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Evel's Baseball Bat · Mon May 22, 2006 3:35 pm

WheelieGrip wrote:well, I got pulled over for a rolling stop. I didn't have proof of having my permit so techinicaly he was being nice, and he let me off not even knowing if I was legal or not. He said he had another call to go to... Safe to say I always put my feet down now haha.

Yer driving without a license, ran a stop sign, you got let off with a warning - and you are complaining?

Sheesh...

liablemtl · #12 Post by **liablemtl** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:56 pm

Hmmmmm... everytime I've been pulled over on my bike (or in a cage, for that matter) I've deserved to be pulled over. Never have I felt that the cops are targeting me just because I'm on two wheels.

I've never gotten out of a ticket either. I figure if I was doing something to catch the attention of the cops, then I deserved it. Meh...

dieziege · #13 Post by **dieziege** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:23 pm

I got pulled over one night driving a friend's car which had just had the exhaust manifold break at the cat (can you say straight pipes?) earlier that night... turns out the license plate lights and one brake light were also dead... after talking to the cop for a while, she pointed to the freshly-ripped-open excedrin package on the passenger seat and said "Have a headache?" ... I laughed and said I'd only thought I'd had a headache when I bought them. She said, "well, I'm not going to make it any worse...." and let me drive away....

I've got to say that the cops had cause every time they pulled me over while I was driving... and most of the encounters were exactly like that... they were nice, I was nice, we parted with no harm done....

But if you are on foot they are fscking pigs, every one. And if you ask for help most are fscking pigs then too... I've never had anything but horrible experiences with them. Even when I was a kid, one of my friends' father was a pig and he one time was walking through the park, saw me with several of my friends (they were all older than I was) and came over and started playing pig-party harassing them for "bullying me"... when I told him they were my friends and he shouldn't harass them, he just walked away ...no way on earth he would apologize.

Likewise I once saw a witness to an accident stop to tell a cop what he had seen. The pig listened half way through the first sentence and turned his back saying "You are free to go, move along!" The witness just stood there in shock for a while, like he couldn't believe what an d-hole the cop was... which was reasonable 'cause I couldn't either... especially since the accident was the one where I was rear-ended and the guy who hit me drove away... the cop was busily telling me that without the other car there was nothing he could do... I had to get the info from the witness myself.

Cops earn a lot more disrespect than they ever receive, and I have no compunctions about calling them pigs and worse because they deserve all the vitrol I (or anyone can muster)...even though most of them are nice people trying to do good. If you could track down the bad ones and castrate them (or send them to New Jersey...both, actually) the world would be a much better place.

liablemtl · #14 Post by **liablemtl** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:45 pm

Wow... it's like you're channeling <I Fly>.

Sorry you've had such bad experiences with LEO's.

dieziege · #15 Post by **dieziege** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:50 pm

...the difference is I don't think they should die.

Just castrate 'em (chemically even... just so long as they can't reproduce) and send 'em to New Jersey. And just the bad ones....which I'll freely admit are the minority. However, there are areas where you shouldn't allow even one bad apple, and law enforcement is a big one.

JC Viper · #16 Post by **JC Viper** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:30 pm

Despite my sometimes angry feelings toward cops I can say that there are good ones.

When I got my first bike I rode home and I was pulled over and out came this cop in motorcycle gear driving a Crown Vic. He told me that I didn't have a sticker on my plates and after I showed him my new receipts we had a talk on why I didn't get a bike with more than 250cc's...

Rolling stops? Cars do that all the time esp. if I'm in front of them. Wow what an asshat but you'll meet some good ones.

Kal · #17 Post by **Kal** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:40 pm

A man was driving home late one afternoon, and he was driving above the
speed limit. He notices a police car with its red lights on in his rear
view mirror.He thinks "I can outrun this guy," so he floors it and the
race is on. The cars are racing down the highway -- 60, 70, 80, 90
miles an hour. Finally, as his speedometer passes 100, the guy figures
"what the heck," and gives up. He pulls over to the curb.The police officer
gets out of his cruiser and approaches the car. He leans down and says
"listen mister, I've had a really lousy day, and I just want to go
home. Give me a good excuse and I'll let you go."The man thought for a
moment and said..."Three weeks ago, my wife ran off with a police officer.
When I saw your cruiser in my rear view mirror, I thought you were that
officer and you were trying to give her back to me!

Wizzard · #18 Post by **Wizzard** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:26 am

If you don't start no stuff ,there won't be no stuff .

Regards, Wizzard Expletives deleted

jstark47 · #19 Post by **jstark47** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:13 am

dieziege wrote:...the difference is I don't think they should die.

Just castrate 'em (chemically even... just so long as they can't reproduce) and send 'em to New Jersey. And just the bad ones.....

Ummmmm....... thanks for the thought, but we'd really rather not have your LEO's with a flare for misconduct here in Jersey. We have enough of our own issues.

roscowgo · #20 Post by **roscowgo** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:39 am

I've been pulled over on a bogus charge so the erm. .. Officer could write me a seat belt ticket. (this is before pulling people over for seatbelts was legal in wv) had the cops not show up when i reported a bike stolen. followed by a county mounty with his lights on bright for about 15 miles, accused of being an accomplice in a shoplifting because i was in the same convienience store as a crack head.

and i've seen cops pass people and relatives through road checks because they knew em. not write tickets to drunk drivers they were friends with, etc...

When i was a student in high school they would do the random drug dog searches. grrrrrrr. anyway a lovely chocolate lab once about strangled itself trying to get to the assistant principle...... nothing.

knew a judges son that was busted 5 or 6 times driving drunk/stoned... nothin happened.

While i still respect people that try to do good, and put themselves in danger while trying to do so, it infuriates me to see the corruption about navel deep and rising fast.

oh, one more lil rant. whats with the cops passing me going like 95 with no flashey lights on the highway? grrrrrrrrrr

ok sorry. thread hi-jack over. never been pulled over on my bike. of course i tend to putter around instead of trying to scrape the pegs