Driving home from work at 3am, a California Highway Patrol car pulled up

[driver8]

next to me, turned on his lights, and then pointed this huge spotlight into my car. This was on the freeway going 75 miles an hour...

He then turned off the spotlight, pulled in front of me with his lights still on. I thought he wanted me to follow him off the freeway so he could give me a ticket. He then turned off his lights, and took off like a bat out of hell.

I thought this was kind of weird. I've never heard of a cop shining a light in your face on the freeway.

Anyone have an idea what he was doing??

[In_The_Wind]

1. I guess he wasn't looking for you BUT why did he have to blind you first.

Shining a light in your eyes at 75 miles an hour could have caused a wreck!

[driver8]

2. That's exactly what I was thinking...it was very strange. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Maybe they had an APB out on somebody who was driving a car

like yours? In any event, that's really dangerous.

[Blue Diadem]

4. Pretty dangerous for him to do that, imo,

He probably was either looking for a suspect in a similar vehicle or he was looking to see if you were shall we say..under the influence.

My oldest son has been pulled over around that same time just to "see" if he was drinking. He hadn't done anything wrong, the cop told him he was just checking why he was on the road at that time of the night. My son works a evening/night shift and if there's overtime, he'll be on the road home around that time. Around here, bars close at 2:00 (I think)..so anywhere between 2:00am and 3:00 is usually prime for being checked out.