If anyone hasn't been up close and looked at one of those WSP Charger stealth patrol cars....

javanator · 05-07-2007, 12:13 PM

just know that they are pretty dang stealthy.

I got caught behind one returning to the WSP barn thats located right behind Chaplins VW/Subaru in Bellevue/Eastgate.

When exiting off I-90 EB, I ended up following this light brown/bronze colored Charger in front of me. Right after coming up behind it at the 148th St exit, I was looking at its back end and started saying to myself..."the WSP has a mini-fleet of these cruising the area". All the while I was looking at this non-descript-plain-jane license plate it had, a trunk lid of an extremely noticeably dirty car that had three kid sized hand prints on it from where they touched/closed the trunk, and brake-dust covered wheels worse than an Audi. Suddenly, my brain started processing visual input down different neuron paths and my WSP-defensive sensors started going off. One sensor clued into second antennae on the back end, a foot-high black antennae middle of the trunk behind the extremely dark tinted windows, followed shortly after by a second sensor cluing into the small stealthy LED light bar sitting on the inside rear seat deck where most cars have their third brake light (as I followed him around the off-ramp, the sun came through his windshield in just the right way that I then saw the light bar through the extremely dark window tint).

I muted the sensors and hung back a bit, and thanked the Audi gods that I hadn't had my second addict-caffeine-fix of the day yet that would have probably added a few foot-pounds to my right foot. If I had made a run by him just before the freeway off-ramp, instead of lazily laying back and following him off the freeway, I would probably be posting right now about a ticket.

First time I have seen one of these Chargers up close, and they sure are stealthy. Keeping the grime on the car and wheels, and having kid hand-prints on the trunk are clearly "bad form" on their part in my book.

GoCougarsWSU · 05-07-2007, 01:08 PM

CrayonSpear · 05-07-2007, 01:38 PM

For night patrol...Because everyone "knows" that police cars are regularly maintained a "dim" bulb would be taken care of right away...
So they pace you at night and you go...just a Crown Vic... not a po po..

Busted...

But yes the tint is super dark...I wonder if it is even "legal" because they have the front windows tinted so darkly as well...

onebrokenneck · 05-07-2007, 10:26 PM

I see cops breaking traffic laws all the time when they're just tooling around town.

vladbe · 05-07-2007, 02:35 PM

fourdotwo · 05-07-2007, 02:53 PM

in puyallup

Pete RD · 05-07-2007, 05:43 PM

equally dirty off-road bikes in the bed!

Be carefull out there!

UrbanAssaultAudi · 05-08-2007, 06:49 AM

If you look at the one that hangs around Ellensburg, one fog light is blue, the other is red. I don't think any parent, no matter how mean, needs a dog screen between the front and rear seats. The Mariners license plate frame is a nice touch also. sneeeaky bishes.

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CrayonSpear Junior Member Garage is empty, add now Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,726	I heard about CHP putting wet paper towels over a single headlight... For night patrol...Because everyone "knows" that police cars are regularly maintained a "dim" bulb would be taken care of right away... So they pace you at night and you go...just a Crown Vic... not a po po.. Busted... But yes the tint is super dark...I wonder if it is even "legal" because they have the front windows tinted so darkly as well... __________________ 01.5 1.8TQMS Bose, CDC, Celebration, Cold,and Xenons...MODS...MODS...New Beetle Sunglasses holder, YAK Rack, Delphi Sky Fi, A4 Rubber Mats...oh yeah and APR Ver 3.0

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onebrokenneck Audiworld Junior Member Garage is empty, add now Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 589	Legal Shmeegal... they're cops. What does the law have to do with it? I see cops breaking traffic laws all the time when they're just tooling around town. __________________ onebrokenneck

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UrbanAssaultAudi AudiWorld Super User 1988 Audi 90 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Auburn Posts: 4,523	Charger in E-burg If you look at the one that hangs around Ellensburg, one fog light is blue, the other is red. I don't think any parent, no matter how mean, needs a dog screen between the front and rear seats. The Mariners license plate frame is a nice touch also. sneeeaky bishes.

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