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I have heard a lot of positive comments about our local LEO's here in Wylie. I have only had one meeting. The female K9 officer stopped one day to compliment my GSDs and to chat while we were out in the front yard playing. Very nice. Still no CHL related experience or traffic stop even.

TxFire wrote:I have heard a lot of positive comments about our local LEO's here in Wylie. I have only had one meeting. The female K9 officer stopped one day to compliment my GSDs and to chat while we were out in the front yard playing. Very nice. Still no CHL related experience or traffic stop even.

I have had several encounters with Wylie PD (this was the first one where I did not initiate contact). Other than one officer who made it painfully clear my call was bothersome to her, they were great expereinces.

You mean you didn't tell her to "Quit riiiiding you"? I thought that + flashing a pack of cigarettes under my sleeve was guaranteed to intimidate the officer into leaving.

1. You should have shot the highway for throwing a rock at you like the customs officer did

2. I would have cited you for making our insurance premiums go up :-)

My registration is 3 months out. I have the new sticker in the center console. Just too darned lazy to put it on.

Russell wrote:I most likely will not get a verbal warning if I am pulled over for my inspection. It has been out since october of last year. Prior to that I hadn't had my car inspected for a year and a half!

I just get busy and everytime I decide to do it, something else comes up and I forget

However, I have a good story for the police officer if I do get pulled over and they mention it. And no, I am NOT making this up, this is really what has happened to me:

"Well officer, you are not going to believe this story but I am going to tell it to you anyway. Before my inspection sticker expired I went to go have my cars windshield replaced as it had a giant crack right in front of my face in it. I do not believe it would have passed inspection with that crack, hence why I went to get it replaced. <snip>

The windshield is not an item of inspection in Texas.

Are you serious? I thought a crack in the driver's line of sight was a deal breaker.

well i'll be darned...

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/vi/Misc/faq/faq_item.htm

txinvestigator wrote:Must have been my cool charm and good looks.

kw5kw wrote: "Are you armed, sir."
"Yes, I am. Center console."
"Is it loaded?"
"Yes; .42 ACP hollow points..."

"42, driver, foooooooourty two."

~old trucker lingo

Russell wrote:I most likely will not get a verbal warning if I am pulled over for my inspection. It has been out since october of last year. Prior to that I hadn't had my car inspected for a year and a half!

Mine was 5 years expired. Trooper really didn't care that the truck had sat parked for over three years, was only used for the occasional dump run, and I was just coming home from taking a lawnmower to do lawn work at my wife's business (four miles away).

The interesting thing about the stop was that this trooper has a reputation as a hard-line ticket writer, probably deserved. But I was amazed at how poor his tactical technique was. He let me control the flow of the conversation and my own actions, including letting him know that I was going to step out of the truck to retrieve my wallet, since I couldn't get to it setting down, and also that I was going to walk around to the other side of the truck to get my insurance out of the glove compartment. I just politely told him what I was about to do, then did it. He never asked about weapons.

He was so busy eyeballing the lawn tools in the back that he paid almost no attention to me rummaging around in the truck, and presented several clear opportunities for Bad Things to happen if I'd been a bad guy.

As I said, I found that interesting, because a trooper with a reputation for being hard-nosed and making people mad, should probably have better situational awareness.

Kevin

Russell wrote:Then, one of the buttons for my horn started acting funny and causing the horn to blare at random intervals without me even needing to touch it.

When I was working as a park patrolman in the NY State Park Police, about a hundred years ago, one of our patrol cars had a short in the siren system that would cause it to go off by itself at inconvenient times. I was on night patrol and had just pulled up behind a car that was occupied but no one was visible. As I approached the car the siren went off, and I can't say who jumped higher, the couple in the car or me.