One of the most exciting saturdays in a long time...**now with PICS!**

sohcrates

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So my local Audi club had a big meet today, and we had 9 A4's show up.

We're all in a group talking in this big parking log and all of a suddent a Viper pulls up, and the guy wants to hang out with us!

Granted, it's a Dodge...but we were willing to make an exception

Turns out the guys planning on selling the viper and getting an Audi S8 sometime, so that's cool..he let us sit in it and everything

Anyway, as were standing there we hear cars crashing....we look up to find about 10 cop cars chasing this one car down the street

The car goes *BETWEEN* two lanes of traffic...scraping up EVERY SINGLE car along the way!!!! It blows through the intersection and gets sideswiped

by an incoming police cruiser. the car is completely mangled and a bunch of guys hop out of it and start booking it towards the shopping center we were at

We all have cameras and everything, so we're snapping away (i'll see if i can post pictures later).

Anyway, MORE cops show up with shotguns and a police helicopter shows up and the cops start tackling these dudes all around us.

One guy apparently hid in barnes and nobles and they had to evacuate and all these officers rushed in.

There were about 10 mangled cars total...it was crazy!

So anyway, we hung out as witnesses and what not and then we went to an abandoned strip to do some light racing

along comes a dude one of us knew on brand spanking new bright yellow honda super duper motorcycle. it was like 1 day old.

him and the viper took off down the road and were on there way to loop back around when some lady hit her brakes at a green light for no reason and the dude on the motorcycle lost control and skidded off. the WHOLE right side of his bike was completely screwed up, and he lost part of his clutch....

it was SOOO sad...this brand new bike destroyed. it still ran though, so he limped it home.

anyway, i sure didn't expect all this to happen when i woke up this morning!
 

Aves

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Sure beats the hell out of my day, all I did was sleep. :eek:

I remember once I was at a Jack in the Box when a bunch of LAPD officers stormed in with guns drawn and busted some guy who standing in line to order. I must say it was pretty cool but a little scary.
 

Slacker

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Hehe, yeah I have had a couple of those kind of days, you never know when they will pop up, it wouldnt be any fun if you did :D

I got to see a police chase in florida about 15 years ago, it was on a two lane residential street with no sidewalks and traffic in both directions was jammed, I heard sirens and saw a car flying on the shoulder, then there was a 1/4 mile section of the shoulder that had a chain link fence running along the the road, that car just drove through the whole 1/4 mile with the fence poles flying and the chain link getting thrown to the side as he went, the whole thing took about ten seconds and they were out of sight.
 

stevens

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Much Much more exciting than mine.......
I had an 8 hour driving class to prepare me (or so my parents say) for my learner's permit.
 

samgau

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Wow... pretty neat... I don't think I have ever witnessed anything like that.... the most excitement I had all day was... getting my butt whopped in starcraft...
*laffs*
 

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My daughter was just talking about 2 years ago when she sat in a Viper.
The guy that got out of the showroom Viper had this goofy look on his face when he got out. She's thinking: "That's strange."
She got in the car, settled in, and immediately got that same smile/goofy look on *her* face...
 

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Yeah... where's the pics... of that Viper?

And it better not be covered by that cruddy A4. ;)
 

Novgrod

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I had a day kinda like that, only I was in a viper (or as it was called then, banshee) and I was being chased all over by these cops and a helicopter. Thankfully, I got to the pay n' spray in the red light district and the cops couldn't recognize me with my new car, so they all left.

Heh, sounds frighteningly similar; did you pick up a prostitute and regain some health? :)

Couldn't help myself; yours was much more interesting than mine, even if mine did include some gta3.
 

Slacker

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Damn, I looked at the first pic and thought they looked like arlington police cars, I am in centreville sohcrates, where did all this happen?
 

IJump

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WOW! a post like this that isn't total BS. What is the world coming to? ;)


btw, Nice car.
 

sohcrates

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<< Damn, I looked at the first pic and thought they looked like arlington police cars, I am in centreville sohcrates, where did all this happen? >>



we were meeting at starbucks on route 1, right by Target and the movie theater and across the street from the BMW dealer
 

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My cop chase story.

We are the next to last house on the block next to this big long driveway. A rich dude owns this house set back on a few acres of land, and the driveway is kind of like a street separating two houses.

Anyway, I was sleeping in my room and kept hearing police cars outside my window over and over. I walked out the front door and saw a car hang a left through my neighbors back yard, destroying their chain link fence, and then mauling our shared gate back out to the street. He missed my truck in the drive by inches, and one of our cars in the street by inches also. Then a few minutes later, he does it again!! I can't believe he fit his car through the chain link gate and missed my truck both times. What a farking maniac.
 

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<< Still dosent beat sleep ;) >>




i second that. i have ten times as much excitement when i sleep. :)
 

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Wonder why he's giving up the Viper if it has that much hp to the rear wheels. Maybe something wrong w/it? Cost of insurance?
 

sohcrates

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<< Wonder why he's giving up the Viper if it has that much hp to the rear wheels. Maybe something wrong w/it? Cost of insurance? >>



he bought it used with about 10K miles on it, and has put about 50K more on it already.

he's put a fair amount of cash into it (carbon fiber dash, VERY expensive 2 piece wheels, etc.) but is the kind of guy that likes to switch up cars every few years

besides, he actually said that he has NOT been able to use the car to pick up chicks...perhaps girls just don't go for pure HP anymore??