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Driving Profile: Iceman
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ICEMAN:
[00:00:00] My unit is a Dodge Ram pickup truck. Fully marked on the
sides. Very large letters. And I’m on the interstate not I’m doing I’m probably
doing about 65 in a 60 and this guy like comes flying up behind me and he is
tailgating. And I’m talking he is probably three feet off my bumper. Well as
soon as he gets the chance, he whips around and just guns it goes past me. He went
by me so fast he about sucked the stickers off the side of my unit.
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just blank.
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All right, let’s
get into today driver. Today we’re speaking to a motorcycle cop, and in order
to protect his identity he is going to be referred to as Iceman during this
episode. So this is not his real name, but just so you know.
BHAVNEET: April
fools it’s his name.
TARANJIT: Yeah. April
Fools. It is his name. So today’s driver Iceman is a full-time law enforcement
officer. Who has been an officer for 25 years now in South Louisiana and is a
motorcycle cop for 20 of those years. He is married to his lovely wife, father
of four kids and grandfather to 6th and host the Motorcop Chronicles podcast.
As a motorcycle cop, Iceman shares with us what life is like as a LEO on a
motorcycle, police ticket quotas, and police car chases. He also shares with us
the time he was recently involved in a stolen car chase, a story about pulling
over a tailgater and almost running his sister over. Let’s meet today’s driver
Iceman.
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BHAVNEET:
[00:05:00] Welcome to Drive With Us.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
ICEMAN: Glad to be here.
TARANJIT: We love starting off the show with your crazy driving story. So
what would you say is one of the most craziest things you’ve seen while you’re
on the road?
ICEMAN: Well recently in a car
chase about 4 months ago and I pulled over a car and ended up being stolen car
out of the state of Alabama. With stolen plates out of the city of New Orleans.
Subject ended up being wanted out of Mississippi for parole violation, and then
ended up getting in the car chase for almost 30 miles on the shoulder of the
road speed up the 125-135 at some points and subject ended up getting away from
us. When I say us, it was me and other state troopers. We went to another
jurisdiction them and that night subjects broke into a dealership. That’s sold
18-wheeler tractors. The trucks themselves. And they stole one of those and the
next day they end up getting caught [00:06:00] back in Mississippi where they
were actually arrested.
TARANJIT: How long did this car chase last?
ICEMAN: Probably about 15
minutes. When your doing a 135 miles an hour, it don’t take you long to eat up
roadway.
TARANJIT: So I guess it was easy to catch this guy? Cuz I know the ones
that you see on the news go on for hours and hours and then the person gives
up. But I guess you had an easier time getting this guy?
ICEMAN: No. We didn’t catch
him. He ended up him and his female passenger bailed out into the woods and the
dog lost track. And that night they stole another vehicle and they ended
up being caught the next day in Mississippi.
TARANJIT: Oh wow.
ICEMAN: 115 miles from where I
had checked it from. They had several charges. They are not going to see
daylight for a while.
TARANJIT: How often have you been in a car chase or it does it not happen
that often down there?
ICEMAN: No. They’re not
frequent. I have been a law enforcement sheriff deputy for a total of 26 years
now.
In total, I think I’ve only been in maybe 5 or
6 in the 26 years. So not too often in this [00:07:00] area. We have some we
have some recently, but I mean, if you’re not close to it, you’re not going to
get involved. Being a motorcycle cop when I got in that Chase, I was in my unit
at the time. I wasn’t on my motorcycle, but as a motorcycle cop I was involved
in a few chases on a motorcycle and it’s not the safest thing. One time, I got
turned around on this little parking lot and he was head on with me and I’m on
motorcycle. I’m not going to win that battle. So usually it when you get
involved in a motorcycle, you just kind of back off the trail.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I can imagine. Since you are a motorcycle cop, is there a
like a difference between being a motorcycle cop versus like driving a police
unit as you said or is that like an option like you choose to be a motorcycle
cop over the other option?
