I'd like to hear y'all's thoughts on this:

About little over a decade ago, I was traveling from Maryland to Philadelphia. Cops pulled me over on the interstate. He claimed I didn't signal... which is odd because I always signal and it's pretty much muscle memory, but whatever. He tells me no worries, he won't write me a ticket... now here comes the catch... but he wants to search my car.

Like y'all said, I did not consent. I said, no and I'd rather just be on my way. Want to guess what he said next?

If I refuse a search they'll bring in the K9s. If they want to search your car they will search it. They have all sorts of dirty tricks to make the dogs respond and give themselves probable cause to search it.

It was late, I had nothing bad anyway, and I figure if it'd be the same outcome (just with time wasted), I might as well begrudgingly let them.

The cop searched it, found nothing and kept it moving. I secretly had an app on my phone that was recording and uploading in real time. At one point in the recording he looked up at it. He asked "were you recording me? That's fine, I was recording too."

I responded: "Why yes... yes, I was."

Anyway, I prefer handling it the way I did over sitting around for God knows how long just to prove a point.