Easy enough question. I just got kidnapped by a bunch of morons creating a roadblock doing ~62 in a 65 because a marked patrol car (from a city PD in a completely different county) was just chilling in the slow lane.
I normally go a fair bit over the speed limit (Keeping up with traffic ) However, If an LEO is doing 10+ over the limit I won’t pass him as I’m not that ballsy. But if the guy isn’t even doing the limit?? Got me thinking what type of people drive like that. Wonder if the 3 lead cars had warrants?
People get scared when the see cops, even if they are doing no wrong.
Come around the corner on the Freeway and nothing but brake lights, just because a cop was sitting along side the Freeway already deal with someone else , the bad part was this whole group was doing the speed limit, before they saw the cop.
Just bc they are engaged, does not mean they will not leave and pick you up. Ask me how I know lol…Jeep wrangler without seatbelts, doors, mirrors, etc. I was rebuilding it for a friend in the Marines while he was deployed and had just got the axles and Trans back in. Taking it for a test drive. He had sympathy and let me go, but he sure wrapped up his ticket writing on his previous engagement to run into his car and whip around and blue light me!
I’ve talked to a lot of cops about this. And a lot of times they hate this too. I live south of Ft Worth and a lot of FWPD guys live in my town. When they try to get to work in the morning 15 minutes north, every car in front of, next to, or behind them will slow down. Effectively boxing them in as well.
I have no problem passing them. Do it all the time.
As for the cop laughing… Not always. Some are just jerks trolling.
I was on the interstate and a cop was doing 60 mph in a 75 mph…so everyone was doing like 62. When I finally got passed him and back in the right lane and got back to the posted speed limit he pulled me over. Why you ask. He said I was following the car in front of me too close. Right…
The ticket was well worth the look on his face when he asked me “So, you know why I pulled you over?”…my response was, “Just to meet the only person in the state of Texas that drives the posted speed limit?” He did not think it was funny. …I did :jester:
I passed an Ego-Trooper locked on 55 pulling a train. Set my cruise at +1 and he bullhorned me, “speed limit is 55.” But knowing MN progs, it may have well been a central planning directive across the metro. Like the saturation jaywalk ticketing occasionally downtown.
I hate driving a patrol car on the interstate (county guy) because of what everyone else has posted in this thread. I try to get to the fast lane as quickly as possible and stay there doing 5 over, unless I’m running code 3, until I reach my exit.
In my personal car, if a cop is driving under the limit I have no issue passing him.
This is a damned if you do damned if you don’t. I hate the people I work with that camp out in a lane right at the limit backing up everyone. I on the other hand jump in the left lane ASAP an cruise along at 15 over. I’ve gotten 2 complaints over the years from phone patrol complaining that my tag number was driving to fast. What do you do. David
Judging from the responses in this thread, you’re right. LE get hassled for going too slowly or too fast. Commuters get hassled for driving too slowly behind LE or risk a citation for passing over the limit. No one wins.
I’ll stick to about 5-7 over. On my normal AM commute I often see city police outta their jurisdiction and treat them like any other car, more often than not passing them so fast they can’t read my plate.
