[Mike]

exactly. i also don't know where the whole illegal search rant is coming from, other than saying that the officer Asked to search the car, it does not say he forced him to allow it, or that he did anything other than issue tickets after he was denied permission to search.

and since the story in the first post doesn't include the typical rant and whine about how shafted he got by a "nazi cop", it leads me to believe he would have gotten the 8 points wether he allowed the search or not.

so now the story is changed from all the ranting above to, "he asked me to search my car, and i told him no, so he didn't, but he came back with the tickets i earned rather than letting me go with a slap on the wrist"