Best Move When Runnin' From the Cops?

[steve dave]

I like running by a house and then slinking around the back and other side taking off the way I came while the pigs fly right by the house and think I continued down the alley.  What are your fav's?

I'm usually all:  but then get my wits about me and pull off that sweet maneuver and then I'm all    Things you have to watch out for are pesky residents of the house that will narc you out or a really fat/slow cop bringin' up the rear that hasn't gotten to the house when you come bustin' out the way you came.  I mean, you can get by tons-a-fun but he's just gonna radio the rest of the goon squad who is going to be totally pissed you outwitted them with that move.

[fatty fat fat]

 

[Ginger]

Jump a high enough fence. My other trick is to get caught. Very adept at both.

[sys]

turn around and shoot.

[frankencat]

I like these moves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrDN21yoGk

[jeffy]

I was with a buddy of mine walking home following an after-hours party.  It was about 5 AM.  We were walking down Denison near Leavenworth picking up newspapers from everyone's lawn, since they were right by the sidewalk.  A cop drove by us on Denison and turned west on Leavenworth.  Soon he came back by in the other direction.  We saw him pull into a driveway to turn around.  We dropped all the newspapers in the last yard on Denison and hit the stairs (50+) at the Leavenworth/Delaware intersection.  Of course, the cop couldn't follow in the car, and the chances of him getting out of his car and running up 50 stairs after 2 drunken college kids was absolutely zero, so we knew we would get away.

[rundown87]

I didn't really have a great move besides just running fast. . .but the story is much better

it was Halloween 2005, and I was not yet 21, I was at a really sweet house party and the cops got called (by the owner of the house??) so I was standing outside the house getting ready to leave (hammered drunk BTW) and I see a few cops barrelling down the street towards us.  I'm just kinda chillin with a beer in my hand. . .not thinking about me being underage.  So the 2 cops in the first car that arrives get out of their car and say that they need to see my ID.  I pull out my wallet and start walking towards them and then am like "WOOOOAAAHHH I don't think so!" So I put my wallet away and take off behind the house and down the alley, I see that there are now 3 of them chasing me, and one of them isn't really that slow, so I have to kick it into high gear.  Not too much of a problem, I hit the end of the alley and hang a right onto the street, I am running down the street, followed by 3 police officers, and I hear people laughing and yelling at me "YEAH!! GOO MAN!!!" and they are laughing really hard. . .I am all, what the f are they laughing at, and why aren't they helping me get away from these mother &@#%ers.  About 3 more houses down I see about 4 people on a porch, and they are laughing just as hard and they are like, "RUN HAHAHA NICE COSTUME!!" then I realize. . .I am wearing a Speed Racer costume. . .HELMET AND ALL.  So I start lauging really hard (not easy to run fast when you are laughing this hard).  I keep running and about 2 blocks later I see the coppers stop chasing me and I just run off.  I still cannot stop laughing as I am now thinking how freaking awesome that would be to be sitting on your porch, drunk as crap after a long night of partying, and you just randomly see a guy in a speed racer costume running down the street, being chased by 3 cops. . .

Go Katz

[RonLongshaft]

had a buddy back home getting chased by a Sheriff in a 4x4 dodge, (my buddy has a jacked up truck with big mud tires) he knew the land around him pretty well (hes a farmer) so he decides to go off roading, goes across a plowed up field that belongs to them, cop still on tail, then goes through a creek crossing. apparently this crossing was filled with a silt bar. as he plows on through it the cop gets a little hung up, he cuts his lights and drives across the field to a private access road and out the other end. My buddy's brothers friend was a sheriff at the time too. The officer doing the chasing gave him props and said it was the best escape he had witnessed.

oh i forgot it would've been a DUI, MIP, TOC for the driver and MIP and TOC for passenger and of course running from the law

[Ben Ji]

Best move is to run until your sure cop is out of site then jump in some bushes, turn off cell phone(very important), then wait 1 hour. I used this move successfully a couple of year ago on campus. Apparently campus cops dont like it when you steal signs while walking home wasted from the bars. On a side note if you have enough time make sure not to jump in a rose bush....I ended up spending an hour laying on my stomach barefooted(flip flops are a bad idea if you plan on running) in a giant rose bush in the campus gardens.

