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If you want to see a truly backwards ass, drug war loving group of religious freaks, look no further


More photos below. For more than a year , we've been reporting on the subject of pot profiling -- claims that drivers in vehicles with Colorado license plates are regularly being stopped in other states on a variety of shaky pretexts for marijuana searches.
Our latest story comes from a man who was stopped in Kansas while driving a rental truck because his registration supposedly didn't rental cars in hawaii match his Colorado license plate -- except that it did. Is this a new strategy? There's conflicting information about that.
Daniel Huling rental cars in hawaii tells us that he and a friend were driving from Ohio to Kansas last November in an Enterprise rental rental cars in hawaii truck towing a trailer when "I started seeing rental cars in hawaii all these cops on the side of the road. I was wondering what was happening and thought it might be related to what I'd heard was happening with Colorado license plates.
"They were obviously radioing each other, because a cop pulled in front of me two miles down the road," Huling continues. "It was a 75 zone and they were going 55. So I slowed down for a while behind them, then decided to pass them -- but I definitely wasn't speeding when I did. I was only going about 65."
A photo from the Kansas Highway Patrol Facebook page. Nonetheless, Huling was pulled over, with the Kansas officer informing him "that the plates didn't match the registration," he recalls. "My immediate response was to get upset about the rental company giving us a truck that didn't have matching plates -- but I was also suspicious about being pulled over, since I didn't do anything wrong. So I called 911."
After telling the dispatcher what was happening, "she told me the plates didn't match the registration, and they were doing a routine stop," Huling maintains. "She said they randomly run plates on the highway all the time."
The search took approximately half an hour. During that time, an officer rental cars in hawaii asked Huling to join him at his cruiser -- and after Huling declined, he could hear the law enforcers talking among themselves about how uncooperative he was being. But the search turned up no marijuana, as Huling knew it wouldn't -- neither he nor his friend rental cars in hawaii had any -- and the pair were eventually allowed to go on their way.
Afterward, Huling says he called Enterprise, and the person with whom he spoke "confirmed that the paperwork was fine and everything matched. rental cars in hawaii And they said they'd been getting a lot of calls like mine -- calls from furious customers from Kansas and a couple of other states where the police were doing the same thing. They were saying the license plates didn't match the rental car registration rental cars in hawaii even when they did. And the cars always seemed to have Colorado license plates."
An Enterprise rental truck. We contacted Laura Bryant, spokeswoman for Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-a-Car, to find out if this is a systemic issue. Via e-mail, she writes that she reached out to numerous general managers, but none of them was aware of the problem.
"It felt pretty militaristic," he says. "The guy was gung-ho, all amped up like an ex-military guy. The whole thing felt like we were in another country. We were just driving down the road, obeying every traffic rule, so to be stopped like that was pretty violating.
rental cars in hawaii "People say, 'If you don't have anything, you have nothing to worry about.' But even talking about it now feels traumatic. rental cars in hawaii It felt like all powers rental cars in hawaii were taken away and you have no rights for anything."
This exact thing happened to me while I was traveling from Indiana to Colorado on I70 west.  The cop slowed down to 20ish miles less per hour on the highway so I passed him.  Cop pulled me over and said I was swaying in the lanes although I was not.  Cop interrogated rental cars in hawaii me for 25 minutes and I asked why I had my window down and I said "because it is summer".  Eventually let me go after he checked rental cars in hawaii my trunk.  Shaddy rental cars in hawaii fucking operation in Kansas.  It gets my blood pressure going every time I think about it.
Note that "the dog had alerted" even though there was no pot. Check out Barry Cooper's "Never Get Busted" DVD (and possibly free online video) where he demonstrates that any handler can fool his dog into alerting when he wishes. This is a serious issue that should be challenged at the Supreme Court level. Then again, to expect justice from them….
If you want to see a truly backwards ass, drug war loving group of religious freaks, look no further than Kansas. Who cares what they think? Do they enforce federal immigration laws in Kansas or do they ignore them like the rest of the country? Hypocrites much? The Constitution says that these 'stops' are illegal. Read the 4th Amendment.
Not everyone may smoke but none the less you are now living in a state that is blatantly breaking a federal law as well as the laws of all the states surrounding you. I doubt this scenario ever crossed the minds of those who all too quickly pulled the "yes" lever in the voting booth thinking only how "progressive" it would be to legalize pot. Too bad for all of you as I don't think these stops will ever subside.
Yes they are..I have a friend,who lives in Denver,stopped rental cars in hawaii by a Kansas state patrolman,who said "Ok,give me your marijuana right now,and I will only give you a ticket..if I have to call the dogs out here,and rental cars in hawaii we find it..you're going to jail" The problem was,my friend,didn't have any marijuana,he just had long hair..the cop told him "you fit our profile" my friend said,next time he travels to Missouri,he's flying.
I was pulled over driving to MI for doing 4 over the speed limit and on the way back from MI, my father was pulled over for the license plate bracket rental cars in hawaii partially covered the state name. We both were given "warnings"
I was pulled over by Nebraska state troopers when I was driving a U-Haul from Colorado rental cars in hawaii to Wisconsin. He said I "took too long to change rental cars in hawaii lanes". Sure. Saw another U-Haul pulled over after he let me go.
"People say, 'If you don't have anything, you have nothing to worry about.' But even talking about it now feels traumatic. It felt like all powers were taken away and you have no rights for anything."
"It felt pretty militaristic," he says. "The guy was gung-ho, all amped up like an ex-military guy. The whole thing felt like we were in another country. We were just driving down the road, obeying every traffic rental cars in hawaii rule, so to be stopped like that was pretty violating.
Welcome to the United Police States of America. Where police are trained to manufacture probable cause and kidnap citizens. The only difference between violent gang members in America is that citizens are forced to fund the ones with a badges.
Nevertheless, the swine are  violating the rights of individuals when they stop them solely because rental cars in hawaii they have Colorado plates, even if they make a BS excuse that's not true. It's already happened to me at least once. The idea that Colorado plates are probable cause would be laughed out of court, which is why the usually don't dare admit it.
Colorado rental cars in hawaii is a sanctuary state for illegal criminal rental cars in hawaii aliens. Colorado does not enforce federal immigration laws. Your chance of being deported as a criminal alien is less than 1%. Should out of state cops pull over all Colorado drivers because of this scenario as well? What if the driver is an illegal alien? We need to be fair, right?
For what it's worth, I've yet to have trouble in Kansas (not that it won't happen eventually), traveling to Missouri, but I've been routinely harassed in Missouri, and I only go for short visits to family. They make it obvious, because they don't fail to say "this isn't Colorado."
"It's currently that way now -- and its passage would untie the hands of law enforcement to focus on interstate issues  rather than their current focus, which is arresting over 10,000 Coloradans for personal possession every year.
@ DonkeyHotay   @ Monkey  So, you're trying to pretend the drug war actually makes some sort of difference? This is a manufactured tempest in a teacup for political rental cars in hawaii reasons pointed out in another article recently rental cars in hawaii posted.
@ camman1968  ... most states have adopted the same uniform motor vehicle code, one of the elements being that the License Plates must be clearly displayed and unobstructed, which includes those stupid dealer advertising frames and vanity frames that obstruct any element rental cars in hawaii of the license plate, such as the state, the month or year registration stickers, etc.

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