JimG
02-17-2003, 05:21 PM
About 30 miles south of Atlanta, we're cruising along at around 68mph in a 70mph zone and I spot a count sheriff's vehicle on the other side of the freeway. He crosses the median at high speed and closes on us REAL fast. He rides along beside us, on my left for about half a mile before motioning me over.
When he walks up I hand him my driver's license and my concealed carry license. He immediately relaxed, and said something about seeing my RIGHT wheel wobbling. (I'd been watching real close, and knew there was no wobble. He couldn't have seen it anyway.) He suggested I pull over at the next stop and check them, which I did.
We get back on the road, and within 3 miles another sheriffs car, along with a State Police unit are behind me with their lights going. Once again, out come the licenses. This guy chuckles, grins and mumbles something about my trailer tire wobbling. I smile back at him, and tell him we just got pulled over three miles back for the same thing.
The cop laughed, and said, "You want to know why you are being pulled over? Drug traffickers from Texas come to Georgia, buy old boats and stuff them full of drugs. Then they drag them back to Texas."
I asked, "Well, then why aren't I being pulled out of the truck and shook down?"
He told me it was because of my concealed carry license. NO trafficker will carry a gun while transporting. It adds 20 years to the sentence!
Then he got friendly, and asked all sorts of Donzi questions! He even got pretty close the year model when he guessed. Nice guy, former Houston street cop.
So, a word of warning: dragging a classic boat through Georgia is like screaming, "PULL ME OVER!" I wouldn't do it with a can of Bud in your lap!
:D
JimG
When he walks up I hand him my driver's license and my concealed carry license. He immediately relaxed, and said something about seeing my RIGHT wheel wobbling. (I'd been watching real close, and knew there was no wobble. He couldn't have seen it anyway.) He suggested I pull over at the next stop and check them, which I did.
We get back on the road, and within 3 miles another sheriffs car, along with a State Police unit are behind me with their lights going. Once again, out come the licenses. This guy chuckles, grins and mumbles something about my trailer tire wobbling. I smile back at him, and tell him we just got pulled over three miles back for the same thing.
The cop laughed, and said, "You want to know why you are being pulled over? Drug traffickers from Texas come to Georgia, buy old boats and stuff them full of drugs. Then they drag them back to Texas."
I asked, "Well, then why aren't I being pulled out of the truck and shook down?"
He told me it was because of my concealed carry license. NO trafficker will carry a gun while transporting. It adds 20 years to the sentence!
Then he got friendly, and asked all sorts of Donzi questions! He even got pretty close the year model when he guessed. Nice guy, former Houston street cop.
So, a word of warning: dragging a classic boat through Georgia is like screaming, "PULL ME OVER!" I wouldn't do it with a can of Bud in your lap!
:D
JimG