Ok, I just got directed to a mobile smog check in Riverside. I was on my lunch break and on my way to my house this officer was directing traffic in what I thought was some kind of construction zone. Instead when it was my turn to pass through he stops me and directs me into the zone to what I find out is a mobile smog check.
This guy who's dressed like a construction worker in disguise I guess then tells me that it's voluntary and that I don't have to do it if I don't want to. I ask him how long this thing takes. He said it would take 10 minutes. I explain to him that I'm on my lunch break but he continues to ask me what kind of car I own.
Aha!! Turns out they don't have the capabilities to smog AWD cars and as it was he had trouble finding my model of Celica in his laptop. So he ends up having to wave me through.
Even still, I don't have anything to hide but after some of the things I've heard about what cops in the Inland Empire are doing to cars and their interesting tactics. This doesn't exactly sit easy with me.
This guy who's dressed like a construction worker in disguise I guess then tells me that it's voluntary and that I don't have to do it if I don't want to. I ask him how long this thing takes. He said it would take 10 minutes. I explain to him that I'm on my lunch break but he continues to ask me what kind of car I own.
Aha!! Turns out they don't have the capabilities to smog AWD cars and as it was he had trouble finding my model of Celica in his laptop. So he ends up having to wave me through.
Even still, I don't have anything to hide but after some of the things I've heard about what cops in the Inland Empire are doing to cars and their interesting tactics. This doesn't exactly sit easy with me.