August 16, 2025 • 16 mins
Gary and Shannon share their most nerve-wracking traffic stop stories. Why do even the most law-abiding people feel like criminals when they see those flashing lights?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome once again to the cast Weekend Fix. This is
the portion of the show that doesn't appear during the show.
During the week, we have other stuff that we need
to talk about, so we don't get to talk about
stuff like this. What behind the scenes stuff. I thought listen, Yeah,
I was thinking about this just the other day. It's
been a long time, knock on wood since I've been
(00:31):
pulled over by police for anything. And those often, as
long as you're not you know, tackled by and you know,
hogtied by police, they can often be funny stories.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
They're funny if they look like you. What do you mean, well,
I'm you over.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's like ignoring the privilege. I get it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, you just don't look I mean color aside. You
don't look like threat.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I hope not. That's the whole point. I don't want
this if you look.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Like to somebody who's going to follow.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The rules, I am a rule follow You.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Know, you don't drive in the carpool lane the way
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The very first you don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Live on the margins of society.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The very first time I ever got pulled over was
just after I had turned sixteen years old and I
was driving on the one on one right near the
Marine Civic Center. I was driving too fast and I
was following.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Everyone knows that's a speed trap, like everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now, I do.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, But I was driving way too close and I
was speeding.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You're driving way too close to the car in front
of you. Yes, who does that? Like?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What an assa that? I hate guys that do that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's not even it's why for me, it's an
unconscious conscious I am not thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're all going the same speed relatively.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know you have a propensity to do that. So
do you try to avoid that now that you know
that about yourself?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
But I get distracted, I get hypnotized. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.
But I also try to avoid it when it comes
or other people in the when I'm driving around.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But I had three.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Classmates with me, high school classmates with me in the car,
which today would have been completely illegal. But we were
driving into the city. We were driving into San Francisco,
and I remember sweating. I've never suffered nervous sweat the
way I sweated that morning when the CHP officer pulled
me in.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's funny, and I've talked about this before. I look
like you, we have no life experience where we're going
to have a bad experience with a police officer.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It's just not our life experience.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, and however, when I get pulled over, I feel
like I've killed three people that morning and I'm about
to be found out. Like that's my body response. It's
so overreactive to what's happening. Like you were speeding fifteen
miles over the limit. You're gonna get a big ticket.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Just be polite.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You didn't kill anybody this morning. You're fine.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
They'll never see the body in the back site.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's like I'm gonna get My body acts like I'm
about to get arrested for no freaking reason.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
To me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's it's one of those uh, if you have it,
if you have a dream, like a recurring dream, that
you did something you're not supposed to. Yeah, and there
are times, mostly when you're dreaming it again, where you think,
did I act? Did that actually happen? Or did am
I this is a dream? Okay, this is a dream.
It didn't actually happen, but or did it actually?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I came back in the morning. When you wake up
and you're.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like, but I get that feeling also when, yes, when
when you get pulled over, there's that feeling of wait
a minute, can.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They see that I have a case of beer in
the back or like, not that that's illegal, but do
they work?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
At two thousand, I had cocaine in my.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Car exactly out. The other one was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
The other one that became terrifying to me was I
got pulled out of the car at gunpoint. When I
was in college, i'd gone home for the summer and
my high school girlfriend Becca, I went out and hung.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Out with her.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That's one of the big boobs.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, we didn't talk about those. We were just hanging out.
We weren't we weren't going out anymore. We were just friends.
So and there were a couple of other people at
her house. So we were all kind of getting back
together after a freshman year in college. So as I'm
driving back into town, she kind of lived out Middle
to Rock Road. If you wanted to look it up,
(04:41):
So as I'm driving back into town, I see Sheriff's
department cars going the other way.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I mean lights, sirens.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There's probably three of them, and they're going one hundred
miles an hour out of town and I'm coming into town.
One of them peels off, and I could see this
all in my rear mirror. One of them peels off
and immediately is on my tail and lights, sirens, pull over,
poll or the PA everything right. So I pull over
(05:11):
into a bank parking lot. It's it's eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's no one there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
There's no one downtown Pedaluma. It's sleepy little village. And
the I'm like, I wasn't speeding. I don't know what
they saw. I know that it's late, I wasn't drinking.
