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What's all the fuss? I just climb off my bike and say "Have at it!"
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Hmmm, you wrote you were NOT a dog, and then admitted to being 'corgial'. Maybe that's not what you meant to write?
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Maybe you just don't want it bad enough .Odd how I've managed to go my entire life w/o having my car searched or even being asked about it.
Well, there is that for sure…Maybe you just don't want it bad enough .
Yeah, those were the days. I retired a year ago. It changed several years back. Anymore, the vehicle is off limits. Even if you see something in "plain view" you must apply for a warrant. The person still gets searched upon arrest of course...I was a sheriff's deputy for 6 years, a very long time ago. The law said I was able to make a search for weapons in the immediate area of the driver. Anything that I found incidental to that search, that was illegal (drugs, etc.) could be used as a basis for an arrest. I could then make an inventory of the entire car's contents (including the trunk) if the vehicle were to be towed. I have also asked the question "May I look in your trunk" and have been told yes and no. My advice is to always say no.
O-o-o-k-a-a-a-y....this is making sense to me. If they only asked the tweakers, they could be accused of being prejudiced or biased. When I was a rookie small-town cop, my chief taught me that the reason to always do FOUR field sobriety tests was so that I could say in court, "I always do four."In discussions with these utes, they say that asking the 78-year-old grandmother on her way to church on Sunday at 9am these questions makes it consistent when they ask the tweaker with blown out pupils, pulling out of an alley at 1am where known drug transactions occur.
Standardized field sobriety tests (SFST's) are...standardized. But if I got to #2 and it was clear the person was not impaired I stopped there. Because a) I didn't need to go any further and b) technically it could be an unlawful detention. What your chief said has some merit, but still there are other factors at play. If you ask a generally law abiding person a bunch of question implying (in their mind) that they are a criminal, felon or up to no good, you very likely just lost an ally to police and they will tell 50 friends about it. You can still be respectful to someone you know has done time in prison, but how and what you ask may likely be different.O-o-o-k-a-a-a-y....this is making sense to me. If they only asked the tweakers, they could be accused of being prejudiced or biased. When I was a rookie small-town cop, my chief taught me that the reason to always do FOUR field sobriety tests was so that I could say in court, "I always do four."
"Backed into a space" can make some shop owners nervous. As in, ready for a quick getaway. Decades ago, I worked part time in a retail liquor store. This backing thing always made my night shift partner apprehensive. He'd get close to the telephone in case he needed to call the sheriff's office.My buddy and I were backed into a parking space
So to share some inside baseball, that to me there is no problem with good people in this great country knowing, even when I had a lawful reason to conduct a search on a person, vehicle or house without a warrant, I nearly always asked permission. Why? Because it adds one more layer showing due diligence.Just say no, if they have probable cause they won't be asking.
I must make a lot of shop owners nervous. I've always backed into parking spaces as it's safer when leaving. I hate trying to back out when I can't see either direction until I'm out far enough. Anytime I can pull through a space if the opposite side is open I do that, so I can pull out head first, and see.I'm partially in the "I've got nothing to hide camp." Yet, if they searched one of my cars, they might find a fired 9mm or .223 casing in the trunk that I missed when cleaning out. And proceed to make a mountain out of a molehill. Not to mention the time saved. So I think I'm going to politely decline. Which might cause retaliation in some other petty way, like writing me up for something they might've originally let me go with a warning for. You can't know how these things will go.
By the way, fired casings in your car when crossing into Canada can be trouble. One of the questions I've been asked before was, "Have you been to a gun range with this car?" What they are really looking for are weapons that people may have forgotten to remove from their car after a trip to the range. BUT: Fired brass has caused some people trouble, too.
"Backed into a space" can make some shop owners nervous. As in, ready for a quick getaway. Decades ago, I worked part time in a retail liquor store. This backing thing always made my night shift partner apprehensive. He'd get close to the telephone in case he needed to call the sheriff's office.
Backing into a space has become more popular with drivers in recent times, to my observation. It usually (but not always) is counter intuitive. Because backing into a small space requires more skill than backing into a large one. Meaning, you are more apt to bump into another parked car on either side of the stall you are backing into, rather than the larger space existing when you are backing out into the lane in the parking lot. Unless there is a car coming along that you didn't watch out for. Different strokes for different folks. But when I park in a lot, I'm always looking for a "pull through" space, that is, two empty stalls nose to nose where I can pull all the way through one and be heading out the other side. That way I never have to back up. Sometimes to find such a place results in more walking, though. Mrs. Merkt: "Do you really have to look for the parking spot that is farthest from the door??"