On Wednesday, Patterson police say two of their officers got stuck in traffic while driving home.
At some point, while sitting in traffic, the officers spotted a vehicle with lights and sirens coming up behind them. The vehicle started to go around the traffic, but the driver apparently spotted a marked sheriff’s vehicle ahead – prompting the impersonator to try and pull back in.
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One of the guys I used to work with lived there in Patterson, and one day Mike came to work pissed off as hell. I mean, he was fucking hot. His oldest son had installed a red light on his sedan and had gotten arrested just a few hours before for trying to pull over a car out in the country to rob the occupants. Only problem was, it was an undercover cop car he pulled over.
He got a few years for impersonating a cop, attempted robbery, possession of a stolen gun and drugs.
Good thing for him he did not get his dick knocked in the dirt.
ReplyDeleteFor years I drove a white Crown Vic, which I bought at city auction when the Police force retired the vehicle. Many, many times, driving at the speed limit on the highway, cars would race up behind me and suddenly slow down. I worked at a Toot 'n Totum in Amarillo for about a year and customers would ask me if I was working undercover. That car had absolutely no markings, but it projected a cop car aura.
ReplyDeleteA Mexican guy I worked with did the same. I asked how the car ran and he said 'Great, but it's a pain in the ass because people would see those distinctive headlights in their rear view mirror and slow down to the speed limit.'
DeleteHe couldn't go anywhere in a hurry.
Buddy Bill had a Fury III (yeah, long time ago). We could drop down onto the interstate and hear the truckers on the CB reporting "a plain wrapper south bound exit 74."
ReplyDeleteBack around 1963 my buddy's dad bought two Texas Highway patrol cars used. My buddy got the Dodge and the only indication that it was a cop car was the spotlight on the drivers windshield post.
ReplyDeleteIn those days a car like that would pull a perp over just by putting an reddish-amber lens over the spot light. The cop cars then didn't look like a flashing seizure-causer like they do now.
On a Friday or Saturday night we would take a loaf of wheat bread and throw the bread away and save the amber wrapper, put it over the spot light tied down with a rubber band and then go cruising the back roads. We would spot some car weaving all over the road and then slowly come behind them, flash our brights on and off a time or two then flash the spot light with the amber bread wrapper aimed right at the driver's rear view mirrors. PO drunk fuck would sling his car to the right and about half the time go down in a steep bar ditch. He or she would have to sit there all night until some morning county patrol would come by looking for any vehicle problems. We would pray for these people.