Congratulations to the Crimson Tide
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Actually, he's got 6 of his own, but 5 with Alabama. Sometimes people forget the one he got at LSU (except the cajuns, of course).
I dynamited momma out of bed in the wee hours to get on the road from Chicago so I could have my ass parked on a barstool in Alabama in time for the second half.
I got to enjoy nearly 1000 miles of beautiful American countryside, from the frozen plains of the Midwest, to the fog covered hollers of TN and KY, to the river delta of Alabama. Thanks to snow, ice, rain, fog, and some nice Kentucky State Police that wanted to meet me and have a chat on the side of I-24 we didn't make it back until the 3rd quarter. All in all it was worth every mile of that gorgeous drive to be amongst my buddies to see that game unfold and lose our minds and our voices running around the bar tackling each other.
Georgia played AL as well as any team I've ever seen, and that was one helluva show of SEC football at its best.
I got to enjoy nearly 1000 miles of beautiful American countryside, from the frozen plains of the Midwest, to the fog covered hollers of TN and KY, to the river delta of Alabama. Thanks to snow, ice, rain, fog, and some nice Kentucky State Police that wanted to meet me and have a chat on the side of I-24 we didn't make it back until the 3rd quarter. All in all it was worth every mile of that gorgeous drive to be amongst my buddies to see that game unfold and lose our minds and our voices running around the bar tackling each other.
Georgia played AL as well as any team I've ever seen, and that was one helluva show of SEC football at its best.
i love sporting events as im asured where ever i am, sports fans will not be present.
I was "lucky" that they were a drug interdiction team. They got me in a line of about 8 cars all doing 79mph over a hill, BUT I was the lucky guy driving the rental car with CA plates so I knew I was gonna win the prize.
When they both stopped me I knew it was an interdiction stop and not just some ticket-writer so I asked if they'd like me out of the car so they could question us separately and stood around and shot the shit with the K9 guy while his partner talked to the missus and looked at the rental docs. We talked dogs and K9 work, told him I knew we'd be the winner with CA plates and that I'd done interdiction along I-10 and I-65 and asked how the hunting had been. They ran all my info, joked around a bit more and sent me on my way shaking their heads that they'd pulled over another K9 guy.
They were friendly, totally courteous, never even flinched when the woman's dog woke up in our car and acted like an asshole towards them, and outright professionals that did a damn amazing job pinging me in that line of cars. My only concern was that they'd have one of those idiot policies requiring them to write me a ticket to document the stop and appease the ACLU, but that apparently wasn't the case.
How amazing that by being polite and complying with what they asked that I didn't end up shot, beaten down, or locked up. We weren't the droids they were looking for and they didn't make any more of a thing of it than I did.
You were lucky. Had you not been a former cop, those Ca. plates would hver gotten your car "alerted on" and searched just because they could. Im glad for you but lets face it it is a form of favoritism.
The fact that I'd been LE came up later in the stop, and the guy at my car talking to the missus who was running the stop had no idea that I had been. They were low-key and professional from the beginning, and in all honesty if the dog alerted on the car I wouldn't have even batted an eye because my lady had a bag of dirty clothes that probably reeked of marijuana smoke from a girls' night up in Chicago.
They were looking for drug couriers; they determined that we weren't drug couriers, and sent us on our way with neither muss nor fuss. The "favoritism" I was shown was the same that I afforded everyone when I was still a cop: I was treated commensurate with how I behaved. They would have happily fucked my shit up if I'd acted like an asshole or had something to hide, same as anyone. Favoritism would've been if I had drugs, they found them, and said "well, you were a cop so we're letting you go anyway".
Thats good to hear because in far too many instances, and Ive seen them presonallly, they want you to have something...its to their benifit if they can steal some cash or your car. Its just the way of life in Kansas and Nebraska, Oklahoma and Nevada. If they can steal it they will.
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