Even the "bad guys" have to drive something. It is too bad that they
stopped you that night. While I was stationed in Las Vegas, NV, I got
pulled over one night in North Las Vegas (on my way home). The Officer
treated it as a felony stop (hands out the window, keys on the ground,
instructions over the bull horn, etc.). Evidently my car and I fit the
description of the guy that stabbed a bouncer at a local bar. Not a
pleasant experience that I care to repeat. Even after the Officer decided
that I wasn't "the guy" he had me stand with my hands on the hood of his
car while he wrote me a ticket for license plates that were "expired"
according to him (they weren't expired for the state the car was registered
in, and the Judge threw it out of court). Not a good night. The police to
a very difficult job, and unfortunately they make mistakes occasionally. I
hold no "hard feelings" toward the Officer, because he is doing a job that
I would not care to do; if you do your job properly you never get any
thanks (or cussed out, or worse), and if you do it improperly you get
chewed for "not doing your job". They can't win for loosing. My hat is off
to the men and women of law enforcement. Just my .02$ worth :^)
Kevin Lake
56 GMC Suburban/napco
> From: Tim Lloyd <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
> To: Ole Truckers <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [oletrucks] curious oletruck story
> Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 10:21 PM
>
> I never thought my ole truck would get me in trouble (well, I
occasionally
> worry about not having a front license plate)...
> As I was driving home to Boulder from Loveland (a bit north of Boulder)
> along I-25 at about three in the morning the other night, I was pulled
> over by two police Jeeps. One of the policemen asked me where I had
been,
> got my licence, etc., then told me that someone driving a 1950's-style
> pickup had been involved in an assault at a truck stop near where he had
> seen me get on the highway. I told him I had just come from a friend's
> house in Loveland, and gave him the phone number there, which they
> apparently went to call. The policeman then came back, made sure I
didn't
> have any yellow sunglasses (apparently the person they were looking for
> had yellow sunglasses), and let me go. Then, about three minutes later,
> another policeman pulled me over, telling me that my registration didn't
> check out. He checked it again, made sure the truck was mine, and let me
> on my way.
> I'm boggled by the odds of two AD pickups driving around near Loveland at
> three in the morning on a weeknight, and by the odds that someone owning
> an ole truck would be the kind of person to commit an assault. Well, if
> it did happen, I hope the guy loses his truck, and that it ends up in the
> hands of someone a bit nicer.
>
> Tim Lloyd, omaha@tmbg.org
> "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
> multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." -Thomas Jefferson
> "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So
aim
> above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -Thoreau
> "...failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human
> nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community
of
> life itself." -Robert Zubrin
>
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