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Oklahoma Update

idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in General Discussion
Well, I just stumbled in from the long drive from Oklahoma. Much food was cooked over a campfire by which much AD&D was played (complete with plenty of real swordplay). A good time was had by all and the evening tide is such a wonderful sound to fall asleep hearing. On the way down to Oklahoma I found that I-29 crosses "Bee Creek" at two different points. I also found that a bottle of Yoohoo and a bag of Doritos costs $2.18 at a place called "Redneck Corner" in Winchester, Oklahoma. Things continue to get interesting. I also found that Oklahoma State Police find it necessary to pull passengers out of a vehicle when the driver was only doing 8 mph over the speed limit, drag them by their collar to the front of the vehicle and jam the muzzle of their sidearm into your side while you attempt to retrieve your identification for them. Apparently, waking up from a long nap and adjusting your seat so that you can sit up straight when a police officer approaches your vehicle constitutes too many "suspicious" movements and is grounds for a vehicle search as well. Apparently it also indicates that "the military didn't teach you much". It's funny how picking up an old beer bottle cap left by previous campers and stuffing it in your coat pocket makes you a heavy drinker and highly suspicious. I thought I was just trying to leave the place cleaner than I found it. Something must have been lost between Boy Scouts and the Oklahoma LE Academy.[This message has been edited by idsman75 (edited 03-10-2002).]

Comments

  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554
    edited November -1
    Idsman75 does that mean that you got a spanking and had to leave some gun money in the Native American State??????Or did they let you off with just a little ruffing up! I would bet our guys was nice to ya when ya went through Kansas! Oto Keep up the good work on picking up after those dudes! I like a guy like you.
  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It just seemed like such a beautiful place and the bottle cap detracted from the beauty of it all. I believe that the cop was just using the "suspicious movements" BS in order to find a way to establish probable cause to search my half of the pickup. I'm assuming he was looking for drugs because the swords in the back seat didn't seem to bother him much. I'm sure he assumed we were drug runners because of the east-coast license plates that were on our vehicle.
  • 25-0625-06 Member Posts: 382 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You are lucky the SOB did not cart you of to jail and have your vehicle towed, and then not let you make a phone call for 24 hrs, and then not let the bondsman bail you out for another 24 and confiscate your handgun which you told them was in the conslole when they wanted to search the vehicle. And take over 2 years to get the gun back, even after a judge ordered them to give it back.
  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yea, another jack booted thug story. I have a new term for it.... you all listen up, this will be a new saying....ACF----Automatic Cop Freakout. You know, suspisious movements, might have a gun, has a air-soft gun, or my favorite, a rubber band gun. guilty until proven innocent. Am I the only one who thinks it's getting out of hand?
  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hery Bro sounds like an outstanding trip, but for a few details. I'm looking forward to hearing about it. Did you guys actually get some leave? I thought it was just a weekend trip. Good for you I take it the cop got to look in the truck, or could you still say "for what officer?"
    "An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss soaked paper bag!" -Patton
  • FitzFitz Member Posts: 258 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Idsman75,Why don't you write a letter to the State Police there. Maybe that guy has had other complaints as well.A few months ago the guy at my local gun shop told me about one of his customers (a reverend) who was pulled over by a State Cop here in the Socialist Republic of Connecticut. It was late, and he was tired so he accidentally handed the Statey his pistol carry permit. The cop said, "I don't know why you civilians think you should be able to carry guns!". The reverend went home and wrote a letter to the State Police about the incident. A week later, a full-bird colonel appeared on his doorstep in dress blues and officially apoligized for the matter and said that the trooper who pulled him over was sent back to boot camp.Fitz
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