I seem to be the only guy in the club who gets stoped !
The one that jumps out of memory was two years ago in the town just north of mine. My pal buttons and i were meeting up to ride to his brothers house .well i didn't ask if he'd had a few beers that day (it's not my job to watch him?) and he seemed ok to ride . Several miles went by as normal ,but when we rounded a corner getting into town, i was amazed to see a todler in the street. Yep not even two or three years old in diapers wandering in the street.
And it's not like he was alone there were five or six "adults" in front yard. Drinking and smoking ( you know what) .
As i turned i gave the kid a very wide berth and tryed to wave to buttons to get over, well he didn't grasp the problem and buzzed the kid pretty close .
I had pulled over and looking over my shoulder saw the people in the yard flipping us off, flashing gang signs and screaming at us. Nobody graped the kid !?however.
We got to neato's house and hung out for a few minuets geting ready to ride ,when we went out onto the street to warm up the bikes ,neato had an issue so buttons and i waited on cross street for him to warm up . A grey car with two young black kids in it almost hit us sitting by curb , well buttons had some beer courage so he takes off after the car . Before i can follow anouther car driven by two older black ladies tee bones the intersection from the east almost hitting me , jumps the curb and almost takes out stop sign.
There screaming there heads off , and throwing crap from car at me as i regained my feet . The lady drivin is shouting into her cell that "we got the guy and come get him". I had not made the conection to the baby yet so i got the **** away from them and rode north . Well they were right on my ass, literaly bumping my back wheel with car every time i stoped at sign. This went on for about half a mile .well i got ?$&@/ ed and ditched them in an alley.
buttons and neato had seen some of this and took off (they ran like gulity teenagers) so when i got back too house they were nowere to be seen.
I waited a few min. Then rode south out of town, sure enough just as i got into county a cop from town was behind me with the rollers on . So i stop on little dead end street and dismount bike , this jr. Cop jumps out gun drawn tells me to get on knees and hand on head , so of course "yes sir" and i do what he wants. We i got searched ,id run , and told bikes ilegal , no driver lic. , hit and run and iluding an officer. I was dumbfounded , had it been years ago i might be writing from joliet instead of my living room . It took about twenty min to explain to cop my side of story . Then cuffs came off , i show cop new IL. Law, bike legal , then radio calls start to hq. They can't figure out how to charge me ? He wants to write me tickets for all kinds of stuff. One by one i talk him out of every ticket ."laws right here " i told him a few times, well it's been close to an hour now and i'm starting to get irked.
He decides to write me some warning tickets,ok, "arent you a city cop" i ask several more calls to hq " your outside your jurisdiction and didn't witness any of aleged actions" cop is stymied . Then puts in call to county boys, they are busy and won't come out ,they tell him they share jurisdiction so go ahead with tickets. I tell cop that only applys during a pursuit so he's making mistake that will cost city a lawsuit. Stymied even worse. I ask who called it in , were is person watching kid ? What about hiting me with car ?
The city pd went to house ,there wasen't a single person sober at house, they made a few arrests there and that whole thing took on a life of it's own.
I ask the cop why if the women was drunk why she wasen't geeting dui and tickets for hitting me , no answer , then back to warning tickets?
Finaly i told cop to get me county and something to charge me with or cut me lose. He ask if i was refusing warning ticket,yep i am , not a motor vec. Not signing vec. Ticket. Then outa the blue "go home ,don't ride bike in town not legal"??? Oh well i took off. What a saga right ? Not done yet , next dayi get a call from pd stateing that refusal of warning ticket is crime ,that cop should have aressted me and impounded bike ( thats ilegal to ride in IL),then sergent explains that if i don't surrender myself to them they are going to issue bench warrent for me . Wow i was pissed and scared ,went strate to my lawyer, he said yep you better go surender yourself and see what happens?
Next day i take my laywer and my back up laywer and mom (also laywer) to pd with me , they didn't expect that move, there falling all over themselfs to explain and no charges just big misunderstanding.
I loved slaping down on sar. Desk a copy of instructions to police re: new law and telling them that i was thinking of sueing the city . That got the attention of there capt. And it was all handshakes and out the door.
So i went home thinking this bizare event was over , oh no , two days later a cop i know from school is in my driveway. "jim you gota warrent out for you ,get in " oh lord now what ? Got a free ride to my local pd ,had a great time laughing about other cops bungling , joe had a good time cuffing and stuffing me in car and all the folks living on my circle got to watch.
They lett me roll after one call up north ,then joe bought me some lunch and droped me back home ( they also didn't know new law was in effect)
So i walked away ego brusied but no real harm , there is still some bad blood between there gang and our club however. I don't ride past there anymore but neato and buttons do all the time . Neato never has a prob, buttons said he thought they threw a bottle at him one night but he just high tailed it outa there.
I've been pulled over a few other times and talked my way out of it every time. And it's not like the local cops are the bad guys , they found buttons bike after it was stolen and brought home maddog johnies bike after his crash. So there's no hard feelings there .
So that horrible enough for ya.