I DID!
I drove a bubble back in Mountain Lakes for the few months I was there (it was my FTOs assigned vehicle) and I was assigned a bubble back in Fanwood for about a year. In Fanwood, where the speed limits were all 35 or under. You could put it in drive and just idle around town, bascially. Pulling on to 22 to grab dinner at the diner, and a few shooting responses in Plainfield were the most I ever got to enjoy it. But it was nice to be able to run stationary radar with my legs up across the bench seat.
@Patrick I was in Mountain Lakes in 1997. 287 was done and they were experimenting with the HOV lane at the time. The commute sucked. 287 was completed when I was in high school. There was supposed to be a troop station opened up when the highway opened. That still hasn't happened and it's why you see Passaic Sheriff, Franklin Lakes, and Pompton Plains guys up on the highway at times. It's the NJ Autobahn.
After the bubble back was pulled from service in Fanwood (it had the famous LT1 water pump leak that was getting worse), I was assigned to one of these. It drove fine but didn't have a cage, so I quickly got reassigned to a Crown Vic because I was annoying the senior guys with arrests.
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The oldest cop car I drove was a square back Caprice in pursuit driving in the academy. I set the EVOC course record for the class in it.
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