I had a different night last night...
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Wow, that was a bit of a risky adventure now wasn't it - let's hope the cops catch those idiots. I'd advise against doing that again. Not to play "one up", but I had a "chase-'em" scene like that when I was much younger, 'cept I was the one being chased by the Caddilac!!
We were driving down a river road (normally very quiet) in my '71 Mustang (w/351C) when we saw 2 people in the road in front of us, so we stopped. We noticed that it was a couple that was fighting and the woman was walking away from her "man". For some reason, one of my buddies in the car decided that it would he "fun" to "harass" this woman at this time. As we drove by he made some crude remark. We laughed and then after passing I looked in the rear view and they were rushing into their large Cadillac (6th gen Deville?) to chase us! Woohoo! Chase on!
I'm not sure what these clowns would have done if they had caught up to us, but I thought it would be fun to see what this boat could do chasing a Mustang. Wow! This dude must have been pissed! Talk about catching somebody in an emotional state, he was bombing after me with reckless abandon! That's OK, I had a plan. "I'm gonna take him to the tracks (trolley) and see if we can spin 'em" (if you've ever driven on trolley tracks, you know that if you get your tires caught on the rails, you can wipe out if you suddenly rip the wheel to get out of them.) So we're coming out of the river area to an intersection where the tracks are turning to a street on the right. I noticed that there was construction going on right in the middle of the road in front of us! I said "watch this" to my buddies and drove right at the construction making sure the Cadillac was right on my ass all the time. We were going about 60MPH when I said "hold on" and just 30 feet from the construction I ripped the wheel left and used the handling of the Mustang to zip around the construction island.
My calculations were right on as the Cadillac dude was not able to see the construction when behind me and could not possibly avoid it with bombardier handing characteristics. I looked in the rear-view - [SIZE="6"]BOOM!!![/SIZE], it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. I saw the 3 or so orange barrels go flying in different directions - literally flying 100's of feet down the street and careening off of parked cars and buildings! The bottom of his car took a serious blow when it hit the opening in the road - sparks flying all over the place. Somehow with the momentum and length of the car, he was able to keep it going straight and kept on chasing me!! (I told you this dude was angry!) At that point I decided to drive on over into the Projects - knowing that no white man from outside my neighborhood would dare follow me in there (if was risky for me to do even, but I knew what parts were "quieter" than others.) It worked, he would not follow me in.
After leaving the projects and cruising to the other side of the hill (adrenaline juice was still flowing) we saw the Cadillac and thought "heh, let's chase him now!" so I turned quickly around to go get him. Unfortunately, he saw me and was able to get away before I could start the reversed chase. Probably just as well as we were actually a little annoyed by the time we realized that the dude was trying to hurt us and were in the mood to drag them out of the car and beat them senseless had we caught them. I still have visions of those barrels flying through the air even though this happened over 25 years ago. :burnout: :flame: 
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