Early Morning Karma Is A Thing of Beauty

[BrenDAnn]

My entire day was made on the way to work this morning! It was around 5:45 AM, still dark. I caught up to the vehicle in front of me, and slowed to a safe following distance. Next thing I know, the car behind me decides to pass me. The following sequence then happened:

1) Jackass passes me, and the vehicle in front of me
2) Jackass damn near has a head-on collision with a car in the oncoming lane
3) Vehicle in front of me slows to let Jackass get in front of him
4) Vehicle in front of me immediately then turns on the red & blue lights, and pulls Jackass over.

Yup. Jackass passed one of our county's finest, and came very close to a head-on collision in the process. Oh, how I laughed as I watched Jackass being pulled over. Sweet, sweet Karma! Usually, the cops aren't around when you need them. I'm still smiling because of seeing Jackass getting served... by his own stupidity. Truly, it was a thing of beauty!

[retro]

I had something similar a few years ago and it put a massive smile on my face for the rest of my drive.

I've just pulled into the fast lane of a UK dual carriageway. I'm going faster than the cars in the slow lane but not breaking the speed limit. There's cars in the slow lane as far as I can see.

Suddenly BMW idiot steams up to my back bumper and starts flashing his headlights. Yeah sorry mate I'm not going anywhere. I can't go faster because I'm at the limit and I can't go into the slow lane because it's full of cars. So of course I do what I always do when faced by an aggressive tail-gater. I ease off the accelerator.

Anyway, I glance in the mirror just long enough to see another car start tailgating the BMW... and turn his blue lights on.

Both cars drop back behind the cars in the slow lane and into the hard shoulder. The last I saw in my mirror was both cars coming to a stop. Ah sweet karma.

[An Haddock]

Yup. Jackass passed one of our county's finest, and came very close to a head-on collision in the process. Oh, how I laughed as I watched Jackass being pulled over. Sweet, sweet Karma! Usually, the cops aren't around when you need them. I'm still smiling because of seeing Jackass getting served... by his own stupidity. Truly, it was a thing of beauty!

Had a similar experience I posted about some time ago... guy decided me and the guy in front of me were going too slow (read: the speed limit) and decided to illegally pass us, crossing over a double yellow line to do it.

He quickly became aware that the unmarked SUV behind me was the town's police chief.

[Jay 2K Winger]

One time I was coming back from Otakon in Baltimore with my GF and we saw this guy zooming along on the highway heading out of the city. Another car comes creeping up alongside us, then goes creeping up behind Mr. Speedy. And then, boom, flashing lights go on.

GF and I shared a good laugh about that.

[Crossbow]

It's always so much fun to see that.

Once I was heading to work on the highway with a local police cruiser ahead of me. Needless to say, I was doing the speed limit and giving him enough space. I figured he was on his way to the station for shift change (about the right time for it).

I happend to look in the mirror and saw a little sport coupe come flying up the left lane, blasting past the rest of traffic. Since I'm driving an SUV, he had no idea there was a cop in front of me. He flew past both of us and the red-and-blues went on almost immediately.

I had a smile on my face the rest of the day.

[MadonnaC]

My story comes from when I lived in Indiana. The town I lived in has 4 lane one way system leading in and out of downtown (4 lanes in on Main Street, 4 lanes out on Not Quite Main Street). We were driving fairly slowly in the 2nd from the right, as the lights had just changed from the previous set, and the ones in front of us at the next block were red.

As the lights change to green, the person in the rightmost lane decided he needs to turn left, and does so, straight across the front of my car. I step on the brakes heavily to avoid the T-bone, and I hear another vehicle behind me doing the same maneuver. This vehicle pulls out and to to left of us, and is able to see the reason for my hasty stop.

On come the lights

I didn't stay to see the aftermath, but it did put a smile on my face

[Ben_Who]

I passed the same car hauled up in the breakdown lane twice for speeding.

Road trip in Indiana. This living stereotype in a white convertible harasses me for about a quarter mile, obviously dissatisfied with my speed, before blowing by me with NASCAR rapidity at the first opportunity. A few minutes later, I saw her hauled up in front of a cop.

About a half hour after that, she blows by me again, just as fast if not faster. A few minutes later, there she was a second time, sitting in the breakdown lane, a cop standing beside her. She was staring at the steering wheel with a look I can only describe as "murderous."

Comedy gold.

[Argabarga]

The most boneheaded move I ever saw a guy like that pull was once along a two-lane one way street here in town. He was pulled up a stop light in the rightmost lane.