There was nothing going on. But my friend, the ex girlfriend,
had given me some like things to take to her
(05:38):
mother's office for some reason the next day. I don't
remember why. Her mom was a nurse practitioner. There was
a pillow with a woman's name on it, like she
had just given birth a new mom, and then a
pager that I was supposed to give to the mom.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
This sounds like drugs. Guys. So the cops, and I've
never seen you know what I mean, pager drugs.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know you're supposed to wait for them to give
you instructions, right, So all I see is every light
on that car.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
On my man, those boobs were big, But were they
worth all?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
They were not worth all that, I tell you what. So,
So the Sonoma County Sheriff deputy opens his door and
I can see him, basically the silhouette of him standing
full attention, gun pointed at my door, and he tells
(06:25):
me turn off the car, put the keys out the window,
and keep your hands outside the window. So I don't
know what's going on. I am terrified. I have begun tinkling.
I have continued the process of shitting my paintments. It
is getting and then that immediate sweat of like it
(06:48):
came out of nowhere and I'm drenched. Open the door
from the outside and everything. Keep your back to me,
walk back to my voice, full felony. Stop, get down
on your knees. Do you have any weapons in the car. No,
I don't know what I said, Like it's all a flash.
(07:08):
Finally he stands me up on the hood of his
car and He's like, wait here for a second. Another
car pulls up. Sometime I didn't notice when another deputy
rolls up. They're both going through the car, and they
pulled the pillow and the pager out of the front
passenger seat. Who is Maria Escobar? Now the name Escobar
(07:31):
at the time drugs was early nineties. Everybody knows the
Pablo Escobar is the biggest drug runner in the entire world.
So who's Maria Escobar? And I go, oh, you have
a Why do you have a pager?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's not mine? I don't know. Are there any drugs?
Are there any drugs in the car? No?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh god, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, go on, where you coming from? Who's talking to
my friends there out on that road?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And I boobs, big, big boobs.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Boobs.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do you guys get in an argument? Did we What
did you get in an argument?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Know? Why? Just wait here?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They had taken the cuffs off, and they'd sat me
in front of or not sat me, but stood me
next to my car. One guy standing with me. The
other guy goes back on the radio cart.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
A kid in their places pants, he's crapped his pants.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There was a domestic violence call in the neighborhood that
I left so and a woman was screaming and crying
and saying he's gonna kill me, and a white car
was seen leaving the scene. Well, it may very well
have been my car that they saw leaving the scene,
because the timing would have worked out.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Like, you call you could call every you call her
right now, the friend that I was with, and them like,
call them all, talk to them all.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's all go out there. We can all have friends,
we can all be fine.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It took about a half an hour, but they finally
let me go and they were like, you know, don't speed.
I wasn't speeding, Like there was nothing. There was no
other reason for them to pull me over other than
my car matched the description of one that was yeah
leaving the scene.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I was terrified.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I also have a story about a Travis stop that
ended in guns drawn.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But so they did call her house by the way,
and then they didn't explain why they were called.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Do you know this guy? You know?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They thought you were She thought you were dead.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So she calls my parents and it's again eleven thirty
at night. Not Dick and Jean yeah, those two, and
then explains, I don't know why the Sheriff's department called me,
but they called me looking for Gary or they knew
him or what for some reason.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So he got stopped by them. I don't know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They didn't explain, and your mom said, this is why
you get into trouble with those big breasted girls.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Gary.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
When I got home, they were both waiting for me
in the kitchen obviously. Yeah, duh. Like what my dad
was like, I thought I was gonna have to go
bail you out. No, I did, and then then the
whole story came out.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was terrifying.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You're like, Dick, you raised me.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, yeah, I know you don't do bail.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
What the hell you know? I wouldn't get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh, it's terrifying. I'm still getting nervous talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I get nervous hearing about it. Yeah, like cuffed and everything.
I had a traffic stop that it ended with guns drawn.
But I knew the whole time it was mistaken identity.
I know that it wasn't me they were looking for
with their guns drawn. It turns out it was me
they were looking for. So this was uh it's bad
(10:34):
way to play it. This was in West Hollywood. I
was in the news vehicle. This is when I was
a reporter, and I'm on Santa Monica Boulevard and it's
the middle of the day and I'm headed to some story.
I think it was in Beverly Hill's police department. By
the way, don't go in there and be like, is
that axil fully here thinking you're.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Funny, because you're not funny.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You're not the first and you're not the first.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
But anyway, I was headed there.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was young, I don't know, twenty nine ish, twenty eight,
twenty nine, something like that, and I get pulled over.
