Okay without a doubt this is no disrespect to TAG, as I have come to greatly respect him in this forum
I don't know NorcalSS at all, but he only has 4 posts, so I'll hold judgment. (Esspecially since I might get pulled over by him some day).
But I want to say this. You both mention how you hate being stereotyped. I am right there with you. Every time I have ever been pulled over, the officer who has pulled me over has right off the bat stereo typed me. Regardless of what I am wearing. Meaning I could be wearing blue jeans and a Jack Daniels Whiskey t-shirt or a full suit for work and I get the same treatment every time. Especially from the CA Hwy. Patrol. They can be some of the most arrogant, inconsiderate people I have ever met. I know they deal with a-holes most of the day but seriously give a man a chance. Of half the times I have been pulled over I was guilty and I id nothing and was still treated like a P.O.S. The other half I had done nothing wrong and I was pulled over for the hell of it, and I speak up and ask what I was pulled over for, then they get really rude and talk down to me and won't let me get a word in edgewise. I have fought every single one of those, I have only won 1. All the others I just paid the fine because I knew I was guilty. But what drives me nuts is that I go to plead my case before the judge and the judge does not give a rats butt about what you have to say. I have come in with photographic evidence, and descriptions of the turns that Radar supposedly went around to track me doing 75 on a 35 turn in a lifted Toyota PU... Yeah right... and they don't care to see it or discuss it. I got one ticket at 7:55, the officer said he calibrated his radar prior to going on duty at 8. I asked him where he calibrated it. He said "I don't recall, but what does that matter?" I said well if you did it back at the station before your shift started at 8 how did you ticket me at 7:55, or did you start early and calibrate it on the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere? The judge did not care that the officer was just stating some typical BS as to why his Radar is so accurate blah blah. I also came in with back up for inaccurate their Radar is and can be in certain situations (my father and grandfather were both Radar techs for the government for over 30 years each, I think they know quite a bit more than a CHP who has been on the beat for a few years who learned how to manipulate their stories to make anyone look guilty.) That all being said. I hate being stereotyped and I try not to do it to officers as I meet them (I won't even go into incidents with having to call the Sheriff on a guy who came into my house and acted like he lived there and the Sheriff wouldn't remove him because he threw a bag of clothes all out in my living room...)
But again with all that said. I signed, just in case.
I hate having a front plate on...