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Should I add Illinois to my S list with OK and KS? [message #120006]

Sat, 26 March 2011 11:12

Ken Burton

Messages: 10030
Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana

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If I do, IT IS DAN's FAULT.

I'm running east on I-70 coming up on a construction zone near Effingham. There were three different lighted road signs saying "Cell Phone Use Illegal in Construction Zones". Just as I entered the construction zone the cellphone rang and and it was Dan. He stayed on the phone with me all the way through the construction zone. As I cleared the other side of the zone, Dan hung up and I went on my way.

Two minutes later an unmarked police car with 2 cops in it pulled along side of me rode there for a while. They did not pass. They just stayed there along side of me. I never looked down directly at the cop to see him. I acted like I did not see him. He slowed down got in behind me.

THERE GO THE LIGHTS. He was pulling me over. IT IS ALL DAN"S FAULT. The cop must have see me on the cell phone since I was only doing 57 mph and was below that in the zone. Maybe like Kansas they just do not like Kalifornia plates. Once I stopped on the shoulder the police car driver got out and walked up to the coach. Strangely the cop riding shotgun never got out of the car. I met the cop outside at the coach door.

"DRIVER"S LICENSE, REGISTRATION, and PROOF OF INSURANCE" he stated. I gave him my driver's license and told him I would have to go back in the coach to get the other stuff. He told me he would go back to the car and run my license while I was getting the other stuff.

I found the other stuff and went outside with it only to see the second cop walking up to the coach with my driver's license in hand. I never looked the cop in the eyes. I looked down at the paper work I was holding. I finally looked up and looked him direct in the face.

IT WAS MY COUSIN. I have not seen him for several years. That "so and so" knew it was me when he stopped me. That is why he stopped me. He said he knew I had a GMC but had never seen it. He said he always looks at GMCs on the road for Indiana plates. This one had California plates but he still checked out the driver visually when he was riding along side. We were not even in his post's territory. He and the other cop were going home from some training in another part of the state.

I guess I'll have to let this one slide and not put Illinois on my S list. If you see a cop checking out your GMC in Illinois, it might just be my cousin. He still has not seen mine.

It looks like they finally raised the speed limit on RVs in Illinois. I never saw a sign all the way across the state on I-70 saying RVs had to do 55. It is about time. Now if they would just get rid of the money grabbing toll roads in the northern part of the state I'd really be happy.

IT IS ALL DAN"S FAULT.

Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana