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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diaglo" data-source="post: 2529172" data-attributes="member: 2885">i'll give you three examples on 1 road trip...the best man at my wedding, Jeff, asked me to go to Denver with him. his dad was leaving for Saudi Arabia for a job. he told Jeff to come and get whatever he wanted. jeff naturally wanted his dad's truck and a few other items.so we bought a one way ticket to Denver. the plan was to drive back to MD. and visit a few places on the way. Bryce Canyon, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, etc... even though some of them were not on the way back. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> anyway, we alternated driving. and when we reached new mexico we kept seeing signs for a steakhouse in Amarillo,Tx. i told jeff i wanted to stop there. free meal if you ate the whole steak...no sooner did we cross the border then we got pulled over by the border patrol... even though, Amarillo and that part of texas ain't anywhere near the US-Mexican border... the officer wanted us to step out of the truck in the rain and open the back up... both jeff and i are insulin dependent diabetics... syringes, insulin, etc... in abundance plus jeff had taken his dad's guns and 1000's of rounds of ammo. all the officer wanted was to poke around to make sure we didn't have any illegals. we didn't stop in texas for the steak we kept going...  (30 minutes in the rain)we reach st louis where my sister lives. shower, shave, .... and back on the road. just outside of st. elmo a truck trhows a hubcap and it hits us. so we decide to pullover and check the damage at the next rest stop and get gas too. an officer pulls in behind us and asks us for license, reqistration, etc.. our taillight in the back is out. he makes us empty the back of the truck when he sees one of the guns... a whole gang of teens is watching us and making comments about what we should and shouldn't do for the officer. he helped us load the truck after we asked him... we never did see the tail light out. it worked the whole time we talked to him. (3 hours of loading, unloading)we reach maryland. get pulled over again at a drunk driving road block. not b/c we were drinking, but b/c they pulled over everyone for a check of sobriety. the officer looks at us, looks at our load and tells us to move along.  (2 minutes)courtesy is in the eye of the beholder. i found all three officers to be doing their jobs correctly. but i found my homeboy to have it covered to my comfort level.</blockquote>

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