For $21,500, be a CHiP off the old small block

If you happen to be an extrovert, like say, Charlie Sheen, then an SSP Mustang in full CHP livery might be the perfect car for you. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘92 EVOC is just such a car, although I think Charlie'd be more comfortable in back.

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California Tests Pot Drivers' Sobriety By Putting The High In Highway…

To show how legalizing marijuana in California would lead to more impaired drivers, the California Highway Patrol put two media types behind the wheel after smoking state-supplied chronic, in varieties called "Train Wreck" and "Blockhead." (H/t to Ari!) [LA Times]

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Runaway Toyota Prius Stopped By California Patrol Car

An out-of-control Toyota Prius was brought to a halt today in San Diego by a California Highway Patrol car putting itself in front of it like a brake. According to the CHP, the car suffered from a stuck accelerator. UPDATE.

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The Great Traffic-Law Controversy: Tesla Tagged With Ticket

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The Tesla Roadster has yet to officially hit the streets, but the electric Elise-cousin has stirred the ire of the Calfornia Highway Patrol. The electron-powered sportster chock-full of lithium-ion technology, was nailed by the po-pos not far from the company's San Carlos, California facility. Look out, honey, because …

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Team Police Officer Arrested by Polizei

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Since we got tipped to this by Thnderblt, Jamillah of tha Beeb and Herr Roy himself, we kind of can't not post it. A 35-year-old G ttengen man was taken in by German authorities for impersonating an officer in a 30-year-old California Highway Patrol car. Apparently, the man was taking the car to Bavaria to sell when…

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John, Ponch Want New Beemers, Harley Wants to Sell Them Bikes

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The California Highway Patrol is caught up in a bit of a snafu. For the last six years, the law-enforcement agency has been buying and riding BMW patrol bikes through a Roseville, California dealership. A Santa Cruz Harley-Davidson agency, however, submitted a bid reportedly a cool mil less in an attempt to score the…

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Testarossa Crash in SoCal: Two Dead, One Possibly CHP

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Let us say right now that as opposed to other law enforcement agencies, the CHP has only ever busted us when we were actually doing something really wrong. And they've always been courteous and professional about it. So we're a little surprised that an apparent CHP officer was killed in a single-car pileup involving a …

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