Wow! I went out of town on business for a few days and come back to full on debate. Thanks for ALL the input. Some were helpful. Spoke to a retired local judge the other day (he was a TN judge) who told me he would probably laugh this off if it came across his bench. Sorry for those of you in UT who thought I was in some super new jeepin spot. I guess I'll just take it off but it has always been a good conversation piece.

 

That's assuming the cops are right-- sometimes they are not. I got a ticket for "parking" in a loading zone. The cop thought he knew the law and gave me a ticket, but I looked up the law and compared what I did to what was actually written in the code. I did not violate it. I fought it and won. I knew the code because the cop wrote it on the ticket and that's why I was able to research it and see if I was truly in violation, which I was not.

I betchya it's not the first time a cop misunderstood the law, either. Now I'm not suggesting that the particular cop who warned the OP was incorrect about the law but, regardless of what a cop says, I think it's always best to check the law for yourself to determine whether or not you actually violated it.

 

You can hang it in your garage and pretend your in Moab when you get real down.