Date:         Tue, 5 Sep 1995 01:01:43 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Lawrence Stivers <lstivers@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject:      Re: Public Safetyr

On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, thom fitzpatrick wrote:

> And Joel Walker thus wrote:
> > 
> > i don't think i want to move to california after all. your cops are really
> > weird.  at least down here, they're just arrogant asshole rednecks ...
> > who, by the way, do NOT know how to spell volkswagen and thought my 80 bus
> > was a Volvo. no joke.
> 
> I think it was they didn't know how to READ, much less spell...
> 
> Thom

Try Jefferson, Co. (Louisville) Kentucky.
I was trucking down down that way from Ohio to visit some relatives when
Buford Fat A$$ pulls me over.  The 45 minute ordeal included such choice
quotes as "...things would go much smoother if you'd co-operate" or my
favorite, "...why don't you let me take a look in bus..."
kentucky considers a motor vechicle to be private property-i.e. you have
to pay property tax on it.  I finnaly got tired of Officer
Traumatic-Head-Wound and began to get beligerant...a) I wasn't speeding-he
pulled over just after an on ramp!  b) I drive a westy, aka motorhome aka
"got a search warrant"  Sheriff Lobo there finnaly let me go after I
convinced him that I wasn't going to "let him take a look inside my 'bus'" 
I am firmly convinced that he was an asswhole (misspelling intentional)

moral of this story: Be prepared for Louisville, KY if you are
a lawbreaking hippy type, (ie you have some dead stickers)

Larry
'85 Westy Wolfsburg(for sale)