On Sept 1 of last year I and three others took a little road trip on our motorcycles to a state park in King County, Washington. When we left the park I was second in line out of the four of us. After no more than two or three miles I glanced in my side mirror and noticed a sheriff's car pulling the two guys behind me over. I never heard any sirens. When I came to a stop I was probably 25 or 30 yards up the road, the friend in front of me didn't even notice and kept going, though he did come back a few minutes later. The sheriff jumped out of his car and really started yelling at the guy who had been riding behind me. He, then, asked me to walk down to where they were and he took my license and registration. A few minutes later I wandered back up to where my bike was and talked football with another sheriff who came later. The only other time the original sheriff ever spoke to me was much later when he asked me to start my bike so he could check the loudness of my exhaust. He then, went back to his car for a few minutes. He came back and told us we’d get our tickets in the mail and that we could go. Like I said before, he didn’t really say much to me, all his anger seemed to be directed at the guys that were behind me. About a month after this incident, the guy who had been riding in front of me, who came back to the scene, received a ticket in the mail for faulty exhaust, none of the rest of us received anything until May when I got a ticket in the mail for negligent driving and faulty exhaust. The other two, the ones the sheriff was so angry at haven’t received anything. The things that confuse me about the whole incident are: 1) the inconsistencies, 2) the nine months it took for me to receive my ticket, 3) why it was never stated, to me, the reason we had been pulled over or what we were being cited for. Is there anyone out there who can make sense of this for me. I'd appreciate it!
