I’m just not ballsy enough to do that...yet.
I still have a reputation even though it has been years. I was stopped by some dumbass borderpatrolman and I made him back off by threatening to call 911. I then wrote a letter to the editor describing what had happened and how furious I was, the idiot actually tried to pull his gun on me but he couldn’t get it unsnapped! His probable cause was that I was on a “known drug highway”. Except at checkpoints, I have never been stopped again.
Many years ago I was on a grand jury and the case was a guy who was stopped at a checkpoint and had agreed to let them search his car. Well, he obviously had something to hide and changed his mind and ran the checkpoint. They chased him for some miles and they said that he threw something out the window but they never recovered it. He was charged with reckless and careless driving but they wanted more so they wanted to indict him on “assault of a federal officer”.
The story was, when he took off an agent tried to run after him and fell down and tore his pants and scraped his knee!
I don’t doubt that the guy probably had contraband but they had no evidence of that and the assualt charge was cuz they were angry that they couldn’t charge him on anything worse than the driving citations. I argued for no indictment and I won. The AUSA was pretty mad, you could tell but we were in charge.
I have to say, I learned a lot about my rights in that GJ and I have educated others.
Now they have a drug dog pretty much 24/7 so if it alerts they already have probable cause.
LOL! What is so ballsy about it? If you are here legally then you are going to be let go regardless if you answer their questions or not. There's nothing ballsy about