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I was in my friends WRX the other night. We were driving home from Petersham towards Rockdale, accelerating fast but not over the limit, rev out 1st gear then just hit 2nd a couple of times. By the way he has a Megasonic BOV which attracted a lot of attention.

Anyways, I looked in the passenger side mirror and saw a plain AU Falcon with normal number plates on it with 4 ppl in the car 3 males and a female driver, thought nothing of it so we continued as normal. Friend got a phone call so he pulled over and the Falcon passed us but slowed down...we thought it drove off.

When my friend finished the phone call, we went back on our way. We caught back up to the Falcon but we were still doing the speed limit. It pulled over and let us pass, which i thought was very very weird. We then took our normal shortcut and 20metres from turning the street we see hear a siren from behind..it didn't sound like a typical Cop siren, they then put a blue flashing light up on their roof.

The female driver told us to turn off the car. 2 people get out, the 2 males from the back seat. "Licence please" he says.

My friend kindly handed it over. Then the Female driver comes out along with the male in the Front passenger seat. We had 4 cops surrounding us. Each of them in plain clothes. This is where I started to shit myself.

Funny thing is, EACH one of them had torches, and asked BOTH of us to get out of the car. And they were also considerably young early 20's...we started to get suspiscious.

They asked us where we were off, to where we were from and reasons why.

Then they asked my friend to open up his bonnet. So he agreeably did.

"Your blow off valve is quite loud, my friend" one guy said. "You should really get that fixed and plumbed back".

I thought..hmm..he knows his shit.

Whilst 2 cops were checkin under the bonnet, the 2 others were scoping inside the car. I over heard a couple of words.."alarm, immobiliser and pin code"

Thats when i got really suspiscious...so i asked to see their badges. They all looked at eachother. One said "don't be a smartarse".."both of you please get back in your car"

My friend got his Licence back and the cops just left it at that.

We quickly took the licence plate. And were thinking..."what the f**k just happened".

Should we report this. Or is it pointless.

I believe that they were going to hi-jack us and probably have done this before.

Probably had a tow truck ready to lift the car.

But to our suspiscions they got scared..

Mystery...

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report them and give us all the number plate and discription of the car. There is no way in hell there coppers and we should all be sus of this car. Also there still should be an ugly large antenna hanging of it aswell if its a genuwine cop car.

report them and give us all the number plate and discription of the car. There is no way in hell there coppers and we should all be sus of this car. Also there still should be an ugly large antenna hanging of it aswell if its a genuwine cop car.

Detectives cars dont usually have large antennas, yet usually are still fitted with lights in the grille or on the dash.. They will still pull you over if they see you doing something stupid, as one of my mates found out! I dont think they've used the magnetic ones on the roof since the 80's have they? :O

I'd report it to the cops anyway, just in case. I'm pretty sure all the AU Falcons have been cycled out of police duties by now.

The cops also have a severe dislike to people pretending to be them. If they were potential car thieves, its better to let the cops earn their pay and f**k these guys' shit up before they come for your mate's car.

If I ever get pulled over and the cops refuse to show me a badge, I'm shooting through and making a bee-line to the nearest police station. If they're legit, we can discuss their failure to adhere to standard procedure at the station.

thats too suss. what colour was the Falcon? what were the plates? and what was their appearance / nationality?

i drive through that area. thanks for warning.

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You dont have to get out of the car if you dont feel safe, unless of course you are being arrested for doing some thing stupid. If they didnt show me their badge I would have called the cops and reported the situation and then ask them to send out a uniformed officer

Report it.

Police often travel in 2 and will almost never surround the car one will remain in your blind spot until you exit the car, for safety sake.

Rockdale is a "bad" area most likely they were doing as you suspected. I would personally lock down the car for a few days away from home.

To be honest, I don't think this is nearly as suspect as you might think. I imagine you've just mixed up the Falcon's and that it was actually some detective's working in the area on something else. They more than likely just thought it worthwhile to check the car over for drugs or whatever else. And they would've been commenting on the immobiliser as it's a good indication that the car belongs to you and you haven't stolen it.

They wouldn't have defected you for the BOV as they're not highway patrol officers, so it doesn't really matter to them.

Report it if you like, but I'm sure it's paranoia more than anything.

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