On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 06:13:39PM -0400, ahmet erkan wrote:
>
> Dear Ben,
> If I were the NYC police officer, and stopped you for your broken muffler you
> would have probably received a ticket and probably more because of the
> infraction augmented by the attitude. Ron on the other hand may just get a
> verbal warning. It is a human thing. Let me know if you can't figure it out?
Ah, here we go off to fantasy land. Guess what I'd do to you if _I_ was
an NY PO stopping you for a broken muffler - and I had *your* attitude?
Name like "Ahmet"... *and* in NYC, violating the law... obviously a damn
terrorist. Hmm, let's see: should I slam you down on the ground, cuff
you, and take you in - maybe breaking a few bones in the process and
adding a "resisting arrest" charge to justify it - or should I just
shoot you and claim that your muffler sounded like gunshots?
...
Better yet, let's avoid the "if I were" fantasies. Most people stop
playing at those after kindergarten or so, because that kind of
thinly-disguised hostility isn't likely to be well received. In fact,
even in kindergarten, it's likely to be met with a real - as opposed to
a verbal - punch in the nose. Let me know if you can't figure out the
social dynamic here; I'll draw you a diagram.
> Better yet ask Ron. Don't ask Norm!... Having said that, Norm probably wouldnt
> say anything deragotary to the "police officer" during the event but may refer
> to him as a "pig" just like you or give him some other disrespectful title
> after the event.
Just like me? Wow. You get an 'F' for reading comprehension, and another
'F' for ignorance. Nowhere in that email did I refer to a policeman as a
pig - that was a reference to George Orwell's "Animal Farm", in which
some pigs were indeed "more equal" than others.
Perhaps you should consider asking someone to interpret for you before
you go haring off to the keyboard to type out intemperate and
misinformed responses? Just a thought.
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