Have you ever been pulled over by the police while you were riding in a police car?

[NNN0LHI]

Used to have a good friend who was a detective for the Illinois States Attorney Office. His specialty was investigating corrupt police.

We were on the Illinois Tollway(I-294) heading up to the Great Lakes Naval Training base for a doings.

He was running late as usual and speeding as usual when we noticed the lights flashing behind us to pull us over. So we pulled over and sat there until the State Trooper approached the car. I could see right away this Trooper was really pissed off about something. His face was beet red as he approached our car.

We were in a plain Jane unmarked Ford Crown Victoria. No markings, no Municipal Plates, no visible antenna and no mars lights.

Well, this Trooper had run the plates of the car we were in before he approached our car. When the info came back to him it indicated that the address the car was registered to did not exist. The address was something like 109 West Armitage Avenue Chicago, IL 60614. Well the address for those plates were phony because this guy was deep undercover. If someone were to actually try to drive east on West Armitage looking for that address you would end up out in the middle of Lake Michigan somewhere.

The Trooper had figured this out with his GPS or something so he knew things weren't right with us. That kind of thing doesn't normally happen. That is why he so pissed off.

And being undercover my friend couldn't go into great detail about what was up. So my friend showed the Trooper his badge and ID and gave a phone number for the Trooper to call and everything would be explained to him. My friend never did show the Trooper his drivers licence. Trooper never even asked for it.

Trooper jotted some information down off my friends ID and went back to his car to make the call.

Few minutes later after making the call the Trooper walked back to our car and wished us a good day and that was the end of that.

I was sweating bullets until then. I was just about sure both me and my friend were going to be cuffed and stuffed into the back of that Troopers car.

What a day.

Don

[HopeHoops]

1. No. The only times I've been in a police car I deserved to be, well, except for one.

In my first job, one of our clients was a local cop. I rode in his car to go work on his computer (1981). Along the highway he said that there is pretty much only one kind of person you ever find hitchhiking - mental patients. He picked one up that he thought was an exception to the rule, seemed normal. He asked him why he left and the guy said, "they tried to force-feed me cucumbers." At that point he realized the general rule still reigned.