If it's the cops,
You must act quickly, to overt the situation at hand - before it gets out of hand.
If you are asked to place your hands behind your back, it's already over.
I've only had that happen 4-5 times.
The other 20'ish times, I had the ability to avert the situation before it reached that level.
Those guys don't usually have much of a sense of humor.
Zero for me. And I have been stopped doing all kinds of things.
Random sampling: All bad things that your children should be warned not to do.
-Driving the wrong way down Washington St. leaving the Bijou after a gig with a truckfull of drums and a belly full of Molson Ice. I explain that, because I came from the alley, and when looking both ways saw the flashing traffic signals with lights in all four directions, and wondering if it was one way looked for a sign and found none..... they bought it, turned it around and drove it home.
-I-475 and I-75 (20 years old) driving a Mazda Rx7 about 100 miles an hour using all three lanes in the turn, leaving that bar The Coach House in Cricket West with a third hatchback passenger in a two seater car. Had me stand on one foot and count backwards from 30. Something that I used to practice when it was popular. Anyway.... he let me go (even with a third person.) But this was like 1986.
-Rossford 1993 or 4, just past the railroad tracks heading into town from I-75, cross the tracks at maybe 45 at 2:00 in the morning. Both of my passengers, nervous... lit smokes. Cop approached and said "why did everybody just light a cigarette." I said, they did, I didn't... I am giving them a ride home here to Rossford, as they have been drinking. And he says "you don't smoke?" and I said, "drink either, or I would still be home in bed."
He let me go.
-Various acts of pugilism in various drinking establishments. (also younger days) The trick here, is to fight fast. So either the staff doesn't realize, or you can finish up and be gone when the cops come.
-I-75 in Rockwood Michigan, heading to Windsor. New Year's Day.
Stop for 90 in the RX7.
Cops says where are you going? "We are going to Canada to make our resolutions so that if we break them, we are out of jurisdiction" He had never heard THAT one before, and off we went. He said "why do you have a radar detector?" I explained that I thought that it looked cool, and if it had been on, I would have slowed down and we would have never met. Sounded logical to him.
-Once almost blew Sgt. Richard Murphy off of the dock at Portside when he kicked us out for arguing with a dingy that had tied up behind our boat in a slip that we had reserved in Feb. How were we to know that the outdrive was up? We evaded the harbor patrol until like 3am by running the opposite way of the marina, but Sgt. Murphy, sense of humor intact, delivered a ticket for "reckless op on a waterway" to my buddy the next day at his home.
Same buddy.... being not such a good dancer... was once listed in the arrest account in the newspaper as "man, wearing only shorts."
