I took night pics at the Statehouse, then
headed over to Carlisle, to the Wal-Mart to pick up my bedtime
snack
(Haagen Daz). I was going to head for
home in the morning. NO one had harassed me for the three days I'd just
spent there, and I saw LOTS of cops
all three days. All the folks I've met there, like
in Kingwood, are just nice,
regular folks. So, about 11:00
at night, about a block from the Wal-Mart, I saw
the red & blue lights, pulled over,
and was NOT all that surprised to see
the SAME cop
who busted me for the green shamrock lights 3 months ago.
He came to the window, and said, 'I
guess you know why I stopped you." I said, you must have
been off this weekend.
He said, 'I was'. Well, he
spent an hour going through his book, and wrote me SIX
tickets. Two for lights (he called
the ball on the roof a 'lighted
sign', and another one for 'television equipment'.
Also, a ticket for my trailer, as I don't
have a tag on it (it's a 3.5 foot
wideX5 ft farm trailer). That (with the big eagle)
has about 40,000 miles on it now, and
that one's a first. Let's see,
I'm supposed to pay PA a $75 fine, because I didn't pay
a tax in Kentucky - and KY isn't
worried about that???? Ticket
for the unplugged trailer tail lights, also had a
broken safety chain (which I
meant to get fixed when I got the
lights fixed). That one alone is for $300+.
He actually wrote on that ticket that trailer
was being towed only by a single
safety chain (as it there was no ball and hitch!).
He kept me there for over an hour,
also told me if I drove with my
lights on again, he would give me another one for $500 -
forget exactly what he called it,
but something like disobeying an
order. I took my sweet time pulling out of there,
wanted to get my ice cream before
getting stopped again, so I waited
till he went down the road. Then, I flipped my
lights back on, and cruised into
Wal-Mart to get my snack. I got
the van ready for sleeping, visited with lots of nice
folks, handed out more flags, then hit
the road again. Can't park
overnight at the Carlisle Wal-Mart because of some city
ordinance or something (the ONLY
thing I don't
like about Carlisle). The Wal-Mart is at the south end of town, also a
rest area on I81 a few miles south of
that, where I've stopped overnight a few times. All the way at the north
end, on the way to Harrisburg, are several truck
stops. Decided to park at Petro, so headed ALL the way back through town, LIGHTS
ON, dome lights on, and flying
my yellow DON'T TREAD ON ME snake flag out the window. It was going on 1 am by
then, and I did make it to the
Petro, and park for the night without getting busted again.
In the am, knew I'd have to stay around
another couple of days at least, rather than go right home. They are NOT
going to
shut me down. First found a trailer
place, and got my lights and chain fixed. I don't know about PA, but in
KY, equipment
things are usually dismissed if you fix
them, so we'll see about that. Called my atty, left message for him.
He called back
after awhile, and made an apt. for me
Friday afternoon. I got out my big 3'X5' yellow DON'T TREAD ON ME' roof
flag, and
put that up on the roof, and LEFT it on the
roof for all the time I spent in Carlisle for the next three
days.
I spent the rest of the day amusing
myself by taking all the tickets into Staples, getting
them copied, and blown up, and
laminated, and covering almost the
entire front doors with them. Then I added white contact
paper with 2" red prism lettering,
on one side it says,
LIBERTY VAN AND FREEDOM VAN (2011 FREE SPEECH
TROPHY WINNERS AT HOUSTON ART CAR PARADE) ARE
BEING HARASSED IN CARLISLE, PA BY OFFICER DAVID
ROGER.
The other side says,
PA VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CODE AND CARLISLE OFFICER
DAVID ROGER ARE VIOLATING MY GOD GIVEN
RIGHTS.
I also similarly displayed the poster I made from the
Harrisburg tickets, and lettered that officer's name as well,
on
both sides, on the side
doors.
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