Cap,
Brother, I dont know how you can go through life being prepared to record being pulled over by a LEO. That just rings of paranoid, maybe I have not had enough experience to understand though. I will say every cop I have met outside of his duties has been a fairly cool cat. We used to shoot IPSC and IDPA with a few at the local range, that was interesting. They would show up and act bad ass, thinking they were Rambo, at least until the shooting started. Nearly every cop that showed up was at lower end of the skill spread, even at 15 I could out shoot 9 out of 10. It was funny to watch their attitude change, many never came back....we discussed that a few times.
There was one though, he was grand master in IPSC, he made a standard issue .45 look like a .38 Super race gun.
Strip
it has to do with the local police around here. there's a 50/50 chance of getting an "officer rich" type, that no matter what one was doing, no matter what one says, no matter what or how they were driving, they were wrong.
i realize it's a bit paranoid, but it makes me feel better. it also pays to have them, in case of an accident, because often people will admit to fault right there, then deny ever saying such. such as when the lady hit my mustang head on....i didn't do this back then. at the scene, she told me it was her fault...and thankfully, there was about 5 others that heard her......but afterwards, she said "i never said that". until the other people cam forward to help out.
the archery league i used to shoot in, there were a couple philly detectives, one narc dude, and a patrolman. they were all pretty cool dudes actually.
i used to know most of stratfords officers, including the (at the time) cheif, still know some lindenwold officers, cherry hill, laurel springs......and they're all cool.
not a single one of em pulls the "superman" act when they put their uniform on.
well.....lee did sometimes, but the dude's 57 and could probably kick any or our asses....
but he's a cool guy.
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BTW....thanks to you i shall now also be much more paranoid, and wary when i see a p-51b in the arena.
on that 2nd fight...where the dude was trying to pick you........i only went straight when i was blacked out. on the one time i pinged ya, as i fired, i blacked out again, and couldn't maintain the turn........that let you get my 6 again.
was a fun fight though.
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