It's a sheriff's vehicle. It's an unmarked share sheriff's vehicle.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I think it was like a beige SUV.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I get pulled over and right there in saying I'm
blaca a bulevard where there's no pullover lane, so you're
kind of like in the middle of the road.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
At that point, everybody's watching.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Three guys get out, guns drawn, surround my vehicle. The
one guy to the rear, one guy to the passenger side,
one guy on my side.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Roll down your window, ma'am, roll down my window.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm like, I'm clearly not who you're looking for. They're like,
is your name Shannon Fair? And yes, sir, it is.
We have a warrant for your arrest. Like what the
fuck did I do? What did I do?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It up rack in my head, I'm like, fuck did
I do? What did I do? What did I do?
Could I have done something? And he's like, let me
see what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
So he goes back to his car, pulling it up,
which felt like it was four years for him to
come back and be like, it looks like you got
pulled over for a moving violation in Burbank and you
never paid the ticket, so we put out a warrant
for your arrest.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But how did they know? How did they know from
the you were in the news vehicle?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Because I also got the ticket in the news vehicle.
So they ran the plate And that's the thing. How
did you know? He goes, well, we ran your plate
because we wanted to know what this vehicle was. So
like they were just behind me in traffic and ran
my plate for fun. Sure found out I had a
warrant and pulled me over.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's why you got to take your plates off.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I feel like that's a lawsuit, you know what I mean.
I feel like there was no reason to run that plate.
But anyway, so I called my assignment editor at the time,
who was Michael Clark. Who would he suffered? No bullshit, no,
not one fool ever suffered. And I said to him, Hey,
I got pulled over. There's a worn out for my arrest.
(12:55):
And this was a guy who, like I called one
time on the way to a press conference and the
news vehicle was quite literally on fire. There was a
fire in the back. All I know is I'm driving,
I see smoke coming up in the back of the
of the vehicle. I pull over and a piece of
the equipment was catching fire, and I go I called
(13:16):
Michael Clark before I called nine to one one, because
I was that scared of Michael Clark. I was more
scared of our assignment editor than I was of the
car blowing up and killing me. To let him know
that I wasn't going to make it to the press conference.
This is the way the news department used to be.
So I called Michael, I go, hey, the the news,
(13:37):
the vehicle's on fire. I gotta deal with this, and
he goes, so you're not going to make it to
the ten o'clock.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I mean, that's this guy. So I called Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Clark the day of the arrest and I go, hey,
I gotta I just got pulled over. I get a
resta worn out for me, And he goes, all right,
why don't you go deal with that? Then, why don't
you go deal with that? Take take the morning and
deal with that and let me know when you're done.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And let me know when you're going to file your stories.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Even that, yeah, even that scared Michael Clark a little bit, like, hey,
I've got a worn out for my arrest. Like finally
I got through to that guy and he's like, Okay,
take the time you need. The car's on fire. No, no, no, no,
get to that news project.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There's also I don't think there's a greater lesson than
you can teach your kids is if you get pulled
over with the kids in the car. I got pulled
over one time driving up to my parents' place and
the kids were in the back.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Were minivan.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Right, I'm flying down the highway forty six at two
fast seventy five when it's a fifty five or sixty
mile an hour whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
CHP officer rolls up.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Behind me, pulls over, and he is this massive mountain
of a human being. I mean, and it's a minivan,
so it's a big vehicle. He towered over this thing
like it was a toy. Yeah, and he has to
lean down into the car and.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
He's like, I see you got two kids. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well he let you go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, he didn't see. He didn't see that. He's like,
do you know I pulled you over?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was going too fast.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
He's like, license registration, sure, and he stands there and
he's holding it instead of going back to the car
right away. He's like, you know, this is a fifty
five zoneer' telling me like he's giving me the speech.
And my son leans forward and he's sitting directly behind
me on the driver's side. My son leans forward and
he goes, why did he pull you over? And the
(15:17):
guy leans in and he goes, your dad was driving
too fast? Oh no, and Calvin had to be six
seven years old something like that, and then he goes
he said something like that is so cute.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
That guy's really big. And I was like, easy, Tiger,
like you're not helping here. Just shut up.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Why he's so fat?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That uniform looks awful on him, But I'm very polite.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I didn't get a ticket. He just said slow down.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And then your daughter didn't speak for three more years.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm telling you she is afraid of authority.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I know. That's so good. All right, that's done, It
is over.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome once again to the cast Weekend Fix. This is
the portion of the show that doesn't appear during the show.
