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01-02-2009, 09:14 PM
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First LEO contact
I'm driving home late last night. I'm tired, having just spent the day babysitting seven-week old twins. I see red and blue flashing lights in the rearview and I'm thinking "Oh $h!t! What did I do??"... check the spedometer...I'm not speeding... slow down, pull onto the off ramp and into a turnout under a bright light. I remember that I'm carrying and try to think of the best way to approach this. Decide to just hand over the permit and license. The officer comes up and knocks on the passenger window. My dog, strapped into his basket in the front seat (he gets carsick if I put him in a carrier), probably sensing that I'm nervous, starts barking at this strange man with the flashlight, and I tell the dog to "chill" (his STFU command) and tell the officer that I don't have power windows and can't roll that one down from the driver's seat. I think the officer realized by then that conducting whatever business over the dog's head was probably not a good idea anyway.
He comes around to the driver's side and tells me he stopped me for expired tags. I'm thinking "I paid that registration and got the smog how long ago...? Should've gotten the tags by now!" and tell the officer that I never received the tags in the mail but had paid the fees. He doesn't quite look like he believes me and asks to see my license. I tell him it's in my wallet and ask for permission to get it. He says to go ahead and I hand him my license and permit. He examines the permit carefully, reading the top and bottom and paying careful attention to what kind of guns I have, while talking to me about how he's out looking for drunk drivers, and I'm obviously not drunk (not sure if he just meant I wasn't acting drunk, or I wouldn't be drunk and carrying a weapon), and doesn't even mention the permit at all, although he's probably read it four times at this point. He hands it and the license back to me, and tells me to make sure I get down to the DMV or Auto Club and get some replacement tags, because my tags are four months out of date, and they impound cars at six months, so I'll get pulled over a lot more often if I don't go get the replacement stickers. He didn't give me a ticket, let me go with a reminder to get the replacement tags and gave me directions as to how to get back on the freeway. 
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01-02-2009, 09:30 PM
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01-02-2009, 09:39 PM
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you handled yourself very well.
one thing I would like to add. Officers always run the plate first, if its expired in the system...then there is something wrong if you paid it. when you pay the dmv, i think it takes 30 days for it to show up on the leo's system. If its 4 months over due, it definately should show up as current if its been paid. So thats probably why the officer didn't believe you. It showed up expired, so Either DMV never received the money or they messed up. I've seen it many times when i ran a plate because the tag was expired on the plate. the system would show if its current or not.
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01-02-2009, 09:40 PM
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only reason i have AAA. DMV lines just SUCK!
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01-02-2009, 10:06 PM
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It seems you handled it very well.
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"The more we sweat in practice, the less we bleed in battle." -Chinese Proverb "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." -Wilderness Tactical
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01-02-2009, 10:33 PM
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The officer told me he had not yet run the plate (this was part of the conversation while he was reading the permit over and over). I told him to go ahead and run it, that I'd paid and it should come back current. Maybe because it was under the six months for impound, he didn't bother?
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01-02-2009, 10:34 PM
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"A kind word only goes so far, a kind word and a gun goes a lot further" Al Capone 1924 Be Safe, Be Confident, Get Trained! ® Copyrighted 1996 Amateurs Talk Hardware (Guns) Professionals Talk Software (Training) greg@firearmstraining.com Oh Yeah! Piss On Golf! Waste of a good range.
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01-02-2009, 10:37 PM
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01-02-2009, 10:45 PM
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You can receive, new registration and new stickers for your plates in one easy stop !!
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01-02-2009, 11:19 PM
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"A kind word only goes so far, a kind word and a gun goes a lot further" Al Capone 1924 Be Safe, Be Confident, Get Trained! ® Copyrighted 1996 Amateurs Talk Hardware (Guns) Professionals Talk Software (Training) greg@firearmstraining.com Oh Yeah! Piss On Golf! Waste of a good range.
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01-03-2009, 03:07 AM
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spc
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01-03-2009, 08:16 AM
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I checked my bank records, and the check to the DMV cleared when I paid six months ago. Does this mean I'm gonna have to pay them twice?? Or did he really not run the plate?
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01-03-2009, 08:43 AM
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sounds like he didn't run your plate.
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01-03-2009, 09:21 AM
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"Let your gun be your constant companion on all your walks." Jefferson "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." The Dalai Lama "Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them." Walter Mondale, VP "Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing." Sammy "The Bull" Gravano "A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." Lenin, Creator of USSR "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms" Hitler "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights "I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor." Gandhi The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government." Hubert H Humphrey, VP "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life." John F Kennedy "Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state." Heinrich Himmler, Head of Nazi SS "Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy." George Orwell "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in their government." Jefferson "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one." Luke 22:36
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