TIFU I accidentally ran from the cops and the reason why is so ridiculous
I was driving home late from work and it was raining and I had my music turned up. I was driving through a small town when I noticed the flashing lights behind me. I started to pull to the side of the road. I seriously don’t know why but for some reason I thought the cop behind me was an ambulance, I waited for the “ambulance” to pass me and when it obviously didn’t I assumed that it was turning somewhere else or it already was where it needed to be. So I kept driving and after a few minutes I saw the lights behind me again and that’s when my dumbass finally realized that it was a cop. He immediately asked if I was running from him but when I explained to the cop that I thought he was an ambulance he looked at me as if it were my first day on earth. TL;DR I thought a cop was an ambulance, continued driving and in the end he gave me a warning for running and a fat ticket for speeding. Definitely not my finest moment 😭
I also wanted to add that when I was getting pulled over I heard no sirens. I did have my music up but I turned it down when I saw the lights expecting to hear sirens, I did think it was an ambulance but since there were no sirens it really added to my confusion. And when it came to the speeding it was absolutely not intentional. I am generally a cautious driver and for a long time I was an anxious driver. That was the first and only time I’ll speed.