ICEMAN: Yeah. Yeah. You have to
put in for it and go through now, it’s a 40-hour I’m sorry 80 hour course. When
I went to do it, it was 40, but I went to advanced motor school. You have to
pass the school which isn’t the easiest I’ve seen a lot of people fail out.
It’s constantly training stuff like that. [00:08:00] But yeah. It’s an option.
Most people put in for it. It’s a specialized division you get better hours. I
don’t have to work shift work like uniformed deputies in our area work 12-hour
shift work days or nights. I get to work like a normal person daytime 8 hours a
day Monday through Friday.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That must be nice.
ICEMAN: Yeah. So a lot of
people want to put in for it. You just got to wait for your turn.
TARANJIT: So then, with being a motorcycle cop, are you more involved in
all sorts of like traffic violations over the others?
ICEMAN: I love writing tickets.
I am a ticket writing machine. My boss when he wants people to slow down, he
usually calls me cuz I’ll just write everybody I stop.
TARANJIT: So speaking of tickets, I know like a lot of people have said
that there is like police quotas and stuff for tickets. Is that really a thing?
ICEMAN: No. Quotas are illegal.
In this state. I’m pretty sure it’s everywhere, but quotas are illegal. They will
actually let me write as many as I want to.
TARANJIT: I’m sure you enjoy that.
ICEMAN: Like today, I
didn’t write any tickets. [00:09:00]I had some escorts and some other stuff we
have to do. I didn’t write any tickets. So if I go days without writing any
tickets or write a whole bunch one day, my bosses don’t care one way or another.
TARANJIT: On an average, how many speeding tickets do you tend to give in
a day?
ICEMAN: On average, I’ll write
10 or 12 a day easily.
BHAVNEET: Is there a lot of speeders down there?
ICEMAN: Well when you get on
the interstate. I don’t care what area your living in, there are speeders
everywhere. Everybody’s if somebody says they don’t speed, they are lying. I
tell everybody at home. They go, I usually never speed. Look everybody speeds.
It’s just when it’s like gambling you speed and hope you don’t get caught. Some
may speed a hundred times and get caught one-time. The odds are in your favor.
But when you get caught just take your ticket.
BHAVNEET: Have you ever pulled someone over who turned out to be a cop?
ICEMAN: Oh. All the time. My
most recent one was the vice president was in Baton Rouge area and I was
outside of that area where I work at [00:10:00] and we were close to everything
and I pulled over one of his secret service people that was heading back to
where they work at.
BHAVNEET: That’s hilarious.
ICEMAN: No. I did not write the
Secret Service a ticket. That would have been awkward.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I can see that how awkward that would be. So sticking on
the speeding topic is there like a set limit of how much you go above the speed
limit that you would get a ticket or if you just go even one mile over the
speed limit you could get a ticket?
ICEMAN: By law you could get a
ticket for going 1 mph over the speed limit , but most cops like I’m a 10 mile
an hour over guy. I usually give a 10 mile an hour cushion. We got some guys
like to go give you 15. The safe thing if you want to go a little bit faster. I
usually tell people if its if the speed is 40 do 45. I’m not going to mess with
you if you go by me doing 45. That’s usually General law everywhere. You get
them little towns and all over the place that have you know, they don’t give
you any breaks. They’ll pull you over for going 4-5 miles an hour over.
[00:11:00] I just I’m going to give somebody that much. I’m going to get
somebody 10.
TARANJIT: Well. It’s good to know if we’re around you, we have that
cushion.
ICEMAN: Yeah. Just hope that
your speedometers right.
TARANJIT: Yeah. The other day I was right behind a local police officer
and the person in front of them was going I think only like three or four miles
over the speed limit and they pulled him over right away.
