This isn't a speeding, or even racing story. Just a story about a really cool cop!!
I was working 2nd shift at a small machine shop in Newark Delaware, and lived in Wilmington so there were a couple different highways I had to take to get back & forth. On one ramp, there was a $.25 basket toll (unmaned) that I would fling a quarter in on the way through. At that time there was nothing else in the area except a couple highways, no buildings of any kind, nothing but black empty night! I thought, "this is kinda dumb, throw a quarter in the basket every night, **** there isn't another human being for miles.....Eff-it!"
So I went blasting through, almost instantly red lights came on behind me....no headlights or parking lights....just the red strobes. I thought, "where the hell did he come from!!" I stopped and this shadowy figure kinda appeared beside my car, bends down and peers in the open window at me saying, "You didn't put a quarter in the basket.....did you?"
"No sir, I didn't" I replied.....he wags his finger back & forth saying "Always put your quarter in the basket!!" Then he just fades back into the dark night!! The red lights went off and it was pitch black behind me again!
Not one time after that did I try saving another quarter.....I sure as hell did not want to run into THAT guy again!! To this day I'm not 100% convinced he was even real!!:rofl_200: