-Starker
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Your Tuesday Morning Florida Report
A South Florida woman was arrested after she was caught driving a vehicle resembling a Florida Highway Patrol unit along the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County, and she gave troopers a strange reason why she chose the colors of the law enforcement agency, authorities said.
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She's gonna love orange...
ReplyDeleteYa mean if I have a Dodge Charger I can't have it painted 2-tone B&W with my company's name on the side? Where's our 1st amendment rite
ReplyDeleteStarker here, the link gets a server 500 error. Here is another link.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wflx.com/2023/10/16/south-florida-woman-caught-driving-car-resembling-fhp-cruiser/
Thanks. I upgraded the story and the link.
DeleteThe original link worked fine (obviously) when I scheduled the post.
Well I have no desire to have my vehicle look like a cop car, don't want to give my friends a heart attack when I pull in their driveways, but I would think the light bar on the top is more of a problem than the color scheme.. I'm not stopping because of a color scheme, I'm stopping because of those damn lights they love so much..
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Both of my cars are ex cop cars. One was a county sheriff's department DARE car (confiscated civilian Honda). All markings and emergency equipment were removed before sale. The other was an unmarked detective administrative car (Taurus, bought new by the department, not used for patrol). Both were in solid factory colors. At the time the SO used a common shade of green for its vehicles, and the detective car is silver. No two tone paint jobs.
ReplyDeleteI knew a guy that bought a blue Crown Vic at an auction, still had the cop spotlight on the driver's side, but everything else was stripped off. Chuey said buying that car was a fucking mistake. He couldn't get anywhere on time because as soon as anybody saw that cop car profile or the headlight pattern in their rear view mirror, they'd immediately slow down to the speed limit.
DeleteNo kidding, everyone who was driving in the 80's recognized both the headlights and tail lights of a Crown Vic.
DeleteStanislaus County SO and Modesto PD were still driving them up until the early 2000s, maybe 2010.
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