Being from Johnson County where the cops have nothing better to do but chase drunk underage kids I've also learned another excellent move. If said party you are attending is located next to a creek simply take off at full speed towards creek. When you reach the said creek dont pitty daddle around, run right down the middle of it(only works if creek is lower than knee high). No right minded cop would ruin their nice academy issued kicks just to chase a drunk 17 year old.

The key to getting away is making a break with a large group. Its simple darwinism, everyone has the fat slow friend that will fall over within 50 ft of starting thus insuring a safe get away for everyone else. If your fat friend isnt with you simply scatter and watch the confused look on the cops face.

[RonLongshaft]

Best move is to run until your sure cop is out of site then jump in some bushes, turn off cell phone(very important), then wait 1 hour. I used this move successfully a couple of year ago on campus. Apparently campus cops dont like it when you steal signs while walking home wasted from the bars. On a side note if you have enough time make sure not to jump in a rose bush....I ended up spending an hour laying on my stomach barefooted(flip flops are a bad idea if you plan on running) in a giant rose bush in the campus gardens.

Being from Johnson County where the cops have nothing better to do but chase drunk underage kids I've also learned another excellent move. If said party you are attending is located next to a creek simply take off at full speed towards creek. When you reach the said creek dont pitty daddle around, run right down the middle of it(only works if creek is lower than knee high). No right minded cop would ruin their nice academy issued kicks just to chase a drunk 17 year old.

The key to getting away is making a break with a large group. Its simple darwinism, everyone has the fat slow friend that will fall over within 50 ft of starting thus insuring a safe get away for everyone else. If your fat friend isnt with you simply scatter and watch the confused look on the cops face.

did you get away with the sign?

was at a pasture party once, cops came, toke off running with about 10-15 people, saw a dude next to me hit a barb wire fence at full speed. I stop climbed fence, ran across road into a field of ours, saw a buddy run buy stopped him and we sat in an old silo for 1-2 hrs til sun came up and then called and got a ride home.

at a house party(halloween) that got busted early, 10ish, jumped backyard fence ran about two blocks ran into McDonalds ditch costumes and ordered food. totally WTF the cops

[jmlynch1]

I like to run as fast I can into a house. Quickly throw on a Hawaiian shirt or something bold and loud, and completely different and walk out the other side completely calm. You can only spend like 2 seconds in the house though. Always good to keep a getaway shirt by the exits.

[QuinnMac]

This guy gave it the old college try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjoklalipZw&feature=related

[QuinnMac]

This works too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvBPD5YzXbQ

[krazykat]

i wouldnt go with the hiding in bushes. it cost me in HS. story goes....

10-15 drinking of us drinking the riches  keystone light down at the big state park lake, right on the beach. down the road comes screamin' lights and sirens the park rangers. we scatter like roaches. i run off about 200 yards from our camp sight, find some nice thickets and have a seat to wait'em out. wrong move. little did i know but they were outfitted with night vision and thermal binoculars  . basically they snuck up on me about 20 yards away, then one spot lights me. i'm pretty much a scared deer while the other one had already out flanked me. bastards. they did let me get to play with their night vision / thermal binoculars while they wrote me up though. 

[KSt8er]

i wouldnt go with the hiding in bushes. it cost me in HS. story goes....

10-15 drinking of us drinking the riches  keystone light down at the big state park lake, right on the beach. down the road comes screamin' lights and sirens the park rangers. we scatter like roaches. i run off about 200 yards from our camp sight, find some nice thickets and have a seat to wait'em out. wrong move. little did i know but they were outfitted with night vision and thermal binoculars  . basically they snuck up on me about 20 yards away, then one spot lights me. i'm pretty much a scared deer while the other one had already out flanked me. bastards. they did let me get to play with their night vision / thermal binoculars while they wrote me up though. 

