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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
If you & your car are clean, let em search and be on you way as a cooperative citizen. It is way faster and you did not get a ticket because you were cooperative.
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I'd rather get a ticket for not being cooperative.
I was stopped 3 times for "driving while young." New York State Police and Ohio State Patrol both did this - pull me over get us out of the car, ask a bunch of questions about what's in the car, assume I'm lying, take out my suitcase, sleeping bag, tool kit etc, spread my stuff all over the side of the road, and then just walk away. No "thanks for being cooperative" or "sorry we wasted your time." The whole purpose was to humiliate me.
Stopped once by a city cop for my motorcycle passenger not wearing eye protection. They went through everything we had, frisked us, went through her purse, then told me to drive to the nearest drug store (to get sunglasses - which are not legal eye protection) at 5 mph. Two up on a Honda 305 at 5 mph with the cop car behind us, lights flashing and siren blaring. Again - it was just to humiliate me.
It was a long time ago, but I still remember it. 40 years later, I'm richer, smarter, and know more lawyers. If a cop asked for anything more than license, registration, and proof of insurance, he can go F**k himself.