"He pulled up behind me and I initially checked my speed to see if I was driving too quickly, and I was actually driving under the limit," Dauphin told BuzzFeed Canada.

"I didn’t think anything of it. I figured he was just driving in the same direction as me."

Then he realized the cop wanted him to pull over.

Once they were stopped, the cop came up and asked him where he was going and if he'd been in the area by the wharf earlier that evening. He pointed to the book on his passenger seat and told the officer he'd been there reading and asked if he'd done something wrong.

"No, we just just received a call of a suspicious person down by the wharf," the officer replied.