Quite a fine use of very expensive equipment right there.   

So I go to this party w/ a chick and it appears to me that no one is likely to be 18, their whacked out on somedamnthing, drunk, and I'm in my twenties so I decide that I don't need to be there when up pull the cops.  I've got my head down and walking off the porch when one of them gives me the old "stop right there", no sir, not in my plans but thanks, so I run around the side of this house and attempt to vault myself over the neighbors privacy fense.  So, I'm stradled on top of this 6/7 ft wood fence when it gives, and I ride it straight down to the ground, roll and run like hell for the back as I hear the jingle jangle of cuffs and stuff right on my ass.  I again attempt the single move vault to freedom and this time succeed, the problem now becomes the 15 ft deep frackin ditch that is full of 15ft weeds that I find myself in.  I take off up the other side only to find a bare field and flashlights in search mode so I proceed to tear the skin from every extremity at full speed through the middle of this weedish hell gaunlet for what seemed a mile long.  I then find a nice place to sit and wait before snaking my way back to my car about half an hour later.   The chick was gone, but so were cops so I didn't care. 

[KSt8er]

Oh, and I've heard that people trying to elude capture most often attempt to get to higher ground and cops know this, so stay low. 

[QuinnMac]

i wouldnt go with the hiding in bushes. it cost me in HS. story goes....

10-15 drinking of us drinking the riches  keystone light down at the big state park lake, right on the beach. down the road comes screamin' lights and sirens the park rangers. we scatter like roaches. i run off about 200 yards from our camp sight, find some nice thickets and have a seat to wait'em out. wrong move. little did i know but they were outfitted with night vision and thermal binoculars  . basically they snuck up on me about 20 yards away, then one spot lights me. i'm pretty much a scared deer while the other one had already out flanked me. bastards. they did let me get to play with their night vision / thermal binoculars while they wrote me up though. 

Is that why you are in law enforcement now? The night vision goggles?

[TheShocker]

Running from the cops is really immature imo. I find it's best to just walk up to them and tell them to &@#% off. If they get pissy, just remind them that you pay their salary and that they wipe the donut crumbs out of their gay mustaches and get back to work. It's also very helpful if you make comments like "I make more in month than you do in a year!" and "The jews run Hollywood!".

[ew2x4]

I can't believe nobody has said hide under a bed...

[LimestoneOutcropping]

I can't believe nobody has said hide under a bed...

In the bathroom.  LEt the others take the heat.  Flush toilet a lot to confuse officers.

[SkinnyBenny]

I have run from the cops many times, and while always awesome, daring, and elusive, none of my stories compare to what happened to somebody else I was partying with one night.

One night this guy and girl we knew were partying in their house for the last time, as they were moving out the next morning.  Instead of lugging this guy's huge old mattress into a U-Haul, they got wasted and decided to cook it on their front lawn instead.  So we started this gigant bonfire in their front yard fueled entirely by a queen-sized mattress.  (Osage area, Saturday night, NEVER patrolled by cops.)  We're burning stuff over a mattress flame forever, like, ALL NIGHT.  Then the cops show.  Well, those of us who didn't live there all stay out and let them run our licenses since we weren't even really doing anything, but the two people who were responsible for it all bolted inside together and hid in a closet.  GOOD MOVE.  One cop gave us a look like, "uh, are they serious?" and strolled into the house to quickly find them huddled in a closet together all like .

"Okay, I found you," the cop said.  "Now, we saw camera flashes as we rolled up, so we know you were taking pictures that we're going to have to take as evidence.  Let me see your camera." 

So the guy, busted and huddled with his female roommate in a closet, sheepishly reached into his pocket and handed the cop his camera.  But what the cop didn't know was that I was the one taking all the pictures that night on my camera, which I still had stuffed away in my pocket outside.  So when the cop took homeboy's brand new camera he found only two pictures on it so far:

#1.  A picture of a dog humping another dog
#2.  A picture of the same dogs humping but from a different angle. 

Moral of the story is that you should never run from the cops into your house unless you want to call out a cop for being a zoophiliac.