Deek
Regular Member
Me and a friend were helping another friend with some repair jobs around his parents house. So we all went to Home Depot for supplies and I had my .45 with me and one of my friends borrowed my 9mm to try OCing around here (he's from ohio). So after wandering about the store for about 30 mins. and talking to and being helped by about a half a dozen or so employees, we come out of an isle and find 2 appleton PD officers that were looking for us. Someone made a MWAG call and they had to check it out. So, in the course of playing the "lets see some ID game", one of us coughed us his Ohio DL, one didnt have any, and I stuck with " I'm not doing anything wrong, so I'm really required to and therefore I'd rather not". After 5-10 minutes of the one officer trying to guilt me into giving up my ID, they gave up and we were allowed to continue with our shopping. we were there about another 15-20 mins. when one friend asked me, on the way to the checkout. what the chances were that the cops would be waiting outside to pull over so they could run the plates and find out what wouldn't tell them before.
That's something I hadn't considerd before..... if pulled over after refusing to ID oneself before, would having the plates run be some sort of invasion of privacy, or would I then be required to show ID because it's a "traffic stop" even though I probably didnt commit a traffic violation. Could I still refuse?.
BTW, the cops were just leaving the lot after giving up waiting ( I think) as we were leaving the store
That's something I hadn't considerd before..... if pulled over after refusing to ID oneself before, would having the plates run be some sort of invasion of privacy, or would I then be required to show ID because it's a "traffic stop" even though I probably didnt commit a traffic violation. Could I still refuse?.
BTW, the cops were just leaving the lot after giving up waiting ( I think) as we were leaving the store