Posted on 05/03/2014 11:24:54 AM PDT by granite
“ten-and-two position”
That is considered the safest position.
Reminds me of the time a police officer pulled a guy over because he was steering with only his left hand and had his right arm around his girlfriend who was sitting in the middle of the front seat of his pickup. The officer told the guy he needed to use both hands, upon which the guy informed the officer that he could not use both hands safely because he needed one hand to steer.
That's not what they ruled. Did you read the article that you posted?
But only to those in power who suspect that the ordinary people are fed up and are ready to throw out the ruling cartel.
-PJ
Your extract reminds me of Monk. Taken together, I’d say the guy was very tuned in and doing his job. The reasoning for the ruling seems flimsy when parsed like it is prior to your post but he correctly exercised reasonable deduction several times over. Thanks for the whole story.
NM ping.
Hey you kids... Start Slouching.
LMAO!
For the most part, the cops and judges/courts are all on the same team and have their wages and lottery style retirement pensions padded and funded by all the fines and taxes they can squeeze out of the peons...
Since having read that 10 and 2 is the safest driving posture, I’ve driven that way. The reason is that if the airbag is deployed, that you run the least chance of bodily damage.
A while ago someone compiled all the driving characteristics that judges have ruled are “suspicious” and could be used to justify pulling over the vehicle. They included driving faster than the speed limit, driving slower than the speed limit, and driving exactly at the speed limit.
Yea, I read it, it’s the second paragraph, highlighted in red.
bfl
I saw an episode of “Cops” where they pulled over a car for putting the turn signal on more than 7 flashes before the turn.
Just sayin’ ...
Federal officers need their powers trimmed back. Just about any federal officer can stop any civilian for doing anything in any jurisdiction. It’s been like that since Reagan. States need to take back their power, and feds need to be neutered. Red states need to stop tolerating despotism, and maybe the other states will follow.
“Driving stiffly, having tinted windows, slowing down when seeing law enforcement, and driving in an out-of-the-way area may be innocent conduct by themselves,” Judge Scott M. Matheson, Jr., wrote for the appellate panel. “But when taken together along with driving a vehicle with out-of-state plates in a mountainous smuggling corridor 40-45 miles away from the border, we conclude Agent Semmerling had reasonable suspicion Ms. Westhoven was involved in smuggling activity.”
facecrime - Orwell’s definition : “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.”
If she had CO plates, the BP would have added that to the reason for stopping her. In Idaho, the state police used CO plates as an excuse to pull someone over. In that case a man slowed down when a cop pulled up behind him and exited the interstate at a rest stop. The cop followed him and while watching him he hit the curb with his car. That was enough for the cop to start interrogation and initiate a search of his car. He had no drugs but his arrest and impoundment of the car has led to a large lawsuit.
Lawsuit: Man Arrested, Searched For Marijuana Solely For Having Colorado License Plate
Correction, he was not arrested but “detained.”
Congratulations, Drug War fascists! You've gotten the America you deserve...
I was so oppositional in my teen years....I remember insisting I would agree to placing my hands at 9:45 and 2:15. so...I’m safe. :P
Yea, in Texas if the Po-Po wanna search your vehicle, they just claim the odor of marijuana. Bada bing, bada boom.
Not a damn thing you can do. If you even give a hint of refusal, you'll end up with your cheek being ground into the concrete.
Protect and serve? Yea, right.
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