Cops trying to make you speed by driving like drunks

[gofrogs91]

I was driving between Dallas and Fort Worth the other night on a huge highway where the speed limit is 70. I was going exactly the speed limit and had been driving in that same lane for about 15 miles when I notice this car that was a good ways behind me speed up and start tailgating me so close that I couldn't see the headlights in my rearview mirror. The car starts flashing its brights at me and honking, so I speed up to about 76 to increase the distance a bit so I can change lanes, and BOOM flashing lights and siren and I get pulled over. The Texas state trooper asks me if there was some special reason why I "just took off" to which I responded that he was tailgating me close and flashing his brights and honking and I was confused and trying to change lanes as safely as possible. In the end I just got a warning but the whole time I felt like I had been tricked into "breaking the law.'

Anybody else have this happen to them or have any comments? I'd like to know if stuff like this is actually legal..

[cliff]

you should have slammed on your brakes and then when he tries to give you shit for that tell him he shouldn't have been tail gating and he just didn't see the dog that ran in front of your car