pulled over for driving old cars.

I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the only people who can honestly say to a pursuing officer that "my wife ran off with a cop and I thought you were him and trying to bring her back."

That is why I divorced my second wife - she was 'dating' one of Tulsa County's finest while she was living with me. She wound up marrying him, which, of course, lends to my own paranoia. Bad thing about it is that the statute of limitations runs out soon about that whole deal....

 

that sucks.

 

A few years ago my wife and I were flying to California for my brother's funeral. We are in our 50's and 60's and we get pulled out of line for a random search and the guy that searched me was a Arab (towel head and all) which I felt was kind of ironic... OH WELL!! What can ya say?
By the way they found no bombs or anything we were clean.

 

Depends on where you are...
Few summers back I was touring the Colorado mountains in my old '72 Blazer with the wife and another couple. Even though this Blazer was built bullet- proof for mountain trails, it had about four different color panels and some primer spots (why paint for 4 wheelin'?)

Anyway, we had just driven into Telluride at about 25mph when a cop in new shiny Blazer pulled me over. He sits in his car and runs my tag, then walks up (wearing khakis, a Polo Brand shirt and huge western style holster) and asks for everyone's I.D. Then he starts asking why we are in Telluride and how long we will be there and where we are staying! It didn't sit right with me.

So I asked if I had violated any laws? then, without a saying another word, he hands me back our licenses and walks back to his truck and drove away.
And I turned around and got out of that "friendly town" a.s.a.p.

 

Wildly off-topic, but that info came right from a congressman talking on national radio. It seems one county has a zero tolerance policy, and the one neighboring county, the BP agents are told they can only arrest folks who knock on their window for help.

Then you have the two guys who shot a drug dealer who fired on them and some DA went pyscho and has them both in jail for 10-12 years over it, even though the same drug dealer's been caught twice since then bringing pot into the US. About 100 congressmen are working on trying to get them pardoned, why Bush hasn't done so is beyond me.

It's one thing when the job is too big to handle, but something else entirely when your own superiors and legal system try to make it completely impossible to do so.

If you want to discuss this topic any further, let's go to PM's and not post it here. Or go over to a talk radio web board.

 

It was rainng out one time....and I was pulled over for "unneccessary display of power" while trying to pull away from a stop-light that was facing uphill....while driving a `65 T-Bird with a 390 4v.

No tire smoke,just me trying to get out of everyones way.....cop couldn`t understand that it was freakin wet out.

 

Exactly. I got pulled for a taillight that was just going out entirely when I hit the brakes - bad ground - and I'd forgotten to get an inspection. Long story short, I was polite with the officer, outright said "you're probably going to have to give me a ticket, then?" when he noticed the inspection; and he gave me a fix-it that I was able to mail in and get dismissed.

I find it depends on the level of police as to how much of a dick they can be - state guys are usually good (unless you're in an accident with someone who has his woman along to lie about it and he talks to them first, a whole other story). Town cops are usually not as good - somewhere along the line some figure out they can get away with more bullshit. Like locally, one small department was sharing officers with a larger department 20 miles away, and two or three of them were double-billing, getting checks from both towns for the same hours worked. Another local small department, 5 guys just quit, the quote from the Chief is that he "has a handle on things" .. my comment: if 5 guys left, who's left, just him? That town ain't that big.

There's always exceptions to both, I wouldn't want to paint all town and local cops as bad. I just think that the state generally has higher standards and more supervision that makes it harder for those individuals who would take advantage of the situation, to actually do so.

 

I was just out there two weeks ago on vacation, and I didnt like Telluride. too many stuck up, pinko, liberal commies!

did you go on black bear pass?

sorry, it was a little ot, but...

Jordan

 

""Old crap for sale (if link is working)"" It's not.LOL

In our town of 20ish thousand people we have 37 patrol cars.
They have a whole heard of new Dodge chargers and are about to spend $210,000 dollars on more new cars.
What's wrong with that picture?
I can't even begin to fathom needing that many police in a town this size.
The bullshit stops and # of cops have increased dramatically since the "Homeland Security" $'s have started flowing.
A sense of humor about "Good Ole Boy" stuff and "Occasional Clowning Around" are mostly long gone down the slippery slope.

 

Amen, brotha...