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Originally Posted by nitrorcr1787
Got out of work late last night around 2am. On my way home I had a black Challenger that kept riding my bumper, then backing off and coming back on it again. When I turned onto the same street the police station is on, he started coming up on my left just up to my back passenger widow and backing off again. I am 50 yrs old, owned a funnycar, am a crew chief on a funnycar, and work at a drag strip, and know where and when to race. As I got to the next intersection, he blew past me on the left, on a two lane street, and that's when I saw that it was a North Brunswick unmarked car. Must have been pissed off I didn't take the bait!!
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It's not whether it's entrapment or not that bothers me. It's the fact that a law enforcement officer who's main concern is the safety of others driving with disregard for your safety.
Each state has a law that states how close you are allowed to be to another car and not to mention he was distracting you from giving your full attention to the road. If it would have been me I would have been concerned that the driver was drunk, crazy, or just road raging.
I have law enforcement in my family and have the utmost respect for our police. When they do things like that though it baffles me as to why they would endanger the public like that.
I applaud law enforcement for doing their best to keep our streets safe. Endangering your safety trying to goad you isn't the way to keep others safe.
Let's say he was successful and got you to race him. At the next light you were so focused on him you gassed it when the light turned green and a person stepped into the street who for any number of reasons and you hit them, or if you lost control of your car trying to race him and took out a group of people??
The person driving that unmarked car needs to re-evaluate his or her tactics.