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Our licensing branch of our government was on strike. During that time personalized license plates I had ordered arrived with instructions to bring them in to be activated. I brought them in and the women said to put them on the car, so I did.
Several days later I was about a block from home driving with my daughter when I pass a cop going the other way. He immediately turns around and pulls me over. He asks for my drivers licence, goes to his car...few minutes later he comes back and takes a flash light to where the VIN number is, writes it down...back to his car.
He then comes back and says "where did you get these licence plates from? I told him I ordered them...he told me I was lying...I told him I was not. He asked me who the car belonged to, I told him me. At that point 2 unmarked cars show up, the cops get out. They threaten to arrest me for stealing a car. I told them politely,, that if they checked my drivers license against the VIN like I think they already did, they would see I was the owner of the car.
They demanded to know who I stole, purchased the plates off of. I told them I got them the old fashioned way, I ordered them and paid for them. At this point my daughter is in hysterics. They told me either tell them what they wanted to know or they would arrest me in front of my daughter. I finally convinced one of the cops to follow me home and I ran inside and gave him the receipt I had for the purchase of the licence plates along with the envelope they shipped them to me in. He left on agreement that I get things straighted out.
Ends up ALL police were notified the database could not be updated during the strike and to leave people alone, apparently they did not read their emails. After a formal complaint all 3 police officers were written up, meaning their actions/harassment of me were noted in their personnel files.
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