Dutch Undercover Police Pulls Me Over for Holding a Phone

George Orwell would turn in his grave if he found out that government oppression has become standard enough that undercover police in unmarked vehicles pull ordinary unknowing citizens off the highway and the reason is "you were holding a phone in your hand".

As if 1) the police do not have anything better to do than to go after regular people and 2) the act of pulling people over has no adverse consequences. Both assumptions are wrong. In my humble opinion; it would be better for the police to go and spend their time eating donuts if crime rates are that low than to cause long-lasting mental illness for potentially a whole family inside the car that got pulled over (being "hijacked" on the highway by armed men forcefully demanding money is not something everyone finds a pleasing experience).

And the list of consequences goes on. One "detail" that was edited out from this video to save run time is the terrible traffic situation that arose from the unsafe and abnormal behavior of the cop car. Before we both drove off the highway, at least 5-6 vehicles merged in between the cop car and myself only to immediately hit the brakes just as the police did whilst waving their hands outside the window to force the car hastily out again. Several times we were driving in a slow-moving cloud of packed-in cars, confused as to what was going on.

Since I didn't even know what the Dutch text meant that they were flashing in the back window, I was strongly contemplating not pulling over at all and instead call in to the "real police" while being prepared to physically push them off the road if their presence became a threat to my freedom of movement.

And all this because I - an unknowing tourist passing through - was holding a phone in my hand. Seriously?

ABOUT MARTIN
Me and my vagabond cat Barsky live full-time in a van (heavily modified Hobby Vantana K60 Fs, more like an RV/motorhome) since 2018. We are nomadic and travel constantly to explore new places and new countries.

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