[seowulf]

In other words, I tend to wait for some overtly suspicious or aggressive behavior or the sight of a weapon.

Commendable behavior from a policeman. I try to return the favor whenever (seldom though it is) I am pulled over. I don't reach for microphones or cameras, and I don't give any hint of suspicion or aggression. I look straight ahead and keep my hands on the wheel.

[Mad Dawg]

Bless you.

What people don't get is that in the best of circumstances, any LEO who approaches a pulled-over vehicle without his alarm-system set to "hair-trigger" is probably not long for this world. I'm lucky in a way because one o he frist times I was involved with a disabled vehicle I found myself being approached by somebody waving a small club around and yelling threats.

So, while I was hauling out the old "shootin' arn", I had a very strong, "This can NOT be happening" thing going on.

So I'm sort of in "expect the unexpected" mode when I approach a vehicle.

So I GREATLY appeciate the citizen who stays in the car, lets me see his hands and works with me.