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@CrazyJames
Yeah it was only on the 3rd occassion they actually let me on my way without asking a whole heap of questions, after checking my name and address etc.
Not saying what they did was wrong, I know they were just doing their job, and i'm glad they were trying to take a dangerous person off of the street (he was wanted for a very violent assault with a weapon apparently), but really what are the odds of getting pulled over 3 times in such a short space of time for the exact same thing lol.
To be fair they were pretty polite and professional each time, although the first time I did feel a bit on edge because one of them had their hand on their baton holster the whole time the other one was talking to me.......then again having short hair, whilst also not shaving for a few days, and wearing a baggy all black house of pain ironwear tracksuit probably didn't help my case.
In complete contrast to these guys, a couple of years back I was hanging around with a mate on my bmx riding a spot, and some police riding around in a big van pulled up and some woman got out, started asking us what we were doing etc etc, so we explained we were just riding the spot like doing tricks and what not, my mate mikey busted out a 360 hop to illustrate the point ;)
They thought we were up to no good so they started asking for our details, they thought we were lying so they asked us a few random questions, asked about our bikes, (fairly detailed questions about them actually), plus other stuff like where we were from, eventually leading to what what we both did for work.
Mikey in his usual lively way piped up and jokingly said, i'm a teacher and he's works in an outdoor adventurer shop, needless to say the copper clearly thought he was taking the piss or just getting lippy, and angrily told us to wait there whilst another copper jumped out and she checked our details very thoroughly, including who we were employed by lol?!
The look on her face when the person on the radio was like "yep thats correct" was priceless, we got a "night lads" from the coppers and then they left us to it hehe :)