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Originally Posted by 1664SSJA
I *JUST* 10 minutes ago got pulled over at a sobriety checkpoint, and OFFERED to let the officer go through the car when he said he thought he "smelled" something. I had nothing to hide, so nothing to fear. Now If i complained to my local Dept about this, and they reprimanded the officer for doing HIS job, it would be plain wrong.
If you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. If you are, and people find out, OH WELL.
Keep up the good work Travis.
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He wasn't doing his job he was fishing. The fish just weren't biting at the time and he was just honest enough to not "bait" his hook. Just because you were doing nothing wrong dosen't mean you can't be arrested, charged and convicted based on the fact that the officer "thought" he "smelled" something. Thats good enough for most judges. But I do understand your analogy.
Now back to Travis. Travis Miller is probably one of the BEST if not THE BEST that a sanctioning body could ask for in a tech person. I read his posts in this thread and saw nothing out of line. I can see how all these violations (that caused a competitor to be DQ) occured based on the fact rules are not ALLOWED to be applied fairly in every instance. Travis is interested enough to come on these boards and explain how tech is applied and answer questions and apparantly gets chewed out by someone. My guess is because someone in SS/Mod is running a different bore spacing and got their feelings hurt. I have seen it so I know its out there and has been for quite some time. A future rule change/enhancement will most likely come from this. Probably benifit a few and cost many. I will say one thing in closing. The last times I had an official actually figure my weight and class at a race ,was done by Travis. The times before that my racecar was sitting on a rollback on the backside of a mall (in tech line) at the real Sportsnationals.