During the week, we have other stuff that we need
to talk about, so we don't get to talk about
stuff like this. What behind the scenes stuff. I thought listen, Yeah,
I was thinking about this just the other day. It's
been a long time, knock on wood since I've been
(00:31):
pulled over by police for anything. And those often, as
long as you're not you know, tackled by and you know,
hogtied by police, they can often be funny stories.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
They're funny if they look like you. What do you mean, well,
I'm you over.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's like ignoring the privilege. I get it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, you just don't look I mean color aside. You
don't look like threat.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I hope not. That's the whole point. I don't want
this if you look.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Like to somebody who's going to follow.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The rules, I am a rule follow You.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Know, you don't drive in the carpool lane the way
I do.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The very first you don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Live on the margins of society.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
The very first time I ever got pulled over was
just after I had turned sixteen years old and I
was driving on the one on one right near the
Marine Civic Center. I was driving too fast and I
was following.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Everyone knows that's a speed trap, like everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now, I do.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, But I was driving way too close and I
was speeding.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You're driving way too close to the car in front
of you. Yes, who does that? Like?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What an assa that? I hate guys that do that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's not even it's why for me, it's an
unconscious conscious I am not thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're all going the same speed relatively.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know you have a propensity to do that. So
do you try to avoid that now that you know
that about yourself?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
But I get distracted, I get hypnotized. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.
But I also try to avoid it when it comes
or other people in the when I'm driving around.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But I had three.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Classmates with me, high school classmates with me in the car,
which today would have been completely illegal. But we were
driving into the city. We were driving into San Francisco,
and I remember sweating. I've never suffered nervous sweat the
way I sweated that morning when the CHP officer pulled
me in.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's funny, and I've talked about this before. I look
like you, we have no life experience where we're going
to have a bad experience with a police officer.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
It's just not our life experience.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, and however, when I get pulled over, I feel
like I've killed three people that morning and I'm about
to be found out. Like that's my body response. It's
so overreactive to what's happening. Like you were speeding fifteen
miles over the limit. You're gonna get a big ticket.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Just be polite.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You didn't kill anybody this morning. You're fine.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
They'll never see the body in the back site.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's like I'm gonna get My body acts like I'm
about to get arrested for no freaking reason.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
To me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's it's one of those uh, if you have it,
if you have a dream, like a recurring dream, that
you did something you're not supposed to. Yeah, and there
are times, mostly when you're dreaming it again, where you think,
did I act? Did that actually happen? Or did am
I this is a dream? Okay, this is a dream.
It didn't actually happen, but or did it actually?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I came back in the morning. When you wake up
and you're.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like, but I get that feeling also when, yes, when
when you get pulled over, there's that feeling of wait
a minute, can.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They see that I have a case of beer in
the back or like, not that that's illegal, but do
they work?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
At two thousand, I had cocaine in my.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Car exactly out. The other one was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
The other one that became terrifying to me was I
got pulled out of the car at gunpoint. When I
was in college, i'd gone home for the summer and
my high school girlfriend Becca, I went out and hung.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Out with her.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That's one of the big boobs.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, we didn't talk about those. We were just hanging out.
We weren't we weren't going out anymore. We were just friends.
So and there were a couple of other people at
her house. So we were all kind of getting back
together after a freshman year in college. So as I'm
driving back into town, she kind of lived out Middle
to Rock Road. If you wanted to look it up,
(04:41):
So as I'm driving back into town, I see Sheriff's
department cars going the other way.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I mean lights, sirens.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There's probably three of them, and they're going one hundred
miles an hour out of town and I'm coming into town.
One of them peels off, and I could see this
all in my rear mirror. One of them peels off
and immediately is on my tail and lights, sirens, pull over,
poll or the PA everything right. So I pull over
(05:11):
into a bank parking lot. It's it's eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's no one there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
There's no one downtown Pedaluma. It's sleepy little village. And
the I'm like, I wasn't speeding. I don't know what
they saw. I know that it's late, I wasn't drinking.
