Caught speeding - make a run for it?

"spdnomo" > wrote in message
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> Some time ago I was driving cross country from the west coast to the
> east coast. While I'm normally a pretty safe driver and observe the
> speed limits and the rules of the road, this time I found myself in
> one of those <don't know what to call them> that you sometimes
> encounter when driving long distances when everyone around you is
> going pretty fast and the cars coming up behind you pretty much force
> you to keep up the pace or get run over. We were all doing over 90
> mpg on the interstate in the middle of nowhere. I'd say the fastest
> ones must have been going over 100, as they were blasting past me and
> I was doing about 95. Anyway, I stayed on the right lane and tried to
> fall back a bit planning to slow down and get below the speed limit
> where I'm comfortable. I made it to the back of the pack and fell
> behind but didn't slow down soon enough and a state trooper hiding
> behind a good spot nabbed me. I panicked and quickly slowed down to
> the speed limit. It took him a long time to catch up with me since he
> had to start from 0. I noticed he trailed me for a long while keeping
> a pretty good distance from me for oh I'd say a couple miles before he
> finally went in for the kill. Of course I got the old "give me a good
> reason not to throw you in jail right now" and ate a good sized
> portion of humble pie. In the end he let me off with a ticket. It
> was pretty expensive, and involved pleading guilty to a criminal
> traffic offense by mail from the east coast. All this got me to
> thinking: what would have happened if instead of slowing down I had
> just kept on going. He would have never been able to catch up me
> with, since I was going over 90 and he was stopped when I passed him.
> Would he have put out a BOLO or an APB on me or something? Would I
> have been intercepted by a dozen troopers and helicopters/ the works
> further on down the interstate? Was I better off slowing down like I
> did and letting him catch up to me or should I have made a run for it
> and then slowed down once I lost him?

I did that once! It was night, saw the lights pull up. I sped up, went into
a rest area, turned off my lights and ran out to the bathroom. By the time
he entered the rest area, there were 7 other sedans and he could not tell
which one was which. All of them had their engines running. When I came out,
he was driving by slowly, shining his light and looking for me. I smiled,
and then got into my car and pretended I was calling someone on the phone.
He left. Probably ****ed off too.