Pulled over for driving a Marauder!

[Ozz]

So this morning after dropping my kids off at daycare I was headed east toward work. I followed a big white cargo van for awhile but he was going kind of slow so I went around him - nothing agressive, etc. A couple more blocks ahead I saw a cop turn in on my side of the street and U turn to come out. He came out somewhere behind me. I turned south and didn't think anything else of the cop. I get to a stoplight and notice the cop is behind me and there is another one on the road that crosses the one I am on... He has the green but is just sitting there. As soon as my light turned green both cop cars got behind me and pulled me over.

The cop comes to the window and asks if I 'have a problem with a van'. I reply 'no'. He asks if I was using a flashlight to flash the van. I am shocked! He said the big white cargo van driver called the cops and told them that somone in a CV was behind them that kept flashing them with a spotlight trying to get them to pull over.... Well I look in my rearview mirror and realize that I have one of those parabolic mirrors attached to my back seat so that I can see my rear facing child in my rear view mirror. The sun was just coming up and I was driving east. I figure the sun was reflecting off the mirror and hitting the cargo van. I suggest this to the cop and roll down my rear window so he can see the mirror.

The cops checked me out and said I was free to go....

So what are the chances of this happening????

[Master]

WOW! Freaky coincidence to be sure. Lucky you though of it before they pulled you in. Imagine, though, if your kid had been in the car seat at the time.
He'd be blind now!

[ctrlraven]

I would of been ticked but it is kind of funny though lol.

[O's Fan Rich]

Put a rear view camera in...... get a DVD head unit to attach it to... no more mirror! Good excuse for an upgrade if you ask me!!!

"Never let a good crisis go to waste." is the moto of the year!

[CBT]

I would have said yes, van go to slow, me pass.

[Haggis]

Good thing that they did not charge you with a terriost act and send you to Gitmo.

[J D]

Good thing that they did not charge you with a terriost act and send you to Gitmo.

Gito's gone, it drew too much attention, and now its only area 51 and the secrete nazi dungeon in Germany they used in the cold war.

But more to the subject, yeah that was freaky, that van must have been scared something fierce to call on you, but then there have been fake police pullovers on the news now

[BigCars4Ever]

I think unless they found a flashlight or a spotlight in your car they had nothing but hearsay on the van drivers' part.

[Blk Mamba]

"What are the chances....", I'd say that the odds on this are in the trillions, (like the national debt) to one. Will never happen again. Every bump in the road, curve acceleration, deceleration, distance between, Etc. Wow, quick thinking, nice save.

[Mebot]

At least you weren't pulled over for an illegal tint. I'm always on the lookout for cops.

[B.C. Bake]

Out here the cops wouldn't even care. There is so much going on it's hard to get them to respond to anything. On the other hand, revenue down so tickets are up, I'm on the lookout for em.

[knine]

I would have said yes, van go to slow, me pass.

.............said Mongo.

[Bluerauder]

The incident really sounds flakey to me. The van driver can't tell the difference between a sun flash in a mirror and a spotlight or flashlight?

Seems that there was more going on inside that van or else you rubbed him the wrong way for some reason. Never heard of anyone pulling over for a "flashing spotlight". There is some guy here in Northern Virginia pulling young woman over with flashing "reds" in a black Crown Vic.

FYI. All police in Virginia use all flashing "blues" or a combination of "reds & blues" --- never just reds alone or reds and whites -- 'cause that is Fire & Rescue.

[Ozz]

At least you weren't pulled over for an illegal tint. I'm always on the lookout for cops.

I do have that.... that's why I had to roll the rear window down for them to see the mirror...

[Ozz]

Oh, this did happen on 8 Mile Road - just west of Detroit so who knows what the van driver was thinking....