HOLY!!! I got pulled over in NC to dip my tank! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

vstech · #1 08-04-2010, 10:18 PM

today while driving from a job in troy NC, to charlotte, the NC highway patrol pulled me over strictly to dip my tank and test for dye!
beware!
he commented that he doesn't see many mercedes diesel's on the road.
he of course also ran my plate, and my drivers license, and took my hand gun and ran it as well!
I was driving my teal 82 SD by the way...

jonbobshinigin · #2 08-04-2010, 10:20 PM

I am kind of ok with the periodical stopping diesels for testing for Off road fuel...but running your gun? Explain how that conversation went please? I think I would ask for a reasoning why he is taking my gun.

RML · #3 08-04-2010, 10:24 PM

Wow. I thought they just did that with trucks. Maybe business is slow.

Fulcrum525 · #4 08-04-2010, 10:46 PM

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Wow. I thought they just did that with trucks. Maybe business is slow.

Must be.

I've never seen this happen in CT before but i've heard about it. I wonder what would happen if they pulled someone over who was running a WVO mix

C Sean Watts · #5 08-08-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by RML

Wow. I thought they just did that with trucks. Maybe business is slow.

Lots of drivers already know that more tickets are written in a down economy - ask any trucker...What we do know, here in NC, is the state is BROKE and getting money where ever they can find it.

vstech · #6 08-04-2010, 10:25 PM

whenever I get asked for my DL, I hand my permit as well. he asked if I was carrying, I said yes, and he asked for it. he then asked if it was chambered, I said of course it is, and he carried it to his explorer cruiser and removed the clip and unchambered it. then ran all the info against my papers!

winmutt · #7 08-05-2010, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by vstech

whenever I get asked for my DL, I hand my permit as well. he asked if I was carrying, I said yes, and he asked for it. he then asked if it was chambered, I said of course it is, and he carried it to his explorer cruiser and removed the clip and unchambered it. then ran all the info against my papers!

Best cop quote ever : "Dont show me yours and I wont show you mine".

jonbobshinigin · #8 08-04-2010, 10:39 PM

I do not have a Permit to carry, but mine is always in my glove box holstered, if I get pulled I put it under passenger seat since my papers are in there. None of my firearms are registered to me.

A friend got pulled once and when the officer saw his Carry Permit, he backed up and put his hand on his pistol. Illogical. The guy willingly pulls over, legally has a right to carry, and that happens. I do however understand caution.

vwbuge · #9 08-06-2010, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by jonbobshinigin

I do not have a Permit to carry, but mine is always in my glove box holstered, if I get pulled I put it under passenger seat since my papers are in there. None of my firearms are registered to me.

A friend got pulled once and when the officer saw his Carry Permit, he backed up and put his hand on his pistol. Illogical. The guy willingly pulls over, legally has a right to carry, and that happens. I do however understand caution.

So, you DON'T have a carry permit AND NONE of you firearms are registered to you?

jonbobshinigin · #10 08-06-2010, 03:47 PM

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So, you DON'T have a carry permit AND NONE of you firearms are registered to you?

Correct. And 100% legal. Carrying a weapon in your vehicle is not Concealed carry. Not if Florida anyhow!

Ryan Z · #11 08-08-2010, 12:20 PM

[QUOTE=jonbobshinigin;2518825]I do not have a Permit to carry, but mine is always in my glove box holstered, if I get pulled I put it under passenger seat since my papers are in there.

That sounds like a great place to keep a gun. Real safe.

79Mercy · #12 08-04-2010, 10:46 PM

wow that's the first time i have heard of that being done to a passenger car? Maybe he just wanted to look at it, hahaha.

RML · #13 08-04-2010, 10:57 PM

A friend who has a farm told me the fine for using off road fuel in an on road vehicle is something like $25,000. Is that consistent with what you guys know to be true?

vstech · #14 08-04-2010, 10:59 PM

well, the cop said I was doing nothing wrong, not speeding or anything, he just pulled me over because they are instigating a new program to pull randomly all diesels on the road. he had the thin clear straw dropped it in the tank, and pulled out a sample. he asked me where I had gotten my fuel last, and luckily, I had just filled up that morning on the way to troy, and had burned about 1/2 of it on the way back, and was less than 1 mile from the station I had filled up at. heh. I also wondered what Yellow bioD would have registered as, and if I was running WVO, he would never have known it because he did not ask to look in my trunk or if I was running alternate fuels.
the NC senate passed a law to not require taxes on wvo/personal bioD as long as it's not for business use. I'd not qualify for that loophole, but driving the benz the cop would not know to check my mileage or anything.

pawoSD · #15 08-04-2010, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by vstech

well, the cop said I was doing nothing wrong, not speeding or anything, he just pulled me over because they are instigating a new program to pull randomly all diesels on the road. he had the thin clear straw dropped it in the tank, and pulled out a sample. he asked me where I had gotten my fuel last, and luckily, I had just filled up that morning on the way to troy, and had burned about 1/2 of it on the way back, and was less than 1 mile from the station I had filled up at. heh. I also wondered what Yellow bioD would have registered as, and if I was running WVO, he would never have known it because he did not ask to look in my trunk or if I was running alternate fuels.
the NC senate passed a law to not require taxes on wvo/personal bioD as long as it's not for business use. I'd not qualify for that loophole, but driving the benz the cop would not know to check my mileage or anything.

Diesel non-truck vehicles make up like barely 4% of the vehicle population. What a pointless "program". Maybe they should target gasser drivers driving with no insurance, that would likely net a lot more $$.

The idiots in power that came up with it probably figured that if a person was willing to drive a diesel, they must be up to no good like running farm fuel.