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Originally Posted by RIZZXX7
damn that would have drove me insane
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I wasn't exactly happy, lol. Thankfully they let me have my phone and didn't cuff me. My feet were doin' a reverse pigeon toe cause the cage was so close to the seat and I'm 6'2"
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Originally Posted by RotaryResurrection
I would have gone postal. I certainly hope you have the badge/car number(s) of the officers who hassled you, as I *would* file a report with every agency I could think of in that jurisdiction. Whether it results in action or not is not the point.
Also I was told that VA cops used to take your detector on the spot years ago, but the law was eventually changed to just ticket you. I was ticketed for a v1 in about 2000 but I never paid it.
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While I was sittin' in the cruiser watching them I saw the officer on the driver side literally yanking my bins out. I was angrier than I have ever been when I saw that cause I thought for sure that he just grabbed it by the lid and ripped it out. I was shaking in the back of the car but after asking him what he'd done he said he had taken the screws out with the screwdriver in the mini tool kit I kept in that bin. The part that irks me most was that he never asked for consent to search, or at least I don't remember him asking. I don't remember the entire conversation leading up to that point but he was asking why I only spend 2 days in CT and remarked that it was odd that i didn't spend more time considering the distance from home to where I was. I was a bit confused at that point because I wasn't aware that I had to spend any specified amount of time in any location and he must have noticed the blank look on my face and proceeded to tell me that 70 was a know drug runners route for crap coming in on the east coast. That's when he asked me out of the car and put me in the cruiser. Typing this out is starting to bring it all back.
I didn't get any of that though looking back I wish i had. I was heading for Nutsid's place, tired, and just wanted to get back on the road. About 20 minuets before that my throttle cable snapped and I spend an hour fashioning up a new one out of the wires that used to run to the A/C so I was in no mood for arguing at that point.
She said one reached in and ripped my brand freakin' new V1 off the windshield and tossed it in the floor.
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Originally Posted by WE3RX7
Lol - welcome to my pain gentlemen. Growing up in VA I've learned much about our officers. My bro-in-law is actually a state trooper so I dont get hassled much in the central/richmond area, but everywhere else its a different story.
Our NOVA cops are actually cooler than the ones you find in many of the smaller townships, etc.
Top things they like pulling you over for - tint, radar detectors, exhaust and county/inspection stickers. They dont care where your car is from, if it doesnt fly in our laws, you're screwed.
Pleasures of being a "commonwealth" state!
At least none of you went to jail....
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I wanna say she told me that the cop threatened to take my V1 but I just don't remember. I don't ever plan on goin' back to NOVA any time soon and if I do the car will be quieter and hopefully won't draw any attention. The two that got her were sitting one in front of the other whith their lights on as if they had just finished with some other unfortunate soul when I went by them in the lead car, she was bringing up the rear.
Oh, I forgot that it was the officer who initiated the stop first day on the job so I'm thinkin' he wanted to be big man on campus and himself a big drug bust on his first day.