About two years ago, I topped a hill doing around 90 in a 75 and there he was and he had me. He zapped me with the laser and my radar detector was no good against that as their was no warning. The advantage is they have to be stationary so if they're not using a chase car up ahead and there's more than one of you, you might slip by. But not this time, he had me and his lights flashed immediately. I quickly put my detector on the floor and tried to hide it under the seat.
I applied the brakes and pulled up right behind him. He got out of the car with a surprised look on his face and came around the passenger's side and I rolled down the window. Before he could ask for the necessary ID's, I said "I am sorry officer, I know I was speeding but I was trying to find this poor dove's mate". Then I started looking around and making cooing sounds and he actually looked in the car and then caught himself and looked at me and burst out laughing.
He took my ID's, went back to his car to check and see if there were any outstanding warrants or alerts for asylum escapees and came back and told me thanks for the laugh and his story of the day and he was only going to give me a warning. Then he smiled and said "you can put your radar detector back up, they're useless against laser as you've just seen and contrary to what some people think, we're not out here to catch you but to slow you down". Then he hands me my ID's and the warning and says "you and Mrs. Dove have a nice day". Now it was my turn to crack up and we both laughed as he was shaking his head.
I don't know the odds of finding a cop with that kind of sense of humor because the public can flat steal it from them too often but he was great. I told him as a reward, I would go the speed limit until I reached my destination and that I would not do that for just any cop. And I kept my word....but only for the remainder of that trip.
