funkerbunny
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Monday we where driving back from a computer security convention in Las Vegas through Eagle County, Colorado when we noticed two sheriff's vehicles on the highway. One passed us and the other started riding our tail. Next thing I notice is the first officer pulls someone over and moments later my girlfriend pulls over.
The officer comes over and asks for license/registration and all that which my honey produces and we wait for the officer to check everything. At this point
I'm sure everything is fine, but moments later the officer reappears and asks my honey to step out of the car.
Then another officer appears and informs us they are out there looking for people smuggling large amounts of drugs, illegal guns, hand grenades etc, but not personal amounts of drugs so if we have any we should tell him now.
Both my friend Tom and I tell him no, we do not have anything illegal and he asks again, adding that they will find "The stuff". After reiterating that we do not have anything illegal the officer looks at me and asks if I'm the NRA member (we had a NRA bumper sticker on the back of the car). I answer that yes I am and leave it at that. The cop then informs us that even though my girlfriend refused a search they will be searching because they "smelled pot on her registration papers"
So we get out of the car, and watch for a good hour and a half as they run a drug dog through the car, go through all our bags eventually finding our trunk gun (a topper 158 shotgun), a bunch of 7.62x54r cases and a can of OC spray. They inspect the shotgun for a bit, ask me what kind of gun the 7.62x54r cases are from and eventually put our stuff back in the car.
The first cop (an older gentleman who was actually pretty friendly) comes over and gives back our licenses then turns to me and the following conversation starts:
Cop: So what do you need the shotgun for on a roadtrip to vegas ?
Me: Well its a long trip, I've seen alot of horror movies and well honestly officer I worry about Zombies.
Cop: (smiling) I can Understand that
The officers than bid us farewell and let us leave (with our shotgun!)
The only thing that bothers me is why would they say they smelled pot on the registration papers? None of us smoke pot and I'm left with the feeling that they lied so they could search the car. (is this common when you refuse a search?) Anyways, other than delaying us a few hours, things worked out pretty well I think.
The officer comes over and asks for license/registration and all that which my honey produces and we wait for the officer to check everything. At this point
I'm sure everything is fine, but moments later the officer reappears and asks my honey to step out of the car.
Then another officer appears and informs us they are out there looking for people smuggling large amounts of drugs, illegal guns, hand grenades etc, but not personal amounts of drugs so if we have any we should tell him now.
Both my friend Tom and I tell him no, we do not have anything illegal and he asks again, adding that they will find "The stuff". After reiterating that we do not have anything illegal the officer looks at me and asks if I'm the NRA member (we had a NRA bumper sticker on the back of the car). I answer that yes I am and leave it at that. The cop then informs us that even though my girlfriend refused a search they will be searching because they "smelled pot on her registration papers"
So we get out of the car, and watch for a good hour and a half as they run a drug dog through the car, go through all our bags eventually finding our trunk gun (a topper 158 shotgun), a bunch of 7.62x54r cases and a can of OC spray. They inspect the shotgun for a bit, ask me what kind of gun the 7.62x54r cases are from and eventually put our stuff back in the car.
The first cop (an older gentleman who was actually pretty friendly) comes over and gives back our licenses then turns to me and the following conversation starts:
Cop: So what do you need the shotgun for on a roadtrip to vegas ?
Me: Well its a long trip, I've seen alot of horror movies and well honestly officer I worry about Zombies.
Cop: (smiling) I can Understand that
The officers than bid us farewell and let us leave (with our shotgun!)
The only thing that bothers me is why would they say they smelled pot on the registration papers? None of us smoke pot and I'm left with the feeling that they lied so they could search the car. (is this common when you refuse a search?) Anyways, other than delaying us a few hours, things worked out pretty well I think.