So after Bike night (around 9:00 PM) we headed south back to Pueblo. On the freeway we were running with traffic about 5-10 MPH over posted.
I do not like to stay stagnant in traffic, I think it is a very dangerous thing to do and hence I'll move to the left and pass slower traffic.
I'm in the left lane behind somebody else who is trying to pass and look in my rear view mirror to see a car coming up FAST.
Of course I simply moved to an open slot on the right and passed the car that was holding up traffic in the left lane.
By this time the slot I moved into had closed and the car that was coming fast cut off the car in the right lane trying to follow me around the slower car in the left.
Well the car pulled between Brian and I and scared me to death by running up just a couple of feet from my rear before turning on his lights to pull me over. I of course immediately pulled over.
Brian being behind the cop started to continue on since he was obviously pulling me over. Cop got pissed and started yelling on the loud speaker for Brian to pull over. By this time the cop had passed me making sure Brian pulled over.
Brian pulled over, cop pulled over, I'm behind all of them and in traffic rubber necking to see what is going on.
Cop gets out and starts yelling at me to get in front of him. I'm waiting for traffic to clear since I would have to get back on the road to get around him. This PISSES him off and he is yelling NOW NOW NOW! I tell him I'm waiting for traffic to clear and he yells QUIT ARGUING WITH ME over and over.
Traffic clears, I move up with Brian and we go through the routine, license, registration, insurance. Now I have a wallet full of registrations and insurance cards (too many cars and bikes) and it takes me a while to find everything. He is constantly yelling that I'm refusing to cooperate.
I find everything and he says he is going back to the car to write us tickets.
WTF, Ok it's not my first ticket, it's only money, I'll take my lumps.
After a few minutes he comes over and says he is going to give us warnings I start to say thanks and he takes off again yelling at me to "QUIT ARGUING, I'm trying to be nice". Fuck this, I'm not going to say anything and make the motion like I'm zipping my mouth.
Then he takes off explaining how he can give me a ticket and regardless of what the Judge might say, I will have lost several days at work and spent lots of money. Which is very true and something that I believe is wrong with our judicial system.
Well we got out with no tickets. I sure wish I had a recorder on my bike to record this DICK HEAD. There is no reason for cops to take this kind of attitude and he needs to be slapped right out of the force as far as I'm concerned. I honestly would have preferred the ticket so I could explain to the judge that this guy is a dick head (which would have lost my case but would have been fun).