arm-wrestling the long...arm...of the law...

So lately I've been pretty good about making sure that I keep an eagle-eye out for Johnny Law. Last week I had several situations where an officer was behind me at night and I was very good about moving over one lane in anticipation of the fact that the car behind me could be a cop. I even had one last week at night where I correctly judged the car to be a cop and slowed down to the legal limit and (of couse) he zooms past him and then I think "hmm...the other car behind me might also be a cop" and it was...so he goes around me too. Then I look to my right and two cars are entering the highway...both of them police officers...then I start to wonder why in the world all these cop cars are around...I look to my left and there are three more cop cars (mind you none of them had their sirens on). Then about two minutes later I get off on my exit and I see that the carnival was in town...bright lights everwhere! Then I realized that the county fair isn't until August and those were cop car lights...apparently (as i found out from an officer) there was a high speed chase and the bad guy abandoned his car and was somewhere in the neighborhood (nowhere near mine) with a firearm of some sort. Fun stuff.

Anywho today I was on my way home from work when I noticed there was a parked car on the side of the road ahead with it's lights off...now of course I know that trick and I always slow down whenever I see a car parked on the road and (again...duh) it was a cop car. There were several cars behind me and I just knew one of them was going to get pulled over. I look in my rearview and...wait for it...wait for it...bam! The red, white, and blue lights start dancing and some poor sap get it. I should teach a class on this.