Another cop story...

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by udman

In America, this should be the rule, not the noteworthy exception.

Fixed.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Fixed.

Lets be real. When you go above the speed limit are you going to turn yourself in? No, so don't expect a cop to.

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Rider

Lets be real. When you go above the speed limit are you going to turn yourself in? No, so don't expect a cop to.

Maybe, just maybe, if they listened to the studies that they've called for at least 3 times that I know of, and set the speed limits at the 85 percentile, I don't think speeding would be much of an issue at all...for anyone.

Maybe you have an point that sucks less?

[Rider]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Maybe, just maybe, if they listened to the studies that they've called for at least 3 times that I know of, and set the speed limits at the 85 percentile, I don't think speeding would be much of an issue at all...for anyone.

Maybe you have an point that sucks less?

Only if I quoted you.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Rider

Lets be real. When you go above the speed limit are you going to turn yourself in? No, so don't expect a cop to.

Perhaps cops should set the example then, by NOT speeding?

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Perhaps cops should set the example then, by NOT speeding?

Shhh...you're making sense.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Shhh...you're making sense.

It's a congenital defect. For the past few months I've apparently been debating with a 'law and order' type author, on a local board, who thinks "police powers good, personal liberties bad."

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

It's a congenital defect. For the past few months I've apparently been debating with a 'law and order' type author, on a local board, who thinks "police powers good, personal liberties bad."

People like to side with law enforcement, in hopes that they'll receive the benefits of being "down with the team"

It's kind of like being in high school, when you agreed with what the cool people were saying, so that their "cool halo" would cover you as well.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

People like to side with law enforcement, in hopes that they'll receive the benefits of being "down with the team"

It's kind of like being in high school, when you agreed with what the cool people were saying, so that their "cool halo" would cover you as well.

Well this guy apparently wrote a biography of our Provincial police chief, who thinks that he's in charge of the 1929 Chicago Police Department.

Originally Posted by Avatard

That's a human defect...one I consciously work to overcome (I don't have to work too hard, as an independent thinker, though).

'Round here being someone who thinks for himself gets you branded as a cop hater one day, then a cop suck-up the next.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Perhaps cops should set the example then, by NOT speeding?

I'd be pissed if they all stopped speeding. Cops going the speed limit fucks up traffic more than a Florida Buick convention. People won't pass a cop, even if they were doing 25 on an interstate.

And speaking of handicapped spots, I rarely see someone use them who is actually handicapped. They may have a tag but I've seen them park at my gym to get on the treadmill and run me into the ground.