A defendant who failed to laugh when a cop asked him whether he had “firearms, drugs, cats, dogs, alligators, and weapons” in his vehicle was detained; the officer claimed that this amounted to rea…
Or a cat/dog, so you say yes because you have a cat/dog with you? Reasonable suspicion, baby! Getting cuffed and searched now!
It’s not even a funny joke to begin with (my mom used to call them “groaners”), but especially with the way cops work these days, it’s just stressful. Because aparently there is no right answer but you’d be trying to figure out what it is all the same… which, you guessed it, reasonable suspicion!
So just asking for a friend, what if perhaps you do have an alligator in your car? Is there mandatory notification of an alligator to an officer?
Or a cat/dog, so you say yes because you have a cat/dog with you? Reasonable suspicion, baby! Getting cuffed and searched now!
It’s not even a funny joke to begin with (my mom used to call them “groaners”), but especially with the way cops work these days, it’s just stressful. Because aparently there is no right answer but you’d be trying to figure out what it is all the same… which, you guessed it, reasonable suspicion!