My Latest DNR Experience……How was yours?

I should be able to shine a very bright light back right? I don’t know who is coming up to me.

Common sense goes a long ways, so don’t be afraid to use it everybody!

In my experience:

CO’s 50% positive

Sheriff’s 10% positive

Town cops 10% positive

That is when they have been the one to confront me.

I have almost 100% positive when I initiated the interaction.

I get zero comfort when confronted by a leo, that is just how they make me feel. I do feel comfortable approaching them though.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

Maybe obvious to someone IN the shack. From outside in the dark, not likely. He has no idea what you’re doing in there unless he shines a light in there to see better. And how do you know he’s being a dick? It seems to me that if he were being a dick things would not have been “cordial” as you put it.

If you don’t like being checked, stay home.

About sums it up. Thanks Tom.

Conservation officer on Osakis walking around yesterday checking licenses and buckets of fish, talking about how lazy people are to be driving on such sketchy ice. Pretty nice guy. Good humor. He was certainly getting his steps in for the day.

It appears you have a lot of assumptions on how things should work. I would suggest you maybe sign yourself up for a ride along with one of your local law enforcement. Maybe instead of laughing at your kids remark you can use it as a teaching moment that officers are walking into an unknown situation all the time and they have no idea how the interaction with someone is going to occur, so they use the light to see better. It is also used as a protection, you ever look at that light and try and see where the officer is at? They can assess the situation with some concealment and determine any safety risks.

I’ll apologize for the officer that his ESP was turned off and didn’t pick up you transmitting that your a law abiding citizen with no intent to cause him harm or intentionally break the law. I’m sure he is sorry for scaring your kid while doing what he can to maintain a safety for everyone.

A light being shined could mean a polite way of saying I’m here and did not want to startle you walking up on you in the dark. Then again a lingering light being shined could change my perception of how I think the situation is.

Everywhere we go there always will be that jerk we run into at some time or another. More times than not there is the good guy but the negative experiences stick in our minds. Don’t dwell on the bad shrug em’ off.
Easy to say, I know, because sometimes somethings just get under our skin.

phishingruven01 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>AUTO_5 wrote:</div>
Common sense goes a long ways, so don’t be afraid to use it everybody!

this goes for Law enforcement officers as well.

Absolutely. Goes for everyone.