Marc
Regular Member
I was sitting on my porch tonite with a couple of friends, drinking a few beers. I was of course open carrying and we seen the cops swarming the block. Watched a guy run down the alley a block away and the patrol car that wasw half a block over seen him and chased him down the alley. We heard the cop yell freeze, so we went down to be lookieloos. Officer Joe Herrera comes up behind us and says "Hey guys I want to talk to you for a minute" so we stopped and started answering his questions about what we saw, then he seen my gun and asked "Is that a pistol on ur belt?" i said yes it is, he then says ur under arrest, i saked why he says ur carrying a gun while intoxicated thats a felony. I then informed him it wasnt illegal at all as of August 28 2010. He tells me well u can tell that to the judge, i replied i will and the judge will back me up. At that point i asked him to get his supervisor out there. The supervisor shows up and looks up the revised statute and says im good. Officer Herrera dont like that i outwitted him on the law and arrests me for drinking in a public way. When we get to the booking desk Herrera is telling Officer Caleb Carter about the chase and Carter says "So u arrested this poor guy instead?" Herrera tells him well he was carrying a firearm and drinking, Carter says nothing illegal there, so Herrera comes back with he was drinking while walking on the street. Cost me a hundred bucks to get out of jail, but I also educated a veteran cop on the laws. He only arrested me cuz i proved him wrong in front of his colleagues, so i was smilin the whole way downtown and i was still smiling when my brothe showed up with the rest of the bail money before they were even done booking me in. Put a cramp in my night but now one more leo knows a bit more about the laws he is enforcing.
oh and becuz its a holiday i have to wait til wednesday to get my gun back, so now i think im probly gonna have a bersa 380 for sale cuz i dont wanna keep it after they got ahold of it
oh and becuz its a holiday i have to wait til wednesday to get my gun back, so now i think im probly gonna have a bersa 380 for sale cuz i dont wanna keep it after they got ahold of it
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