Anyone ever get caught by the cops...

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power sliding/drifting/driving agressively in a corporate complex?

There are about 2 seperate corporate complexes by my house (one is Volvo's main headquaters). I love these places because they are like free road courses - except that they don't go in circles. They are just corporate driveways with practically no traffic. The volvo complex has some potholes, so I usually go to the other one (lets call it complex B). However, the volvo complex is slightly bigger than complex B. Complex B has 3 really nice turns that you can slide around (I'm too scared to completely drift my car around the turns and doubt I could in AWD without screwing up my car) and it has a 1/4 mile straight away at the end (the entire staright away isn't shown in the pic).

Anyway, last night, I decided to spend a minute or two driving in complex B. I usually limit my time there to 2 laps (ie. drving to the end of the road, coming back to the driveway entrance, going back to the end of the driveway, and then coming back out. This is so the guys who own/run the businesses don't call the cops. But, last night I did 3 laps.

Just as I was about to finish my 3rd lap and go back home I saw a cop. It was right when I was coming out of "Turn 2" (look at pic). I was doing about 45 around this 90 degree turn and I was power sliding (same with Turn 3). The cop came around Turn 1 and saw me speeding through Turn 2. He turned on his sirens right away.

I considered getting away (i've never done it before) since I had already passed him by now (it took me a while to slow down) and he had to start making a U-turn. But, I pulled over at the corner of trun 1. He had a WTF-look on his face when he got to my window. First thing he said was "what smells". I got my tires to screech around turns 2 and 3; and they were burning up. he thought I was doing donuts - that's how bad it smelled. Anyway, he gave me a $200 ticket for doing 45 in a 25. Luckily he didn't notice that my car isn't inspected!

I'm not sure if $200 was worth spending 15 minutes speeding, but it was fun.


And, yes I took the time to draw this thing. I've been so bored today.