I have the utmost respect for the Law officers in this country, but some days!

MTboatguy

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So I spent the morning changing the oil in the new Plow Truck after getting everything else set up! But there are certain days that are just down right difficult to deal with, get the oil changed and noticed, no fuel in the truck! So off to town I head to fill the truck up, pass the wife on the way to town told I wouldn't be that long! Well that was wrong!

New plow on the front of the truck, so everything is not adjusted correctly yet and I am hitting sidewalks when I pull into the local mini mart, so I pull off on the side of the hwy to see what is going on, low and behold, one of Montana's finest pulls up behind me while I am sitting on side of the road. Gets out of his car with his blues on, and asks me sternly to step back from the vehicle and I roll my eyes...and the exclamation I made was not nice in mixed company!

So I step back, and stand there, sir do you have anything in the vehicle I need to know about? I told him, I sure as hell do! LOL!! He asks, and what would that be? I said, I have a .45 pistol under the arm rest. He asks, is it loaded? Yup, 11 rounds of 230 JHP, anything else, yup two magazines in the console, anything else, yup 2 bottle of booze in the passenger seat and a case of beer on the floorboard on the passenger side, he tells me he is going to secure the weapon, I told him no problem, but forgot I had a open, but empty can of beer rolling around on the floor! Yup, he tells me, he is going to have to administer a field sobriety test and a breath test! No problem, I blew a .00, then he has to run me, not worried I am a FFL holder, so after 20 minutes that passes, none of the other alcohol containers are open.

I finally asked him, why did you stop? He says, your drivers side tail light is flickering! :eek:

So almost an hour worth of checks, balances and background as well as a breath test, it was a flickering taillight?

Finally I get home and then I get hell from my wife for taking so long!

I can't win!

:faint2:
 

sam60

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Were you ticketed at all? I going to knock on wood before I type this...done. I haven't been pulled over in 16 years (I know you were stopped on the side of the road) Mine was a $180 ticket for 62 in a 45.
 

MTboatguy

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No, no tickets at all, just a bit of my time and a whole lot of my patience...it was frustrating to say the least, but I learned a long time ago, fighting with the police is never going to go in your favor
 

sam60

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If you were in Southern Nevada they would have stopped to see how cool it was. Seriously though I go from 2600' to 5500' then down to 2200' and back everyday. There are plows/gravel trucks working the pass when needed. 24 years of the 60 mile each way commute has showed me a few things. Nothing like the snow at 1100' where I grew up. Blizzards there.
 

avenger79

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yeah been there a few times.
had one ask me why my license plate was covered in snow, I was driving in a flippin blizzard.
 
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