There was nothing going on. But my friend, the ex girlfriend,
had given me some like things to take to her
(05:38):
mother's office for some reason the next day. I don't
remember why. Her mom was a nurse practitioner. There was
a pillow with a woman's name on it, like she
had just given birth a new mom, and then a
pager that I was supposed to give to the mom.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
This sounds like drugs. Guys. So the cops, and I've
never seen you know what I mean, pager drugs.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know you're supposed to wait for them to give
you instructions, right, So all I see is every light
on that car.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
On my man, those boobs were big, But were they
worth all?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
They were not worth all that, I tell you what. So,
So the Sonoma County Sheriff deputy opens his door and
I can see him, basically the silhouette of him standing
full attention, gun pointed at my door, and he tells
(06:25):
me turn off the car, put the keys out the window,
and keep your hands outside the window. So I don't
know what's going on. I am terrified. I have begun tinkling.
I have continued the process of shitting my paintments. It
is getting and then that immediate sweat of like it
(06:48):
came out of nowhere and I'm drenched. Open the door
from the outside and everything. Keep your back to me,
walk back to my voice, full felony. Stop, get down
on your knees. Do you have any weapons in the car. No,
I don't know what I said, Like it's all a flash.
(07:08):
Finally he stands me up on the hood of his
car and He's like, wait here for a second. Another
car pulls up. Sometime I didn't notice when another deputy
rolls up. They're both going through the car, and they
pulled the pillow and the pager out of the front
passenger seat. Who is Maria Escobar? Now the name Escobar
(07:31):
at the time drugs was early nineties. Everybody knows the
Pablo Escobar is the biggest drug runner in the entire world.
So who's Maria Escobar? And I go, oh, you have
a Why do you have a pager?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's not mine? I don't know. Are there any drugs?
Are there any drugs in the car? No?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Oh god, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, go on, where you coming from? Who's talking to
my friends there out on that road?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And I boobs, big, big boobs.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Boobs.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do you guys get in an argument? Did we What
did you get in an argument?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Know? Why? Just wait here?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They had taken the cuffs off, and they'd sat me
in front of or not sat me, but stood me
next to my car. One guy standing with me. The
other guy goes back on the radio cart.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
A kid in their places pants, he's crapped his pants.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There was a domestic violence call in the neighborhood that
I left so and a woman was screaming and crying
and saying he's gonna kill me, and a white car
was seen leaving the scene. Well, it may very well
have been my car that they saw leaving the scene,
because the timing would have worked out.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Like, you call you could call every you call her
right now, the friend that I was with, and them like,
call them all, talk to them all.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's all go out there. We can all have friends,
we can all be fine.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It took about a half an hour, but they finally
let me go and they were like, you know, don't speed.
I wasn't speeding, Like there was nothing. There was no
other reason for them to pull me over other than
my car matched the description of one that was yeah
leaving the scene.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I was terrified.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I also have a story about a Travis stop that
ended in guns drawn.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But so they did call her house by the way,
and then they didn't explain why they were called.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Do you know this guy? You know?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
They thought you were She thought you were dead.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So she calls my parents and it's again eleven thirty
at night. Not Dick and Jean yeah, those two, and
then explains, I don't know why the Sheriff's department called me,
but they called me looking for Gary or they knew
him or what for some reason.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So he got stopped by them. I don't know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They didn't explain, and your mom said, this is why
you get into trouble with those big breasted girls.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Gary.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
When I got home, they were both waiting for me
in the kitchen obviously. Yeah, duh. Like what my dad
was like, I thought I was gonna have to go
bail you out. No, I did, and then then the
whole story came out.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It was terrifying.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You're like, Dick, you raised me.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, yeah, I know you don't do bail.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
What the hell you know? I wouldn't get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh, it's terrifying. I'm still getting nervous talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I get nervous hearing about it. Yeah, like cuffed and everything.
I had a traffic stop that it ended with guns drawn.
But I knew the whole time it was mistaken identity.
I know that it wasn't me they were looking for
with their guns drawn. It turns out it was me
they were looking for. So this was uh it's bad
(10:34):
way to play it. This was in West Hollywood. I
was in the news vehicle. This is when I was
a reporter, and I'm on Santa Monica Boulevard and it's
the middle of the day and I'm headed to some story.
I think it was in Beverly Hill's police department. By
the way, don't go in there and be like, is
that axil fully here thinking you're.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Funny, because you're not funny.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You're not the first and you're not the first.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
But anyway, I was headed there.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I was young, I don't know, twenty nine ish, twenty eight,
twenty nine, something like that, and I get pulled over.
