I was almost shot by an officer. I was driving north on highway 126 I think it was, on my way to Fillmore Ca. When an unmarked car started flashing a searchlight in my mirror. Being fresh out of high school i was totally ignorant about what I should do or even stop. Finally I did stop and an officer ordered me to exit the vehicle which I did. He walked up to the back of the truck and asked for ID. I said, "OK, lemme get it and reached back in to get my wallet off the seat." Then I heard him shout, "Freeze right there!" And I did exactly that as I looked over my shoulder at the officer. He had his gun drawn and pointed right at my head. I'm looking right down that barrel best I could with him shaking that pistol. All I could think was that if he was so keyed up he could easily shoot me by accident as he trembled. So he orders me back to him with my hands up walking backwards and pats me down. Then he starts bitching me out for going ten miles an hour over the limit. Done with the bitching he asks me what I've been doing and doesn't believe me when I tell him I work for a large commercial beekeeper and on my way to meet up with my boss using his truck. So he searches the truck looking for God knows what while my wife sits there watching from the passenger side. He searches the jump seats and I can see him examining my bee net I had tossed back there. Then yelps and throws the net down. He comes back to me scratching the stinger out and showing me the welt. Three backup highway patrol cruisers show up and they are not pleased with him. He's an off duty sheriff who they point out should have gone home instead of trying to do their job. He makes excuses he had to pull me over for speeding. He still not gonna let them do his job and makes a big deal about running the plates and my license. While he's doing this the highway patrol guys are quietly making comments about the old guy while one of them comes over to chat with me. I tell him what happened and point out how the berating seemed to calm the sheriff down. Patrolman chuckles about this. Anyway, I signed off on my ticket and left. How close I came to making a mistake and getting killed in front of my wife was not lost on me. A couple years later taking a load of empty drums home on a ten wheeler an off duty cop tries to horn into traffic from an onramp and pretends he made contact with my front bumper. He eventually gets in front of me and brake checks me. Rush hour bumper to bumper traffic and he comes to a complete stop. I can clearly see there's a blonde headed woman with him and it appears she trying to get him to stop this bullshit. I see an opening and go around him as he flashes his badge out the window. He gets in front of me again and stops. Again I get an opening and go around. Meanwhile my grandparents had been following me and seen everything and came alongside as this idiot gets in front of me once more. In a moment of insight I realize what my grandparents were wanting to do and I quickly slowed down to create a gap they could slide into. The badge flashing cop now realizes I have friends and we watched as he sort of maneuvered his way up through traffic. No way was I gonna stop and have a conversation with another off duty cop in an unmarked vehicle.