We got pulled over once in Reno, my husband driving and decided to turn kinda last second, but didn't actually violate any laws.
It was around midnight, there was snow in the ground and we hadn't been prepared when we went there. I was wearing a dress, thick socks, and one of my husbands dress jackets.
Then they asked me to step out of the vehicle.
There was the initial officer and then 2 backup, one female and one male, who stayed with me.
The male frisked me and when the female saw my wedding ring, she asked kinda surprised, "are you two married?" After that she seemed to wonder what the point was. It seemed they'd been called in as backup for suspicion of something that she seemed to no longer suspect us of.
The initial officer had asked if I was nervous, but I wasn't nervous, just cold, and when I told him, he said he was too. Yeah?! Well, he was wearing more than me, and he's the one who made the decided to put us both in that situation!
They asked me questions, one of which was where we were going to stay that night, and when I asked finally what that mattered to them, they stopped asking me questions and went and got my husband.
My husband pushed back more, and when the original officer didn't get anywhere with him, he used his flashlight and walked around our van, which I was not standing in front of with the two backups.
Since we don't do any drugs or had any cash, they eventually ended up letting us go with a warning or something.
We'd seen a video of a guy passing through Nevada who kept his money in cash cause he didn't trust the banks, and the cops confiscated his money anyways, even if he had legitimate records of every single dollar with him!
Turned out they get paid for sending money along to... the drug unit I believe... regardless of if it's legit or not. It took him fighting them with lawyers for 6 months to get his money back!
We were so happy we were already into Bitcoin and hadn't accidentally had a wad of cash with us when this happened.
We needed to forgive them and let it go, especially me, cause I didn't wanna set foot in Nevada again after how they treated us/me. Now I'm fine with it and have had some more pleasant times in that state, but I still wouldn't want to live there!
It sure seemed like they were fishing for something else, cause it's not normal for cops to pull out the passenger at a traffick stop!
Anyways, keep your money in bitcoin and not cash if you're driving through Nevada 😅
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