I hate posting to these topics. I read em, take note and move on.
But dang.
Getting pulled over on a quad is starting to sound like an old gistapo movie. Show me your papers!
Got your License? Yes sir.
Registration? yup.
Insurance? ahuh (thinking to myself - I'm friggin 50 miles from anywhere I'd need it! and never ride on paved roads).
How about your State Trust Land Paper work? Yeah, just paid $75 bucks to get it, when it cost $15 last year.
Huntin Licence? Jeez, yep I got that too in my file folder here full of paper work that I keep nice and neat just to show you officers.
Those tires dont look DOT, you sure they're regulation? I dont know, I just bought them. I dont ride on pavement, but I do cross an occasional forest road in between real "off road" trails, which is why I pay all these fees in the first place.
Well your on a real road now, so they need to be DOT. But I"ll be nice and let you go on that, but thats just because your being cooperative.
What you got in that Ice Chest? Some soda's and water. Can I check it out?
Sure go ahead, but why did you pull me over in the first place?
You questioning me boy? Your OHV tag, it isn't clearly visable, kinda dusty, you should keep it more visable. Well I've been driving on dusty roads, I guess that means you can pull me over any time you want.
Is that a gun in the scabbard? Yep, it's registered. Got the registration with you? Um, no... sorry. You should carry that with you, just asking for trouble if you dont have the correct paperwork.
I'm gonna run your license info and check you out just the same.
Sorry, but this it gettin out of control, whether to officer is decent or not (and I've run into mostly decent officers). It's not right a guy just trying to spend a day scouting has to worry about all this stuff when he's not basically breaking any law's in the first place.
To me it's all about the all mighty dollar. How much money can we get from them up front in fee's, and how much can we get from them in the field.
There is no such thing any more as an officer with discression. It's basically been taken away from them, just like the Gistapo had no ability to apply discression.
I guess the reference to Gistapo might put some people off, but it sure borders on getting pulled over asked "show me your papers".
