This brings back memories. I had a lot of the same experiences in the 90s. Probably not as bad as this, but similar.

I was part of a car club. Once, we were on our way to a show which started the next morning. We stopped at a hotel to see if they had vacancy. They didn't. We started to leave (naturally) and 3 cops showed up and blocked us in. They wanted to know what we were doing.

We were like, "Dude, there's no vacancy." and I'll never forget the blank look on the cop's face. The 90s were strange times.