I was leaving a friends house today @ around 11PM. I crossed from a country road to a freeway (65 speedlimit) and was driving. I had just been shooting which made this even more fun/awkward. I got pulled over by two cops (double teaming w/ 2 cars). I was under the influence of nothing during this situation.
-The officer (good guy) asks me the usual and says I was going 80 for a sec, I replied that I may have accelerated up to 80 brief, but that wasn't my intent. I told him I was driving a little over 70, or at least trying too. He said I was basically ping ponging inside my lane, which I did not do. The 2 cops pull me over and ask me to get out of my car, uncommon. I had already given them my info and I'm curious what happens next. I guess i gave tehm attitude through asking a polite question. They patted me down and put me in the back of their car while I persisted in asking questions about why I'm getting pseudo arrested. The car is mine, i've commited no crimes other than a speeding ticket. I did have guns in the car stored legally. I think they were trying to find something to stick on me. I had no knife, the guns were locked in cases, or in the trunk. I have a CCW permit so there was no trouble there. The cops even checked my vin numbers. I was more shocked/insulted than anything else. I am not a crimminal and I don't appreciate being treated as such. I was them open my car door to look at something, but if they would've search from inside the car it would've been through out, they had no justifyable search. After chatting w/ Radio and sweating me I was let out of the police car and told I was free to go. They re-covered me not being on drugs and me being able to drive. My eyes weren't glazed, had 0 alcohol and no "stoner eyes" I looked right at them to assist in their analysis of my eyes. These guys were just looking for a reason to charge me w/ something. They asked how many guns are in the car, I didn't tell them and changed the subject. If I have 8 guns in the car that's my business.
I was unhappy and irritated with this stop. Although I was speedying a bit, that isn't a ticket to hassle me when I am obviously not a criminal.
Thoughts?
-The officer (good guy) asks me the usual and says I was going 80 for a sec, I replied that I may have accelerated up to 80 brief, but that wasn't my intent. I told him I was driving a little over 70, or at least trying too. He said I was basically ping ponging inside my lane, which I did not do. The 2 cops pull me over and ask me to get out of my car, uncommon. I had already given them my info and I'm curious what happens next. I guess i gave tehm attitude through asking a polite question. They patted me down and put me in the back of their car while I persisted in asking questions about why I'm getting pseudo arrested. The car is mine, i've commited no crimes other than a speeding ticket. I did have guns in the car stored legally. I think they were trying to find something to stick on me. I had no knife, the guns were locked in cases, or in the trunk. I have a CCW permit so there was no trouble there. The cops even checked my vin numbers. I was more shocked/insulted than anything else. I am not a crimminal and I don't appreciate being treated as such. I was them open my car door to look at something, but if they would've search from inside the car it would've been through out, they had no justifyable search. After chatting w/ Radio and sweating me I was let out of the police car and told I was free to go. They re-covered me not being on drugs and me being able to drive. My eyes weren't glazed, had 0 alcohol and no "stoner eyes" I looked right at them to assist in their analysis of my eyes. These guys were just looking for a reason to charge me w/ something. They asked how many guns are in the car, I didn't tell them and changed the subject. If I have 8 guns in the car that's my business.
I was unhappy and irritated with this stop. Although I was speedying a bit, that isn't a ticket to hassle me when I am obviously not a criminal.
Thoughts?