[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Just got pulled over while carrying (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/1/2005 7:26:00 PM EDT
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I was just coming back from my moms house driving about 60mph in a posted 55 zone...when some jerkoff behind me is really riding my tail in the second lane of the highway. This usually is not a problem but we are coming close to where the highway merges into two lanes....The guy wont pass and he is within inches of my bumper on the left side of my car....at this point I realize that I should increase my speed a little to put some distance between me and this possibly intoxicated driver.... Just when I get up to about seventy miles an hour a car starts coming in my opposite direction and I see the outline of overheads behind my car. About 1/8 of a mile further up the road I take the exit and I am immediatley lit up. I keep both hands on the wheel and wait patiently for the officer to meet me at my window....after he makes his introduction I calmy tell him that I have a valid CHL and that my firearm is on my right hip at five o'clock and my wallet with all of my info is in my left butt pocket.... Cop says "hey not a problem, I already know..but I really apreciate you letting me in on it." He tells me he pulled me over because I was cruising around seventy and I was hugging the right line... his attitude is pretty good so I tell him exactly what I thought.... "officer, I thought you were drunk...and there was no way in hell I was gonna let you knock me into incoming traffic, 'cause you were riding my ass pretty damned close" The officer just laughed...checked out my documents...and told me to have a nice day, and that its not very often he runs into a young man with a good sense of humor who is honest" All in all I think it went pretty damn well....my dog is still alive....and no speeding ticket.... Sometimes you can find a pretty decent guy wearing a badge. |
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I got pulled over on Fed land (firearms prohibited) he asked me if I had any firearms. At that time I had no ccw. I told him no I didn't have a gun. He told me he was searching my truck so I broke down and told him bout the lightweight S&W in the console. He ran the # then let me go  . I'm sure it could have been much worse.I guess after he saw the spotlight behind the drivers seat he wasn't taking no for an answer. They all aren't to bad. |
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If you ever see me you have good reason to be intimidated... 110 pounds of BEEF baby!!!! seriously..I look about 14 3/4 years old....about the most non intimidating person you might ever meet...he was just a cool guy.... and I didnt give him donuts..I hate when people say that.. He confiscated them in the name of national security. 
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I usually just slow down to about 45. (No better way to piss off a tailgater) |
Yes there is. You got to give them a bath. In the above freezing months (about 9) I keep water only in my winshield washer tank. Anyone within 10 feet of my bumper gets a full tank of not stop mist back at them. The most enjoyment I get is to wash people with really shiny just washed/waxed cars and spray them, or get infront of and spray anyone with a kerry/edwards sticker.. |
| Nice to hear a good ending and to hear about a nice cop. I have yet to be pulled over but I hope when I am (hey, it's enivitable) it is a decent cop and not some asshole with an ego. Anyway, was it a sheriff's deputy, stater, neither? Just wondering what area you are in. |
Near sighted and couldn't read your plate? |
You got owned by that cop! He can't search your car w/o a judge saying ok. 
