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[thescot]

I just hope he wasn't wearing it and hoping to have children in the future!

There is never an end to bureaucratic idiocy.

Steve, you got pulled over on a bicycle?

[cavscout]

It sounds crazier than it really was but I make the most of it

I was riding on my lunch hour from the office. It's a great route thru the pastures here in the country. I had just about finished and was getting up some speed on a flat to climb the next hill and about that time the siren comes on. I look over my shoulder and he's got the lights on too.

"What the ....?"

I pull over and going from a whopping 10 mph to 0 in a couple of seconds I'm standing there huffing a bit. He come sup and says. "where's your helmet?" We have a helmet law in GA for kids on bicycles.

I say "the law only applies to minors doesn't it?" He says, I don't know let's look it up. So we go to his trunk and pull out the entire library of the GA criminal code as he thumbs through to find the law. "What do you know, 16 and under need helmets.", he says. "So I'm good to go right?" he says "oh, we've had some burglaries in the area and I just used that as a reason to pull you over." It's a good think he had a badge and wasn't a mind reader.

At this point I'm just wanting to finish my ride and go eat lunch so it's, "Have a good one...murmur murmur grumpf". It stunk going up that hill cold but oh well, it makes for a good one liner story opener and I can laugh about it now

[Raphael]

I just hope he wasn't wearing it and hoping to have children in the future!

There is never an end to bureaucratic idiocy.

This is no laughing matter. Australia doesn't have a single case of foot and mouth disease and they try to keep it that. I don't think that was the first time the custom officer had inspected Sporran from Scotland. It is better safe than sorry. If not careful, the cattle industry is going to take a hit.