Dear Colorado Police Officers,

[st.cronin]

Will you PLEASE stop pulling up behind me, turning on your blue and red lights for a few seconds, as if to test them, and then turn them off, and drive on by. It is extremely disorienting.

[miami_fan]

Isn't that a warning that you may be speeding? I know the cops in Florida do that on occasion.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Isn't that a warning that you may be speeding? I know the cops in Florida do that on occasion.

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

Granny.

[Subby]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

Will you PLEASE stop pulling up behind me, turning on your blue and red lights for a few seconds, as if to test them, and then turn them off, and drive on by. It is extremely disorienting.

They are just alerting everyone else that you are a goober.

[Mustang]

"I've got the old cruise control set on 35"

[Butter]

I bet for a snack you have a slice of white bread and a glass of water for dippin'.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

They are telling you to speed up, gramps.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Mustang

"I've got the old cruise control set on 35"

Come on Gilbert, let's go to college!

[Desnudo]

Designated Drivers: The Lifesaving Nerds

[rkmsuf]

You ever try and drive exactly 55 or less on an open highway? It's amazingly difficult.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

You know my wife does the same thing. And she's a girl.

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

You ever try and drive exactly 55 or less on an open highway? It's amazingly difficult.

I can't drive 55

[st.cronin]

The speed limit on the interstate in Colorado is 75, bitches. Eat my dust.

[gkb]

I live in Colorado and this actually happened to me the other day (around 136th & Colorado in Thornton). My wife immediately accused me of speeding, but I wasn't. I have no idea what the cop was doing...

[ScottVib]

he just wanted you to pull over so he could pass

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

Will you PLEASE stop pulling up behind me, turning on your blue and red lights for a few seconds, as if to test them, and then turn them off, and drive on by. It is extremely disorienting.

Originally Posted by gkb

I live in Colorado and this actually happened to me the other day (around 136th & Colorado in Thornton). My wife immediately accused me of speeding, but I wasn't. I have no idea what the cop was doing...

Do any of these officers look at all familiar to either of you?

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

The speed limit on the interstate in Colorado is 75, bitches. Eat my dust.

I think I saw you pulled over near Denver. Don't tell me you can get it up to 75.

[gottimd]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I can't drive 55

[Bee]

The other day on the Fairfax County Parkway, I saw a cop sitting at a light and he didn't get a green light during his cycle for some reason so he just turned on his blue lights and ran the red in front of me. I think we all should have blue lights...

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by gottimd

It took me 16 hours to get to LA!

[Franklinnoble]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3bviTxWb1...t%20drive%2055

[Franklinnoble]

I can't believe Sammy Hagar's jumpsuit in that video. Nor can I believe he hasn't sued to get it removed from youtube.

[Desnudo]

I've always wanted to be able to run up a wall into a flip.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I think I saw you pulled over near Denver. Don't tell me you can get it up to 75.

That's not mine. Mine's the one with action shots of Tom Brady all over it.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Speed limits, like most traffic laws are merely suggestions.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

That's not mine. Mine's the one with action shots of Tom Brady all over it.

Better to have Tom Brady's 'action shots' all over your van than on your face...

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Better to have Tom Brady's 'action shots' all over your van than on your face...

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[st.cronin]

This thread has gone from bad to worse. I'm thinking about deleting it now.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

Speed limits, like most traffic laws are merely suggestions.

if you have tits

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by Farrah Whitworth-Rahn

Speed limits, like most traffic laws are merely suggestions.

I like fast cars and fast woman

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

This thread has gone from bad to worse. I'm thinking about deleting it now.

I think you have things reversed. You should be proud at your ability to spawn threads like these.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I like fast cars and fast woman

and tits

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

I think you have things reversed. You should be proud at your ability to spawn threads like these.

Well, all this talk about "fast women" is encouraging, although "fast cars" still make me nervous. By the way, it was 110 degrees in North Dakota this weekend. No joke.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

This thread has gone from bad to worse. I'm thinking about deleting it now.

Oh, come on... the Sammy Hagar video wasn't THAT bad...

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

if you have tits

Yes, well they do come in handy once in a while.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

Will you PLEASE stop pulling up behind me, turning on your blue and red lights for a few seconds, as if to test them, and then turn them off, and drive on by. It is extremely disorienting.

Do the schnozberries taste like schnozberries?

[HomerSimpson]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

And, let me guess, you also like to drive in the left lane on the highway. I can see you now driving in the left lane with your right turn signal on all the way home.


God, I hate Goobers that insist on driving in the left lane everywhere they go.

[Flasch186]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

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misspelled

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson

And, let me guess, you also like to drive in the left lane on the highway. I can see you now driving in the left lane with your right turn signal on all the way home.


God, I hate Goobers that insist on driving in the left lane everywhere they go.

Actually my habit is to always stay as far right as possible. I distinctly remember my drivers ed instructor telling me that radar gun readings were always lower in the right lane, because of something to do with trigonometry and vectors. I'm now pretty sure he was full of shit, but it's still my habit.

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

Well, all this talk about "fast women" is encouraging, although "fast cars" still make me nervous. By the way, it was 110 degrees in North Dakota this weekend. No joke.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

You ever try and drive exactly 55 or less on an open highway? It's amazingly difficult.

I don't find it difficult at all. Then again, when you have a car that sucks so bad that 55-60 is as fast as it will go without shaking like crazy, it tends to make that easier.

