Worst. Getaway. Ever.

I hate when you're trying to make a fast getaway and traffic won't let you merge in. Reminds me of this time me and my buddy were in Martha's Vineyard. He had a fake ID, that was actually his older brother's driver's liscence, that worked every time. We were going to the beach, but we stopped at a store first to buy some beers. Surprisingly, his ID got denied and was taken by the cashier. He quickly walked out saying "They took the ID. They're calling the cops!" We told him to keep walking and not get in the car, but he got in anyways. Then as we were trying to make our getaway, there was a lot of traffic, as there normally is on the Vineyard, so we couldn't merge into traffic. The lady from the store watched my buddy get into the car, then she came out and wrote down our liscence plate number. We were ducking down in the car like idiots, hoping she wouldn't see us. The kid who was driving the car freaked out and said he had to drop us off at the place we were staying, which was literally right around the corner from the store. You could actually see the house from where she was standing. So needless to say, she knew exactly where to find us when a bike cop responded to her call. We could see them talking and pointing at us from our front porch.

My buddy was all freaked out, so he hid inside the bathroom, hoping the cop wouldn't find him. So the bike cop shows up and she asks where he went to. We all played dumb and acted like we didn't know, until she threatened to arrest us all unless my buddy came out. He was pretending to take a shit, and he was reading a Playboy when somebody told him to come out. I heard the guy say, "This is no time for Playboy! The cops are outside right now! So finally he came out, he tried to play it cool and just act like the ID was really him, even though it really didn't look like him at all. The cop looks at the ID, then looks at him and says "so this is really you?" and he goes, "yep, that's me." To which she responds "No it isn't. I went to high school with this guy." It was true. He was totally busted. The cop actually ended up being pretty cool, letting him off with just a warning. She took the ID though, which sucked because we didn't have a way to get beer any more until I turned 21 at the end of the summer. We never even thought to just pull a snatch and grab like this guy.