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Reminds me of a holiday traffic safety program I promoted years ago. I asked a local grocery store to donate gift certifcates. The newspaper ran a lead story advising motorsists they could be pulled over for safe driving and rewarded with a gift certifcate. These certificates would be given to drivers who were pulled over for showing courtesy and good driving habits. I recall being warned by supervisors that the traffic stop must be consensual and the driver must immediatly be advised they did nothing wrong and they are free to go. All were obviously elated for being chosen for a safe driver gift certificate.
Legally, a traffic stop is a detention and must be made with probable cause. In the case of the op, it quickly tured into a consensual contact. It had a great outcome but it could have quickly gone sideways had the "wrong" person been stopped.
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