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11-30-2001, 01:24 AM
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OT: Cops search your 944?
When you get pulled over do you notice the police looking at your car a little more closely than usual as they walk up? I have noticed this, they've pulled me over for taillights that were NOT out, and they made sure to shine their flashlight in my rear hatch plenty. Knowing what I know about these cars though, it wouldn't be hard for one to stash things of small origin and them never be found... Has anyone ever had their 944 searched? Do you get the impression the police are suspicious? let's hear some stories...
11-30-2001, 02:06 AM
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Maybe you should consider another choice of personalized license plate -- you are the guy I've seen driving around with the "GANJA944" plates, right? 
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11-30-2001, 02:12 AM
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In the days of old when I was feeling paranoid I would just put my oregano in a soda can crumple it and toss it in the back of my truck with a few others. Who wants to go through trash?
11-30-2001, 03:50 AM
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One time the Police wanted to search my Honda. I said "No" I had to say "No" for an hour before they would leave me alone. It became painfully obvious after about 5 minutes that they thought I had gone into the bad part of town to buy drugs. In actuality I went into the bad part of town to take my girlfriend home (Now she lives with me in the good part of town).
In the end the cop (read [expletive deleted] pig) had the audacity to come out and say "a lot of drugs come out of that neighborhood, I though you had some. Now I realize you are a good kid.". Like that is a valid reason to attempt to violate my 5th amendment rights for an hour.
In the end the cop (read [expletive deleted] pig) had the audacity to come out and say "a lot of drugs come out of that neighborhood, I though you had some. Now I realize you are a good kid.". Like that is a valid reason to attempt to violate my 5th amendment rights for an hour.
11-30-2001, 09:05 AM
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My Liscense plate is 52XXXXX I duno the excat digits..
What's even worse is to assume someone is bad for possession or use of substances. Everyone has their own viewpoints, that cop has probably NEVER been FULLY educated on the effects of certain substances, hell he probably doesn't realize the beverages he has in his fridge outside are more dangerous than some 'substances' that are illegal. Police will try to fool you into giving up, or thinking you have to let them search, just sit there and say no....
What's even worse is to assume someone is bad for possession or use of substances. Everyone has their own viewpoints, that cop has probably NEVER been FULLY educated on the effects of certain substances, hell he probably doesn't realize the beverages he has in his fridge outside are more dangerous than some 'substances' that are illegal. Police will try to fool you into giving up, or thinking you have to let them search, just sit there and say no....
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My only "police" incident came on Sep 22 (after the event) when I was trying to go on a military base for my high school reunion (20th). Yes, I'm getting up there...
Every car was being stopped and searched, when I got up to the MPs I asked them if everyone was being searched, and he said no, where are you going, ok, can you open your trunk. I said sure. Hit the hatch release, he couldn't get it open, so he shined his flashlight in the back, and said oh, nevermind I can see its empty
He didn't notice the 6 pack of tall boys in the back seat though
So I went on through without the cavity search
only to have my hatch open 100 yds down the road 
Every car was being stopped and searched, when I got up to the MPs I asked them if everyone was being searched, and he said no, where are you going, ok, can you open your trunk. I said sure. Hit the hatch release, he couldn't get it open, so he shined his flashlight in the back, and said oh, nevermind I can see its empty
He didn't notice the 6 pack of tall boys in the back seat though
So I went on through without the cavity search
only to have my hatch open 100 yds down the road
11-30-2001, 12:33 PM
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I don't know if it is still like this, but used to be when you would drive through the Savannah River Site (a federal nuclear research facility) they (Stateys or MPs, I don't remember) would stop you as you entered and would search your car and give you a time stamped card. Then they would take the card at the far end to make sure you made it through in an appropiate amount of time. They wanted to make sure you didn't stop and snoop around on your way through.
