Driving to the gym this morning and this Uhaul style small moving truck pulls up next to me. White male, late forties, short cropped hair, slightly overweight. The truck was all yellow but had "DEVL" painted on the side in graffiti style lettering.
Green light and his lane moves a little faster than mind so I think "Is that a business?" and check for the license plate. No license plate. "No license plate? Is that normal?"
He keeps going straight and I merge onto the freeway and it's just bugging me. Do I call 911 just in case? And say what? That I have a weird feeling? I live in a very religious area with very low crime where I'm sure cops are afraid to profile people and here I am asking myself if that's all I'm doing. I try to find a reasonable explanation why a man that age would be driving a truck like that with no plates and no business insignia aside from the letters "DEVL" painted on the side in teenager-vibe graffiti style and I just can't square it.
I get to the gym parking lot but I can't get out of the car I just kept thinking "What if?" I can feel the tug of war going on inside. Do I trust my instincts or explain them away? I look up "DEVL" and "DEVL moving trucks" online and don't see anything. So I think "What's the worst that will happen if I'm wrong and I report this guy? He gets pulled over there's a good explanation for why he doesn't have a plate and everything checks out and he thinks 'Hey, if I don't want to get pulled over maybe I shouldn't drive around in an unlicensed truck with the word "DEVL" on the side?
Eh. So I call. What the hell. The guy should expect this, right? If he wants to have an edgy truck that raises eyebrows, fine. Maybe he's a great guy. Then again, maybe he's a fucking kidnapper/trafficker, I don't know.
I read this book a while back titled "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals The Protect Us From Violence" by Gavin de Becker. He's supposedly an expert on the protection of public figures and has worked as a security adviser for three separate U.S. Presidents. He says that "Denial is a save now, pay later scheme." Thinking about that is what ultimately made me decide to call.
I don't know. Maybe it was nothing. But I don't feel like that often, and I can usually feel what other people are feeling. If I'm wrong, I maybe have just inconvenienced a perfectly innocent person for a few minutes. And maybe I waited too long to act on my hunch and I just let a serial killer get away. I don't know. Hopefully I did the right thing, and didn't wait too long. If it ever happens again, I don't think I'll hesitate so much.
I say good job.
Years ago I lived in an incorporated area, inside city limits so there were police patrols. I worked a lot of late and odd hours back then, was always coming home or leaving in the wee hours. I was always in my work truck.
I was pulled over quite a few times by police who saw me cruising through the neighborhood, each time I asked and they would say 'just checking why people are cruising in here this time of the morning/night'.
They would see my address was up around the bend and apologize to me for the stop, and each time I thanked them, told them I was GLAD they were out doing their jobs, keeping my Wife and Kids safe while I was at work.
I see these things like that. We either ARE a moral Society or we are not, we either WANT the Rule of Law or we do not. If we want the Rule of Law we must each help enforce it, we must police our Society.
Being a Citizen comes with Responsibilities, with Rights come Duties. Not just jury duty, voting and such things but also the actual rules' enforcement of Society. Pretending to not see something and ignoring it only weakens Society, weakens Law.
What you did is not 'swatting' or being paranoid, it is simply you reporting something you see on the streets of Society. If the guy had no plates he needs to be questioned, at the very least questioned.
I grew up being profiled, was a Hippie in Texas when that was worse than being a bank robber. Was a Hippie with long hair and a motorcycle which gave me bonus power ups to being profiled. I knew why I was profiled, it was understandable, back then we didn't choose to be offended we accepted Reality.
So I'm saying simply don't worry about what 'others' think, Do The Right Thing. It takes courage to act, and you should always question yourself for motives... but ACT when you see cause.
Thank you.
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God was telling you something.., he has saved me more than once, when I listened. My friend and I got chased through a parking garage in Baltimore. I heard a voice in my head say, that’s wrong… go… we ran down several flights of steps out into the sidewalk… then we found a security to walk us back to the car and parked into another location..,
Neve feel bad, safety over feelings… women get killed because they don’t want to hurt feelings;, I taught my nieces to not to be afraid to call it out.. if you think you are being followed in a mall, shout that mother fucker in the red hoodie and black pants has been following me from store to store, what is up with that..
Sorry love.. gonna bust your for the feeling stuff… fuck him… so what if he gets pulled over… if we have to buy tags , so should he… you would get a ticket for no tags so fuck him. I guess you opened up a sore spot that I never knew was there..
That was your discernment. Many more people should listen to their (conscience) but sadly not many people have one anymore. Good call
You may have prevented a false flag bombing of some kind. Good job.
You were right....never ignore intuitions.
See something, say something.