ICEMAN: Yeah. Like I said, they
got some places that do that. Now if I’m doing 55 in a 50 or 56 in a 50., don’t
pass me up because there’s a good chance. I’m going to stop you. I mean, that’s
just to me that that’s just being disrespectful. That’s like going to somebody’s
job and cussing them out or something like that. I’m already I mean I usually
try to drive I don’t like driving fast as it is cuz if I’m speeding
really fast, then it’s kind of hypocritical for me to give a person a ticket to
you when I’m doing the same thing, right? So I always try to do about 5
over just so I don’t back traffic up but don’t pass me. I had a kid just
yesterday. I was in a 60 mile an hour. I was doing actually 67. [00:12:00]
Well he just passes me up. Well I get up behind and follow him. He ends
up doing 72. He ended up getting pulled over got a ticket, well he actually got
two tickets cuz he had a illegal window tint on his vehicle, also. I was like,
why did you pass me up. Well I didn’t realize that you were a cop until I got
beside you. I was like, if you just slowed down, I would have left you alone.
But you passed me up. So he ended up getting two tickets. You know lesson
learned.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s what I don’t understand when people like see a
police officer. It’s like okay, you should slow down now like why are you
continuing to go faster? Makes no sense.
ICEMAN: Well by the time if I’m
sitting on the side of the road or if I’m on the interstate, I’m using a LiDAR,
which is a laser. By the time you usually see me, I’ve already clocked you
anyways. Cuz the LiDAR I mean I shot cars at two thousand feet away. By the
time you even notice. I’m sitting on side the road, especially if I’m on my
motorcycle, I’ve already clocked you. So by the time you get up to me you
decide to slow down and it’s too late by that point anyway.
TARANJIT: That’s true. So you did mention another story of someone who was
tailgating you and then they passed you.
ICEMAN: Yes. [00:13:00] When I
am in certain areas, a lot of the time I’m in my unit. My unit is a Dodge Ram
pickup truck they have given me. It’s fully marked on the sides. Very large
letters. It don’t have a bar like that. While I was out there and my tailgate down
I was working traffic. And I’m on the interstate not I’m doing I’m trying to
learn about 65 in a 60 and this guy like comes flying up behind me and he is
tailgating. And I’m talking he is probably three feet off my bumper. Well as
soon as you get the chance he whipped around and just guns it goes past me.
Pulled him over and asked him. I said you in a hurry? No. I was going home from
work. Here’s your ticket. Pay attention next time. He didn’t even notice I was
a marked unit when he passed me. People nowadays are so engulfed in their
phones and everything else while they’re driving and are not paying attention
to what is going on around them. He got a nice little wake me up. You know,
that’s probably gonna be about a $175-200 ticket I wrote them. So I’m sure next
time he’ll think about tailgating somebody.
TARANJIT: Oh. I’m sure. When you started describing this story, it
reminded me of what we witnessed not too long ago. Where it was an out-of-state
car who was in our state and there’s a police officer in front of them and they
were also tailgating them. And then they went to go around them and they didn’t
even notice this marked car. Police car. And this police officer was trying to
get behind the car who sped by, but they realized and they wouldn’t let them
get behind them. It was so funny to watch.
ICEMAN: [00:14:00] So the other
car was blocking the cop?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
ICEMAN: Oh. I’d just pull them
both over then.
BHAVNEET: It was just one car. Like I don’t know how he managed to do it,
but we were 65 down this highway like freeway and they’re just like this cop
and this car trying to like get behind each other. And it was like so weird,
but he managed to get behind him and pulled him over.
ICEMAN: Oh yeah. When I’m on my
bike instead, I’ve actually pulled two vehicles over at the same time. Just
think because the guy in front of you is speeding and it they jus going to get
him and not me, sometimes I gotten both of them.
TARANJIT: What would you say is your number one like thing you write
traffic violations? Or is it speeding or is there like other things that you
see that you end up writing tickets for?
