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Pages: 1 Hizzout 70's baby, early 80's child Reged: 02/05/04 Posts: 4841 Send PM Where's the little girl?! #263574 - 09/01/11 12:54 AM Reply Pr3tty F1y MAME Fan Reged: 07/18/05 Posts: 396 Send PM Awesome *nt* [Re: Hizzout] #263577 - 09/01/11 01:14 AM Reply Tomu Breidah No Problems, Only Solutions Reged: 08/14/04 Posts: 6819 Loc: Neither here, nor there. Send PM Re: Where's the little girl?! [Re: Hizzout] #263579 - 09/01/11 01:23 AM Reply Sometime last month I was going to go to a larger town that has a Thai restaurant to get some Pad Thai (yeah, that wicked video got me craving it ). So along the way -just about 4 blocks before I got there- a cop car gets behind me. I could tell he was following me. So I get to the restaurant and pull into it's parking lot. There comes on the lights. I park my car, then wait for the officer... Without trying to recall ALL the details I'll just mention the most notable occurrences. The cop asked me a question, I answered him, then he replies back; "Do you want to speak up and talk like a normal human being?" All I could do was turn my head away in disbelief! Right there was the first sign the reason for this stop was complete BS! Then he asked to see my insurance card... He asked; "Is this what they gave you?" To which I replied; "Yeah, is that not what I'm supposed to have?" His next question; "Who is Jesse _____er?" And I raise my hand like "Right here." And he added the 'er' at the end of my last name, but whatever. Then he asked me how it was that I pay myself for my own insurance (or something like that). I told him I pay my insurance company myself, out of my own pocket... He was just trying (desperately) to confuse me. Then he asked me what the name of the insurance company was. I tried to tell him it's Cornerstone. I tried to take my insurance card back to point out to him what the name of my insurance company was, but he held on to it -not letting it budge. Surely he was able to see on the TOP of the CARD the name of the insurance company... WTF?! You'd think he never seen one before. It turned out it was my license plate privacy cover was too dusty.... Another question he asked was "Is there any particular reason why you don't want anybody to see your license plate?" When it was over and he was done checking my driving (offense?) record - he let me go and said "the next time you go to the car wash just take a squeegee and zip that right off." I was pretty worked up at this point, all I could say was "I'll do that!" Edited by T0M (09/01/11 01:30 AM) LEVEL-4 GatKong Tetris Mason Reged: 04/20/07 Posts: 5907 Loc: Sector 9 Send PM Re: Where's the little girl?! [Re: Tomu Breidah] #263583 - 09/01/11 02:15 AM Reply >It turned out it was my license plate privacy cover was too dusty.... Another question he asked was "Is there any particular reason why you don't want anybody to see your license plate?" Ya know... and I am a guy who thinks cops abuse their power much too often... but I think this guy did all he could... rightly so... to hassle you for making your plate unreadable. Jes sayin' Tomu Breidah No Problems, Only Solutions Reged: 08/14/04 Posts: 6819 Loc: Neither here, nor there. Send PM Re: Where's the little girl?! [Re: GatKong] #263596 - 09/01/11 04:34 AM Reply > > It turned out it was my license plate privacy cover was too dusty.... Another > question he asked was "Is there any particular reason why you don't want anybody to > see your license plate?" > > Ya know... and I am a guy who thinks cops abuse their power much too often... but I > think this guy did all he could... rightly so... to hassle you for making your plate > unreadable. > > Jes sayin' Making?... No. A better choice of words could've been used there, but that's okay. I guess some people could take some dust in their hand and wipe/spread it on. It's not impossible. It's more like I didn't give it a 2nd thought about it needing to be clean enough since I walk by it almost every day, and I can make out what it says... I guess it would hard to make out from a distance, but isn't that the whole point of those privacy plate covers? Maybe not. But I did explain to him that I had trouble with some neighbors scratching off the sticker (probably so they could put it on their car and not have to pay to get it inspected). And that was the only reason I had it on there... And that was a long time ago. I wonder if I should take it off? Or, better yet, take that hammer/seat belt cutter thing my mother gave me and smash it? Oh well. When I look back at it now it all does seem a bit funny. ETA: I do have to say this. No. There was no reason for that cop to act the way he did. An officer of the 'Peace' should conduct himself in a professional manner and give respect to the citizens he (allegedly) made an oath to serve and protect (unless I'm mistaken here). Edited by T0M (09/01/11 05:05 AM) LEVEL-4 yaggy Coin-op fixer Reged: 01/23/05 Posts: 1162 Loc: Philadelphia Send PM Re: Where's the little girl?! [Re: Tomu Breidah] #263649 - 09/01/11 09:30 PM Reply His line of questioning appears to be proceeding under the notion you may be a car thief. Your responses seem a little less than cooperative (no offense, just trying to be impartial here). Especially about the insurance card. When he asked you the name of the company, it was to help gather whether you were the real owner or not. He did not give you the card back right away for this very reason. This guy may have well been a prick, many of them are, but they all work in rotating shifts, rarely get a full night's sleep, are bitched at from all angles, and walk into hazardous situations with little or no vital information to go on. Most officer deaths occur during traffic stops. > The cop asked me a question, I answered him, then he replies back; "Do you want to > speak up and talk like a normal human being?" > > All I could do was turn my head away in disbelief! Right there was the first sign the > reason for this stop was complete BS! > > Then he asked to see my insurance card... He asked; "Is this what they gave you?" To > which I replied; "Yeah, is that not what I'm supposed to have?" His next question; > "Who is Jesse _____er?" And I raise my hand like "Right here." And he added the 'er' > at the end of my last name, but whatever. > > Then he asked me how it was that I pay myself for my own insurance (or something like > that). I told him I pay my insurance company myself, out of my own pocket... He was > just trying (desperately) to confuse me. Then he asked me what the name of the > insurance company was. I tried to tell him it's Cornerstone. I tried to take my > insurance card back to point out to him what the name of my insurance company was, > but he held on to it -not letting it budge. Surely he was able to see on the TOP of > the CARD the name of the insurance company... WTF?! You'd think he never seen one > before. > > > It turned out it was my license plate privacy cover was too dusty.... Another > question he asked was "Is there any particular reason why you don't want anybody to > see your license plate?" > > When it was over and he was done checking my driving (offense?) record - he let me go > and said "the next time you go to the car wash just take a squeegee and zip that > right off." I was pretty worked up at this point, all I could say was "I'll do that!" Pages: 1

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