The light changes, and he suddenly cuts across the leftmost lane and goes down the sidestreet without flasher or anything.....

Somehow, he didn't notice the second car in line immediately behind him was a cop.

There was a ten second or so delay before the lights came on and he followed the guy down the side and pulled him over.

I can only assume the delay was because the cop was dumbstruck that the idiot had just done that..... right in front of him.

[EricKei]

I can only assume the delay was because the cop was dumbstruck that the idiot had just done that..... right in front of him.

A relative of mine who shall go unnamed once got to spend a night sobering up in the grey bar hotel after he left a tavern for the evening and crossed 3 lanes of a street with no turn signal...right in front of a line of cop cars who were waiting outside because they knew it was closing time >_>

[Canadian In Maine]

I passed the same car hauled up in the breakdown lane twice for speeding.

Road trip in Indiana. This living stereotype in a white convertible harasses me for about a quarter mile, obviously dissatisfied with my speed, before blowing by me with NASCAR rapidity at the first opportunity. A few minutes later, I saw her hauled up in front of a cop.

About a half hour after that, she blows by me again, just as fast if not faster. A few minutes later, there she was a second time, sitting in the breakdown lane, a cop standing beside her. She was staring at the steering wheel with a look I can only describe as "murderous."

Comedy gold.

My god, that must be the same bleach blonde bimbo in a white convertible that tailgated me and the hubby one day on our way home from work in Ellsworth, Maine.

She finally zoomed past us, giving the stink eye as she went. A little further up we passed her on the side of the road as the state trooper was approaching her vehicle.

I gave her the stink eye back and the middle finger for dessert. Out of state tourist clearly in a hurry to get nowhere.

[dalesys]

... as the state trooper was approaching her vehicle...

Objects Officers in Mirror are Larger than They Appear.

[cashierbex]

Always beat up trucks with me. One guy on the highway at 1 am was tailgating me. We were the only two vehicals on the road. He finally drove past me at about 90 mph (speed limit is around 70). Got pulled over by a cop that was hiding in the median.

Another one was in what we call Amish town. Speed limit is 30. There is no real place for cops to hide except in plain sight. There was a guy tailgating me in his truck. He then passes me and gets caught by the cops.

In this same area I was getting food. I passed a cop giving someone a ticket. I come back around to go to my then girlfriend's store the same cop was giving someone else a ticket. I come back in the same area to head home and same cop, different person getting a ticket. He works fast, I gotta say.

[Parrothead]

I was driving home from my grandparents place last summer (VA to GA) and I was on a little two lane each way highway that occasionally stops being a highway and serves as the main drag for a small town, so the speed limit goes from 55 to 35 with stoplights. Well, the limit changes are well marked, and I see one up ahead, so I start slowing down. Now, it's about 8 in the morning on a Saturday in August, so I've pretty much got the road to myself.

Well, there was a minivan I'd been seeing for a bit (I'd pass them, they'd pass me) and apparently, I pissed the driver off when I started braking to hit the new speed limit (I was going a bit over the posted limit before this there is nothing wrong with going 85 in a 55, dammit) and I knew that it was tourist season, so the cops were out in force, so I'm going slightly under the posted limit in the towns. Minivan behind me thinks I'm being a pussy, so passes me and goes roaring off over a hill.


When I get over the hill, there is our friend the minivan getting a ticket from the local constabulary. I giggled all the way to I-85.

[wolfie]

In response to OP's event, I wonder how many cops out "fishing" see a "billboard" (vehicle that's hard to see past) driving close to the limit, pass it, and match its speed, hoping that someone not seeing THEM will blow past the "billboard" at well over the limit.

[Argabarga]

Had a cop stop in heavy traffic to let me out of an alley the other morning. Thanks, well, kinda, now that I'm IN FRONT OF HIM it's DMV rules brush-up time. Come to a COMPLETE STOP at every ..... single...... stopsign......................... *sigh*.

Anyway, a couple blocks later, I pull up to a red traffic light and note the cop has peeled off into the right-turn lane next to me. In front of us, is a grey pickup, with his right turn signal on...

One slight problem with that, there's a BIG sign on the traffic light's post that says "NO TURN ON RED"

The pickup is watching for a hole in the cross-traffic, and apparently doesn't notice the cop right behind him

Until he turned right

He noticed the cop then, because he had his blue lights a-flashin' as he followed him out and pulled him over......

PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!