Getting stopped by the police for no reason

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The man may have seen it as a form of vandalism but he overreacted to it you where just minding your own business and the man had no right calling the Police.

Montreal, barefoot, in the Winter?! While I totally agree that you are entitled to whatever floats your boat as long as it doesn't impinge on someone else, you must realize that isn't a common thing. Potentially harmful. I strongly suspect that is the root of the police intervention.

The invasive weeding is a noble pursuit! I've gone on native species rescues before. It is always a good idea to carry a written note from the property owner that gives you the permission to be there doing what you are doing.

The only time I've ever been stopped by the police wasn't for my actions but my hair color... someone said 'a redhead girl was there'. I suppose I was the first redhead they saw. We all look alike to them!

Couldn't you talk to the police about it? Get a meeting with all the officers in town, go "Hi I'm autistic, I may seem weird but I'm harmless, please stop questioning me all the time."

I get really anxious around cops so I am worried about what would happen if one randomly started asking me questions because I look suspicious or something. I mean its not so bad if their attention is directed elseware.....like the other night I was getting a ride somewhere with a guy I know and he ran a stop sign and got pulled over so the cops where more focused on him then me since I was the passenger...though because the driver was under age and I was smoking a ciggerette they checked my ID to make sure I was old enough to be smoking. But yeah there was not too much anxiety involved in that......but if a cop approaches me directly it freaks me out and its usually obvious.. Which means either the cop will decide to feel sorry for me and be nicer or it would increase suspiscion.

I've never been stopped by the police, but I've been a passenger when someone else was for something like a burned out tail light that was easily fixed. I guess being a woman, I don't look suspicious enough, and I'm a safe driver who doesn't go fast enough over the speed limit to be noticed. I renew my car registration at the auto club because they give you the new stickers right there, so I'm able to put them on my car right away.

The time I've removed non native plant species from a wildlife refuge, I was part of a college club and we were doing that as a community service project. This refuge was next to a mall, so there were no nosy neighbors to call the police.

I was stopped by the police at the beach in Vancouver in the Early 90s one time. The cops looked me over. One of them told his partner that I was peace bound and than they let me go.

I can't leave the house after dark. I used to walk to the local stores on the town's many well-lit public sidewalks. But the last 2 years or so, I began to get stopped frequently. It happened 8 times in the last year or so, half the time escalating to detainment and frisking for weapons, drugs, etc. A few times I was threatened with arrest, once for reacting in pain when a light was shined in my eyes, the other for answering honestly when the cop asked if I had taken any prescription drugs (I had taken an ativan right before leaving the house). The last time I was stopped, I was walking home from a friend's house about 1 mile along a main road, I got stopped, detained, and frisked by two officers in separate unmarked cars. I asked them "Why am I getting stopped" and they said "if you're out at night, we're going to stop you." And from that point on I just don't leave the house at night anymore. "Police States of America" (as I hear many people call it these days) means basically anyone slightly different can't go outside without being confronted by police, and for us Aspies, that means being put in a potentially dangerous situation in misunderstanding. It's not safe for us, we have no freedom there. I tried talking to the station recently only to get a lot of indignant, defensive responses, people just didn't believe I was being stopped, and stood behind the officer's activities 100% without even listening to me. I am afraid to go outside at night, still. So now I just hate all of it. I'm getting very cynical, and am contemplating media attention (I know a few reporters locally). We'll see.

I get stopped for various things and tend to get searched when I do. It doesn't really bother me and find it mildy entertaining. They aren't too bad when you do what they say. These days I'd rather deal with a cop than a doctor.

Let's see... the list:

I got pulled over for an expired car registration. (parent's car... grr...) The cop felt the need to have me stand in front of the car and searched the car. He frisked me too...

I left my car at a bar after drinking there. (You aren't supposed to drink and drive, you know.) I was walking back to pick it up when the cop stopped me. I got frisked and ended up getting a free ride to my car. I think he felt the need to check me out because it was at night.

I got pulled over for not having a license plate at the front of my car. The cop again felt the need to search me and the car. This time it was because he... smelled something funny... I'm hyposensitive to smell and I... left a cup of lemonade in the car. It was growing stuff... I'm told it smelled something like pot. It was winter and I had lost my coat at work so he let me sit in his car while he searched mine. That probably contributed to him thinking I was high.

I've had a few other encounters that were probably my fault.

My experience is that cops aren't too bad. Just do what they say.

I am afraid of police but I've never been stopped since I don't traval alone.

I was once pulled over by the police for driving at 31 in a 30. They checked my car was taxed and asked where I had been (it was late) then they let me on my way. Another time I was in a car park waiting to pick someone up in a strange town. A Police officer knocked on my window and asked if I was the owner of my car and for some ID as there had been lots of car thefts in the area lately.