My first time in Atlanta..

What were you doing on Peachtree? Looking for Hookers?

Your Papers Please

Maybe he was looking for some Coke

Downtown Atlanta gets dangerous after dark. Actually, it isn't even that safe during the daytime either.

Please provide more details. Also, you didn't mention if you gave up your 4th amendment rights or not.

I was on Peachtree heading to the Ritz-Carlton. No hookers, I'll leave that to Eugene Robison, lol.

More details, like what? It's pretty cut and dry. The were just walking around and approaching cars asking for ID; it was almost like a checkpoint. My 4th Amendment Rights were not infringed upon and I wasn't even asked anything else. I've just have never been asked for my ID while simply sitting in traffic.

Naa that's not normal ....been some people dressed up as cops robbing folks lately though. Stay in Buckhead till the game if you don't know your way around.

If you were doing nothing wrong and gave him your license, then you were a victim of "unreasonable search and seizure". That would be found in the Bill of Rights between #3 and #5!

Dammit man, come on. You've been on GLP long enough to know!

He probably wasn't used to seeing a white guy in that dangerous neighborhood and was curious as to who you were? Once he found out you were a dumb ass from Texas then he understood and let you go.

.

I've been here ten years - it's never happened to me.

ehm...me neither!

My first time in Atlanta...
I was squished in the backseat with a carload of family members. Grandpa, looking for the freeway entrance to get to Decatur after visiting the CocaCola factory. It was like a twilight zone of insanity. I'd never seen that many homeless & raggedy people. I entered into zen type flashback of losing time and space.
Plus, I hadda go potty really, really bad.
Grandpa had lost his directional bearings but insisted he KNEW where he was goin.

Running low on gas we asked for directions and I kid you not, one guy said, "if you give me $10 I will ride wityou and git you there."
I voted to pay him but the other 6 fambly members said no.
We ended up on PEACHTREE!
What a scene. I will never forget it.

At the gas station we had at least 3-4 people asking us for money or if they could wash our windshield and there was NO BATHROOM.

There's more but I just wanted to say that you had a mild experience, in comparison.

Been there dozens and dozens of times...no problems.

last time i was in ATL i saw a lady pumping gas wearing no pants and an adult diaper and she was probably in her 20s maybe 30s.

oh and there was a guy singing to her

Maybe your flashback had you in Nairobi or downtown Houston.

You have no rights and never did. Sorry to burst you bubble.