police chases

I've done that a few times, but only when no one is around and I know I can get away.

I was up north one time and we were on a two lane road. We were at the bar (I didn't drink I was DD, learned from my brother's mistakes) and we pulled out onto the road and they (my buddies, 3 of them) said let's see what she's got. Well I jump on it and get to about 85-90 and start to slow down. Well I see bright lights pull out in behind me, so I look at my buddy and he says you know what to do, so I slid it into third tached it out, the car was fading fast and then I saw the red and blues, tached 4th out (when I had 3.08 gears) and traveled well into 5th and the red and blues were gone.

Another time I was going like 85 on 696 by my house and right at the Van Dyke exit a cop was getting on, and he turned his lights on when he got to the bottom of the ramp, I just dropped into 4th (this time 3.73) and tromped it and got away.

This is a stupid thing to do, but was fun at the time. There was no one around to get hurt, except myself. I won't do it anymore, but I really don't know what fueled me to do it. Maybe it was that my mom finally agreed to me getting a 5.0 (when I was 18, I still lived under their roof) and telling me if I get a ticket the car is gone (I was still on their insurance, and still am because of my mustang).

So I don't want anyone flaming me telling me how stupid I am, because I know it was not the brightest thing to do, but I don't do it anymore. I speak lightly of it now because nothing bad became of it. Like I said I do not codone it.

Jason