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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
There are some people who refuse to roll down their windows for police at random seat belt checks or random DWI checkpoints. Instead they hold up a sign saying they want a lawyer present. Someone had posted that link a while back. It's legal, but as some would point out possibly provocative.
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Originally Posted by Sly
It was a Florida lawyer who started that.
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Problem is...the cops don't know the law or bother to even follow it.
I'd be afraid to try that because you're probably going to end up toting an ass beating and a night in jail.
That's the power they have.
Yeah, you might "win" in court later on...but at that precise moment, in the middle of the night at a checkpoint...those cops are acting like they own your ass. And it's downright dangerous to piss them off in any way.
It's not SUPPOSED to be like that. But that's the world we are currently living in.
EDIT: Speaking of rolling down the window. My youngest brother got pulled over a couple of months ago down in Florida. The electric window on the drivers side of the car he was in was broken.
The cop told him to roll the window down. He explained that he couldn't because it was broken, but he could open the door.
The cop stepped back and told him to NOT open the door but to roll the window down as he was told to. When my brother said the window was broken...the cop broke the window with his flashlight!
Arrested my brother and impounded the car.
My brother got out the next day and not only had to pay to get his car out...but then had to pay to replace the window. It was a mess with shards of glass all in the car.
He went to court a couple of weeks ago and "won" by having the "Charges" against him dropped.
That's the kind of bullshit that goes on these days.