I can get it to 65 going downhill, though.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by sabotai

I don't find it difficult at all. Then again, when you have a car that sucks so bad that 55-60 is as fast as it will go without shaking like crazy, it tends to make that easier.

I can get it to 65 going downhill, though.

Ahh.. memories.. I had one like that..

In the summer months you also had to turn the heat on full blast so that it would not overheat.... hopefully...

[Toddzilla]

In before the deletion

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I never heard of that, and I wasn't speeding. On highways I stay right at the speed limit (not 5 or 10 miles over like some people) and put my car on cruise control.

Perhaps they were letting you know you'd missed the turn to Country Kitchen Buffet.

[SackAttack]

Speaking of goobers. Driving home today, traffic turning left onto Balboa was amazingly backed up. Through traffic was okay, it was the left turn lane that was backed up. As I get up to the light with one car in front of me, a pickup truck containing what I can only assume were illegal aliens zipped up the right side and turned left from a straight-ahead-only lane to cut off the car in front of me, which was in the process of making a LEGAL left turn.

The breathtaking stupidity didn't end there. They continued down Balboa - which is pretty brief on that particular stretch - in the right hand of two lanes, and cut off another vehicle turning left at the bottom of the hill, again from the far right lane cutting to the inside.

The difference? The first left turn, you either turn left or go straight. Turning left from that straight lane is illegal.

The second left turn, the left lane is left-turn only and turns into the inside lane. The right hand lane allows both left- and right-hand turns, and left-hand turns have their own lane. While the first cut-off was sort of understandable, if gooberish, there was really no good reason for the driver to cut off the person turning left at the second light, particularly since he had a legal left turn open to him.

Yes, I'm stereotyping with regards to the 'illegal alien' bit, but the occupants were Mexican, had lawn equipment in the back, and were driving with either reckless disregard for the rules of the road, or utter ignorance of them.

I will concede, however, that the possibility exists (however unlikely) that they may have been perfectly legal citizens with just a particularly high level of gooberishness.

However, considering I've been down that road too many times to count over the last half-decade and seen a ton of gooberish behavior that doesn't remotely compare to today's events - I'm going to go with 'illegal aliens' on that one. I mean, licensed California drivers are bad enough, but I've never seen them THAT bad.

[RPI-Fan]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Speaking of goobers. Driving home today, traffic turning left onto Balboa was amazingly backed up. Through traffic was okay, it was the left turn lane that was backed up. As I get up to the light with one car in front of me, a pickup truck containing what I can only assume were illegal aliens zipped up the right side and turned left from a straight-ahead-only lane to cut off the car in front of me, which was in the process of making a LEGAL left turn.

The breathtaking stupidity didn't end there. They continued down Balboa - which is pretty brief on that particular stretch - in the right hand of two lanes, and cut off another vehicle turning left at the bottom of the hill, again from the far right lane cutting to the inside.

The difference? The first left turn, you either turn left or go straight. Turning left from that straight lane is illegal.

The second left turn, the left lane is left-turn only and turns into the inside lane. The right hand lane allows both left- and right-hand turns, and left-hand turns have their own lane. While the first cut-off was sort of understandable, if gooberish, there was really no good reason for the driver to cut off the person turning left at the second light, particularly since he had a legal left turn open to him.

Yes, I'm stereotyping with regards to the 'illegal alien' bit, but the occupants were Mexican, had lawn equipment in the back, and were driving with either reckless disregard for the rules of the road, or utter ignorance of them.

I will concede, however, that the possibility exists (however unlikely) that they may have been perfectly legal citizens with just a particularly high level of gooberishness.

However, considering I've been down that road too many times to count over the last half-decade and seen a ton of gooberish behavior that doesn't remotely compare to today's events - I'm going to go with 'illegal aliens' on that one. I mean, licensed California drivers are bad enough, but I've never seen them THAT bad.

Why not just tell the story, using the word "people" instead of "illegal aliens"??

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by RPI-Fan

Why not just tell the story, using the word "people" instead of "illegal aliens"??

a) That's what I believe them to be. What, I'm going to substitute another word so that people who are breaking the law don't get their feelings hurt?

b) I can occasionally be swayed on matters of political correctness. Not often, and not easily, and especially not when the term in question is purely political.

c) If I WERE to refrain from "illegal aliens," I'd have to call them dipshits, because that's how they were behaving. Either their behavior on the roads is directly derived from their legal status here (i.e., if they're illegal they can't get a license without breaking additional law), or they're driving in such a way as to know full well that they're breaking the law and just don't give a shit. Frankly, I think I'm actually being nice in what I'm calling them if that's the case.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

c) If I WERE to refrain from "illegal aliens," I'd have to call them dipshits, because that's how they were behaving. Either their behavior on the roads is directly derived from their legal status here (i.e., if they're illegal they can't get a license without breaking additional law), or they're driving in such a way as to know full well that they're breaking the law and just don't give a shit. Frankly, I think I'm actually being nice in what I'm calling them if that's the case.

I would have gone with dipshits. No reason to mention the "illegal aliens" part because it doesn't seem relevant to the story.

Balboa can really suck, at just about any point along it. I'm not surprised there are big traffic issues there (goobers aside).

[Desnudo]

Let's not hijack a thread with potential please. That story has nothing to do with the police, fast cars, fast women, tits, or Tom Brady.