This part is true here as well.
Okay, funny story. It's in the past so I can laugh about it.
POS import car kept trying to get me to race at each light we stopped at. 4 or 5 in a row, he kept spinning the front tires and making all kinds of noise with his fart canon.
I had a buddy with me, just begging me to race the guy. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. The import guy on one side harassing me, and my buddy on the other side harassing me. The next light I threw him a rev. Oh, it was on..... and Donkey Kong had nothing on it.
When the light turned green. I launched in a cloud of smoke. I guess I scared the import... he try to launch hard and killed it. Funny right? Little did I know, there was a cop that was working his way through traffic behind us. Yup, MY show was enough to get him to turn on the lights and move everyone else out of the way.
I lucked out. The cop that pulled me over, knew my friend riding with me. He pleaded and pleaded. Finally the cop admitted he had seen the guy harassing me. I got out of a ticket, but it was a close one. His backup showed up and got pissed he didn't issue a ticket. I heard them arguing behind my car about it.
The cop gave me some friendly advice... and unfortunately I was too young to get it the first time. (Yeah, later had ANOTHER cop say basically the same thing.)
"You have a very nice car, it looks fast when it's not even moving. You don't NEED to prove anything."