jcsike

Just happened 20 min ago. Had dinner with a few friends, drank a few glasses of wine, nice dinner. Driving home, I glanced in my rearview and saw flashing red and blue lights. Pulled over, a shaky early 20s cop walked up and asked me for license and registration and walked back to his car for 20 min. another cop walks up, asks me whether I had anything to drink, I said “no”, then asked me to get out of the car to do a few tests. This is the first time this has ever happened to me, im freaking out. He is asking me to follow my eyes to this light. I straight up tell him that the cop cars, flashlights, etc are freaking me out and if he wants to know if im drunk, to give me a blood test and be through with it, as if he is asking me for some sort of test, all this other shit will throw off the results. He does the light test, then asks me to walk a line and back, then hold my foot off the ground for 30 seconds and count them outloud (I did this like a champ, very proud, those bastards looked surprised), then he tells me to get back in the car.

Im sitting there, gauging what they are going to come back with. 10 min later they came back with a speeding ticket. The cop said, “well, I smelled alcohol, but when I did the tests, I didn’t think you were drunk so I forgot about it”

In phx its easy to get paranoid about these things

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