I definately think this is entrapment. All of you who say "you shouldn't give in or race or drive 5mph over the speed limit," wahh wahhh everyone does it including you so get over it. Even if you do not street race (I disagree with street racing because it endangers others but am not going to sit here and act high and mighty like I have never done it), everyone has made a poor decision in a situation based on being antagonized or instigated whether it be fighting because of an insult, or blowing the doors off of the beat up honda next to you because you are so tired of beat up hondas revving at your 500hp car.
Hatfield has an undercover Charger with the SRT-8 wing, SRT-8 wheels, R/T badges everywhere, and 3% tinted windows. Now, if I saw this car and decided to race simply because it looked fast (which is obviously why the police have dressed it up as they have), then NO it would not be entrapment just as going up to a girl to solicit sex just because she is dressed up as a prostitute would not be entrapment.
HOWEVER if that same girl starts enticing you or tries to grab your family jewels in promise of " $5 that will make you holla' " then that is certainly entrapment because the prostitute is clearly provoking the innocent civilian. By that same standard, what happened to me was certainly entrapment:
A while back I was driving in my 2007 BMW 335i coupe on 309 right by Walnut street (near broad street and the train tracks if you are familiar with the area). Anyway, a blacked out GTO with smoked tails and black wheels pulled up next to me at the light. My testosterone and 17 year-old immortality meant that we HAD to race. We both left the light normally but somehow got on it at the same time and raced up to 130mph (right past where all the cops sit
). There is a slight bend up there so I let off and shortly slowed down to about 45mph, and the GTO does a little later than I do. I then see the above-mentioned charger pull out after me and start weaving through traffic without a turn signal in order to catch up to us. After riding my ass, I go to stop at a yellow light that the GTO had already made it through, and the Charger cuts over, no signal, and blows the light. I could hear him accelerating and watched him proceed to ldrive irratically, tailgate, and then line up with the GTO. A few miles down the road, the GTO sat pulled over. I has lol's, he has ticket.
If the GTO just saw the charger and said man we should race just as I sw him and proceeded to do, there is no entrapment because he is the idiot.
BUT if the Charger drove irradically, tail gated, etc, many people will panic and accelerate to get out of the way and when after doing that the seemingly fast car then lines up with you and proceeds to race, sorry, THAT IS ENTRAPMENT!