I once had an officer stop me and tell me that my tail lights were out - and he refused to allow me to exit my vehicle to verify his allegation.
However, the only offense he wrote me up for was having a cracked windshield, an impossible probable cause when I was traveling at fifty or so miles an hour at about 1:30 am with the officer parked some distance down a side road. And when I stopped again a mile or so down the road to check my tail lights, they functioned just fine, and did until I disposed of the vehicle a few years later. The town had a reputation for an out of control, scandalous police department (which has since been disbanded with contract with Sheriff's department). I think he was looking for a drunk driver or maybe someone in particular, and was an A-hole when he found he didn't find what he wanted with my stop. It wouldn't have mattered what probable cause he alleged if I had been impaired. I did drink a couple of beers about 90 mile up the road with some friends I had been visiting, but knowing the town's reputation and feeling paranoid, I pulled off the highway a few miles north of town up a utility right of way and took about a three hour siesta before I rolled through town. There's always one excuse or another for a cop to trot out to make a traffic stop. |
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