You communicated ambiguously. You wrote > so they could pretty much justify pulling someone over, at any time. But didn't clarify that your associates did not

You communicated ambiguously. You wrote > so they could pretty much justify pulling someone over, at any time. But didn't clarify that your associates did not do that. In human language, people make inferences from what is said to natural extensions, in order to make utterances more compact. Sometimes those inferences are in error.