Posted on 10/08/2015 5:06:19 AM PDT by Elderberry
Since the max speed limit here is 35 I have 125cc scooter. The Guam cops never give me any problem. Maybe I need to wear more leather
Muslims are unfairly targeted because other Muslims are jihadist murderers.
HUH?
If you ride a hog and dress like a Hell’s Angel or other biker gang, perhaps we should use our objective minds to wonder if you are in fact a threat. Sorry, just because a few lawyers and doctors like to ride, doesn’t mean the majority of bikers are suspect.
Everyone and Everything they do is OK or you’re a racist - bigot .
I’m so sick of this crap.
My Son was stationed on the SSN Buffalo, home ported on Guam.
Funny, I have been riding since 1957 and have never felt like I was being “profiled”.
But then, I have never identified with the “Biker Culture”.
Could it be that the author is confusing Motorcycle Profiling with Biker Profiling?
Intentionally. And I bet the victims have 'Pants up, don't loot' bumper stickers too.
Leather in Guam? Yikes!
IBTG
Yes, but you ride a scooter with shorts, sandals and a gayly dyed scarf, you might be profiled as a California-trained wimp.
Why does everyone else need to pay for gov't EPA regs, seat belts, airbags, etc. etc.? Cry me a river.
Not even wearing my Patriot Guard black leather vest.
When I bought my first HD, I rode over to my oldesr brother’s house to show him. As i pulled up their driveway, his wife of 40 years, and who knew me since I was 8, started backing up toward the house, and was visibly nervous and scared. Then when I got off she stsrted yelling for him come out just because I was wearing my leather coat, sun glasses, helmet and was riding a Harley.
Well, if the individual is wearing the outlaw-gang colors, they are already self-profiling. Otherwise the cops should leave riders alone.
Even so, I'd like to know how much "biker crime" affects the general public, drugs prostitution, violent crime etc and who's doing it. Especially in comparison to say...."black-on-black" pr moslem crime.
My husband’s sergeant in 1974/75 at Ellsworth AFB was from Guam. Nicest man - we’ve been wondering where he got to over the last 40 years.
I understand this because I used to ride my motorcycle everywhere.
I dealt with it. I knew it was reality.
And I don’t shake my fist at the sky when it rains, either.
That's because it is a car.
Not even wearing my Patriot Guard black leather vest.
Well, you shouldn't be anyway unless you're actually on a mission.
I know a cop that pulls over every car he sees with upscale rims and illegal tint. He keeps the tint meter on the front seat of his cruiser. It is all just an excuse to identify and sniff out any other possible crimes. If people don’t like it they can take the illegal tint off their windows.
The only trouble Ive had was in late spring in Virginia Beach in 1971. Harley riders were targeted in an effort to clean up the beach before the arrival of tourists. People who rode foreign bikes were left alone. One morning I was pulled for loud pipes. While the officer was talking to me he had to pause as a very loud rice burner passed us. Nothing was said, I pointed at the bike but the officer just shrugged.
My pipes were not loud but were aftermarket. I was given a warning and told to get stock pipes and keep the receipt. I bought a set of stock shotguns, they were much louder than what I had but when I showed the cop the receipt he said it was much better.
After the tourist season passed I ran out of gas, gas stations were closed early. A cop helped me by getting a gallon of gas. The tourists were gone and they were again officer friendlies.
Plain and simple, that’s the intent of pretending to look like a menacing criminal. Whether any of them are honest enough to admit it.
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