Damn, tonight I was driving around with my gf in shotgun and 4 friends in the back. Mind you this is an EJ, a civic coupe, ya with barely enough room to fit a small child in the back seats.

Well we were driving around doing a burn ride, but I don't smoke, so I wasn't part of it, now we're listening to Sublime and we start to go downtown to turn around and bring back three of the people.

While doing so I see this Focus about 3 feet behind me while I'm going ~25 mph. I don't care about it so I just take my right turn while he takes off going straight. Some of the people in the back knew who he was, but I didn't. So one of the girls says that there was a cop back there. I just shrugged it off and said, "Eh, we aren't doing anything suspicious that they can see." And I keep driving normally.

I drive toward an intersection to take a right, as I'm turning I see a car heading down to the intersection the saem way I came. And I can't see out the rear view mirror at all and my side mirrors are all gunked up from rain, so I didn't know it yet but it was the police.

I drive fine, so I wasn't doing anything bad like speeding, and I see this Crown Vic come up on me and start flickering their high beams at me. Me thinking it was that Focus I kept driving, if the cops really wanted me to pull over, they would have flicked their lights on. So I pull over just to be sure and it pulls up behind me, to only turn on the blues after that. Now there are people under 18 in the back smoking cigarettes, everyone without seatbelts except me and the smell of pot probably. So I'm freaking out in my mind, but playing it cool cause I don't want to show it. The cop comes up to me and says:

Cop: Hey what's going on tonight?
Me: Nothing.
Cop: Who was driving?
Me: What? What do you....:thinking:
Cop: Who was driving tonight?
Me: .....I was....:eh: (I don't know why he asked that)
Cop: Who's car is this?
Me: It's mine
Cop: Oh ok, well were you downtown just now?
Me: Yea, I passed through downtown to take the turn up the hill toward the library.
Cop: Oh, um...so..wait...:thinking:
Me: Yeah, I was coming toward downtown from where the hospital is.... you know what I mean? Just to take the right up the hill toward the library.
Cop: Ok, well..ok, lemme see your license and registration.
Me: Sure, here's my license and lemme find my registration. (I have so many that it takes me 2 minutes to find it)
Cop: Ok, Michael, you still live on this address? (Him looking on the license)
Me: Yup, I still live there. (Still looking for registration)
Cop: Ok one sec.
Now at this time another cop comes by on the opposite side of the road and pulls over aswell, he comes up to the passengers side and looks in the windows, both windows are rolled down, but the ones in the back. Remember there are four people back there.
Cop: Ok, you weren't the one downtown fooling around were you?
Me: No, I just came through downtown to take that turn real quick.
Cop: Ok well we saw a car fooling around.
Me: Oh yea, when I came up that hill, a car was riding us, it was real close where I couldn't see the headlights and then it took off when I took the turn toward the intersection.
Cop: Alright, do you know his name?
Me: Um, I dunno. Hey guys did you know who that was?
(They did, but they didn't want to rat him out, and I didn't either, but it looked good in front of the cop)
Me: No, but it looked like an Outback
Backseat passenger: It was a Focus
Me: Oh, it was a focus.
Me: Oh here I found the right registration.
Cop: Ok, well you're all set anyway.
Me: Oh, ok, thanks.
Cop: Have a safe drive.


Now that was close as hell, everyone else in the car is stoned as hell and everyone else has no seatbelt on . These cops around here are so lenient and nice that it's hard to hate cops around here. Maybe he smelt the pot, but just didn't want to bother since I didn't show signs of it? He didn't have enough probable cause, although the smell is most likely enough probable cause to search my car. Oh well, I'm lucky as hell and all but one time I got pulled over was with my gf, crazy man, crazy.

I know I like to read long stories, if you don't:
I get pulled over.
4 People in the back seat of my civic coupe
All stoned as hell
Cop goes through questions and asks for license and registration
Cop was looking for a car the was messing around downtown and it wasn't me
I saw a car that was on my ass for 10 seconds and took off as soon as I turned on another street. That was the car they were looking for.
Cop doesn't do anything and leaves me off to go.