I keep hearing rumors of people with CO plates getting pulled over in WY. Anybody hearing this or had any experience?
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I keep hearing rumors of people with CO plates getting pulled over in WY. Anybody hearing this or had any experience?
Heard a few rumors, no first hand knowledge.
Have been to Casper once and Gillette once since first of year and no issues with State Patrol or air traffic control.
lobbed from my electronic ball and chain
Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, Iowa, South Dakota, Oregon all well documented cases of CO plates being pulled over and shaken down.
I have even seen CSP with occupants sitting on the guardrail tossing the car.
Thank you Amendment 64
It has been reported in the news a few times but i do not personally know anyone that has been pulled over.
http://youtu.be/sEeyvxR-J1E
If anything they may profile just a little and pull someone with CO plates over for something they'd normally let slide.
Drive safe, don't give them a reason to pull you over, and you'll be just fine.
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When my wife was on detail in Boise she saw a few news pieces on their state highway patrol being sued by someone from Pagosa with CO plates on their car who was pulled over at a rest stop in ID and accused of having pot. When we visited her dad in AZ in Feb he mentioned there are stories around that CO plates will get pulled over by smaller town PD's and sheriffs and tear the car apart looking for pot.
http://kdvr.com/2014/03/28/colorado-...ate-profiling/
My thoughts exactlyQuote:
Originally Posted by TheWeeze
Oh they can find a "reason"...
The short term solution is pretty simple: Exercise your 4th Amend Right and just say NO.
Looking for pot? What happens if you happen to have an evil assault magazine in the car?
Yes, they're looking for pot. Mags are legal in WY. Maybe if they're really zealous they could give you a hard time if the mags in your position had a date stamp after July of last year.
Like not having your turn signal indicator on for long enough before switching lanes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
Wyoming won't care if you doQuote:
Originally Posted by Lex_Luthor
So heres a hypothetical..
Your legally CCW'ing in another state when you get pulled over. You politely notify the officer that your carrying and he pulls you out of the car to secure your weapon. Can he legally search your vehicle at that point?
Not unless he makes something up.
I went on a road trip recently and was pulled over and received a speeding ticket in both Kansas and New Mexico for going 8 over. Never had a speeding ticket in 20+ years of driving and now I get 2 within 8 days of each other. I'd definitely drive the speed limit and follow all laws when out of state.
Cell phone video is your friend.
I guarantee that if you are called in for allegedly throwing a soda can at some local WY dickhead tool MF that repeatedly fucked with you while you were towing, WY state patrol will pull you over and fuck with you.
Or so I've heard...
I was recently in SD, rapid city, and was warned by several local friends/acquaintance to stay below the posted speed and to not park my car over night on Main Street because EVERYBODY knows that you can find pot in CO licensed car....
No. Not without PC or a warrant. You lawfully CCWing doesn't constitute PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorado_Outback
I drove to Manhattan, Kansas a few weekends back. No problems at all. Had cruise set at 80 mph the whole way. I was even in a Subaru. Haha.
They can't fill the coffers with warnings!Quote:
Originally Posted by USMC_5-Echo
Staters down here love catching ya'll coming south over Raton Pass. Not much else for them to do around here until after dark. That's when the domestics start.
A couple/few time each month, I drive the DAV van from Raton down to the VA Hospital in Albuquerque and always set cruise at 77 MPH (+2 over)..Quote:
Originally Posted by thvigil11
At that speed, it's rare for me to pass ANYONE on the I-25 between Raton and Albq., but always have a huge number of NM folks passing me like I am parked. The CO State cops seem to be finally capturing many many speeders from NM and TX here on our side of the I-25. [blaster]
I have been pulled over four times in WY with GA plates and zero times with CO plates. I don't know anyone from CO that has been pulled over without cause and searched.
I few days ago I drove from southern Maryland, through Pennsylvania, WV, OH, IN, IL, KS into CO. No traffic stops were involved and I was driving a 2005 Ford Taurus bearing CO plates. When I set the cruise control it is usually about 8 miles over the posted unless I'm on a smaller road.
