I have a lawyer that got me out of a jam.
It's a pretty lengthy story, so skip or read on.
Hanging out at the typical hang-out spot.. Wendy's parking lot. Which happens to be a large parking area encompassing several stores.
My friend of a long time's cousin, who is 14 (I was 20 at the time) and was constantly around us when we were all growing up, wants me to take him for a ride. So I say, "hop in" and we jump on the highway, quick to 80, then back off the highway, go around the rotary (roundabout for UK'ers and Oz and "circle" for NJ'ers) and do the same. Up the onramp, 80'ish, down the offramp.
He says to do a burnout when I get back to Wendy's, so I look around and see nobody, pull in, go to the far side of the Lot, and pop 2 quick donuts, followed by a short brakestand to rolling burnout. I think all of 20mph was achieved as I head towards my friends. With a sinking in my chest, I look left and see a cop coming with his lights on. "Shit" I think to myself, as I sneak around behind Wendy's before I'm headed off like I'm trafficking Heroin or something...
He asks me what the hell I think I'm doing, to which I respond "I don't know".
Blah blah, then he starts giving me shit about the passenger.
cop: "Who's that?"
me: "A friend"
cop: "A friend?! How old are you, son (looking at passenger)"
passenger: "14"
cop: *Snaps a glare back at me, and actually steps back and reaches for his gun and asks EXTREMELY cautiously "What are you doing hanging out with a 14 year old BOY!??"
me: "um, he's my friend's cousin, and was always around us when we were younger. his cousin is over there" *points*
cop: "keep your hands in the car.. Don't you find it a bit odd that you're 'hanging out' with a 14 year old BOY?"
me: "no sir, certainly not as much as you. you'd understand if you knew more."
cop: "well, its quite disturbing to me."
me: "sorry to hear that."
So, I'm a pedophile? ok...
I got a record of the police report, and his copy of the ticket that states what happened and where, why, how, who.. so on.
He mentions my buddy's cousin and some wierd remarks that makes me out to be some potential sicko.. good....
Then, this is how he recollects the situation.
I witnessed a Black sports car enter the parking lot at an extremely high rate of speed. So fast, that the vehicle actually went up on the two side wheels as he cornered.
Then the vehicle preceded to do a repeated S-Curve pattern across the parking lot while spinning the tires, producing smoke. The vehicle then, lost control and spun 5 or 6 times (Doughnuts). The suspect then stopped spinning in circles, but still remained spinning the tires while stopped creating excessive amounts of smoke and noise.
The vehicle then took off so fast that the front wheels lifted off the ground as it accelerated across the parking lot speeding, and narrowly missing pedestrians, parked vehicles, and customers of surrounding stores.
I, then, pulled the vehicle over and the operator clearly stated "I don't know why I did that. It was a dumb thing to do, and I'm stupid for doing it"
Mods at the time were ST springs/bilstein, 3"dp, intake, mbc@10psi(more, but those are the essentials)
1: I'm no pedophile!
2: sweet! my car can drive on two side wheels. I'm the next Joie Chitwood.
3: World Record holder for stock mk3 wheelie on 225/50r16 Fuzion ZR-i !!!!
4: I never made those closing statements...
I went to court, and they told me that the cop was a known exaggerator, and would drop the charges if I agreed to pay a $250 court fee. My lawyer stood up and said "Make that $125" and the judge agreed. haha...
That's just my kind of luck though...