Thernlund
Member
Soooo... I'm on my way to work much earlier than usual this morning. I normally drive alone in the HOV lane because it's legal after 9am. We'll I was on the road around 8am today and it didn't occur to me what time it was.
As soon as I saw the motorcycle cop, I knew. Damn.
So he pulls me over and asks for the usual (license, reg, ins), and asks if I have a gun. I say I do, but my reg and ins is under it in the glove box. He's nice about it and just says ok, get it. I put the pistol on the dash and dig for the other stuff. Turns out I didn't have current proof of insurance handy, although I am insured. I gave him the old card and explained I didn't have current proof. He says alright, reaches in and takes the pistol from the dash and goes back to his motorcycle.
Now, he comes back BEFORE even filling out any ticket info and starts chatting me up about guns and whatnot (turns out AZ DPS are issued SIG P226's). We chat for a few minutes while he was writing up the info, and we're getting on fairly well. So I assume he's writing me a warning.
He didn't write a warning. He wrote me up! :banghead: Even handed me the clipboard to sign while still chatting me up. Bah!
I guess I deserved it. But honestly, if I thought I was going to get nailed anyway, I'd have probably just sat there quietly. I wasn't that comfortable with the conversation in the first place. And to boot, he could have let the HOV violation skate and wrote me up for insurance only, which I could have gotten dismissed with my valid proof. We all save face. But no. Hmph.
He gave the pistol back, said I could load it up once I was down the road, and sent me on my way.
He was nice I guess, but I wouldn't say he was "cool". It was almost cruel.
Some there's that story for everyone's consumption.
-T.
As soon as I saw the motorcycle cop, I knew. Damn.
So he pulls me over and asks for the usual (license, reg, ins), and asks if I have a gun. I say I do, but my reg and ins is under it in the glove box. He's nice about it and just says ok, get it. I put the pistol on the dash and dig for the other stuff. Turns out I didn't have current proof of insurance handy, although I am insured. I gave him the old card and explained I didn't have current proof. He says alright, reaches in and takes the pistol from the dash and goes back to his motorcycle.
Now, he comes back BEFORE even filling out any ticket info and starts chatting me up about guns and whatnot (turns out AZ DPS are issued SIG P226's). We chat for a few minutes while he was writing up the info, and we're getting on fairly well. So I assume he's writing me a warning.
He didn't write a warning. He wrote me up! :banghead: Even handed me the clipboard to sign while still chatting me up. Bah!
I guess I deserved it. But honestly, if I thought I was going to get nailed anyway, I'd have probably just sat there quietly. I wasn't that comfortable with the conversation in the first place. And to boot, he could have let the HOV violation skate and wrote me up for insurance only, which I could have gotten dismissed with my valid proof. We all save face. But no. Hmph.
He gave the pistol back, said I could load it up once I was down the road, and sent me on my way.
He was nice I guess, but I wouldn't say he was "cool". It was almost cruel.
Some there's that story for everyone's consumption.
-T.