Cookies? This ain't Pleasantville, guy. But I agree with the attitude part, which is why I never cop (no pun) one with them. Even when I am confronted I still say yes sir/yes ma'am because I do recognize that stand-offishness only makes it worse. But one can only be polite for so long.....
BarneyFifeMFers wrote:
Cookies? This ain't Pleasantville, guy. But I agree with the attitude part, which is why I never cop (no pun) one with them. Even when I am confronted I still say yes sir/yes ma'am because I do recognize that stand-offishness only makes it worse. But one can only be polite for so long.....
Yeah, I was being facetious with the cookies... but I am serious about the introduction part. Hell, actually, cookies would probably work in some towns.
Stanford, FL wrote:
The police aren't bad here, but the neighborhood watch can be a real downer.
Well played
In Colorado, I don't think it's just small towns. On Monday a DU (Denver University) student was hit by a car coming out of a parking lot. The Denver police tracked her down in her hospital room, and while she was awaiting surgery for a BROKEN FEMUR, the swine gave her a ticket for riding her bike on the sidewalk. The driver of the car was not cited, although he was driving too $#@! fast exiting a parking lot if he hit her hard enough to break her femur. But anyway ... the pain and trauma of her accident were not punishment enough. The classes she is missing and will have to make up, as the semester is winding down, the expense of the surgery and hospital stay, AND the fact that she can't walk OR ride her bike to school to get to classes now, were not punishment enough. He just couldn't let her off with a warning, although I have yet to meet ANYONE who knew you can't ride a bicycle on the sidewalk in Denver. Lucky for the cop he caught her before they took her to surgery -- otherwise he might have had to sit in the hospital cafeteria and eat donuts until her surgery was over.
Okay, that's my rant for the day ..........................
Stanford, FL wrote:
The police aren't bad here, but the neighborhood watch can be a real downer.
Can you explain in more detail. I'm having the same problem where I live. Thanks.
What's really great is thanks to the Supreme Court you can get a free anal probe at the discretion of Barney Fife no matter what the offense. God I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. Up against the wall you heathen, and DROP YOUR PANTS!!!
Damn.....that is just ruthless. If she was technically in the wrong for being on the sidewalk, I don't necessarily condemn the driver. But for the cop to show up at the hospital and cite her for it is unreal. Keep it classy.
The town of 23k people I did my undergrad in just bought this ballin' tank with a 200k+ grant from homeland security. Man, just thinking about all the parades and well, I guess probably just parades, this thing will be in! Wish I was still in town to get run over by that thing for having one too many on Saturday night!
Serve and Protect BITCH!
Durango is a pretty cool town to live in. I envy you. If you plan on being a resident for a while, I would get to know the cops so they get to know you. I am being completely serious here. Go down to the Police Station and ask them if they have a "Ride Along Program." Tell them that you are contemplating a career in law enforcement or Firefighter/Paramedic and would like to shadow some officers to see if it is something you want to pursue further. Most Police Departments do have ride along programs. I did several ride alongs with the local police department when I was living out of state for a while. I did a couple of midnight shifts on Saturday nights and it was pretty cool. The impression I got was the cops liked it and were trying to show off a little bit and come across as being super cool. When there wasn't any action, the officer's would tell me stories about some of the better calls they had been on. I even got to go into a house on a domestic dispute call. It was like the show "COPS" Live version.
I was in one small town recently with some pro athletes who had been invited to a race along with their coach. We were there for five days. The following all happened within one 24 hours period in the town:
-Near the end of a workout at a public track two cops showed up with some kind of trainee jogging program. While the fattees went out on the track my guys (non-English speaking, non-white, non-American) came back over to the bleachers where the coach and I were sitting. One of my guys started pulling on his warmup pants leaning up against the side of the bleachers and the cops started shouting at him. I intervened and they threatened to arrest us for public indecency. Meanwhile, a white jogger finished his run and went over to where two H.S. girls where practicing soccer on the infield, took off his shirt and started doing leg stretches wearing only short shorts. The cops didn't even blink an eye.
-While we were crossing the street with the walk signal a cop car rolled right up to the edge of the crosswalk against the red light without its lights or siren going and, no warning, BLARED some kind of blast of noise to get us out of the way so it could hurry through to whatever non-emergency they were off too.
-With no warning another cop stopped us and demanded to see the (non-English speaking, non-white, non-American) coach's ID. All he had with him was his driver's license, resulting in a protracted castigation for not having something the cop could read.
The small town? Manhattan, New York City.
'I went 6 years only getting pulled over once for a minor traffic infraction. I've lived in Durango for 8 months now, and I've been pulled over SEVEN times, for anything and everything minor you can imagine. '
You sound like a great driver. Stop whining
Definitely agree with Athens, GA.
I rode my bike a 1/4 mile away from my apartment to a grocery store and was biking in the parking lot to park my bike and a cop car followed me and stopped me because I was not wearing a helmet.
Both the police officers got out of the car, told me to get off the bike and took 5 minutes to yell at me about how they could arrest me because I didn't have a helmet on, but couldn't ticket me because I was on private property or something.
nordicmama wrote:
it's nit-picky and silly to waste time on such minor things. Meanwhile, kids smoke pot in the high school hallway and they do nothing.
Thanks for the chuckle.
DocLove wrote:
'I went 6 years only getting pulled over once for a minor traffic infraction. I've lived in Durango for 8 months now, and I've been pulled over SEVEN times, for anything and everything minor you can imagine. '
You sound like a great driver. Stop whining
That's your contribution? You sound like a real thinker. Stop talking.
If you are going 10mph over, you deserve a ticket. Deal with it.
With all the Federal Tax money (read, mine and your income) that went to the small towns after 9-11 a lot of small towns became a lot more Federalized.
I have to agree with the OP. I live in a small town in Eastern NC and have never had a problem with police. When our family moved here we were pulled over seven times and ticketed within a year. The police here pull Moms driving kids to school over for driving two mph over the limit. Its not as bad in the summer with all the tourist but its open season the day after labor day. Made freinds with a girl whose spouse is a cop and he was miserable because his supervisor kept writing him up for little stuff, they told him they wanted more tickets and when he started giving extreme amount of tickets all the mico managing stopped. These small towns need money and are desperate to collect. The threats of layoffs make cops very agressive. Bottom line I drive below the speed limit here.
I have lived all over the United States, small town and big city, and nowhere are the cops more hands-off and apathetic than in Miami-Dade County, FL. You can feel free to drive like a total maniac and you will never get pulled over (unless you cross into one of the municipalities such as Pinecrest). Stay in Unincorporated areas, and you can drive as crazy as you please.