sigfan
Regular Member
I was pulled over in my car tonight by Washington State Patrol. I pulled over, turned the interior lights on, cracked my window and put my hands on the wheel. The officer charged up to the car and started yelling at me something to the tune of "What were you doing? I didn't want you. I wanted the corvette in front of you but you were weaving and I had to get you." (there was no corvette -- anywhere -- that I could see). He went off with me trying to interject every 5 seconds or so, but he was clearly pissed. When he was done I said "Sir, for your safety and for mine, you should know I have a firearm on my right hip." His face changed from the angry face he had to confused to a strangely relieved face. He asked to see my license. I handed him both my license and my CPL. He checked them out and then said "consider yourself barked at." and let me go. It was a bit strange.
Don't really think I was weaving as I was wide awake, alert and listening to Cam & Company on Sirius Patriot radio. In either case, this is the second time I've been pulled over for "weaving" in the past few months and it's the second time that simply stating what I did resulted in nothing more than a "catch and release." It goes against my nature to give that information, but I thought I'd pass the info along for analysis by the group. Would appreciate thoughts on the encouter, my reaction, the charge of "weaving" and anything else you care to discuss relevant to the subject.
Don't really think I was weaving as I was wide awake, alert and listening to Cam & Company on Sirius Patriot radio. In either case, this is the second time I've been pulled over for "weaving" in the past few months and it's the second time that simply stating what I did resulted in nothing more than a "catch and release." It goes against my nature to give that information, but I thought I'd pass the info along for analysis by the group. Would appreciate thoughts on the encouter, my reaction, the charge of "weaving" and anything else you care to discuss relevant to the subject.