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Tony, I think you have to be able to show that you're legitimately fishing, a plain hook in the pocket won't cut it, in all probability.
I have been "asked" to leave many times by Bourne PD officers over the years--they all know about the law, for years a copy of it was posted on the wall of their barracks, and Liz at Red Top had an advisory letter from Marine Fisheries circulated. Their philosophy was, they have to deal with the local year round. I've never pushed it to the point where I've defied them to arrest me--they probably won't, but you know they'd sit on my vehicle until I left and there'd be something defective on it, or they'd bust my chops some other way. I never had the time to have the inclination to see one of those things thru to the end. You would have to be willing to take the initial arrest, maybe lose in the local court and then take an appeal wehere you would ultimately win. Of course, with that letter posted on the wall of the Bourne PD barracks, once you prevailed in the end you would then have a pretty good suit for false arrest if you wanted to make even more friends in the town. The bottom line is, most of the cops know they can bully or intimidate you into leaving, or get you in other ways, like citing you for a few moving or equipment violations on your way home. They probably aren't prepared to arrest you. They know better, in many cases.
I always had the Bourne guys ask me politely, and I always agreed to do the guy a favor and leave. For the time being, that was. As you well know, Tony, Huff took an entirely different approach with guys like Curley, and old Johnny Williams when he was losing his marbles at the end.
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