Just kidding - I'm sorry for people's ignorance and I hope someday our country gets past this type of stuff. One of our campus pastors is Hispanic and he gets the same kind of treatment some places.
Different cops...different reasons. Each more absurd than the last. If I wasn't so frustrated by the time they pull me over, I would laugh at the reasons. I'm usually on I 10 through Texas, Louisiana, Miss, Alabama, and Florida.
On this trip, an officer literally tails me for 15 or 20 miles. That may not seem like a lot, but it is when you are driving it. He literally tails me while people are driving past us. People are looking at me like I'm already on Cops or something. It was getting to the point that I was about to just pull myself over.
Either way, he eventually lights me up and here is the "reason" this time:
He did it because "there are a lot of state troopers up ahead and and they are writing a lot of tickets." He said that while I was properly signaling whenever I changed lanes, in LA I had to make sure that I left my blinker on for the entire lane change (since it takes more than 2 seconds? Is it even possible to not leave it on for a lane change?). The nice officer just wanted to warn me that there were mean troopers ahead who wouldn't take kindly to this....oh, and by the way can I see your driver's license and rental agreement, where are you going, what do you do, and on and on...
I have had times when I was pulled over twice on the same trip.
was this in Louisiana?
ugh. im not happy with Louisiana police these days.
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We were stopped one time. The officer said my husband was driving over the white line on the right side of the highway. We knew he wasn't because we would have heard the rumble strips, which are pretty loud.
He was checking to see if we were hauling any illegals. We were on US 59.
.....they obviously pick their law enforcement folks from the same gene pools. So sorry.
don't know how much time you spend in texas but if you can get a chl it's just about a free pass here with law enforcement. I've been stopped a few times, i hand over my dl and my chl (which lets them know you've already been run seven ways to sunday through the fbi) and they hand them back and say 'have a nice day ma'am'.
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