So, the police pull me over and the next thing I know he's holding a gun...

[sps16]

similar thing happened to me and ZAust, not fun at all

[cphilip]

Not suprising. A Paintball Marker is like your Penis. Keep em in your pants boys.

[GT]

i thought it was tried by 12 than carried by 6?


In Texas.........
its not uncomon to see guys with full gun racks in the wal-mart parking lot. TX we are a different country...

[shartley]

i thought it was tried by 12 than carried by 6?


In Texas.........
its not uncomon to see guys with full gun racks in the wal-mart parking lot. TX we are a different country...

[Target Practice]

sucks that it has to be that way, but it is safer for the community and for the cop to assume the worse. i have a little story too.....

last sunday i was coming back from my local field. i see an unmarked cop so i quickly pull my seatbelt on.....not fast enough He pulls me over, gives me a no seatbelt ticket...fine i deserve it. when he goes back to the car to write the ticket he comes back with his buddy who promptly search my truck because i have 2 markers, tanks, hoppers, etc laying everywhere in my truck. he let me go after the search, but i still got the ticket

Wait a minute. He pulled you over for no seatbelt? I am under the impression that if they stop you for something like that or speeding, and they ask to search your car, you can say no. They don't have any reason to do a search. They reason I bring this up, is that I drive home from college with a handgun in the back of my truck (it is always locked behind the passenger's seat with the ammo locked in the glove box). So, I get pulled over for speeding, and the. CHP officer asks if I had any weapons. I said yes, and told him what I had. He asked me to get out of the car. When he asked If I would mind if he searched my car, I said yeah, I would mind. He wouldn't have found anything of course, but it was my right to refuse the search. He said ok, wrote the ticket, and I was on my merry little 55-mile-an-hour way. They don't show the people that refuse searches on COPS. Makes for bad TV.

[shartley]

Wait a minute. He pulled you over for no seatbelt? I am under the impression that if they stop you for something like that or speeding, and they ask to search your car, you can say no. They don't have any reason to do a search. They reason I bring this up, is that I drive home from college with a handgun in the back of my truck (it is always locked behind the passenger's seat with the ammo locked in the glove box). So, I get pulled over for speeding, and the. CHP officer asks if I had any weapons. I said yes, and told him what I had. He asked me to get out of the car. When he asked If I would mind if he searched my car, I said yeah, I would mind. He wouldn't have found anything of course, but it was my right to refuse the search. He said ok, wrote the ticket, and I was on my merry little 55-mile-an-hour way. They don't show the people that refuse searches on COPS. Makes for bad TV.

[phantomhitman]

they did not jerk me out of the car and search it. they asked me first, and since i was already caught i just said yes. i had nothing to hide from them, and if i did say no i would just be there for another 30 minutes until they got the search warrant. that was something i did not want to do after 8 hours of ballin I think the main reason for the search was because of a cooler in my floorboard. i guess that state tropper wanted to get me on something else besides a seatbelt ticket. i was going 40 in a 45, so speeding was no issue in the ticket. he did cross a median at a busy highway jsut to give a seatbelt ticket...but oh well

[matmc89]

yea messing with guns are a bad idea, i had just got an a5 and the people beside me freaked out when i was holding it in the car.

[tyrion2323]

Seems they got pulled over for speeding: 50 in a 35 or something of the sort... pretty much everyone in the vehical had atleast one margirita, the driver, 2... the wife. still sickjumped out when the husband did, husband went to get into bag for wallet, stated such, couldnt find the bag, cop helped him find the right color bag, got the wallet, cops attention turned to the wife who ran off the road and proceeded to projectile voimit again.... perfect out, he told the cop something about trying to get the sick wife home, cop said ok, whats in the bags(timmy w/halo sticking half outta one of the bags, my pack straped to the side of my bag, etc) he told him, inching away so the alcohol wasnt smelled, well, it seems the cop was a paintballer, used to play tourney ball at that, so he showed him his licence and gave him our card, and he let them go.... kinda cool if you ask me

Not cool at all. Anyone who drives under the influence is a dirtbag. End of story.

If you'd like to argue with me, please meet me at my sister's grave.

[phantomhitman]

i agree completely tyrion2323

[lldb003]

lol me and my friend got aressted for havin paintball guns in our car.. they pulled us over and searched the car and found the bags with all of our gear in it and they thought we were goin around town and shootin people so he took us to jail for like 4 hours then let us go and told us he didn't want to see us agian lol punk *** cops...

[Target Practice]

lol punk *** cops...

Those "punk *** cops" guard you while you sleep. Have a little respect, won't you?

[oldsoldier]

In regards to consent to search: MGL states that, if you are operating a vehicle on a public road, the officer MUST ask, BUT, regardless of your answer, he can search your vehicle. By having a valid drivers liscence, and operating on a public motorway, you are not expected to have privacy within your vehicle.
now, before you get up in arms, think about it; if your car were considered under the same privacy act as, say, your house, you could get away with damn near anything. Hell, you could cover the windows and live in it. Essentially, this law is to protect officers. They can search for weapons. So, it is a courtesy to ask...and not in violation of any laws in MA. Besides, what are you hiding?

[lldb003]

sry man but cops here were i live don't do nothin but eat donuts all day and drive around and give me tickets lol

[the larch]

respect is a two way street. I live in a town where the officers won't get out of their cruiser to look into my broken in to, robbed and vandalized car. With over $300 property stolen this is a felony they won't open their car door for. Of course, I live in a trailer park and not a $200,000 home. When a 911 call about a mob of drunk highschool kids fist fighting in the mall parking lot on a Sunday (slow) night results in a 52 minute response time, you gotta wonder.
No offense, some of my best friends are police officers and my wife works for the department of juvenile justice, but respect is earned, not a fact of life.
I'm quite happy with the idea of guarding myself with a couple of big dogs while I sleep. The only thing the local police are guarding is the crime scene after I am dead.