We’ve all been there before: We’re running late for work, school or a doctor’s appointment and we try to make up for lost time by putting the pedal to the metal. Typically, that excuse doesn’t fly when pleading your case to the police officer that just clocked you exceeding the speed limit.
So what happens if Smokey clocks you going nearly 110 mph and then catches up with you again during another travel related incident? A couple from Maine will tell you that it doesn’t make for a good day.
According to police in Bangor, Maine, officers pulled over a 29-year-old female driver and her 42-year-old male passenger when their vehicle was clocked going 108 mph on Interstate 95 earlier this week.
The couple told the officer they were headed to the airport, but they were going in the wrong direction and had no tickets or receipts with them. The man was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, the woman was charged with criminal speeding, and both were taken to jail.
Then, less than 48 hours later, the pair found themselves behind bars once again. This time their arrests came at the airport they said they were headed to at the time of their speeding incident. According to police, the pair was loud and disorderly at the ticket counter before boarding a flight to New York City. Their unruly behavior reportedly continued on the airplane, and the pilot returned to the gate, where the two were arrested and taken to jail.
Meanwhile, in Texas, police recently thwarted another summer escape.
A driver of a Cadillac discovered that the third time wasn’t the charm when he tried to load up on free gas posing as a stranded motorist.
According to Fort Worth police, an officer became suspicious the third time he saw the same man stopped on the side of a road next to his Cadillac with the hood up in a residential area.
The officer told news reporters that he stopped and asked the man if he needed help. The man reportedly told the officer that his car’s starter didn’t work, but when the trooper asked him to start his Cadillac it turned over on the first try.
Within minutes another driver reportedly pulled up with a full 1-gallon gas can. Police say the driver told the officer that the Cadillac owner claimed he ran out of gas and didn’t have any money to get home. The other driver decided to do the man a favor and got him a gallon of gas.
Police say when they opened the trunk of the Cadillac they found four full 1-gallon gas cans.
“He’d been convincing people he was out of gas and to give him money or buy him some,” police said. “And people were not only buying him gas, they were buying him the gas cans.”
Unfortunately officers say asking for people to buy you gas is not against the law so they couldn’t take the man into custody.
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