My drive to work

[Duncan]

So, I'm heading in this morning around 9, and rush hour is winding down. I merge from the interstate onto the local beltway, and move into the left lane (of four). I'm doing a little under 80, which is a bit faster than traffic, but not excessive. I notice a red car in my mirror pretty far back. I think to myself, I'll just pass this one car to my right, and then pull in and let the red car by. I check the mirror again, and he's closing really fast.

OK, I'm thinking that he'll tailgate me for a few seconds until I'm out of the way, but I don't really care as this guy is going way too fast. Wrong. He pulls onto the left shoulder of the road, between me and the concrete wall, and blows my doors off. I felt similar to when I'm stopped to turn left on a major road, and cars are going past me at 45 mph...only this was faster. I'm guessing he had 50-60 mph on me, putting him at 130-140. Probably a Porche; maybe BMW. Deep sounding engine. That part of the road is paved, but is usually full of gravel, debris, etc. Risky move.

He passed me successfully and disappeared pretty quickly. I checked my mirror, and sure enough I saw red & blue lights. I moved over to let a state trooper by, but he was going a lot slower than the red car. A few miles down the road, I passed 2 troopers waiting for speeders, and the red car obviously hadn't been by. Must've exited at one of the two exits in between; probably got away. I hadn't thought to get a plate number - I don't have coffee 'till I get to work, and I was missing about 15 IQ points just then. Didn't see anything on the news. I guess that's a good thing. Glad I wasn't on the news. I am curious, though, about why this guy was so desparate to get away.

Thanks,
Duncan

[Adam West]

Probably the same reason most people are running from the police...either the car is stolen, there is a warrant out for their arrest, or they are heavily sedated by drugs.

Who knows if the person was running or there just happened to be a police car on the highway who saw what happened.

I remember years ago, I was stuck in heavy beltway traffic and some jack *** decided to use the shoulder as a lane. I called the police, gave them a tag number, description of the car, and what they were doing and they seemed uninterested.

[toys2cool]

maybe he robed a bank

[LonnieFisher]

the alarm on his mego collection went off and he was going to check it out?

[Duncan]

the alarm on his mego collection went off and he was going to check it out?

D'oh! Now I feel bad for not getting out of his way.