Hello everybody
I'm new to the forums and pretty new to OC as well. I got my CPL right after i turned 21 and have been CC'ing everywhere i go for the last year, but a few weeks ago decided to go OC. I really enjoy it so far, way more comfortable along with the other benefits such as a quicker draw and crime deterrent. I have been carrying in town Gobles where i live and the Kalamazoo/Osthemo area without any problems at all.
Untill yesterday..
A friend and I went to look at a house for sale on 37th street just north of 108th in Allegan county. We peeked around the house and noticed some two-tracks going back along the property (suppose to be 26 acres) so we jumped in my truck and started to head back, looked like some awesome hunting property.. needles to say while driving through the thick trail my front left tire fell in the edge of a swamp..:banghead: No sooner does this happen a white honda civic pulls up and 3 people get out, one comes up to the truck and asked who we were. Told him i was just interested in the house out front and was looking around. Then he asked me "well why the hell were you running from us? thought you were going to get away? well your stuck now." We apologized a couple times and told them we had no idea they were flagging us down if we had seen them we would have stopped. Not convinced he informs me that I am "trespassing on private property" and the police were going to be called. I pretty much told him ok, fine if it has to be that way and he walked away. My friend and I tried to get my truck out..wasn't happening:cuss: So we figured we might as well sit in the air conditioned truck and wait for LEO's to get there. This guy walks back up to the truck to apparently assure us the police were on the way, and that destruction of property was a felony, following that up by telling us they use the place back there for a SWAMP RUN, with big tractors and ****!! all the time while holding a board with nails at his side (to defend himself against the scary guy with the gun im sure) nothing more was really said though and he walks off. I think probably only 10 minutes went by after that and out of no where we here "GET YOU F@%KING HANDS IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW!" I look up in the mirror and see three LEO's, weapons drawn standing 5 foot off my truck bed.:shocker: So, are hands went in the air, one at a time they had us get out of the truck, walk backwards hands up to the back of the truck while they keep yelling "DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID, NO STUPID ****!!" I get to the back of my truck "Cross your legs and kneel get down on the ground!" immediately followed by a pair of matching bracelets, being dis-armed, and my wallet taken from my pocket all in about 2 seconds.
One took my buddy off to question him, One was talking to me, and their SGT. was talking to the people up front. He asked me what we were doing here and such, I explained i was just house hunting and once they figured out what was really going on everything cooled wayyy down. handcuffs came off, They made me call a tow truck though! "the "property owners" wont allow you to have your brother who lives a block down the road come pull you out because they don't want the property damaged any more" Nothing really was said about the gun until we were waiting around for the tow truck. One of the older LEOs was more of a CC guy and was giving me a little crap about OC, seeing I was in no trouble I gave a little back, not in a rude or smart-ass way just to show I wasn't going to be intimated. The other LEO was a pretty nice guy he told me he loves guns and totally respects my right to carry however i choose and wasn't here by any means to infringe on anyone's 2A rights. As we were chatting one of them told me i probably shouldn't buy any house on that stretch of road because they reefer to it as "meth alley" and also found out that they responded to a MWAG call trespassing on someones property. Which gave me a little clearer view of why perhaps they came in so hostilely, I suppose they were just doing their jobs and they were pretty cool when everything got squared away.. but it was a little intense for a minute. So the truck came and got me out, $40. and we all parted ways. Went to my house to change because i was all muddy, strapped my gun back on and went to a couple stores in town and back home to finish my evening with a couple beers, long day at the office.
However i would like to add that my brother knows the guy who owned the house previously and it was reposed by the bank, so the bank is the one who owns the property. I think these people were just used to being able to use it, with their son owning it before and just still thought it was their property and nobody was coming on it.
And today i met up with Jason (insanebuddy720) at steak&shake on west main, went to MC sports to look for ammo sales, and stopped into On Target to chat and look at some stuff. Stopped at Meijer on the way home for some things, no problems at all today.
