# Here is how to deal with illegal searches **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686 "2015-05-10T05:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686/1 "2015-05-10T05:45:43Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lEmgSetYK2M/maxresdefault.jpg "Unlawful Search Defeated In 7 Seconds") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEmgSetYK2M) WARNING may not turn out so well in other parts of the USA, you may have to adjust language and in my experience cops in the south don’t detach so easily expect to start with the “am I being detained?”. I kinda enjoy their frustration though when they realize they are dealing with a civil lib nut and it was all for nothing. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686/2 "2015-05-10T23:15:04Z")
Seven seconds followed by something in Scotland? Am I missing something or did it link to someones play list? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686/3 "2015-05-11T00:51:30Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I kinda enjoy their frustration though when they realize they are dealing with a civil lib nut and it was all for nothing. Would’ve had a much different outcome without the video camera. Come to think, having a video camera doesn’t always prevent a much different outcome. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686/4 "2015-05-11T01:45:40Z")
> [@grude](#): > > WARNING may not turn out so well in other parts of the USA, you may have to adjust language and in my experience cops in the south don't detach so easily expect to start with the "am I being detained?". > > I kinda enjoy their frustration though when they realize they are dealing with a civil lib nut and it was all for nothing. you don’t even live in this country and you seem to think you can tell us how to do things here? are you a writer for Gawker or something? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-how-to-deal-with-illegal-searches/719686/5 "2015-05-11T02:39:03Z")
> [@grude](#): > > “am I being detained?” “You are now, so shut the fuck up before I taze you.” Really, people. It isn’t a magic phrase, and it won’t make anything better. If anything, it will make the officer think you’re one of those Sovereign Citizen/Freemen On The Land/Citizens Of The State Of \ morons who might just up and decide to draw a gun on them in retaliation for being “unlawfully detained”. Yes, laws _do_ apply to you, and, yes, the police _can_ stop you according to _their_ version of what _they_ think is mere suspicion. And even if they can’t, their tazer, pepper spray, and gun says they can.