Fawking legislature started the deal out as a secondary offense, then made it a primary offense, same as cell phones. Give them an inch, they take a mile.

Stater has you cold. You were on a public road before you got into the parking lot. Where teh stop occured isnt the issue He got you.

Got pulled over for a dirty license plate on my utility trailer in McCleary by the new cop in town yesterday. Really? Mud from a pothole Hunter gets to fix got on it. He did the usual license & registration, verbal judo, etc., like the new guy trying to make a point. I asked him if he was going to carve me a ticket, and he said "no". I told him, "Nice pretext stop." Attitude go a little more stern at that time. I Iaughed at him, told him to relax, and then told him to talk to the other officers (friends of ours) so he would we were not the bad guys in town.

I did clean off the license plate when I got home.