beerman
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My wife and I spent our Saturday looking at a couple Bronco's, she's interested in picking up a cheaper Bronco to play with. I was carrying all day, you never know what you're walking into when answering a Craigslist ad... It was turning out to be a really good day, we didn't like any of the Bronco's we test drove, but we had a good time. We stopped at Broadway at the Beach at the Mustang show and checked that out. We just bought a 2013 Mustang GT earlier this year, we didn't enter the show or anything, but we wanted some ideas for our car. Anyway, we left the show and started heading back for Florence.
We were driving along the lake on the side of 501 in the left lane when the car in the right lane started drifting into our lane. I slammed on the brakes so we didn't get hit. After she pulled back into her lane, I dropped the car into fifth and went by her fairly quick. I shifted back into sixth and slowed back down to about 60. After maybe another third of a mile I started slowing down for the 35 mph zone in Conway. When we hit the 35 mph zone I noticed a motorcycle right on my bumper. A state patrol motorcycle cop unfortunately. He road my bumper to the stop light, where we waited to make the left turn onto 378. He was so close to me I couldn't see his lights until we made the turn onto 378 and I pulled into a parking lot on the right side of the road.
I'm a Michigan resident, my permanent address is in Michigan. I work for a company that does industrial property redevelopment all over the world. I happen to be working out of the Florence area currently. I handed the cop my license and my Michigan CCW permit. I had the car turned off and my hands on the steering wheel. He asked where my weapon was, I stated on my right hip inside my waist band. He tried to look to see it, which he couldn't. Then said nothing else about it. He tried to tell me I was breaking the law by not having a SC driver's license, which isn't correct. He just said, "I don't want to argue about it" when I told him that I'm just living here temporarily, and that I don't have to switch my drivers license.
In the end, he gave me a ticket for speeding, which I believe is b.s. because the lady that almost ran us off the road got away with nothing. He even said he saw her almost hit me, but said that I didn't slow down fast enough after I passed her. I'm pissed off plenty about the ticket, but it's not worth fighting it, they'll get me one way or another if I show up for the court date, so I'll just pay the $81 and hope to hell my insurance doesn't get affected. This guy certainly isn't going to win any personality awards. I won't share my real thoughts on him or how our interaction went out of respect for other LEO's that I've had much better interactions with.
As far as the ccw goes, it was very uneventful and he couldn't seem to care less. Sorry for the wall of text, I guess I just needed to vent a little.
We were driving along the lake on the side of 501 in the left lane when the car in the right lane started drifting into our lane. I slammed on the brakes so we didn't get hit. After she pulled back into her lane, I dropped the car into fifth and went by her fairly quick. I shifted back into sixth and slowed back down to about 60. After maybe another third of a mile I started slowing down for the 35 mph zone in Conway. When we hit the 35 mph zone I noticed a motorcycle right on my bumper. A state patrol motorcycle cop unfortunately. He road my bumper to the stop light, where we waited to make the left turn onto 378. He was so close to me I couldn't see his lights until we made the turn onto 378 and I pulled into a parking lot on the right side of the road.
I'm a Michigan resident, my permanent address is in Michigan. I work for a company that does industrial property redevelopment all over the world. I happen to be working out of the Florence area currently. I handed the cop my license and my Michigan CCW permit. I had the car turned off and my hands on the steering wheel. He asked where my weapon was, I stated on my right hip inside my waist band. He tried to look to see it, which he couldn't. Then said nothing else about it. He tried to tell me I was breaking the law by not having a SC driver's license, which isn't correct. He just said, "I don't want to argue about it" when I told him that I'm just living here temporarily, and that I don't have to switch my drivers license.
In the end, he gave me a ticket for speeding, which I believe is b.s. because the lady that almost ran us off the road got away with nothing. He even said he saw her almost hit me, but said that I didn't slow down fast enough after I passed her. I'm pissed off plenty about the ticket, but it's not worth fighting it, they'll get me one way or another if I show up for the court date, so I'll just pay the $81 and hope to hell my insurance doesn't get affected. This guy certainly isn't going to win any personality awards. I won't share my real thoughts on him or how our interaction went out of respect for other LEO's that I've had much better interactions with.
As far as the ccw goes, it was very uneventful and he couldn't seem to care less. Sorry for the wall of text, I guess I just needed to vent a little.