ICEMAN: [00:15:00] 95% of the time it’s speeding. Everybody’s always in
a hurry nowadays. Everybody’s speeding. They just speed past you. Just give me
the give me the ticket. Had a guy the other day pass to meet him again on my
way in. I had just come into my parish, my jurisdiction. I was doing about 8
over the speed limit and he went by me so fast about sucked the stickers off
the side of my unit. And I told him have a nice day and walked off after he got
his ticket. He can get mad and get over. I told him just don’t pass the police
up you won’t tickets a lot of times. Just slow down.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s a great point.
ICEMAN: Well if you, you don’t
realize that if you start doing the calculations on it. Going 10 miles an hour
over speed limit you know going to your destination, you might only say 5
minutes if you don’t get pulled over. You’re really not saving that much time.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s very true.
ICEMAN: Or if the guy that just
been weaving in and out of traffic and speeding and trying to get somewhere and
driving like an idiot and then you pull up at the red light next to him. You
just kind of [00:16:00] look at them cuz you were driving normal and you’re
still at the same place at the same time.
TARANJIT: Yup. That’s exactly how I feel when I see people like that.
BHAVNEET: Every time.
TARANJIT: Like, you didn’t make it that far did you?
ICEMAN: No, but you did all
that fancy driving.
TARANJIT: Has being a motorcycle cop or just a police officer in general
affected you’re driving in your personal vehicle? Like has it caused you to
drive differently or are you able to separate driving as a police officer
versus driving in your regular vehicle?
ICEMAN: Oh no. My wife hates
riding with me in the vehicle? Cuz I’ll holler and curse at people cuz she’s
like they can’t hear you. I said I know but it makes me feel better. It’s like
I can’t stand people being in the fast lane, if the speed limit is 70 and
you’re in the fast lane like the passing lane and you’re doing 70 like just
scoot over. That’s my biggest pet peeve. If somebody that just they’re on the
interstate and stuff like that and they just or blocking traffic
up. That’s how traffic jams start. Just scoot
over people. And my wife just can’t stand it. [00:17:00] Cuz most time, I’m
either on the motor police motorcycle or in a police unit, which in both people
if you get behind them, they’re going to move out your way cuz they don’t want
you behind them. So I actually have it on my police motorcycle on my back trunk
of it, it says smile I could be behind you.
BHAVNEET: That’s funny.
ICEMAN: But I won’t be behind
you.
BHAVNEET: That’s very true. Yes. So speaking of annoying drivers, are you
someone who tends to honk at other people?
ICEMAN: No. I’m not a honker.
They actually have a law in the state of Louisiana. It’s actually against the
law to use your horn except for a warning device. And I’ve actually written
people tickets for honking their horn out of anger for no reason and stuff like
that. So no, I’m not a honker.
BHAVNEET: Interesting. I didn’t know that was actually a law down there.
ICEMAN: Oh yes.
BHAVNEET: We need that over here.
ICEMAN: A lot of people down
here didn’t realize it was a law either until you get a ticket for it.
TARANJIT: When you first said that, I thought you just said were going to
say honking is not allowed period. And I was like, but then what if you need to
warn someone. But then you kept going and I was like, oh. Okay.
ICEMAN: [00:18:00] I’ve used my finger at some people before that, not
when I was working. Of course.
TARANJIT: Not on the job.
ICEMAN: No.
TARANJIT: If you were given the option, would you prefer to be the driver
or the passenger?
ICEMAN: The driver. It makes me
nervous to sit in the passenger seat with somebody else is driving cuz I don’t
have any control of what’s going.
TARANJIT: Have you ever been in a car where you were the passenger and you
were like, oh I don’t like this or I shouldn’t have gotten in?
ICEMAN: Oh yes. Yes. Plenty of
times. When I was a rookie cop and you have to ride with your senior officers
and you do, you know, you’re responding code 3 with lights and sirens to a call
somewhere and you just hold on for dear life because they’re driving, you know,
really fast and you have no control over anything.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. That sounds really scary. I don’t think I would be able to
sit in a car if someone was driving that fast.
