When I was a teenager coming back from Ft lauderdale Spring break in a 4 door Chevy Caprice (very clean condition) I was stopped on the way home in Delaware.
My infraction was changing lanes without signalling.
The fact that my car was riding low in the back is what they were suspicious of, especially coming back from Florida. :sifone:
At all times I was extremely polite.
They had asked me to take a seat in the back of their car at which of course then I was locked in. At that time they started asking questions. Very similar to what was stated above.
They asked why the car was sitting so low. I told them I just went down to Florida with a bunch of friends who all had high-lifted 4X4 Off Road vehicles.
They were known to always have breakdowns and being as I had a 1.5 ton floor jack, I through it in my trunk for the trip.
That and my luggage was all that was in the car.
They were suspicious and then asked my permission if they could search the vehicle. I told them I had nothing to hide go right ahead.
I did not expect a 1/2 hour search where they went through the engine compartment, removed my seats from the car and tossed them to the side of the road. I felt once they popped the trunk and saw the jack, they would have felt I was being honest.
Once I saw the seats out, now I had become more concerned. I was worried that if I had ran into some bad cops that might try to plant something on me... :ack2:
Fortunately that did not happen. They came back to the car and handed me my keys and told me to use my turn signals when changing lanes.
They then left me there on the side of the highway to put my car back together....
I wonder how they would have felt had someone crashed into me and killing me while trying to put the seats back in my car.
I felt the least they could have done was stuck behind me with their lights on until the car was driveable again....
