Get real. “Yes, you are being detained. Step out of the car with your hands where I can see them. Now, turn around and put your hands behind your back.”
Forty-eight hours later. You have spent them in a jail cell and your car in a pound. “Your Honor, I was on routine patrol. I signaled the defendant to pull over and he did so. As I approached his car I observed him making furtive movements. His demeanor was nervous, and his answers to my questions were evasive. Based on my reasonable suspicions, he was detained while we ran his fingerprints and checked on his identity and criminal history. At this point, we are not ready to charge him with a specific crime.” You are released. There is a $200.00 tow and pound charge for your car. You are in desperate need of
Anusol.
I’ve never been asked if a cop could search my car.
IF I was ever asked I would politely say to them that it is my policy to not allow any searches, regardless.
But I would also say that I have absolutely noting illegal in my car or on my person.
And then I would stick with it. If they said they were bringing a drug dog, I’d say, “Fine, do it. I have the time.” And I’d wait for the drug dog to sniff around.
No matter what, as policy I decline to allow my car to be searched. PERIOD.
And why folks?
Cause with over 1/2 a million laws on the books and no telling what is legal or illegal, who knows what COULD be found you thought was legal, but is not.
But be polite and not combative. As Nancy Reagan said, “just say no.”
“I have absolutely noting illegal in my car or on my person.”
As you acknowledge later in your post, there is a vast uncounted multitude of criminal statutes that no reasonable person can be expected to know; Generally speaking, it should be assumed that “making false statements to a police officer” is among those statutes.
April 1st, 2014 at 9:51 pm
“I don’t consent to searches”…
Love it!!
April 1st, 2014 at 9:53 pm
It gives me a sad that this was an April Fools’ joke.
April 1st, 2014 at 10:43 pm
That’s awesome. If only this were America.
April 1st, 2014 at 11:09 pm
Awesome!
April 2nd, 2014 at 8:10 am
If I was a border patrol officer I would probably fuck with people like that. Law enfarcement takes things way to seriously.
April 2nd, 2014 at 10:15 am
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. –Goethe
April 2nd, 2014 at 10:23 am
Get real. “Yes, you are being detained. Step out of the car with your hands where I can see them. Now, turn around and put your hands behind your back.”
Forty-eight hours later. You have spent them in a jail cell and your car in a pound. “Your Honor, I was on routine patrol. I signaled the defendant to pull over and he did so. As I approached his car I observed him making furtive movements. His demeanor was nervous, and his answers to my questions were evasive. Based on my reasonable suspicions, he was detained while we ran his fingerprints and checked on his identity and criminal history. At this point, we are not ready to charge him with a specific crime.” You are released. There is a $200.00 tow and pound charge for your car. You are in desperate need of
Anusol.
April 2nd, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Officer: Get out of the vehicle.
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about,
You do the hokey pokey
and you turn yourself around
That what it’s all about.
April 2nd, 2014 at 2:46 pm
“Oh, and here’s your copy [of the pocket Constitution] in Arabic, in case you need it…”
Awesome.
April 2nd, 2014 at 2:48 pm
@nk: you are a day late for April’s Fools.
Which is sad, because I know what you said is no joke.
April 2nd, 2014 at 5:34 pm
I’ve never been asked if a cop could search my car.
IF I was ever asked I would politely say to them that it is my policy to not allow any searches, regardless.
But I would also say that I have absolutely noting illegal in my car or on my person.
And then I would stick with it. If they said they were bringing a drug dog, I’d say, “Fine, do it. I have the time.” And I’d wait for the drug dog to sniff around.
No matter what, as policy I decline to allow my car to be searched. PERIOD.
And why folks?
Cause with over 1/2 a million laws on the books and no telling what is legal or illegal, who knows what COULD be found you thought was legal, but is not.
But be polite and not combative. As Nancy Reagan said, “just say no.”
April 3rd, 2014 at 8:10 pm
To #11 Paul:
The following is something you should NEVER say:
“I have absolutely noting illegal in my car or on my person.”
As you acknowledge later in your post, there is a vast uncounted multitude of criminal statutes that no reasonable person can be expected to know; Generally speaking, it should be assumed that “making false statements to a police officer” is among those statutes.