LEO as a Rabbit?

**category4** · 01-04-2010, 05:32 PM

I used on as a rabbit last week. On my way back from Birmingham, I'm running about 15 over and look in the mirror to see a LEO coming up fast.

I think how did he clock me, and pull to the right lane. He goes on by at about 20-25 over PSL and I notice he is a deputy from GA over in AL. So I follow him at a discrete distance all the way to the border.

**srtga** · 01-04-2010, 05:34 PM

I used to travel through a town that had a big LEO training center so they're would always be LEOs rollin through who were out of their juristictions. They make good rabbits

GSP will get them as well

I had a trooper tell me that they would pull other LEOs over in a hurry!

**dslrip32** · 01-04-2010, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by category4

I used on as a rabbit last week. On my way back from Birmingham, I'm running about 15 over and look in the mirror to see a LEO coming up fast.

I think how did he clock me, and pull to the right lane. He goes on by at about 20-25 over PSL and I notice he is a deputy from GA over in AL. So I follow him at a discrete distance all the way to the border.

Yeppers.... Those kind of out of state LEO's make very good rabbits... And just to think that LEO's think a radar detector is a license to speed, when in fact a badge and patrol car is a license to speed,

LOL

**Lucky225** · 01-04-2010, 05:43 PM

I do this often, I usually run the scanner tho.

**The Chariot** · 01-04-2010, 05:58 PM

Seems to be a double edged sword.

On the one hand he's clearing a path for you and can be a great rabbit.

One the other, if a hiding LEO shoots radar, gets a PSL + 20 reading, sees two cars... which of the 2 is he not going to pull over? Likewise, a standard rabbit is going to jam on the binders if he sees an LEO, giving you advance warning. Odds are good the LEO rabbit won't slow down and you've just become the bait.

I don't know if I'd have the guts to do it....

**stano0098** · 01-04-2010, 06:11 PM

I do it often too. Being that in Pa uses no moving radar i use them as rabbits. I just stay back a little further then this guy did. Just in case. They like to travel at speeds close to 90 when they are on the highway too which could possibly be used against them if they do decide to pull me over. Traveling at that speed without an emergency.

**9500ier** · 01-04-2010, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by GreenRadar

Originally Posted by 9500ier

I do it more than I should admit... Just make sure to keep good distance or lots of traffic bw u and them. Also fall back once they hit triple digits is also a generally good idea.

do you mean to say that you have followed a LEO up to 100 MPH, wow, now you got some guts

Yes... depends on how the LEO is acting though. Generally it would be an unmarked car with no laptop, like a detective's car. Usually they have somewhere to get or just don't care that much about traffic violations. I let them get a good distance ahead. They are usually hard to keep up with in traffic though, because when they break free they go well over 100... and I am not usually willing to do that with an LEO in sight.

In Miami, I have actually passed cops doing 5-10 over and slowly sped up to nearly 100 once they were far enough behind me. Those are usually cops with no radar and on the cell phone (lots of them in Miami).

**dslrip32** · 01-04-2010, 06:46 PM

Again please note that this was the last video of this little 50+ mile long "LEO/Rabbit following caravan". At the beginning I was behind a black car that was behind this LEO, and I was probably 1/4 mile back from the LEO. This last video was shot when he got caught up in traffic in the fast lane/left lane, which by the way is the opposite apparently in Oklahoma. I swear more Okies drive under the speed limit in the left lane, and you actually have to pass them in the right lane, LOL.

That is going to be another video series all together, LOL. I come across about a minimum of 10 under the speed limit, left lane drivers in OK., every single day.

**2Bolt** · 01-04-2010, 06:48 PM

For the first time I used a Motorcycle LEO today that I followed. He was only doing 4-5 over the PSL. It was about 20 minutes or so on a highway on my way home from work.
I been seeing new fancy motorcycles the LEOs been using in one town. They usually shoot the traffic while parked though.
He finally pulled over to a spot to park so he could probably start his shift. Laser manic area I go through daily.