Rusty is retired now. It is Chris the Biologist for the WMAs and I might spell this wrong Terrel last I heard he was still out there. They are both really nice guys. And Rusty would just scary you straight if he walked up on you with his shaved head and standing at 6'6 I think or it seemed he was that tall.

Used to be Chris jarawoski

Had a run in with a Trooper in VA once when I was up there for a month long school with the Coast Guard. I went out for dinner with a classmate and wanted to get back to the barracks room early to study for a big test the next day. On the way back a Trooper pulls me over for supposedly running a red light (it was clearly green/yellow as I cleared the intersection....never even turned red on me at all). He walked up to my car all pissed off and cocky from the get-go. Asked for my license and I hand him that and my registration. He saw my NH driver's license and leaned forward and also saw my USCG decal on the windshield. Went off on me saying how us f-n yankees and military think the law doesn't apply to us. (remember, I hadn't done a dang thing wrong). He then asked if I had been drinking. I told him I had ONE beer with dinner and was headed back to base to study for a law exam the next morning. He yells (he yelled the whole time...never spoke normally to me) to get out of the car. I step out and he runs me through the FST's of walking the line, etc. I had zero issues (only had one beer almost an hour earlier) and then tells me to get in the Trooper's car! What?? I get in and he pulls out the breathalizer. I say, "Alco-Sensor III, huh?" He gave me that smart ass look (I was going to a month long school to be a Federal Boarding Officer for the Coast Guard, so I was intimately familiar with his equipment as it was the same we carried in the CG at the time). I blow into it and watch the numbers BARELY budge from zero. I looked at him and said, "I told you I only had one". He yells again saying that he can haul me to jail and arrest me for DUI regardless of what the tests say. I asked him if he was and he said no, your friend can drive you back to base. I asked if I was under the limit then why couldn't I drive myself? He asked my friend if he'd been drinking and he said yup! I aint driving! (He only had one drink also but didn't want to go through what I just did). So the cop said, and I quote, "If I'm not arresting your ass tonight, I'm at least going to give you a hard time. So I'm having your car towed to base and you'll have to pay the tow truck $100. That'll teach you military guys!".

WTF???

Best part is, when I got back to my base here in Mobile (this was mid 90's) I hadn't told the story to a single person. One of the reservists came up to me at work one day and asked about when I got pulled over in VA. I looked at him funny knowing I hadn't told anyone about it. He said the Trooper was prior Coast Guard and called down to the station to talk to this guy (they knew each other from years back) knowing that this is where I was permanently stationed. REALLY??? A prior Coastie giving me chit like this when I did nothing wrong?? Made me pay $100 to tow my car?? I was going to fight it like a son of a b%tch, but didn't want to drive back to VA to do it.

A$$hole. I haven't trusted a cop since. Sorry, and I know there are great ones out there, but he and other's I know who think the are ABOVE the law ruined it for me.

Rant over.

Had me a good incident with a PoPo in Yorktown as well.

Was driving there for A school. Never been there so was just going by map. Was close to the base, but was on two lane country road behind a blue haired granny going about 30 mph. Finally able to pass, when I came around a bend, passed a cop. Looked back and saw his brakelights. So I pulled over. He came around the corner so fast after me he actually passed me before he locked em up and stopped in front of me.

I was in Full Dress Blues. Figured that would be a good thing. I got out of my truck, and he just grinned and motioned for me to come sit in his cruiser.

He for the most part told me he enjoyed writing tickets for Military folks. This was in the mid 80's. $75 was a lot to me back then.

I've had a few run ins with the law thru out my life. I've never been in trouble and have always steered clear of it, but it seems bad luck follows me. One story I remember well goes like this.

I was a Sophomore in HS. 2 friends and I were out on the town on a Saturday night. I went to drop one of them off and was driving by the housing projects in Pisgah on my way to his house. I was doing the speed limit and from out of no where and big white cat runs out in front of me and I hit it. Freakin police was watching and I didn't know it. I was just gonna keep on going cause, hell, it was just a cat. He pulls me over and told me he seen me hit the cat and asks me if I'm gonna go tell the owner. I said I can if I have to. So, I turn around and go back. I pull to a door thats closest to where the cat was. I knocked on the door and an elderly woman answers. I said mam, do you own a white cat? She said yes I do, why? I says, well mam, I'm sorry but I just hit it with my truck. She goes in to tears and tells me how that was an expensive cat and all. I said, mam, I will pay you what ever you paid for the cat. So I handed her $100 and went on back to the truck. As I was getting into the truck I see the officer arresting the woman. Her charge was selling pu$$y on the street!

Did I get you?

I've had a few stops over the years that were totally bullshit. It only takes 1 asshole LEO about 3 minutes to create 20 years worth of hatred toward all if them.

That is a terrible way to think. Blanking one group of people instead of singling out the individual. I have had a few run ins with the law. Some have gone my way and others have not. Some LEOs were nicer than others.

I was gonna ask if Seth's story was in Yorktown. When I got out I (stupidly) lived there for several years. I can't count how many times I got pulled over two minutes after buying a 6 pack at the Crown station (still had base decals on windshield).

But Ytown was the best place to get a vehicle inspected...