ICEMAN: It’s definitely a
different experience.
BHAVNEET: How would you describe the type of driver that you are and would
you say that your family and friends would describe your driving in the same way.
ICEMAN: [00:19:00] I think I am a good driver. My wife says I’m a
horrible driver. She would rather ride a motorcycle with me than being a car
with me. But I think I’m I’m fine. But you know, its opinions vary.
TARANJIT: Would you say that there are, for lack of better words,
stereotypes associated with a drivers down in your area or are there like
specific types of drivers down there?
ICEMAN: I think we got about
two. We got really slow and really fast. There’s really not
too much in between. And some of them I’d say the state just one state that
butts up to us, and those drivers are horrible. Not going to say the state.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I had that experience when we drove down to Georgia.
People down there drive so fast, and I thought people up here, we’re in
Maryland, and I was like, I thought people drove up here like really fast. But
we went down there and I was like, I’m going to be in the slow lane. Thank you.
ICEMAN: Just keep coming.
You’ll find out.
TARANJIT: I don’t know if I want to anymore.
ICEMAN: [00:20:00] It’s nothing for me to go work on the interstate. You
know, 60 mile-an-hour zone and pull people over doing 90 95 100 miles an hour.
Yeah we got to the redneck rampages out here. The guys with the big giant
jacked up trucks with giant mud tires on it.
TARANJIT: Yeah. We live in a small town, too, and that’s all we see around
here.
ICEMAN: Redneck rampage. You’ll
think of that next time.
BHAVNEET: Now that we know the type of driver that you are, and
apparently, opinions vary about your driving. Let’s go back to how it started.
How would you describe your first-time driving experience and who was it with?
ICEMAN: I think I was with my
mom and my dad. My first driving experience was getting behind my dad’s old
pickup truck that had a a column shifter in it with my sister standing in front
of it and not knowing you had to put the clutch in and turn ignition and almost
running over her.
TARANJIT: Oh no.
ICEMAN: She survived.
BHAVNEET: Good thing.
ICEMAN: That was a very long
time ago. [00:21:00] I mean early 80s.
TARANJIT: How would you describe your test like driving test and where you
able to pass it the first time?
ICEMAN: No. I had to take it
two times. I passed the driving part the first time. I had to take the written
part twice. I missed it by like two questions.
TARANJIT: Did your test include parallel parking because I feel like a lot
of people we’ve talked to so far barely anyone’s had to do parallel parking on
their drivers test. Did you have to do it?
ICEMAN: No, we didn’t have to
parallel park. Not not not in my region. There’s not that many places you have
to do that around here.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I guess that makes sense. We did. I’m just shocked how
many places don’t have it, but I guess it’s based on region.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, but do you know how to parallel park?
ICEMAN: No. I’m not good at it.
I’ve tried. I’ll back into back into something. I’m a horrible back in person.
TARANJIT: Do you think that parallel parking should be a requirement on
the driver’s test?
ICEMAN: I think that would
depend on what you where where you live at. If you look at something live in
some big [00:22:00] city populated area where you have to parallel park on a
regular basis. Yeah. I said the region I live in where small land, I mean,
except for in the New Orleans area. Other than that, you’ll never have to
parallel park. I don’t think I’ve ever parallel parked in my life, and I’m
almost 50.
BHAVNEET: Wow. That’s crazy that you never had to parallel park.
ICEMAN: No. If I did I’ll just
drive around find somewhere else to park.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. That was going to be my next question. What happens if you
are in a place where you had to parallel park?
ICEMAN: I would get the wife to
do it.
BHAVNEET: Bonus question time. Are you ready?
ICEMAN: Hit me with it.
BHAVNEET: If you can make one new driving law, what would it be?
ICEMAN: One new driving law.
