ORIGINAL: longbowman2
Well guys. About 5 yrs. ago I was driving down a dirt road during doe season. I was just coming back from a business seminar and was dressed in a full blown dress suit. I was driving slowly and "was" watching for deer when I came around the bend and saw a PGC get out of a truck to check these two hunters coming out of the woods. They had the road blocked so I was setting there when the other PGC guy got out and waved me around. I had my hunting clothes in the back seat and as I was going around the guys slaps the roof of my car and yells stop! I thought I ran somebody over so I stopped and rolled down my window. He came up and told me to get out of my car and show me the gun that was "hidden" under my hunting clothes? I said "Look at me, do I look like I've been hunting?" He blocked the road while the other one called for back up because I was being rowdy! I let them look at my clothes and refused to open the trunk and they wrote me a warning citation for no cooperating.
Had something similar happen when I was with my brother and a friend of his out at the local range on the gamelands back in Late 90. The WCO went right into the "what are you doing? You hunting?" routine. Saw camo UTs in my brothers truck, etc, etc. Gave us a hard time. THEN when he started asking if we had any firearms concealed on us, like it was something wrong considering we all had some form of CCW permit, that WCO reallyticked off my brothers buddy. My brothers friend calmly told him "not that it is any of your busines, but yes I am carrying". Oh that WCO got all jumpy and started up even worse, he was going to write us up for it and everything, then Mike (buddy) produced his ID/Badge. See the WCOs problem was that Mike is a State Trooper, and then HE proceeded to dress that WCO down.ThenMike started onhis problem with those camies and stuff in the truck, which were a set of my brothers BDUs and gear since he was in on his leave from Desert Sheild and hadn't taken them out of the truck yet since he just got back the day before.
You'd think that that would be enough to put some sense into that WCO, but no, he still had to make a stink about"doing my job" and "you aren't exempt". Iheard that Mike made a bit of a deal about it then he got back to the Troop HQ.
I'm sure there are
some WCOs that are great and resonablepeople, but there are way TOO many that are plainjacka$$es.