On the part about cops being too serious...
Before I had my drivers liscense I used to ride my snowmobile to work and back in the winter.... now where I worked was barely 2 miles from my house. I never rode trails or anything at that age so I never bothered to get a trail sticker, nor did I have registration on it, but it just so happened that one night while driving home from work... about half a mile from my house, I spotted this car coming at me on the road. So as it is, I was already as far right as I could go on the road but I figured just in case I may as well hop off the road, I mean, who feels like meeting fly guys from last summer on somebodies SUV's hood? So not only did I hop off the road but I stopped the machine as well. The Tahoe pulled up and sat next to me for a few seconds. This Tahoe that stopped just happened to be the State boys. However I did not know this until he flipped on his light. In all my scaredness I didnt think to just leave and hit up a trail (not that im the kind of person that would do this anyways but...) so he told me to shut off the machine and everything and made me get off it. So he sat there and told me what all was wrong with it. I explained to him I'm just riding back from work. Which he seemed to believe and I didnt really get anything out of it... BUT he wouldnt let me drive the rest of the half mile to my house...I mean, literally one half of a mile. So I ended up with a ride in a cop car back to my house where I was dropped off and told to go trailer it back. Needless to say I just got a ride back to my snowmobile and drove it back.
I guess I got off "easy" if you wanna call it that but honestly, I cant just finish driving it home for a half mile?
Oh and what was even worse... The reason the cops were around my town (they usually arent) is that they were checking up on my friends probation.... how cool is that?
In another story...there were about 6 of us on the trail one night with neither registration nor trail stickers but we had just finished hauling my friends blown up 10 ton ultra off of a pole line. The reason we were all out... anyhow we got stopped at a stop sign where we met 2 officers on snowmobiles... they explained to us that we had over 600 dollars in fines and then said to just go home.
so i guess i really have no complaints!