs don't actually solicit the mark, they wait for the mark to approach the UC.

I can't say I've had much experience with either.

I think they are doing pretty much the same thing with the prostitution. Drive around in a mustang, at a stop light some idiot revs on them, they may or may not rev back (dunno, never done something like that) and as soon as you take off WHAMMY!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Hydaral

I thought that's what they were doing, driving up next to a mark and revving, or whatever it is they do, this basically means "let's race" in street racing circles, no?

And as for the prostitution thing, as I understood it, the UCs don't actually solicit the mark, they wait for the mark to approach the UC.

I can't say I've had much experience with either.

Basically doing actions that could be interpreted as "let's race" is not the same as saying "let's race".

[tahdizzle]

Sometimes I rev my BRZ at a stop light, because I think I heared something wonkie. Not trying to race anyone :p

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

Sometimes I rev my BRZ at a stop light, because I think I heared something wonkie. Not trying to race anyone :p

I have now had 4 what I thought at the time were "Come race me" experiences where I actually met the other person after the event (the one crash is included on this thread someplace back in the past).
Every single one of them said they either just wanted to hear my exhaust or were jockeying to get a better look at the car. None were looking to race.
I have to wonder just how many other "they tried to race me" stories were exactly the same scenario.
Mind you I have had more then my share that were certainly trying to entice me to race as well!

[brandonblt2]

Had a few come race me bro experiences one was last week a guy in a lifted truck came flying behind me on the highway while I was in the slow lane so I moved over to the fast lane and sped up a bit. I guess he took this as a challenge so he dropped a gear and continually sped up and slow down for like 2 minutes trying to get me to race him. Finally he realized he was not worth my time and sped off lol