I was once stopped as a kid (age 12). I was going birdwatching that morning, and was up around 5am because the walk to the lagoon was a good 45 minutes from whe

I was once stopped as a kid (age 12). I was going birdwatching that morning, and was up around 5am because the walk to the lagoon was a good 45 minutes from where I lived, and early morning is great for birding. I had a pair of binoculars, a field guide, and a lunch in my backpack. Two obviously bored deputies stopped me, talked to me for about 60 minutes, checked my backpack and generally couldn't believe a kid would be out on his own free will at that early a time. No probable cause, I wasn't trespassing (walked the entire way on the sidewalk), but stopped because I was out of the ordinary. This was in a sleepy coastal California town in the late '70s, no real crime to speak of, but no, these guys had to be dicks. If they had been cool, they would have called my parents to see if I was a runaway, or at least given me a ride to the lagoon, but no, they just wanted to be dicks.