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Perhaps you didn't read the post carefully,
Doesn't sound cool to me. |
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Every time I have been stopped (once) or gone through a road block (6 or 7 times) I hand over my DL and CCW permit and have never had the THP, sheriffs deputies, or local police say anything negative. Only one THP trooper even mentioned the CCW and just asked me what I was carrying and then said good choice… And he reached through window and patted my basset hound on the head. |
ummmm two words.... NOT TRUE. Since 1968. No judge needed. AC for Terry Stop<you and passenger compartment>; PC for complete search < including trunk>. Then again what the hell do i know. ETA: sorry not to hijack. It is true most LEO's are humans, also true most people on the internet are not lawyers, or LEO and can misinform better then communists. |
| I have been pulled over about 6 times (no front license plate) and am at 50/50 of cops wanting to hold onto it while they go back to their car and run my info and not caring. To qoute one, "I am not worried about the ones with guns that tell me, just the ones that don't" |
. Just trying to get a reaction? |
Glad all went well... as it probably does more often than not if you're a CHL holder. BUT - A guy I work with sometimes was pulled over by a Sheriff's Deputy in a rural Texas County and when he identified himself as a CHL licensee and told the deputy his pistol was in the console between the seats (as required by Texas law), the deputy ended up having him stand there on the side of the highway for over an hour.... with a DPS officer, and two Border Patrolmen as "backup" while they ran some kind of check on the gun's serial number "to make sure it wasn't reported as stolen". What bullshit. When the number came back clean, they turned him loose and the deputy said it was the first time he'd ever stopped a CHL holder. I know the next question you have is: "Well, did your buddy look like a scumbag?" No. He's a 40yr old guy who owns his own business and was driving a nice clean 4WD 2003 Ford Excursion - not exactly the profile that I would guess sets off alarm bells with LEO's. Oh well, I'm glad they're not all dumbasses. |
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I was coming back from Lyons, OR on the way to Stayton on Highway 22 I was pulled over by a Marion County Sheriffs Deputy...I dont blame him for riding my ass..he was doing his job...and he really thought he had something going.... all joking aside...good cop...great experience. I just wish I got his name |
heres the link to my original thread with the whole story on the AK incident. |
I just flip the "brake light cut out" switch on my dash, then slam on the brakes!!!! A tried and true classic!!!!!! Then I lay there moaning and groneing, "AH, my neck, AH, I can't feel my legs!!!!!!!",. Show me one cop who'll give me a ticket after that!!!!!!!!
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Lots of states will inform a leo of the vehicle owners cdwp on the radio when they call in your tags. You don't have to inform in some states, like here in KY, but they will know you are a license holder before the walk up to the vehicle here and in the majority of issue states. Not all leos are pricks....just a goodly mount. Sua Sponte |
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About CCW Cop says "hey not a problem, I already know.. and Lots of states will inform a leo of the vehicle owners cdwp on the radio when they call in your tags. All the more reason to fly under the radar and NOT get a CCW license. I am all for CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON, but the licensing... no, the government does not need to know about my firearms. It is none of their business. |
Is this fed land only? Read the Bill of Rights Lately?
www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html Link? ETA: I have not found any rulings like this. More info:
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I always inform a LEO...they seem to appreciate the honesty...and after I inform them I ask them how they want to proceed...if they choose to pull me out of the car and cavity search me...thats their busines...but they need to be ready to stand by their actions in a court of law...so far I have been pretty lucky and every officer has been really good about it. |
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I am reminded of my blind friend, now in his 50s with eyes whited over, shoulder length hair and bristly beard... let's just say with a lot of white on his irises he looks blind at 1000 yards. His friends were driving around one day and just for kicks asked him if he'd like to drive. He drove for a few minutes on quiet suburban streets when a cop, noticing the vehicle moving in a somewhat erratic manner (though my friend was being coached) pulled the vehicle over. Said friend just turned his whited-out eyes vaguely at the direction of the cop and grinned. Cop said.... "UHHHH ok.. well you'd better not drive any more"... and that was that. |
From Montana? Freeman= wackos in standoff in MT a few years back. Is that you, or one of your buddies? |
hehe happy to play... The above mentioned case the 'waiver of 4th' was granted, so that case laws is useless for comparision. your number 1 point...reread it 1. According to the Fourth Amendment, you cannot be searched without a warrant or probable cause, unless you consent. Don’t consent to warrantless searches. <Terry v Ohio ; Pennsylvania v. Mimms> .... With resonable suspicion <burden of proof is always articulable cause> I can remove you from the vehicle, perform a pat down search, <Michigan v. Long> and search a good portion of the passenger comparment. If I have/find PC whilst your vehicle is anywhere I may lawfuly enter,<United States v. Ross> <Texas v. Brown>< Colorado v. Bannister> I may search it completely, with due diligence. With or without a 'consent to search'. To save you some time... research warrantless searches <make sure you understand the mechanics of 'limiting scope' of a warrantless search> and case law referenced above also a search of 'Terry Stop' may be enlightning. Hi-jack of thread completed |
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-2 unless in Vermont 
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