[Ducati] My "run in with the law" story

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Alec

I bet that was scary especially when you have no idea what they wanted you for.  Good thing you did not have anything in your little brown bag that could have caused you any problems.

Did they apologize for scaring you?

Jim
---- Alec Moss <amoss at coastside.net> wrote: 
> Definitely, the scariest time I've had with the police was in Chevy Chase,
> MD in '73.  I left my apartment with a few sets of darts to go play at a
> friend's house a few miles away.  It was late fall, so dark at 6:00, and I
> had just gotten on the bike (my second Triumph) and backed it into the
> street when up came the cops with siren wailing and lights flashing.
> 
> With guns drawn the pair hopped out of the car and it was 'up against the
> wall' so to speak, legs spread and hands high.  They looked in the brown bag
> bungied to the seat and found the darts and relaxed considerably.
> 
> Turned out a guy on a bike had robbed a bank on Wisconsin Ave half an hour
> before and stashed the money in a brown bag.  I was a likely suspect, for
> sure.  Scared the bejeebers out of me.
> 
> 
> Alec