You're right RSanch111, it does say reasonable. I think stopping, or arresting my progress, without some probable reason specifically about me, is unreasonable.

I agree, stopping people just to check for their ID is unreasonable. I think requiring a patron of a drinking establishment to submit to a breathalyzer as they leave, reasonable. I do not find stopping random people on the road, just to "see" if they're intoxicated, reasonable.

Unfortunately, "reasonable" is extremely ambiguous. Also unfortunately, it's everywhere in the law. As long as reasonable people sit back and allow the courts to make unreasonable rulings, we'll continue to deal with this stupidity.

PMRet and the policeman he met are both reasonable people. That is obvious by how their encounter played out. The establishment that requires that policeman to stop random people is not reasonable and should be disciplined as well as schooled on the meaning of liberty.

I'll leave this alone now.

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