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I don't like talking on the phone while driving, so when I got a phone call today while driving home (to Wisconsin) from work (in Illinois) I turned on a side road and pulled over on the gravel to answer my call. I have a normal plain pickup truck, all up to date, everything legal. I was talking for a while there on the side of the road when I notice a Ill Lake Co. Sheriff pull up behind me with lights on. I suppose he was just checking things out, which I can understand. He could see me still talking on the phone as he approached, and then I got off the phone as he neared the window. I had my window down and he asked why I was pulled over here. I told him I don't talk on the phone while driving, so I pulled over here to take a call. Then he asked for an ID. I asked if I was doing anything wrong? He said he could write me up for being illegally parked. I gave him my ID and he went back to his car. He came back a bit later, and then asked where I was headed. "Home." Then he asked where I work. I'm sure he could tell I was getting agrivated at that line of questioning... I told him where I work. And then he asked which street that was on (like he didn't believe me). I was about to start protesting at this questioning, when he said if I didn't like his line of questioning he could just write me up on the illegal parking ticket... I just told him the street name, he gave me my ID back and he said I was free to be on my way. It felt so much like the Nazis in a snearing voice, "...let me see your papers." Yet another reason why Illinois SUCKS. Looking back now I wish I would've refused his questioning and just took the ticket. Maybe he was a disgruntled Bears fan and didn't like my Cheesehead plates.
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Let me relate what happened to me a few months back. Driving from our farm to town with my wife when I got pulled over. The State officer came up to my window whner I had both my drivers license and my carry permit out of mt wallet.
Officer, "Good afternoon, may I see your license."
Me' Good afternoon Officer. I have a concealed carry permit and I am carrying today."
Officer, "Where."
Me' "Right hip."
Officer, "Fine, just leave it there. I stopped you because you have a break light out. You might want to get it fixed. Have a good day."
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I always feel better when I cross OUT of Illinois.
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Long story in short,going up RT 17 in NJ in early 90s LEO pulls me over said got any guns with you,I say no he says let me search your truck,I say go for it he found no guns.I say why did you stop me,he says NRA stickers on your tailgate.
So I go on about 5 miles up RT 17,another LEO pulls me over thinking the other LEO may have missed something,he pats me down and searched my truck no gun.
At the time I was working in NJ,so I took the NRA stickers off my tailgate..
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Maybe he was a disgruntled Bears fan and didn't like my Cheesehead plates. Nah, just another manage & control dick, more of them than not. MM
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I once was pulled over on the way home from college with my friends, out in PA. My whole trunk was full of 4 students worth of dirty laundry (hoping mom could clean us up!)
The cop pulls me over, asks us all to get out individually, then wants to know if he can search my trunk. I said "sure" and handed him the keys. It was pretty funny when he popped the lid and had underwear, smelly socks, t-shirts, bras, and all the rest falling all over the side of the road. He took one whiff and pretty much gave up quick. He just handed the keys back and said "get out of here."
I've always assumed he pulled me over due to my bumper sticker at the time: Fight Crime, Shoot Back.
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Nah, just another manage & control dick, more of them than not. Acutally he was a short little dude, so maybe he's had some "short-man's" complex all his life. Being a cop lets him get away with ordering people around...
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No LEO is ever going to get my permission to search my car, my house, or me. Bad enough I have to put up with that schitt from the TSA.
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you are what comes out..........for making a blanket statement like that
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I have a lot of repsect for cops- tough job, I'm sure you have to deal with a ton of a-hole situations. I wouldn't want to do it, and I'm glad they are out there.
My gripe is the over-reaching Gestapo questioning at times. And if you don't play along nicely, they can always find some way to make your life expensive and/or time wasted for a while....
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There are a lot of very good police officers out there.
Then there are the few who are "badge heavy." Unfortunately some of us run into those cops now and then. They are the ones who should not be carrying the badge and the authority that goes with it.
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Looking back now I wish I would've refused his questioning and just took the ticket. Maybe he was a disgruntled Bears fan and didn't like my Cheesehead plates. Thats what I would have done, Took the ticket and told him to stuff it. Never had that happen in Michigan, course it's been 31 years since I've been pulled over, Could be different now.
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you are what comes out..........for making a blanket statement like that Agreed, Theres plenty of good cops out there. Nobody writes about them they just b1tch about the bad ones.
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[quote=Swampman700]cops are all ass holes. Thanks for making it readable.....
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There are a lot of very good police officers out there.
Then there are the few who are "badge heavy." Unfortunately some of us run into those cops now and then. They are the ones who should not be carrying the badge and the authority that goes with it. I used to work (biologist) with a couple of wardens whom we called "badge-happy." The worst was one infamous badge-carrier whom a fellow warden accurately described as "itching to kill somebody." Thank God for small favors! He was definitely unique, and he got his comeuppance � permanently.
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[quote=Swampman700]cops are all ass holes. Thanks for making it readable..... you were too stupid too...had to show the world what a jackass you really are...glad to help with that. good and bad in every profession...you exemplify the bad in yours apparently.
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