I also got stopped a couple years ago and almost had my car searched more extensively than by looking through the hatch with a flashlight. I was driving home from my sisters house and as I pulled off the highway I saw bunchs of police cars converge on the area. I turned to drive toward my neighborhood and police cars were zooming all over the place, pausing only to look at me as I sat at a stop light. Hmm, how odd I thought to myself. I turned right up another road and the car in front of me slowed and pulled over so I thought OK, good idea, let's let the police go by. As I pulled over and stopped a police car pulled up behind me, lights on. The car that was ahead of me pulled off and another police car pulled in front of me. Two officers approach my car left hands high with their flashlights on and right hands on their S&Ws. Turns out the paranoid freak in the car in front of me had been in a road rage situation with someone, called 911 on their cell and fingered me as the other person. The police apologized when they got it all straightened out.
There was a funny "Who's on first?" moment when they asked where I had come from. I was coming back from Chagrin Falls and had just turned off of Chagrin Blvd. They thought I was being a smart *** when I kept telling them I was coming from Chagrin, thinking I meant the road that I had just turned off, until they realized I meant the town 10 miles away.
I also got stopped a couple years ago and almost had my car searched more extensively than by looking through the hatch with a flashlight. I was driving home from my sisters house and as I pulled off the highway I saw bunchs of police cars converge on the area. I turned to drive toward my neighborhood and police cars were zooming all over the place, pausing only to look at me as I sat at a stop light. Hmm, how odd I thought to myself. I turned right up another road and the car in front of me slowed and pulled over so I thought OK, good idea, let's let the police go by. As I pulled over and stopped a police car pulled up behind me, lights on. The car that was ahead of me pulled off and another police car pulled in front of me. Two officers approach my car left hands high with their flashlights on and right hands on their S&Ws. Turns out the paranoid freak in the car in front of me had been in a road rage situation with someone, called 911 on their cell and fingered me as the other person. The police apologized when they got it all straightened out.
There was a funny "Who's on first?" moment when they asked where I had come from. I was coming back from Chagrin Falls and had just turned off of Chagrin Blvd. They thought I was being a smart *** when I kept telling them I was coming from Chagrin, thinking I meant the road that I had just turned off, until they realized I meant the town 10 miles away.
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11-30-2001, 01:21 PM
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ok, so i have yet to interact with the 5-0 from my 951, but i have had an interesting police interaction since moving to north cali.
i was visiting some people in Sonoma (home of stupid rich tourists who can't figure out what to do with their money) and four of us went out for a walk around 10pm. None of us had had more than 2 drinks, we were being neither loud nor obnoxious; our goal was simply to take our conversation off the couch and outside.
to make a long story short, we were first accosted by the law for doing nothing more than walking in the street (and there wasn't even a sidewalk!!). after 2 of us had been thoroughly searched and we had been detained for ~20 minutes they let us go and for some reason we did not head back to the house.
fifteen minutes later we decided to take our route into a cemetary so as to be off the street. we walked through an open gate and headed up a paved road. it wasn't long until we saw the spotlights coming up the road after us. at that point, my friends decided to take off into the woods, but I decided that I had no reason to run since we had not were not and weren't planning to break any laws. Bad idea. To make another long story short, i spent half an hour being "detained for your protection" which involved my hands being cuffed behind my back and being locked in the back of a crown vic.
they found 2 of the other guys and brought them back, and then told us that we were all going to be photographed. the other 2 followed orders but i asked plolitely if i was legally required to consent, since i had yet to be charged with anything. at that point, the chick cop started to freak out saying angrily that we could "play it [my] way" if i wanted to make things hard for her. she then went and got some other cops, who procedeed to question me for several minutes as to why i did not want to be photographed. I replied courteously that if i was not being charged with a crime, I wanted to respect my own privacy and not have my photograph in a police report. that pissed them off even more and they started asking me how my privacy would be violated with their poloroid. I calmly held my ground and eventually the chick cop came back and said in a threatening tone that since i wanted to make her life difficult she would hold me while she got a copy of my driver's license photo (i had shown each cop my id about 3 times by now).
all in all i spent about 90 minutes that night being harassed by the law; an encounter that was much lengthened by my refusal to waive my constitutional rights at their request.
and ironically, the only breach of law that occured that evening was the small baggie i had in my pocket which i dropped in a bush when i saw the spotlights. I went back the next day and got it.
damn pigs.