A few weeks ago my daughter was walking/jogging on a country road near her house when a car passed her, stopped and someone got out of the passenger side for a bit. She thought they lost something or who knows. She felt suspicious at what they were doing so she pretended to tie her shoe so she wouldn't pass them. They stopped further up the road and she tried calling someone and stopped to talk so as not to go near them. She was near a house that had workers in it. They turned around and stopped again in front of her after she turned around and she again didn't go by them. When they left she ran like hell to her street. When she told me about it I told her to make a police report. While they didn't do anything illegal, what they did was very strange. She is late 30's and very in tune to all that is going on but they probably thought she was young and gullible...who knows? Again better safe than sorry. It happens in small towns too. She did make a police report and at least it is documented. No license plate...she didn't have her glasses or contacts on.
I say, follow the still small voice. Especially if it is weird for you to find your hackles going up, and it doesn't sound like you are seeing cryptic messages everywhere. Yellow truck is not UHaul but Penske, they all sell used trucks but they should have tags.
Maybe he was just exercising his right to travel freely? There is no law that requires a man to have a license or license plate to conduct his private affairs.
question, when were your rights to travel freely taken and required your rights to travel be converted to require permission from a administrative agency? license?
Maybe in this great awakening people should read the 1935 Common Carriers act for their state. Read the preamble for their states Common Carriers Act and realize that there is no requirement to have the states permission to travel, conduct their private business, haul their own property and that of their neighbors produce to market even for a cash consideration. Your right to contract or not contract if you so choose.
You may find there is no requirement to have the States Plate on your property unless you are hauling passengers and freight for hire. Then the License is required, otherwise its a dead instrument. Think of it this way having the license plate, the Drivers license is a contact with government that if you so choose to haul passenger and freight as a common carrier you already have the proper instruments. In law the new car dealerships are called Common Carriers Dealers. they are giving your property, your cars birth certificate to the state to use a collateral to REFUND government and that there is a state act to recover your property MSO from the state and that you can claim it as private property.
Maybe people should read and understand the adoption of the roman civil law 1872 by two attorney brothers the Feilds who tricked the states legislatures into adopting the Roman civil law that allowed the attorneys to take over this countries law system ,Common Law by a colorable overlay that started the Licensing of hauling passenger and freight for hire in 1872. the horse drawn freight wagons that started the whole mess of requiring permission to haul passengers and freight hire and how it transferred from the freight wagons to the railroads then trucking then chuffers and taxi drivers.
See something say something. You do realize there is no such law that allows for a "routine traffic stop" It dose not exist in law in any state. all it says when the red light is turned on is YEILD RIGHT AWAY FOR THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON A NON HOSPITOL RELATED EMERGENCY.
How many times have you heard the fuzz say failure to yield and the chase is on? Because of the Oath Of office, they can only pull you over if they witnessed damage to person or property or already have a valid warrant for your arrest. otherwise they are violating your rights under color of law and one option is to file a claim for damages on the agents bond. or take me to the magistrate 853.6 of the California Penal code. produce a injured party or a contract I violated with all the proper conditions of a valid contract, lawful consideration, two contracting parties, full disclosure, ect...
I find most comments on this post shocking, so much for the Great Awakening! so much for inherent rights, so much for freedom.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Same for planes, trains and subways. They are paid, partially or in whole, by our taxes
Now, walk, bike or backpack. Absolutely. Knock yourself out. Go anywhere you want. But at 70-80mph on a road, you are exercising a privilege, not a right. As a fellow traveler I pay licensing fees, get safety inspections and carry insurance. I undergo periodic testing like everyone else.
Drive without plates, and you will pay the price
Then you have not bothered to research the issue. yes driving is a privilege hauling passenger and freight for hire. That is the problem, that is not how it is defend in law. I gave you the date of the acts, and tiltes, I've thoroughly researched it and have the original general law of California in my hot little hands. all you did was make a statement.
Yeah actually, while I still feel fine about calling the cops just to see if everything is square, the Supreme Court has ruled on many occasions that we have the freedom to travel, by car, on the public roads, without license or registration. They call it the Right of Locomotion. As long as you aren't using the roads as your business (truck driver, taxi/uber driver, food truck, etc.) then you are free to go to and from work and to anywhere you want at your leisure without license or registrations. The problem is that the local cops and judges don't know or don't care and they treat you like a nutcase when you point it out.
Then why does anyone license their vehicle, or get the Drivet’s license. I understand the Federal Govt having limited rights, but individual States have great leeway
Why does anybody pay federal income tax on their wages when SCOTUS has ruled so many times that wages are not income? Why did businesses close their doors just because unelected health officials said to? It's called acting under color of law. Nobody teaches you any better and you accept things without question. Since most everyone else does too, you just do what the crowd does.
I'm actually acutely aware of everything you're referring to here. I once passed out fliers on the right to locomotion and the supreme court cases on it at the DMV. I promise you, we're on the same page on that. I would normally not do or say or even think anything. In fact most of the time I would probably cheer someone on for sticking to the man in that way. And maybe I was wrong, but it was just a feeling I couldn't ignore.
Yep, I can relate to that, Hope you're having a good day! and thank you for replying.