Cautionary Tale: When A Booty Call Goes Bad
Cops: Motorist, 18, was racing to have "relations"
DECEMBER 7--A Florida motorist told police that he was in such a rush to meet his girlfriend for a sexual encounter that he did not notice that a cop car with its lights flashing and siren sounding tried to pull him 
over for speeding and reckless driving.
After spotting a Honda Accord barreling through a Clearwater neighborhood late Saturday night, a patrolman in an unmarked car activated the vehicle’s emergency lights and siren in an attempt to pull over the speeding car.
Instead, “the vehicle accelerated” and fled the attempted stop, according to a criminal complaint.
With the aid of additional police cars in the area, a patrolman subsequently tracked down the Honda and arrested driver Ruben Hughes, 18. After being read his rights, Hughes reportedly said that he “did not see or hear” the pursuing cop car’s “emergency equipment.”
Seen above, Hughes explained that he was “trying to meet his girlfriend for relations and he was trying to get there,” the complaint notes.
The botched booty call resulted in Hughes’s arrest for fleeing and eluding a police officer, a felony. Hughes, who works at a pizza shop, spent about 16 hours in custody before being released on his own recognizance.
Hughes’s rap sheet includes three separate speeding convictions in the past 14 months. He was also arrested in February on a vehicle burglary charge, but prosecutors later dropped the felony case. (1 page)