Well it’s already a law that don’t get enforced down here. Just driving in the
fast lane. No putting your makeup on in the car. Your mirrors are made for
looking behind you. Not making yourself pretty.
BHAVNEET: Is that the craziest thing you have seen people doing while
driving?
ICEMAN: I don’t know. I’ve seen
them reading books, [00:23:00] eating a bowl of cereal, just, you know,
watching the news. I pulled up next to one guy and he was watching the news on
his phone while we were going down the road. I didn’t I don’t know why this
happened. I saw this woman shaving her face. That was a whole different
experience I didn’t want to know. I have textings real bad. I see that
constantly people texting and driving which is just as bad if not worse than
drinking and driving.
TARANJIT: I can’t imagine how that person managed to eat cereal while
driving.
BHAVNEET: And not spill it.
ICEMAN: They were driving with
their knees.
TARANJIT: Where they in like fast speeds?
ICEMAN: We were on the
interstate. So we were at 65 70 mile-an-hour speed.
BHAVNEET: Oh my God.
TARANJIT: I don’t understand. Like aren’t you scared that you are going to
crash or anything? Like your life is on the line.
ICEMAN: Must have been Captain
Crunch. It was too delicious to put down.
TARANJIT: Do you have any final thoughts or any tips that you would like
to give other drivers?
ICEMAN: [00:24:00] Just want
people to put their phones down and pay attention. Nothing’s that important
that it can’t wait. Slow it down. Put your phone down. You know that text
message can wait. I hate to work I hate working crashes where’s somebody’s dead
and I got to go tell their loved ones. And when we do check their phone it will
tell you last minute text message, they were sending or something like that.
Just leave your phone down, it can wait. Stay safe.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s an important message and I feel like a lot of
people won’t stop doing it until something serious happens.
ICEMAN: No. They won’t. They
will only stop after that. I’ll pull people over all the time you think their
drunk and they were actually texting.
TARANJIT: [00:25:00]So you have your own show where you share more police stories.
Where can listeners find you if they want to check it?
ICEMAN: We’re on all the major
ones. Motorcop Chronicles podcast. I tell my stories. I have other cops on.
First responders come on and tell their stories. More comedy. And if you got
clean ears, you might not want to come. I do. I do have a potty mouth most of
the time and I do just let lose. We just have a good time.
BHAVNEET: Well sounds like fun. We’ll check it out the here more cop
stories. Well thank you so much for coming on we had fun hearing about your
crazy stories as a motor cop.
ICEMAN: Well I appreciate it
and I enjoyed it.
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TARANJIT:
This was a very interesting episode. I was so I guess
interested. I’m saying interested so much. But it was so interesting…
BHAVNEET:
Intriguing.
TARANJIT:
Intriguing to hear the side of what life is like for a
motorcycle cop or just a police officer in general.
BHAVNEET:
I like that he likes giving tickets. That was funny. Not to be
on the receiving end but yeah. Speaking of motorcycle cops. Intentional. Have
you ever been pulled over by a cop?
TARANJIT:
Oh me? Are you asking me or are you asking the audience?
BHAVNEET:
I’m asking you.
TARANJIT:
[00:26:00] Speaking
of which, we need a word for people who listen to it like a fandom name. Like,
I don’t want to just call you like hello drivers, like hello fellow drivers.
BHAVNEET:
That’s so boring.
TARANJIT:
I know. We got to think about that, but…
BHAVNEET:
Give us your suggestions.
TARANJIT:
I have a no I haven’t got pulled over but I do have a story of
an almost pullover scare.
BHAVNEET:
I got pulled over.
TARANJIT:
I know you did.
BHAVNEET:
It’s your fault.
TARANJIT:
It was not my fault.
BHAVNEET:
It okay, I’m going to tell my story this time.
TARANJIT:
Oh. Okay. Go first.
BHAVNEET:
So I was driving your car for the first time. Finally let me
drive it and I’m like, okay. Were just going to Walmart like 5 minute drive,
right? Okay.