i was visiting some people in Sonoma (home of stupid rich tourists who can't figure out what to do with their money) and four of us went out for a walk around 10pm. None of us had had more than 2 drinks, we were being neither loud nor obnoxious; our goal was simply to take our conversation off the couch and outside.
to make a long story short, we were first accosted by the law for doing nothing more than walking in the street (and there wasn't even a sidewalk!!). after 2 of us had been thoroughly searched and we had been detained for ~20 minutes they let us go and for some reason we did not head back to the house.
fifteen minutes later we decided to take our route into a cemetary so as to be off the street. we walked through an open gate and headed up a paved road. it wasn't long until we saw the spotlights coming up the road after us. at that point, my friends decided to take off into the woods, but I decided that I had no reason to run since we had not were not and weren't planning to break any laws. Bad idea. To make another long story short, i spent half an hour being "detained for your protection" which involved my hands being cuffed behind my back and being locked in the back of a crown vic.
they found 2 of the other guys and brought them back, and then told us that we were all going to be photographed. the other 2 followed orders but i asked plolitely if i was legally required to consent, since i had yet to be charged with anything. at that point, the chick cop started to freak out saying angrily that we could "play it [my] way" if i wanted to make things hard for her. she then went and got some other cops, who procedeed to question me for several minutes as to why i did not want to be photographed. I replied courteously that if i was not being charged with a crime, I wanted to respect my own privacy and not have my photograph in a police report. that pissed them off even more and they started asking me how my privacy would be violated with their poloroid. I calmly held my ground and eventually the chick cop came back and said in a threatening tone that since i wanted to make her life difficult she would hold me while she got a copy of my driver's license photo (i had shown each cop my id about 3 times by now).
all in all i spent about 90 minutes that night being harassed by the law; an encounter that was much lengthened by my refusal to waive my constitutional rights at their request.
and ironically, the only breach of law that occured that evening was the small baggie i had in my pocket which i dropped in a bush when i saw the spotlights. I went back the next day and got it.
damn pigs.
11-30-2001, 02:24 PM
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Originally posted by Ganja Porsche:
<STRONG>My Liscense plate is 52XXXXX I duno the excat digits..</STRONG>
<STRONG>My Liscense plate is 52XXXXX I duno the excat digits..</STRONG>
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11-30-2001, 02:57 PM
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For the most part I have nothing against the poe-lease. I have had other fun law encounters though.
When I was still living in Savannah some wack-o burst into a friends apartment and started blathering on about being an undercover cop whose cover had been blown and "they" were after her. In reality she looked like a hooker. She kept rushing in and out and by the time the police arrived she was gone. She, however, made it down the street to do the same thing in another house and this time the law was close at hand and caught her. After taking our statement we decided to walk over to another friends house to settle down a bit. On the way over we heard gun-shots in the distance (this is Savannah after all). The same cops rushed down the lane we were in (alleys are called lanes in Savannah) and proceeded to pin us against the wall with guns in our backs. After they figured it out they let us go.
I also used to be first call when the alarm went off at the bike shop I worked at in Little 5 Points in Atlanta. The shop owners must have stopped paying the false alarm fees because, at first, the PD would take a really long time to show up (even though they maitained a presence in the neighborhood) and would just kind of poke around while I did a perimeter search. Then after about a year of that (we had a few alarm calls) they just stopped answering the alarm calls at all.
Nothing like a Sig Sauer P229 to give you confidence though while you do a perimeter search.
When I was still living in Savannah some wack-o burst into a friends apartment and started blathering on about being an undercover cop whose cover had been blown and "they" were after her. In reality she looked like a hooker. She kept rushing in and out and by the time the police arrived she was gone. She, however, made it down the street to do the same thing in another house and this time the law was close at hand and caught her. After taking our statement we decided to walk over to another friends house to settle down a bit. On the way over we heard gun-shots in the distance (this is Savannah after all). The same cops rushed down the lane we were in (alleys are called lanes in Savannah) and proceeded to pin us against the wall with guns in our backs. After they figured it out they let us go.
