Out of Control!

Left for work early Saturday morning. Was meeting a friend before my manicure and then had to get on to the store.....it wasn't raining - which was a real treat! The sun was shining - it was going to be a great day!
I dropped off some packages at the Post Office and hopped back into my car anxious to get back to my story on my iPod - Sarah's Key - excellent! Just as I was starting up the police officer knocked on my window. "Let me see your registration" - ahhhh - who needs this? So I grabbed the papers from my glove compartment (I love that term - reminds of days of old) and could not find it among the various old registrations, warnings, etc.). Told him that I couldn't find it but that I had to have had it when I was recently given the warning that my front headlight was out. Whatever - he told me that I could not drive my car as it was not registered. Gee! OK - I said that I will take the car home and use my husband's car for the day and that we'll take care of the situation on Monday. "OH NO" said the town policeman! "You're not driving this car anywhere". "Come on" I said - "it's a mile from here - I will drive it home". Under no circumstances was he going to allow me to drive the car. He told me that I had to get a tow truck to get my car home. I pleaded with him - to no avail. I told him that I felt that he was harassing me! At which point he told me how lucky I was that he wasn't giving me a ticket.
Now you have to understand how small this little town is - the entire "downtown" consists of the Post Office and the General Store and on a Saturday in the summertime - the little "downtown" is quite busy - people all around - cars all over - busy busy busy! Everyone was watching this little scene and when the officer decided to take the plates off of my car - I felt like a common criminal must feel. I was horrified! YES - he took the plates off of my car!
I called my husband and told him to "get down here quickly" - It cost me $125 to tow my car the one mile from the Post Office to my home and now my car is sitting outside my home without any plates.
I have spoken to many many people since this event on Saturday - many of whom have been stopped because of an expired registration - they can tell from looking at your license - ALL of them received WARNINGS! No one had been told that they couldn't drive their cars and absolutely NO ONE had the plates taken off of their car.
I have had trouble sleeping these last few nights - the outrage of what this police officer did to me has had a profound effect on me!
Why would he do what he did?
I tried calling the police chief today but he is out on vacation for a week - hopefully I will get some sleep in before he gets back to town.

Oh, do you know when my registration expired? The day before - not even 24 hours had passed that the registration was expired!