Your papers please

[F. Marc de Piolenc]

Sounds like we need to be dictating into cellphones, with remote
recording!

Marc de Piolenc

measl at mfn.org wrote:

> When the Terry stop escalated, and I was ordered to follow the officer for
> more questioning, I asked him, while holding out the recorder for the
> answer, whether I was under arrest.  Answer: no.  Followed by "Am I free
> to go?".  Answer no.  "Sir, I believe these two conditions are mutually
> exclusive: either I am under arrest, or I am free to go.  As I have things
> to do, I need to know which it is, so that I may either go do them, or
> call my attorney to join us".
> 
> My reward was a crushed microcassette recorder, a "missing" cassette (he
> claimed the recorder was both damaged and empty at the time he first
> encountered it), and an arrest (and conviction no less!).