I too had a fun bust yesterday. From Blair to Owatonna(north of Albert Lea) and back for another 698 mile waste. The highlight of the chase was being tailed by a couple chasers at Owatonna. I get to the super 8 there and notice two guys in a car. At first they weren't paying any attention to me, then next thing I know they are looking every time I look up from the laptop.
After 30 minutes or so there I decide to leave and head west to look at the sky, since wifi data was getting less and less helpful thanks to the cloud cover. As soon as I pull out they whip out behind me onto the frontage road. I was like, great I'm going to be followed now. They make sure to stay right with me on the highway heading west. A few miles west of town I turn north, but as soon as I make the turn I pull over onto the shoulder. Well sure enough, they made the turn right behind me. They go around and drive north and I think maybe they aren't going to follow me. Then about a 1/4 mile down the road they stop and pull of in some driveway or road facing east. So I sit there for a couple minutes wondering why the hell they don't just come over and say "hey, what's going on" if they had to follow me. Nothing was going on and they apparently just had data at the super 8 and that too made me wonder. And most importantly, the way I'm doing this year, why on Earth would anyone follow me! I kept thinking to myself, you really don't want to follow me.
Since they wanted to do it this way without just stopping and saying hello or something, I said fine, I'll play. Hell nothing was going on anyway. I decide to flip back around and get back on the highway and head back east from where I came. I thought surely they won't keep up this blatantly obvious following. Well while I'm pulling off the shoulder and flipping aruond they back out! I had a 1/4 mile head start on them and hammer it down heading east. At the next mile grid I turn south very fast and do about 80 down that gravel road(it was a good gravel road). If they wanted to follow me ariound, never saying hi, and after just having data at the super 8, with nothing going on....well they were going to have to work for it. Before I made that turn south I saw some head lights behind me, but think that was the car coming east I turned onto the highway ahead of and that they must have been right behind it. While going south I couldn't see anything behind me but a ton of dust in the air. So, I get to the next grid and do the same thing to the east for a mile. I then turn back north on the next one and stop. I wait for the dust to settle and they are nowhere in sight, lol.
That was some good fun there. I bet they got to the traffic I was catching up to before making the turn south and were like, what the hell. Other than the one time someone asked me if they could follow, this was the only time I've had this happen. Whoever you are, just stop and say hello next time. It is that easy. And thanks for the fun, it actually helped the bust.
What is with the 4 way stops in that city? I get off the interstate to turn west/left and there is a busy 4 lane highway/street with no stop lights. The exit ramp was 2 lanes as well. I stop and look left at 2 lanes of people stopped and right at 2 lanes of people stopped, and then the cars coming from some street infront of me. All this traffic and just some 4 way stop signs. I was like, oh yeah this looks like fun. I've never seen anything like that. They surely have to have lots of accidents there, 8 people trying to see what each other are doing at the same time, and new ones replacing them everytime one moves through. It was kind of like, close your eyes and go. I feel like a pretty good driver that can avoid accidents, but did not feel that way trying to get through that. It did not look like a temporary thing either, like there was construction or something. Anyway, that is the only interesting stuff I could come up with from this bust.
