Smokey Bear Check Point
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Smokey Bear Check Point
Heading home and it around 10 pm there is a check point, state troppers (bunch of them) stopping both directions of traffic at the foot of the bridge. Here I come with loud mufflers and my license plates that read "BYBYCOP". These bears didn't looks to friendly and they had cars pulled off the road and other they were checking and letting go.
I notice that my muffler are starting to get a little attention and figuring they are going to get me for something. :cry :cuss :U
The tropper who was in charge of stopping traffic for my side is
eye balling me. Then he gets this big smile and signals me with the flashlight to go through, I didn't even have to stop at all. :yesnod:
It was one of those rare and wonderful VET moments.
[Modified by Tominator, 10:23 AM 12/20/2002]
I notice that my muffler are starting to get a little attention and figuring they are going to get me for something. :cry :cuss :U
The tropper who was in charge of stopping traffic for my side is
eye balling me. Then he gets this big smile and signals me with the flashlight to go through, I didn't even have to stop at all. :yesnod: It was one of those rare and wonderful VET moments.
[Modified by Tominator, 10:23 AM 12/20/2002]
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Re: Smokey Bear Check Point (Tominator)
I don't know about where you live, but around here the cops will cut a guy a little slack (as long as it's not related to something stupid and dangerous). Speeding, street racing, reckless driving, that sort of thing will get you less than a smile from law enforcement, as it should, but things like no front plate, loud exhaust, that sort of thing, even though they're illegal the cops will let a little slip with collector cars and Harley's and things along that lines. Of course, there's always the one who's trying to take over the world (and that one is always a highway patrol) who like to give a guy a little grief. I haven't had any trouble, but I've heard of one guy who got stopped for no front plate and one who got stopped for being too loud on his Harley. :rolleyes:
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Re: Smokey Bear Check Point (Dalannex)
Most of the cops I have met like the older cars. They see the vette and normally start asking questions about it. I think they are really out there looking for the ricers or the stupid people in v8 cars doing crazy things. They had some idiot on campus today flooring it from stop sign to stop sign. He also started spinning out in a parking lot and doing donuts. I was waiting for some cops or someone to tell him something. I heard the guy in front of me walking make some comments about the guy in the car. I was like right on, and in my head realizing that idiots like that are the people who make my driving expirience a bad one.
Mark B.
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Mark B.
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