I've got the popcorn concession.
Regular or caramel?
caramel of course...well met my friend, well met...
ipse
I've got the popcorn concession.
Regular or caramel?
:banana:
I like that idea and plan to try it next time I find my self in similar situation - might have to use a real banana though.
I like the idea of a plastic one, always in the car and ready for action.
Especially if I can find a banana squeaky toy.
I like the idea of a plastic one, always in the car and ready for action.
Especially if I can find a banana squeaky toy.
soooo...you are telling the forum's membership, the nice issuing officer who stopped you, had no idea after checking the computer in the vehicle from the data from your driver's license, that you were a commissioned peace officer?
really? call me slightly cynical with your admission but will say, thank goodness the Easter bunny still visiting next week...
ipse
Maybe it is only the bad apples that have bars of blue and yellow on their cars. How appropriate.
No, this is not a recent development, or an acute illness, however you might wish to mitigate the horror. Reuben Greenberg wrote Let's Take Back Our Streets in 1989, to which my town's Chief Roddy Perry responded "Don't lose our streets" in the first place as he cautioned that cops had overdrawn their emotional-bank account with the people.
Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and guns and The Truth.
And people wonder why we tend to stick to our own social groups and not interact with others, some just lump every one of us in the same bunch with the bad officers, choosing not to listen to what is being said but using their own real or perceived bias to rationalize that we are all the same. Guess what, I am your neighbor, maybe your family member, or even your friend. I live next door, our kids go to the same school, I am just like you except I have a job that everyone loves to complain about but few can actually do.
When bad things happen, you call 911, guess what even if you hate everything I stand for I am still coming to help because that is my job.
I should have been a fireman, lol your house can burn to the foundation but everyone still loves firemen...........
Is every citizen the same? No..... Then why treat every cop the same?
I take it you have never visited the stats at CATO institute. BTW CATO is very pro liberty, and pro gun, they are not shrinking violet liberals. It is against the rules to paint with a broad brush of any profession, but stats are not painting with a broad brush. There is too much legitimate statistics that tell there IS a problem. You taking the side offense to citizen concerns shows that you will not cross the blue line.
When bad things happen I would never call 911 unless to clean up the mess. Only a fool will rely on someone else for their safety, it is a myth that police save people, they clean up the mess. Read my signature line, it is a quote from a LEO that echoed your sentiments almost verbatim. In time he proved he was not trustworthy. Like anybody else, you want people's trust, EARN IT. Don't come here with your hind end in the air.
Very few people are forced into a profession, LE is not one where the employees are. If anybody in any profession, especially serving the public, can't handle the public scrutiny. It is time to look into flipping burgers.
No what I take offense to is the automatic assumption that just because I am an officer I must be doing something wrong......... I have no issues with public scrutiny as I know that I am not doing anything that I would object to being recorded or observed. I have been at this for 15 years. When people forget that we are public servants that is when they get stupid and act entitled, I know who I am and what my job is.
...I have a job that everyone loves to complain about but few can actually do...
Visit the manager in uniform, as a representative of the citizenry, defending the rights of all citizens.Every profession has it's bad apples, right now we just happen to be the media's pet project, they focus on what sells advertising air time and attracts viewer numbers, while ignoring the fact that for every 1 bad cop out there 10's of 1000's of us are out actually doing the job we swore to do.
Now back on topic, I saw a guy open carrying today and no one seemed to notice or even care, while I was on my way home I noticed another local store has posted 30.06 and .07 signs, plan to stop in and talk to manager tomorrow on lunch and see why they chose to post that.
Of course you all are not the same. One or two are protected by all the others. Cops choose to self segregate. Buck the system, change the trend, discard the paradigm, reject the tenets of the Blue Wall and rejoin the great unwashed masses.And people wonder why we tend to stick to our own social groups and not interact with others, some just lump every one of us in the same bunch with the bad officers, choosing not to listen to what is being said but using their own real or perceived bias to rationalize that we are all the same. Guess what, I am your neighbor, maybe your family member, or even your friend. I live next door, our kids go to the same school, I am just like you except I have a job that everyone loves to complain about but few can actually do.
When bad things happen, you call 911, guess what even if you hate everything I stand for I am still coming to help because that is my job.
I should have been a fireman, lol your house can burn to the foundation but everyone still loves firemen...........
Is every citizen the same? No..... Then why treat every cop the same?
And people wonder why we tend to stick to our own social groups and not interact with others, some just lump every one of us in the same bunch with the bad officers, choosing not to listen to what is being said but using their own real or perceived bias to rationalize that we are all the same. Guess what, I am your neighbor, maybe your family member, or even your friend. I live next door, our kids go to the same school, I am just like you except I have a job that everyone loves to complain about but few can actually do.
When bad things happen, you call 911, guess what even if you hate everything I stand for I am still coming to help because that is my job.
I should have been a fireman, lol your house can burn to the foundation but everyone still loves firemen...........
Is every citizen the same? No..... Then why treat every cop the same?
This is Truth. You don't want to look dumm to your peers."then you should know better, court is in 3 weeks".
I take People at face value until they prove their stupidity.And people wonder why we tend to stick to our own social groups and not interact with others, some just lump every one of us in the same bunch with the bad officers, [B]choosing[/B] not to listen to what is being said but using their own real or perceived bias to rationalize that we are all the same. Guess what, I am your neighbor, maybe your family member, or even your friend. I live next door, our kids go to the same school, I am just like you except I have a job that everyone loves to complain about but few can actually do.
Is every citizen the same? No..... Then why treat every cop the same?
Of course you all are not the same. One or two are protected by all the others. Cops choose to self segregate. Buck the system, change the trend, discard the paradigm, reject the tenets of the Blue Wall and rejoin the great unwashed masses.
I recal seeing signs on city parks east and west coast, Dogs and sailors keep of the grass. I still did not self segregate and I walked on the grass....
I was a Soldier in the late sixties and early seventies. At that time we were the Countries pariahs. I chose to segregate socially because my Country hated me for what I did for a living.
jus sayin.
This is Truth. You don't want to look dumm to your peers.
I take People at face value until they prove their stupidity.
I was a Soldier in the late sixties and early seventies. At that time we were the Countries pariahs. I chose to segregate socially because my Country hated me for what I did for a living.
jus sayin.