Re: OT - I was Searched by the Police!
- From: "risky biz" <risky-biz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Mar 2007 16:51:14 -0700
On Mar 24, 10:38 pm, "Von Fourche" <Khonak...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, not exactly the police, more like a Conservation Officer. So...
Are there any attorneys on this board or people who really really know
the law? Here is what happened to me and my friend:
It's Wednesday night, still light out, and a friend and I decide to go for
a walk near the woods by a park. The temp is up in the 70's and we want to
enjoy the nice warm air. This is an area where lots of hunters park when
they go hunting and stuff. It is private property but the owner of the
woods has never ran me off when I was there in the past just walking around
enjoying the outdoors or taking the family dog for a walk.
Anyway, most of the day Wednesday some guy in another part of town was
firing a gun like crazy over and over. You could hear it all thru town.
So, it's Wednesday evening - my friend and I pull off the highway and
drive on a dirt road along the woods. We drive for three hundred feet,
stop, get out of the car, and start walking to a pond that is about a five
minute walk away. While we are walking I look back and see an SUV about to
drive down the dirt road. I also hear those gunshots that sound like it's
coming over a few hills away. I tell me friend we better go back to the car
because I don't want to be down there if other people are going to mess
around here - they might be looking to cause trouble or it might be the
owner of the land in the SUV and I don't want to bother him while he's on
his property. We keep walking to the pond. I look back and the SUV is
gone.
So, we get to the pond, look at it for one minute, then turn around and
walk back to the car. As we near the car a conservation officer jumps out
of the freaking woods and scares the hell out of us! He asks us our names,
asks us what we are doing down there, and asks us if we had any guns on us.
We told him no. Then he asked us to pull up our shirts and spin around to
show him we have no guns tucked in our pants. I, out of habit, put my hands
in my pockets and he asks me to keep my hands out in the open so he can see
them. He then calls our names in to the local office, everything comes back
fine.
What I want to know is - did this guy have the right to force us to raise
our shirts and spin around? It all happened so fast I did what he said
without thinking much. I have to say, he was not a jerk. He was ok. My
friend and the officer got to talking and a small conversation started. So,
the guy was conversational. We told him three or four times we were there
just enjoying the night air which was the truth.
Now, I have never been arrested before. Never had a speeding ticket
before. And now a Conservation Office tells me to pull up my shirt and spin
around! Were my rights violated? I was on private property. There were
gun shots coming from our area and I can sort of understand why he might
want to check us out. The guy did thank us for being so cooperative and
understanding. He thanked us a couple of times actually.
I'm glad this guy was not a total jerk or I would be really ticked. He
was ok tho. I guess I'm glad he was down there checking the area out
because meth labs are a problem in this and surrounding counties.
Still, I don't like being ordered what to do. What would have happened
if I refused to pull up my shirt and spin around? Hey, I'm a law abiding
citizen - the law is suppose to protect people like me - not interrogate me
like I'm some crack dealer on the street.
There's nothing wrong with what this police officer did. There were
gunshots reported all over the place and you were in an apparently
secluded area where the noise may have been coming from. He was
probably hiding to try to catch someone in the act of discharging a
weapon in the city limits or whatever law it violated.
What do you want the police to do- enforce the law or sit around the
station house eating doughnuts? Is there something wrong with the
specific law he was trying to enforce? Then talk to your
representatives.
I can't understand why you're complaining about the guy when what he
was doing was necessary to do his job.
I once had a police officer in Miami, Florida confiscate my driver's
license and threaten to "hire a ________ to kill me if I didn't get
out of town". That's something to complain about.
.
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