Bikers Carrying Guns?

Yesterday, Eric and I went out late afternoon to do a few errands. We had turned down a side street, heading over to another major road to take to our first destination. I was chatting away about something terribly important (I'm sure), when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a bike rider. He was not a kid, but at least high school if not in his early 20s. He had a crew cut and was not wearing a helmet, riding on the very narrow edge of the road.

All of a sudden, a sherrif's car comes from our left, and he flashes his lights. Not at us, but at the bike rider. My first assumption was that it was because the bike rider wasn't wearing a helmet, and there is a helmet law in our state. But upon closer scrutinization, I saw that the bike rider had a rifle across his lap! Now, of course it could have simply been a bb gun, but it looked real.

The biker stopped his bike, and immediately leaned the rifle against the gaurd rail. The sherrif looked like he was holding something out pointed at the biker. Not a gun, but I'm thinking now it might have been a tazer or something like that. We quickly just went around them and continued on our way.

Luckily, my 2008 did not end with a bang.