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Speed limit on the interstate is 65. In the left lane, cars usually travel 70-85. Now, yes this is speeding but it's the standard.
So anyway, we're driving and we notice a license plate with the star. We're pretty sure it's Fraternal Order of the Police plate. Anyway, this idiot is going 60-65 (prob 63) in the left lane. 3 cars in front of us go into the right lane and go around him. So we get closer to him and he has no signs of moving over so we pass him too. At this point, we speed up to 70-73.
This guy then pulls out his cellphone and dials the number on the ambulance. He speeds up to within 5 feet of us, not safe stopping distance. I comment about that to my partner. Within in a few minutes, the guy has backed off and more cars have gone around him.
We get a call from the dispatcher from a supposed off-duty officer. I get off the phone and tell my partner. At this time, we have a semi in front of us, another semi on the right, a car really close behind us, and a semi behind that car. The dispatcher calls us within in 30 seconds and tells us the guy is threatening to call the state police. I am slightly sucky and bitch at the dispatcher that we haven't had time to get over or slow down and does the idiot driver want us to cause an accident because the white car is following too close for us to immediately slow down.
Well, we speed up to get past the truck on the right and we merge over. We get enough distance to safely start to slow down. Within minutes we spot the red car and the idiot is swerving through traffic dangerously and almost causes a few accidents to catch up with us. Keep in mind we were going about five over the entire time and now we're going 65.
The idiot merges dangerously close, within five feet of the truck, and speeds up to catch up with us. He slows down after about 30 seconds within in five feet of our bumper to about twenty feet behind us. He then repeats it about three times before I go back there to get this guy's license plate number.
Keep in mind, I have horrible eye sight so the fact that I can get this guy's license plate says something. After they see me watching them, they start making angry hand gestures, maybe because they figure out I'm writing their license plate number down.
So then this guy is still doing the slowing down and speeding up deal. The truck he cut off earlier becomes frustrated and he tries to pass the car on the left. Now, maybe the car didn't see him and was doing his speed up and slow down routine without realizing it, but he prevent the semi from getting over. The truck then turns his left turn signal on and starts to merge behind the car because the car is within four feet of us. The idiot then slows down and is within 3 feet of striking the front corner of the semi. I really don't think the supposed police officer saw the semi, otherwise he might have had a heart attack. I about did when I saw the car almost cause the semi to clip him.
They try waving at me at the exit because I tell my partner to get off because the guy may try to follow us. He gets off behind us but thankfully turns the opposite direction.
We call the dispatcher and he is okay. He understands when we explain we were surrounded and it would have been unsafe for us to slow down right now.
I'm tempted to post his license plate on one of those bad driver sites. he was almost caused several accidents trying to catch up with us and playing his speed up and slow down game. If my camera worked, I would have filmed them driving and probably would have gotten him almost clipping the semi.
I get it's embarrassing to be passed by an ambulance, but grow up. We passed 3 on-duty state troopers that were monitoring the road (or at least were holding the devices up) while they were following us. None of them pulled us over. I wish they would have gotten the guy for reckless driving when he was tailgating us or almost caused the truck to hit him.
So anyway, we're driving and we notice a license plate with the star. We're pretty sure it's Fraternal Order of the Police plate. Anyway, this idiot is going 60-65 (prob 63) in the left lane. 3 cars in front of us go into the right lane and go around him. So we get closer to him and he has no signs of moving over so we pass him too. At this point, we speed up to 70-73.
This guy then pulls out his cellphone and dials the number on the ambulance. He speeds up to within 5 feet of us, not safe stopping distance. I comment about that to my partner. Within in a few minutes, the guy has backed off and more cars have gone around him.
We get a call from the dispatcher from a supposed off-duty officer. I get off the phone and tell my partner. At this time, we have a semi in front of us, another semi on the right, a car really close behind us, and a semi behind that car. The dispatcher calls us within in 30 seconds and tells us the guy is threatening to call the state police. I am slightly sucky and bitch at the dispatcher that we haven't had time to get over or slow down and does the idiot driver want us to cause an accident because the white car is following too close for us to immediately slow down.
Well, we speed up to get past the truck on the right and we merge over. We get enough distance to safely start to slow down. Within minutes we spot the red car and the idiot is swerving through traffic dangerously and almost causes a few accidents to catch up with us. Keep in mind we were going about five over the entire time and now we're going 65.
The idiot merges dangerously close, within five feet of the truck, and speeds up to catch up with us. He slows down after about 30 seconds within in five feet of our bumper to about twenty feet behind us. He then repeats it about three times before I go back there to get this guy's license plate number.
Keep in mind, I have horrible eye sight so the fact that I can get this guy's license plate says something. After they see me watching them, they start making angry hand gestures, maybe because they figure out I'm writing their license plate number down.
So then this guy is still doing the slowing down and speeding up deal. The truck he cut off earlier becomes frustrated and he tries to pass the car on the left. Now, maybe the car didn't see him and was doing his speed up and slow down routine without realizing it, but he prevent the semi from getting over. The truck then turns his left turn signal on and starts to merge behind the car because the car is within four feet of us. The idiot then slows down and is within 3 feet of striking the front corner of the semi. I really don't think the supposed police officer saw the semi, otherwise he might have had a heart attack. I about did when I saw the car almost cause the semi to clip him.
They try waving at me at the exit because I tell my partner to get off because the guy may try to follow us. He gets off behind us but thankfully turns the opposite direction.
We call the dispatcher and he is okay. He understands when we explain we were surrounded and it would have been unsafe for us to slow down right now.
I'm tempted to post his license plate on one of those bad driver sites. he was almost caused several accidents trying to catch up with us and playing his speed up and slow down game. If my camera worked, I would have filmed them driving and probably would have gotten him almost clipping the semi.
I get it's embarrassing to be passed by an ambulance, but grow up. We passed 3 on-duty state troopers that were monitoring the road (or at least were holding the devices up) while they were following us. None of them pulled us over. I wish they would have gotten the guy for reckless driving when he was tailgating us or almost caused the truck to hit him.
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