Smarting off to an officer on a sugar-rush is a good way to get tased, bro'.....
Had one of the idiot state troopers smart off to me a long time ago down in Florida. He was already writing the ticket when he got out of his car and the first thing he said was something like "Were you trying to kill the guys back there working on the road?" And of course I wasn't trying to kill anyone and I was not even close to them when I went by where they were working. So I told the dumb@$$ that if I had been aiming for them I could have gotten at least one.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
......and I can remember when the guys of the FHP were gentlemen - helpful,friendly, kind, courteous, etc. You Scouts know the rest. Those days are gone forever. It's a New American out there today - and too often he's a scary one. 4% of Americans are psychopathic/sociopathic, and I think 90% of those are meaner'n hell - for reasons unknown. When I retired in '99 I could'a moved out of the U.S. but like a dumbass I stayed here. Now I'm wondering why...
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
Those days are gone forever. It's a New American out there today - and too often he's a scary one. 4% of Americans are psychopathic/sociopathic, and I think 90% of those are meaner'n hell - for reasons unknown. When I retired in '99 I could'a moved out of the U.S. but like a dumbass I stayed here. Now I'm wondering why...
Bub - there's lots of us still here for lots of different reasons from family to finances to health, and everything in between. Some, maybe, just to see how it all ends, or changes for the better or the worse.
Yep and despite it all, I sleep well each night! My Mom used to tease me by saying "where there's no sense, there's no feeling". Hmmmm.....now I have to wonder if she was teasing???
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
Yep and despite it all, I sleep well each night! My Mom used to tease me by saying "where there's no sense, there's no feeling". Hmmmm.....now I have to wonder if she was teasing???
No - Mom was correct on this one - as mine often said, 'Too soon old, and too late smart.'
Just for the hell of it, I think I'll do a timeline of my interaction with law enforcement:
2006: Some idiot smashed down part of my front yard fence in a "borrowed" car. The cops on the scene were nice enough, but it gave me the willies when I went downtown to pick up a copy of police report. They made me take off my boots.
2003: Speeding ticket, 42 in a school zone marked 25. $100 fine.
2002: Gunfire, some idiot two houses down shot his wife through the arm, half the police in the tri-state area respond. I dind't even hear the original shots, but noticed a lot of traffic noise from the street. When I looked out front door there were two or three MrnCo/IPD cars in front of my house, then I heard crack/crack/crack sound, I knew it was a firearm of some sort, but still hadn't put two and two together. Then I got scared. The police fired 10 to 20 teargas cannisters into problem house, and let me tell you those fuckers have much more percussive/psychological fear element than most people are willing to accept.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
2002: Gunfire, some idiot two houses down shot his wife through the arm, half the police in the tri-state area respond.
As you probably know it usually takes at least a dozen cops to subdue some 85 year old grandmother in a wheelchair. So I can imagine how many must have swarmed that place.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
As you probably know it usually takes at least a dozen cops to subdue some 85 year old grandmother in a wheelchair.
I don't know if it became national news, but recently a little south of here in Lima, OH a SWAT team burst into a suspected drug house, (It wasn't exactly a "block watch" house, but that's beside the point).
One of the trigger happy thugs shot a mother and the baby in her arms, killing the mother.
This was no nervous rookie ... 30 years on the force. No word yet on what's to be done with him.
Republicans (Democrats for that matter) ....... HAD ENOUGH?
I imagine he will get a promotion just like Lon Horiuchi did for shooting Vicki Weaver. She was armed with a baby too, no telling how dangerous people holding babies might hurt cops. Something had to be done, y'know?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton