Re: Only TRULY GIGANTIC lawsuits will stop this...
I've been really close to that myself. When I was 19 I was stopped for....well actually I never did figure out why I was stopped and at 19 I didn't have the sense to know that if I asked they had to tell me. Or that I could say something like "No, I won't give consent for you to search my car." But anyway, I was stopped and my junker of a car that was older than me was searched. They spent 2 hours searching my car for no apparent reason. They were ready to haul me in at one point. The conversation was like this:
Cop: "Is there anything in that bottle?"
Me: "No, it's empty."
Cop: "Alright, up against the car. You think it's OK to drink and drive?"
Me: "....It's a root beer bottle!" (In case you're curious, it was. IBC root beer to be exact.)
Cop: *Pausing to look closer at the bottle in question* "Good answer."
In the end I narrowly dodged a night in jail for having an empty soft drink bottle in my car and froze my butt off standing in out in late fall weather at night for 2 hours. It was very much a "don't you guys have anything better to do?" moment for me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
