Pssst - they are surfing for DUI and drugs. The police don’t care about you $10 ticket - they want to smell your breath and search your car.
“Pssst - they are surfing for DUI and drugs”
Yep, I know...and the false pretense makes it even worse.
My daughter was in the car with me, and she asked what was taking so long.
I explained to her that he was using his computer to make sure I’m not late on paying any tickets, or have any other outstanding problems with the state...the entire stop is an excuse to give me a legal colonoscopy exam.
Every single time it happens, I do worry...is everything paid up and in order. My fear stems from a mistake several years ago, which incorrectly flagged me as having an unpaid ticket in another state. It made it a hassle to renew my license at the time...but if I had been stopped for any minor violation, the computer flag would have resulted in a good ‘cuffing and stuffing’.
So I get a sinking feeling in my stomach, every time I’m stopped. And I have been stopped often, with no ticket written (or even a written warning). An incomplete list:
1. Out of state tag
2. Out of state tag
3. Burnt out license plate light
4. Roadblock
5. Burnt out tag light...leaving a bar (sneaky)
6. ‘Looked like I was weaving’
7. Had brights on
8. Dirty tag
Every one of these ‘police contacts’ simultaneously pisses me off, and makes me worry like crazy...will the computer system make a mistake?
The out of state tags, in particular, rub me the wrong way. I was in the army, and perfectly legal using my home state tag. The local police didn’t like it though, so they kept pulling people like me over.