A Cop Pulled Over A Guy For Driving 88 MPH In A DeLorean And Heartlessly Still Ended Up Giving Him A Speeding Ticket

THR- A Southern California man wanted to get his newly acquired DeLorean up to 88 mph, but all he got for his effort was a speeding ticket from the California Highway Patrol — and a great anecdote. Spencer White did, in fact, hit the special Back to the Future number on Friday in his 1982 DeLorean while blazing down Highway 14, but he was not transported to the future nor the past. He just got a citation, according to The Signal, a Santa Clarita newspaper.

Still, White’s achieved goal did put a smile on the face of the CHP officer who pulled him over, according to the newspaper. “[The trooper] asked me how fast I thought I was going,” White said. The officer, smiling, told White he was going exactly 88 mph. “All of us started busting up laughing,” White said, according to The Signal.

Look I understand cops are out there to protect us common folks from people driving fast and blah blah blahhhh. Trust me, there is seldom a better feeling than having some jerkoff blow by you on the highway only to see him pulled over a few miles down the road. After all, you never know why a person is driving like a maniac. That person could be a hardo, in a hurry or is zooted to another planet because he looks like this.

But if you are the cop, you have have haaaaave to rip up the ticket the minute you see that the guy you caught going 88 MPH was driving a DeLorean. If he was going 89 MPH or 87 MPH, you can throw the book at him. But when a person driving a DeLorean gets caught driving exactly 88 MPH, you have to be a special kind of dick to not give the driver a Get Out Of (Traffic) Jail card that is immediately redeemable. This entire situation was an example of the cinematic gods smiling upon both of these guys and giving each if them a story to tell for the rest of their lives. The cop should have pulled the driver over, showed him the radar gun, high fived the guy, and then talked about all their favorite parts of a goddamn classic American trilogy (or at least the first two. I wasn’t a big fan of Back To The Future 3).

Then once they were done talking about how great the movie is, they should have discussed just how great some of the in-depth Easter eggs are in the movie. I still haven’t gotten over Twin Pines Mall becoming Lone Pine Mall because Marty ran over a pine tree when he went back to 1955.

And if the cop STILL wanted to give the driver a ticket, the driver should have given the cop the gesture Doc Brown’s youngest and most twisted kid gave Marty and Jennifer at the end of BTTF3.