Vacation Karma Sighting

[RichS]

My family and I went up North to my parents to stay for the 4th of July holiday. About halfway there, I was passing a truck with a travel trailer on a long left curve on the expressway, doing the speed limit. I look behind me, and noticed a black Cadillac CTS gaining fast, so I completed passing the truck as fast as I could to let the Caddy zip by. He didn't even slow down in case I didn't complete the pass fast enough.

Unfortunately for him, at the end of the curve was a State Trooper in the emergency turnoff. The officer let the Caddy pass, switch on his lights, then pulled onto the expressway a little too fast - in his excitement, the trooper used too much power to do a 180 onto the expressway and smoked his right front tire a bit.

I slowed to let the trooper catch up to the Caddy, who was already in the act of pulling over. They eventually got stopped on the right shoulder.

It was nice seeing Karma at work - now for this to happen when I'm getting tailgated...

[EricKei]

I slowed to let the trooper catch up to the Caddy, who was already in the act of pulling over.

So...in other words, they knew damn well that they had been busted, and had earned the bust, no less. No excuse, there ^^

[slavetotheman]

Did his horn go beep-beep-beep?

[RichS]

So...in other words, they knew damn well that they had been busted, and had earned the bust, no less. No excuse, there ^^

Oh, yeah, he was caught - I was doing the speed limit (70), and he was closing on my bumper pretty quickly. That's what got me to notice him in my rear view mirror - he must've been doing 15+ over.

As soon as he passed by, the emergency turnoff appeared from the forest with the cop facing the direction of traffic.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Did his horn go beep-beep-beep?

You are thinking of Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler) (1958) by the Playmates, in which the Nash tried to pass a Cadillac.

The song in which the Caddy was doing the passing is Hot Rod Lincoln (1955) by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen. In this song the Caddy pulled over and the Hot Rod Lincoln got caught by the cops. The Hot Rod Lincoln was a Ford Model A with a Lincoln V-8 engine.

Hot Rod Lincoln was in response to Hot Rod Race (1950) by Arkie Shibley which involved a race between a Ford and a Mercury, but they both got shut down by a kid in a Model A.

[Shalom]

You are thinking of Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler) (1958) by the Playmates, in which the Nash tried to pass a Cadillac.

That version's missing the intro.

The song in which the Caddy was doing the passing is Hot Rod Lincoln (1955) by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen. In this song the Caddy pulled over and the Hot Rod Lincoln got caught by the cops. The Hot Rod Lincoln was a Ford Model A with a Lincoln V-8 engine..

It was a V-12 in the original. There's a picture of the car itself at here, but it wasn't built until some time after the song was recorded; what Charlie Ryan was actually driving in the incident depicted in the song was a 1941 Lincoln with the original body.

The version I remember is at here, with the legendary Joe Maphis on guitar.

(Of course Cadillac sedans of that era had a V-16.)

[Captain Trips]

Son, your gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.