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warch · 08-28-2002, 05:35 PM

Did anyone else flash on the Village People?

I'm all for slowing down all around.

But what if you weren't speeding? I have been pulled over by the law for no reason other than the car we were driving was profiled- an out of state, obvious rental. We were not speeding, but the cop said we were. It wasn't a road block but a team of two Kansas trooper cars on a sweep. We got the full interior and trunk search. Drug dogs on the front lines of the war. We were too baffled and freaked to be coherent resistent libertarians. "Mind if we look in the back?" "uh, no officer".(with a gun and the ability to totally mess up my life if pissed off) Nothing to find, no ticket, no violation, (whew! even though the initial stop was for speeding) and we were sent on our way after a hour. But the car was a rental, who knew what the hell was in the trunk. And if the gun says we were speeding we were speeding.

In a similar incident some friends driving a van (of course) were stopped in New Mexico for a drug sniff and the cop kept saying "The dog is indicating something"...But after a very long, complete search, there were no drugs found. It was finally decided that it was the rather odiferous patchouli oil favored by one of the young male passengers-forever to be razzed about his illegal pimp oil.

08-28-2002, 05:35 PM	#12
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	Did anyone else flash on the Village People? I'm all for slowing down all around. But what if you weren't speeding? I have been pulled over by the law for no reason other than the car we were driving was profiled- an out of state, obvious rental. We were not speeding, but the cop said we were. It wasn't a road block but a team of two Kansas trooper cars on a sweep. We got the full interior and trunk search. Drug dogs on the front lines of the war. We were too baffled and freaked to be coherent resistent libertarians. "Mind if we look in the back?" "uh, no officer".(with a gun and the ability to totally mess up my life if pissed off) Nothing to find, no ticket, no violation, (whew! even though the initial stop was for speeding) and we were sent on our way after a hour. But the car was a rental, who knew what the hell was in the trunk. And if the gun says we were speeding we were speeding. In a similar incident some friends driving a van (of course) were stopped in New Mexico for a drug sniff and the cop kept saying "The dog is indicating something"...But after a very long, complete search, there were no drugs found. It was finally decided that it was the rather odiferous patchouli oil favored by one of the young male passengers-forever to be razzed about his illegal pimp oil.