I also used to be first call when the alarm went off at the bike shop I worked at in Little 5 Points in Atlanta. The shop owners must have stopped paying the false alarm fees because, at first, the PD would take a really long time to show up (even though they maitained a presence in the neighborhood) and would just kind of poke around while I did a perimeter search. Then after about a year of that (we had a few alarm calls) they just stopped answering the alarm calls at all.
Nothing like a Sig Sauer P229 to give you confidence though while you do a perimeter search.
11-30-2001, 03:43 PM
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All right...cops searching cars, huh? Well...when I was 17, almost 18, I had taken the trusty neon out to a party (this weekend happened to have 3 consecutive parties, 2 of them at my house, and the 2 biggest parties in crofton that any of our senior class had ever experienced) that got broken up by the cops, and my one friend was slightly faded and needed a ride since he wasn't trying to drive away all lit up in front of the cops. No big deal I thought, so we went back to my house for a "session" since my parents were gone, and about 4 hours later when my friend had sobered up a bit, we went back to the place where the party was at to go pick up his car.
Unfortunately, the dumb**** kid had left a bowl and 1/2 oz on his passenger's seat of his escort and the cops, coming by a few hours after the party to make sure nobody came back, looked in his car and found the contraband in plain view. They called his parents to the scene, and here I am, slightly dazed and confused, driving past 4 or 5 cop cars with the owner of the escort, and he told me to keep driving, but officer Powell, the local "just turned 21 so I'm going to be a badass and try to mess with all the highschool kids because nobody liked me in highschool" kind of cop came up behind me and pulled me over. He forcibly removed my friend from the car, and had me and another friend who was in the back step out and searched us. He found nothing on my other friend, and some visine in my pocket...I told him I had the stinky pinky and he probably shouldn't be handling it unless he wanted it to. He told me to go sit back in my car, and without permission, started rummiging through the passenger's side with me in the car. He looked through the whole passenger's side, got out, and at that moment I remembered I had a blunt, already twisted up, stuffed underneath my drivers side seat from the day before. I quickly shoved it under the passenger's seat, he had me get out and searched the driver's side and found nothing. Boy was I lucky that cop was a moron and let me sit in my car while he was searching. Anyways, the kid who left the contraband on his front seat ended up getting in no trouble at all because his dad is one of the few lawyers that is based out of the community and is tight with the police department. I hate cops.
Does anybody remember the story I told about 6 months ago about the cops busting up a party at my apartment and then beating up one of my friends? Well...over thanksgiving break, my friend who was beaten had his court date for apparently "assaulting a police officer", disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. He had me and a friend, who happened to be back from school for the week, go in and testify. The main ******* cop that beat my friend and the two other cops that were on the scene at the time had completely mismatching stories. Apparently the cop thought my friend brushed shoulders with him on his way out (he was free to go at this point) forcibly and considered that reason to tackle him and beat him with a night-stick. Well...my one testifying friend who was inside where this all was happening at the time placed the police officer about 6 feet away from my friend at the time he was leaving...my beaten friend just had to say "oink oink" under his breath on his way out and that pissed the cop off enough to tackle him and beat him. I saw what happened outside when the cops were dragging him down the stairs, and testified my part.
Because of our testimonies, the judge basically said that the cops ego was hurt, and his actions were not warranted for the situation he was in. He went on to say even if my friend was resisting arrest, it was his right since it was an illegal arrest, and we had all charges dropped against my friend. Too bad he was out 2 g's for a lawyer...maybe he won't run his mouth to cops anymore. The funny thing is that his twin brother got arrested last thursday for running his mouth at the cops after a bon fire. It must be a puerto rican thing.