TARANJIT:
Probably like 3 minutes if you don’t hit the light.
BHAVNEET:
Yeah. So it’s like we’re going for groceries. So let me drive.
So driving it right and okay.
TARANJIT:
Yeah. We got it. You’re driving it.
BHAVNEET:
I got over the hill. Get over the hill.
TARANJIT:
Sorry. Sorry. You said driving so many times. I was driving the
car. So driving it. Driving it.
BHAVNEET:
Well, I’m trying to think of names, right. Driving. Driving.
Driving. [00:27:00] You know I was driving, right?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. Gotcha. Who was driving?
BHAVNEET:
You were driving.
TARANJIT:
Oh. Okay.
BHAVNEET:
I wish. So I made it over the hill and this cop is coming the
other direction and I don’t think anything about it. And we’re just like
driving.
TARANJIT:
It was a County Sheriff. It wasn’t the Town police officer or a
trooper. It was a sheriff.
BHAVNEET:
And then he just like turns around and all I see is lights and
our moms. Like there’s someone coming with there’s a cop coming. Just pull over
let him go around and then so I moved over and then he was stopped behind us
and I like what?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. We’re like, emergency. Move over for him.
BHAVNEET:
Yeah, And I was going the speed limit. Okay, If you know how
nervous I get while driving I was going the speed limit and I’m like, why am I
getting pulled over? Why am I getting pulled over? And why was I getting pulled
over? Because the lights were not the right color. That’s not my fault. I
didn’t buy this car. She’s been driving this car for how long every single day
and I drive it once. [00:28:00]
And I get pulled over.
TARANJIT:
The thing is I I mean I go through our town. So obviously but
I’ve been driving mostly like in Baltimore County and I feel like the police
there are like…
BHAVNEET:
But you have to get out of our town to get there.
TARANJIT:
I know. I’m just saying that I feel like the police there have
other bigger problems to deal than like a headlight color was not something. I
don’t know. I’m also very invisible. Like people don’t see me so that could
have played a role.
BHAVNEET:
And everyone sees me apparently. Like what?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. So this cop pulls us over and he was like telling us how
our headlights are the wrong color. He was like you like you see those
cars’ lights…
BHAVNEET:
It’s like, I’m not stupid, but at the same time I didn’t buy
this it was like that and our dad apparently had asked him like, is that okay
and they’re like, yeah we gotten it checked by the whoever even though I don’t
know if that’s exactly true. But yeah, they like yeah, it’s totally fine. It’s
allowed in Baltimore where you bought it.
TARANJIT:
[00:29:00] Yeah.
So we explained this to the sheriff and he was like, no. That’s not a rule.
BHAVNEET:
It’s like, well I didn’t know that. This is first time driving.
Why did you pull me over?
TARANJIT:
But he didn’t give you like a…
BHAVNEET:
A ticket.
TARANJIT:
A ticket that would go on your record.
BHAVNEET:
No.
TARANJIT:
It was like a fix it ticket. Fix it and it will be dismissed.
BHAVNEET:
Yeah. But of course, I was the one who got it. It was just like
unfair because you drove that it was your car and you been driving it and
nothing happens.
TARANJIT:
And I drive it in the dark or drove it in the dark. So many
times. So like the light color would be way more obvious.
BHAVNEET:
This was broad daylight. Like if I had just forgotten to turn
the lights on that day. No one would have said anything because people drive
without their lights on all the time. But no I had to be right like doing it
the right way and Turn on the headlights.
TARANJIT:
Little miss good driver over here following all the rules except
for the headlight color. Well, the one [00:30:00] scare I had I was driving to school. I think
this is my car before this one. I have had a lot of cars but the story for
another time. I was driving to University between the two campuses going to the
further campus and there’s the zone of the speed limit drops were a police
officer always hides to catch students. Like it’s the speed trap area and I was
going to run out of slowing down to the speed limit cuz I know 99% of time
they’re someone sitting there. And this person was riding my bumper the entire
time. I slow down there like full-on on like one brake. They were been all my
car. That’s how close they were.
