Highway Patrol Error Results In Hellish Roadside Experience For Classic Car Owner [VIDEO]

The Daily Caller ^ | 02/26/15 | Chuck Ross

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

A string of errors on the part of troopers with the Nevada Highway Patrol resulted in a humiliating and frightening experience last year for a couple from Washington who were pulled over while cruising down the highway in their classic 1962 Chevy Impala.

Now, the couple, Robin and Beverly Bruins, has filed suit against the troopers and the Nevada Highway Patrol.

Trouble started for the Bruins when they were pulled over by a trooper after he initiated a “routine records check” on the car. When the check did not return a match, the trooper pulled the couple over, Las Vegas’ KLAS reported.

When the trooper ran the registration number which the couple gave him, he didn’t include a “plus” sign. The vehicle showed up as an expired registration for a 2011 Harley Davidson, as a dismissal of charges document explains.

That mistake was compounded when the trooper relayed the Impala’s VIN to a dispatcher who then mis-keyed one of the digits.

When the entry bounced back as a stolen vehicle from California, troopers then proceeded to badger Robin, forcing him to take off his shirt and kneel on the ground before ultimately arresting him.

Dash camera footage recorded the entire dramatic scene.

“Driver! Remove your keys from the ignition and put them on the roof now!” a trooper commands.

Robin complied and says he made a joke to his wife but then turned around to find himself staring at drawn guns.

“And I turned and looked back and saw three gun barrels pointed at me. And, obviously it hit me. Whoa! What’s going on here. To this day I have never experienced anything like looking down the barrel of guns like that,” he told KLAS.

[Texas Eagle]

Stupid old farts. They should know by now the best way to deal with these situations is to say, "No habla Ingles. No habla el documentos. Donde esta Eric Holder?"

Or words to that effect. The police will pick up on it.

[reformed_dem]

My son-in-law received a toll fine in the mail with a picture of his motorcycle clearly in the bed of the pickup that paid the toll.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Mistakes were made by the police but the couple will be generously compensated, as they deserve.

With taxpayer money! How does that make it any better? Make the officers and the dispatch sell their boats and motorcycles.

[Altariel]

So out of all of the millions of possible combinations, the victims just happened to be one digit off from the VIN of a stolen car.

I think it’s more likely that this was an attempt at asset forfeiture which didn’t go as the police planned, so they made the VIN number excuse.

[Altariel]

If America’s police truly wish to be viewed as those who serve and protect, and not an occupying army, then it is up to them to abandon their paramilitary tactics and mindset.

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/16/quiz-cop-or-soldier.html

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Precisely!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Thank you. I have been quite healthy for several years but this year I have been hit twice with this crud.

Both times my dear husband got it first and passed it along to me. I think I am going to have to start feeding him echinacea and making him wear Thieves when he leaves the house.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Only because we allow it.