Story told!!
Okay--Time for a short story??
Do you all remember the storm of 88 when we got 18" the first of each month--Jan, Feb,March. Okay?! I was getting a bit cocky about riding the sled around the area--First kept it in the neighborhood--then started hitting the main 4 lane roads--then started making high speed runs late night.
Well needless to say--They had been looking for me
tracks all over the Renton highlands and reports of some sled going Mach 1 down the main roads passing cars (remember-I was younger then). Well--They eventually,during the March storm caught up to me
Oops!!
A series of bad events happened all at once, I guess it was just a matter of
before something gave up (I had not rejetted for lower elevation)
The officers had just radared me going 87MPH down a 5 lane road that had a speed limit of 45MPH without snow
. Well the radioed ahead for any officer availible!! I was making some tracks and ready to peel off the main road and take the backroads to ditch the officer (that is all I thought I was contending with at the time) and there must have been a convention of officers down at the donut shop and they all bailed out of the shop or something!!
Of course what did I not do
to the sled?? Rejet the sucker for almost sea level--Big oopser--The engine BLEW!! I did not even have time to bail and leave the sled--The officiers came out of the wood work--they were everywhere--You would have thought I had just robbed a bank and shot someone.
I was pinned to the ground and cuffed--Hauled to jail--sled impounded--and spent the weekend in jail!!
It was a real expensive venture!! The WIFE was pissed off in a big way!! She had been telling me not to do it--was a bummer that she was right
Needless to say--I was locked up for the weekend--spent several trips to court and out of pocket expenses was around $2000 and that did not account for the engine I had to replace
.
There--It is out of the bag Pinned W F O!!!
I can laugh now about this--But I can not imagine what they might do now to you--Probabley a Felony if you got caught doing this now!! You can not help but blow by the cars on the road--and they freak out when you blow by them!! It was great getting a glimpse of their expressions as you went by---LMAO.
And that is all I have to say about that
Oh--I will deny any knowledge of this ever happening---
H20SKE...