BHAVNEET:
One brake?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. If I hit the brakes, they would have been on my car.
BHAVNEET:
Oh. I was like, one brake? I was so confused.
TARANJIT:
So I start to slow down and then I see a police officer hiding I
was like, oh good thing I slowed down and this person behind me. So technically
were like one car passing him.
BHAVNEET:
Whoa is that? What was kind of a modified car is that?
TARANJIT:
And then he flips on his lights [00:31:00] and I was like, did he put those on for me or
the person behind me? Because we are you so close to me. And I was like, I was
going literally I was going the speed limit or like dropping right below the
speed limit like I wasn’t over it. I was like what is he pulling me over for?
He can’t be pulling me over. I’m not speeding.
And
then I like slow down but like I don’t pull over yet cuz I’m like is it me? And
then he so the car behind me pulls over but then the police officers coming and
he hasn’t like pulled over yet. So I’m like, oh no. It’s me. So I like stop
like coming to the shop in about to pull over and then he pulls up behind the
other guy.
BHAVNEET:
Oh. I’m good. Keep going. Keep going.
TARANJIT:
My heart was beating the entire time the rest away to campus and
into class the first class like I couldn’t get over cuz it felt like I was
going to get pulled over it, but I don’t know if you pulled over for riding my
bumper or cuz like he couldn’t he wasn’t speeding. Cuz I was going the speed
limit, so he couldn’t have been.
BHAVNEET:
Yeah. [00:32:00]
But he was on your bumper.
TARANJIT:
So that was my scare.
BHAVNEET:
But I feel like I always get the cops that want to that decide
that they’re done or that they want to turn around at that moment or they just
pulled over and I guess they’re getting back into their spot on the other side
of the road. Cuz every time I drive us a table that I need to turn on the
lights and turn around right behind me and I wasn’t speeding but then they like
get onto the side of the road and like back in my spot and I’m like how dare
you? You couldn’t have waited until another car passed. Why me?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. You’re luck.
BHAVNEET:
Thanks.
TARANJIT:
I’m curious to know. Have you ever gotten pulled over? And what
was it like? Was it for speeding? Was it a Fix-It up ticket?
BHAVNEET:
Are you the tailgater?
TARANJIT:
Yeah. Were you the tailgater? Share your stories with us in the
comments below or come join the conversation on Stereo because we are posting extra podcast episodes and they are live conversations over there
So you can actually come in and join the conversation by submitting your own voice clips.
it’s super fun and are aiming to be there every week, and at a minimum twice a month. You can find us @Taranjit and @Bhavneet over there. We post announcements on Instagram of when we go live. So be sure to follow us and we hope to see your there.
But
that was Iceman’s stories, and be be sure to say to you [00:33:00] until
the end of this episode for a sneak peek of next week’s episode. And if
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Thanks for driving with us.
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RICHARD: [00:34:00]Moved all the stuff out of the trunk and the dog into the RV. And then we drove it off the lot only for me to get it high centered and stuck in the driveway of the spot where I bought the RV.
I’ve owned the thing for like 10 minutes. Now I have to go back into the owner of the shop and be like, Hey, I got the RV that you just sold me, that I just signed the paperwork and had the cash over for like, not even 10 minutes ago, I got stuck in your driveway and I can’t move.
And we’re literally the front bumpers on one on the road and the back bumper is on their driveway and the wheels are just dangling. And he comes out and he’s like, Oh, we can fix that. I got a forklift. We’ll just lift the back tires with the forklift and it’ll roll back and we’ll be good.
So he comes out there, he attaches a strap to the back bumper and lifts the back of it up, rolls the front tires into the little dip. And takes it back tires back, and then you hear a crunch crunch crunch.