“Heads up” to be careful when coming home late from the Observatory. A Geary cop was sitting in his SUV downtown Geary, it was about 1 am, I saw him, passed him, he pulled out, and followed me to I-40, he hit me with his lights just before the Truck Stop. I was shocked he decided to pull me over.
I didn’t get any tickets, (I did nothing wrong), he thought he would find someone drunk or on drugs, or illegal etc. He said " I was swerving a little". I said: " I don’t think I was, I have adaptive cruise control, and I’m recording with front and rear 4k dash cams with onboard telemetry and GPS speed recording", “I’m a very careful driver, coming home after working at the observatory for the past 6 or 7 hours”.
He then tried to say my license plate lights were not working: I then said: " that is a huge surprise to me, I’m sure they are working, please show me" So I got out went to the back, opened my tailgate to examine the lights, both lights were on and working.
He then said to me that “They aren’t bright enough for him to see the plate easily”… I was shocked again by his stupidity. We were standing there being blinded by a huge led lightbar on top of his SUV he turned on to light up my car light it was daylight, like I was some drug dealer or gangster or illegal immigrant.
After he realized who I was, that I don’t drink, that I’m not a “bad guy” he “let me go with no ticket”.
I believe because he was bored, and I looked like an “out-of-towner” he wanted to stop me. It really angered me. He was about 10 years younger than me and he was acting very militant.
I found several crazy things online about the Watonga Police and the Geary Police having a record of officers getting fired, claims of harassment, physical abuse, abuse of power, corruption etc… So, it appears me, my unfounded “stop, harass, and search of wrong doing” is part of pattern.
Just a warning, this is why I prefer to stay overnight at the observatory when I’m going to stay there late. The last thing I want is to be harassed by some small-town, over-militarized, and angry cop. So, please be careful everyone when you drive home late from CRO.