Unfortunately, the dumb**** kid had left a bowl and 1/2 oz on his passenger's seat of his escort and the cops, coming by a few hours after the party to make sure nobody came back, looked in his car and found the contraband in plain view. They called his parents to the scene, and here I am, slightly dazed and confused, driving past 4 or 5 cop cars with the owner of the escort, and he told me to keep driving, but officer Powell, the local "just turned 21 so I'm going to be a badass and try to mess with all the highschool kids because nobody liked me in highschool" kind of cop came up behind me and pulled me over. He forcibly removed my friend from the car, and had me and another friend who was in the back step out and searched us. He found nothing on my other friend, and some visine in my pocket...I told him I had the stinky pinky and he probably shouldn't be handling it unless he wanted it to. He told me to go sit back in my car, and without permission, started rummiging through the passenger's side with me in the car. He looked through the whole passenger's side, got out, and at that moment I remembered I had a blunt, already twisted up, stuffed underneath my drivers side seat from the day before. I quickly shoved it under the passenger's seat, he had me get out and searched the driver's side and found nothing. Boy was I lucky that cop was a moron and let me sit in my car while he was searching. Anyways, the kid who left the contraband on his front seat ended up getting in no trouble at all because his dad is one of the few lawyers that is based out of the community and is tight with the police department. I hate cops.
Does anybody remember the story I told about 6 months ago about the cops busting up a party at my apartment and then beating up one of my friends? Well...over thanksgiving break, my friend who was beaten had his court date for apparently "assaulting a police officer", disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. He had me and a friend, who happened to be back from school for the week, go in and testify. The main ******* cop that beat my friend and the two other cops that were on the scene at the time had completely mismatching stories. Apparently the cop thought my friend brushed shoulders with him on his way out (he was free to go at this point) forcibly and considered that reason to tackle him and beat him with a night-stick. Well...my one testifying friend who was inside where this all was happening at the time placed the police officer about 6 feet away from my friend at the time he was leaving...my beaten friend just had to say "oink oink" under his breath on his way out and that pissed the cop off enough to tackle him and beat him. I saw what happened outside when the cops were dragging him down the stairs, and testified my part.
Because of our testimonies, the judge basically said that the cops ego was hurt, and his actions were not warranted for the situation he was in. He went on to say even if my friend was resisting arrest, it was his right since it was an illegal arrest, and we had all charges dropped against my friend. Too bad he was out 2 g's for a lawyer...maybe he won't run his mouth to cops anymore. The funny thing is that his twin brother got arrested last thursday for running his mouth at the cops after a bon fire. It must be a puerto rican thing.
11-30-2001, 03:43 PM
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Originally posted by Manning:
<STRONG>Nothing like a Sig Sauer P229 to give you confidence though while you do a perimeter search.</STRONG>
<STRONG>Nothing like a Sig Sauer P229 to give you confidence though while you do a perimeter search.</STRONG>
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Oh yeah...always keep "it" underneath the foam insole in your shoe (it works with small denominations). Of all the times I have been searched, they have never looked in my shoes, and even in jail (yes, I have been twice) they don't bother to lift up your insole.
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My spelling? - I am somewhat dyslexic and tend to reverse letters alot, especially numbers...
Ribs, that's a clever idea about the shoe.
when it comes to hiding 'it' in a car you've got two choices really.
One) Hide it where it's really hard to get to (like under/behind something that requires unbolting or alot of reaching (up under the dash, way up under))
Two) Somewhere very accessible so that you may proceed to eat it if pulled over ;-)
Ribs, that's a clever idea about the shoe.
when it comes to hiding 'it' in a car you've got two choices really.
One) Hide it where it's really hard to get to (like under/behind something that requires unbolting or alot of reaching (up under the dash, way up under))
Two) Somewhere very accessible so that you may proceed to eat it if pulled over ;-)
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i once new a cop (i don't hate him because after a few months he said he couldn't stand the corruption and backstabbing and subsequently became a dispatcher) who told a story of pulling over some guy who reached in the glovebox for his registration, only to have a half oz sack fall out.
the moral: if you don't give the pig probable cause to search your car, you are fine as long as "it" is out of sight and NOT WITH YOUR REGISTRATION/INSURANCE!!!
well i'm leaving work for the weekend, and i'm pretty sure it's 4:20 somewhere in the world right now....
the moral: if you don't give the pig probable cause to search your car, you are fine as long as "it" is out of sight and NOT WITH YOUR REGISTRATION/INSURANCE!!!
well i'm leaving work for the weekend, and i'm pretty sure it's 4:20 somewhere in the world right now....