I avoid Iowa. For some reason, even pre-64, I got pulled over by someone every time I went through Iowa. Only once did a IA Patrol officer cite me for 10 over, and after signing the ticket, I asked him about chasing me through a group of IA tagged vehicles as we all were moving at the same speed. This was with my wife and kids in the mini-van. He then threatened to write me an inspection ticket for the dealer's plastic tag frame obstructing my plate. I told him I would wait while he writes the unenforceable out-of-state inspection ticket and he sent me on my way. For some reason, my family and I seem to always draw a fishing expedition in Iowa [Flower] It normally ends after the third or fourth time I ask them if they are finished and ask them to let me know when I'm free to leave. Sometimes it takes a few of them quite a while to realize that they really don't have enough PC to get into my vehicle. If we are going through Iowa, we take plenty of water and snacks just for the roadside picnics in the car while the PoPo gather and confer. [PoPo][PoPo][PoPo]
My house in Wyoming is about 98 miles from my house here. I didnt even see one LEO the entire way there or back. Actually I think I only saw maybe a dozen vehicles from here to there and maybe the same coming back. They must not be looking for Colorado plates the way I go.
They don't ticket horse back riders.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
Stay very close to the speed limit if you are EB on 1-70 for at least 100 miles either side of Hayes KS. Been pulled over and warned for 8 MPH over twice, once before and once after. The super troopers must have had allergies, they both were sniffing pretty hard when I opened the window to converse with them. No problems going WB.
Being big, black and loud must attract their attention........ Truck that is......
Funny story about KS State police: When I was much younger and living in Georgia, I came home to visit my parents in Lakewood. My beer of choice at the time was Henry Weinhart's, which wasn't available in GA at the time, so naturally I stocked up on it to take back with me, to the tune of about 6 cases of the stuff. I didn't want to put it in the back of the pickup for the drive back to Savannah, as the forecast highs were in the 90s pretty much all the way back, so I stacked 'em up in the cab/passenger floorboard. I left Denver about 6 at night, figuring to drive across KS in the dark and avoid the worst of the heat. About 2:45 the next morning, I got stopped for 87 in a 65 in KS. The Trooper naturally wanted to know what the hell I was doing with all that beer in the passenger side of the truck, so I told him. He told me it was probably illegal to do that, but it was only 15 minutes to the end of his shift, and he wasn't gonna try to figure out what to charge me with. I was immediately apparent that I hadn't had anything to drink, so he told me to slow the hell down until I got out of that county, and let me off with a verbal warning.
Simple answer .....
Audio record/video record and the phrase " I do not consent to any searches officer"
If you have nothing to hide.........I'm not trying to be a hard ass...........Why are you acting so nervous? Funny how not illuminating a bulb can change your life. Where's Wallace when we need him? Me thinks they have take our freedom.
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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
Best one yet Kazoo!! [ROFL1][ROFL2][LOL]
I was in WY for the MG/Cannon shoot near Casper with no problems. Of course, my loaded down Blaser does'nt scream down the road.
Unlike many out there, I owned up to the fact that I was speeding (no matter how ridiculous) and paid the fines in full. The cops even kind of seemed surprised that I wasn't raising a fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
Spent last week at my uncles place west of Med Bow Wyo, I got on US 287 and was running 79-80ish popped over a rise to have a Carbon County Sherriff coming at me. He turned on his light bar and pointed down, turned off the lights and kept heading west. Back in April heading back from Nebraska just east of the I-80 / I-76 interchange two Neb Hi-way Patrol had a car pulled over on the eastbound side, one was searching the car and the other had three kids in the ditch watching them. The car was a small import, tinted windows and two of the kids had Tie Die T's and all had flat billed hats. I'm in my 50's, drive a Ford SD Crew Cab, I'd say there was some profiling going on
There's a good chance I'm going camping in WY this weekend, odds are I'm taking the Dodge 1500 with normal CO plates (as my BMW has the CO US Army plates- I'd assume less likely to be stopped for stop and sniffs)... I'll report back if I get stopped and asked if they can search. Of course having 2 rifles, a shotgun, and 2 pistols might mitigate any pot searches if they ask if I have any weapons in the car.
If you're going up US287 into Laramie hold it under 68mph, the Hi-way Patrol watches that stretch of hi-way pretty close due to the traffic and accidents, also it appears they're adding two more lanes from the state line to Tie Siding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
No problem, I don't speed much anymore- especially in the dodge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
Jeez, not a single guy mentions you just need to outrun them....