WARNING: opinion ahead. The "problem" with cops is simple: even if 95% of them are freaking angels, when you deal with the other 5%, it stands out. I've had numerous times where cops have been deeply unpleasant (e.g., the cop who had my car towed -- while it was legally parked and I was away for the weekend -- because someone *else* hit it, and he couldn't find my insurance paperwork) neatly outweighed by cops who've been helpful under unpleasant circumstances (the female, off-duty cop who picked up a 30-year-old guy (me), out of gas, on the side of the road at midnight, while on the way home to comfort her daughter whose friends had just become 15-year-old statistics wrapped around a phone pole).
So, while it's unfortunate -- very, deeply unfortunate -- that unpleasant cops can seemingly outweigh their better counterparts, one should be careful about tarring all cops with the same brush. $.02, -Ken On Fri, October 9, 2009 9:36 pm, AJ ONeal wrote: > I once had a cop harrangle me for parking at a public park after sunset > (there was a sign, but it wasn't lit and thus couldn't be seen in the > dark). After questioning and much intimidation he told me "I'll let you > off with a warning this time, but next time it's a $5 fine." > > I would have preferred the fine. > > > AJ ONeal > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM, David Hardy > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Good to know our own local "new professional" thug cops are holding the >> front lines so nobly in our defense. Also, be advised that I was >> stopped for speeding in a "trap" just down the road here in "West" >> Montpeculiar by a >> sheriff's deputy from WASHINGTON county last May. Their HQ is around >> thirty miles from here. He caught me doing 38 just at the curve where >> the limit changes from 35 to 25, taking our German foreign exchange >> student to school in the AM. Meanwhile giant 16-wheel dump and logging >> trucks roar by here all day long doing 70-80 in a 35 zone, but never any >> huckleberry cops up this way. So, evidently, they can operate out of >> their own supposed jurisdictions miles and miles away. >> >> Oh, the cost? $171.00. Hope it went to their uniform budget; The >> deputy was dressed for dumpster diving. Officious little snot, too. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> >>> http://www.timesargus.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/910080356/1002/NEWS >>> 01 >>> >>> >>> Kindest Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Paul Flint >>> (802) 479-2360 >>> >>> >>> >>> /************************************ >>> Based upon email reliability concerns, >>> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. >>> >>> Paul Flint >>> Barre Open Systems Institute >>> 17 Averill Street >>> Barre, VT >>> 05641 >>> >>> >>> http://www.bosivt.org >>> http://www.flint.com/home >>> skype: flintinfotech >>> Work: (202) 537-0480 >>> >>> >>> Consilium _ >>> gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) valet /V\ >>> against HTML e-mail X quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org >>> / \ >>> numerantur ^^-^^ >>> >> >> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
