mstirton
Member
and I don't think it possibly could have gone any more smoothly. Nice job Travis County Sheriff.
I was driving home late (1/2 hour ago) and decided to go ahead and take a turn lane to get around a street sweeper doing 30 in a 50. No other cars around and clear vision for good 1/4 mile so I let my impatience get the better of me.
I noticed another car pull around the same way about 5 seconds later and was pretty sure of what was coming. He tailed me for 1/2 mile and lit me up so I took the next right and pulled off where there was some room. 3rd time I've been pulled over in 16 yrs driving and 1st since getting CHL a couple yrs ago.
I turned off the car and put on the dome light. He asked the normal q's and I had to get my license from the glove box. I had my G26 in there as well so I let him know and he just told me not to take it out. I gave him the CHL, insurance, and DL, he took the DL and handed back the other 2 after a quick check. Couple minutes later he came back with a warning and told me I should keep my wallet somewhere away from the gun since some officers might get nervous if I have to go near it. I was close to home in a pretty nice part of town and he told me I may be treated differently if the officer didn't have a "good feeling" about it. I thanked him and drove home.
I usually have my wallet on me or in the center console, but you know this has to happen the 1 time I throw it in the glove box. I'm a pretty honest looking guy, but I look like a psycho in my DL pic so I'm kinda surprised he didn't just shoot me.
I was driving home late (1/2 hour ago) and decided to go ahead and take a turn lane to get around a street sweeper doing 30 in a 50. No other cars around and clear vision for good 1/4 mile so I let my impatience get the better of me.
I noticed another car pull around the same way about 5 seconds later and was pretty sure of what was coming. He tailed me for 1/2 mile and lit me up so I took the next right and pulled off where there was some room. 3rd time I've been pulled over in 16 yrs driving and 1st since getting CHL a couple yrs ago.
I turned off the car and put on the dome light. He asked the normal q's and I had to get my license from the glove box. I had my G26 in there as well so I let him know and he just told me not to take it out. I gave him the CHL, insurance, and DL, he took the DL and handed back the other 2 after a quick check. Couple minutes later he came back with a warning and told me I should keep my wallet somewhere away from the gun since some officers might get nervous if I have to go near it. I was close to home in a pretty nice part of town and he told me I may be treated differently if the officer didn't have a "good feeling" about it. I thanked him and drove home.
I usually have my wallet on me or in the center console, but you know this has to happen the 1 time I throw it in the glove box. I'm a pretty honest looking guy, but I look like a psycho in my DL pic so I'm kinda surprised he didn't just shoot me.