It's a sheriff's vehicle. It's an unmarked share sheriff's vehicle.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I think it was like a beige SUV.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I get pulled over and right there in saying I'm
blaca a bulevard where there's no pullover lane, so you're
kind of like in the middle of the road.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
At that point, everybody's watching.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Three guys get out, guns drawn, surround my vehicle. The
one guy to the rear, one guy to the passenger side,
one guy on my side.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Roll down your window, ma'am, roll down my window.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm like, I'm clearly not who you're looking for. They're like,
is your name Shannon Fair? And yes, sir, it is.
We have a warrant for your arrest. Like what the
fuck did I do? What did I do?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It up rack in my head, I'm like, fuck did
I do? What did I do? What did I do?
Could I have done something? And he's like, let me
see what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
So he goes back to his car, pulling it up,
which felt like it was four years for him to
come back and be like, it looks like you got
pulled over for a moving violation in Burbank and you
never paid the ticket, so we put out a warrant
for your arrest.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But how did they know? How did they know from
the you were in the news vehicle?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Because I also got the ticket in the news vehicle.
So they ran the plate And that's the thing. How
did you know? He goes, well, we ran your plate
because we wanted to know what this vehicle was. So
like they were just behind me in traffic and ran
my plate for fun. Sure found out I had a
warrant and pulled me over.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's why you got to take your plates off.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I feel like that's a lawsuit, you know what I mean.
I feel like there was no reason to run that plate.
But anyway, so I called my assignment editor at the time,
who was Michael Clark. Who would he suffered? No bullshit, no,
not one fool ever suffered. And I said to him, Hey,
I got pulled over. There's a worn out for my arrest.
(12:55):
And this was a guy who, like I called one
time on the way to a press conference and the
news vehicle was quite literally on fire. There was a
fire in the back. All I know is I'm driving,
I see smoke coming up in the back of the
of the vehicle. I pull over and a piece of
the equipment was catching fire, and I go I called
(13:16):
Michael Clark before I called nine to one one, because
I was that scared of Michael Clark. I was more
scared of our assignment editor than I was of the
car blowing up and killing me. To let him know
that I wasn't going to make it to the press conference.
This is the way the news department used to be.
So I called Michael, I go, hey, the the news,
(13:37):
the vehicle's on fire. I gotta deal with this, and
he goes, so you're not going to make it to
the ten o'clock.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I mean, that's this guy. So I called Michael.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Clark the day of the arrest and I go, hey,
I gotta I just got pulled over. I get a
resta worn out for me, And he goes, all right,
why don't you go deal with that? Then, why don't
you go deal with that? Take take the morning and
deal with that and let me know when you're done.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And let me know when you're going to file your stories.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Even that, yeah, even that scared Michael Clark a little bit, like, hey,
I've got a worn out for my arrest. Like finally
I got through to that guy and he's like, Okay,
take the time you need. The car's on fire. No, no, no, no,
get to that news project.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
There's also I don't think there's a greater lesson than
you can teach your kids is if you get pulled
over with the kids in the car. I got pulled
over one time driving up to my parents' place and
the kids were in the back.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Were minivan.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Right, I'm flying down the highway forty six at two
fast seventy five when it's a fifty five or sixty
mile an hour whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
CHP officer rolls up.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Behind me, pulls over, and he is this massive mountain
of a human being. I mean, and it's a minivan,
so it's a big vehicle. He towered over this thing
like it was a toy. Yeah, and he has to
lean down into the car and.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
He's like, I see you got two kids. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well he let you go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, he didn't see. He didn't see that. He's like,
do you know I pulled you over?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was going too fast.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
He's like, license registration, sure, and he stands there and
he's holding it instead of going back to the car
right away. He's like, you know, this is a fifty
five zoneer' telling me like he's giving me the speech.
And my son leans forward and he's sitting directly behind
me on the driver's side. My son leans forward and
he goes, why did he pull you over? And the
(15:17):
guy leans in and he goes, your dad was driving
too fast? Oh no, and Calvin had to be six
seven years old something like that, and then he goes
he said something like that is so cute.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
That guy's really big. And I was like, easy, Tiger,
like you're not helping here. Just shut up.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Why he's so fat?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That uniform looks awful on him, But I'm very polite.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I didn't get a ticket. He just said slow down.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
And then your daughter didn't speak for three more years.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm telling you she is afraid of authority.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I know. That's so good. All right, that's done, It
is over.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, all right, we'll have a great weekend. We'll see
you next time. If you do not yet follow the podcast,
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