On my way in to work this morning, riding the back roads like I normally do (55 mph speed limit).
I'm coming up on a slower moving car, the only car I saw on the road thus far. I'm doing about 70 and I'm guessing the car is doing around 60. I go to pass and the guy driving the car decides to speed up. I show the guy what for and blast around him. He slows and I get in front of him and slow down too. In front of me is a slight hill and just as I get slowed a LEO pops over the hill. I pass him and check my rear view. ****, brake lights. I watch as he does a U turn and I'm looking for a good place to pull over. The LEO's lights are on now and I'm pulled over waiting for him. He approaches me and asks me how fast do I think that I was going. Well, I'm pretty sure that he didn't see me go around the car so I tell him 70. He says close, 73. I explain to him about how the car sped up while I was passing, he wasn't buying that. I hand him my license and insurance card. He looks it over and tells me that he's going to issue me a citation. I plead my case and tell him that I haven't had a ticket in ~15 years yada yada... No sale. He tells me that he could write me up for improper passing because I got back in front of the car just before a no passing zone and if I hadn't been speeding that I would have been passing in a no passing zone. I was thinking WTF? No way that one would stick, besides, there's no way that he even saw any of that. Anyways, I didn't say a word as he walked back to his car to write me up. He radios in my info and then starts looking around in his car for something. He checks the back seat and then gets out and looks in the trunk. I'm thinking, rut row, this can't be good. Then he slams his trunk in frustration and walks back to me with my license and insurance card, nothing else. He tells me that this is my lucky day because he's all out of citations! Yeah baby! Keep in mind that I showed him nothing but respect the entire time. I said that I guess you had better go back to the station and get some more eh? He laughed and said that I'm lucky that he doesn't mail me my ticket. I thanked him for his time and I was gone.