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I often work a shift where I don't get out until after midnight. When I drive home I pass through a small town. More than half the time a cop car starts following me right after I enter the city limits and stays about 10' from my bumper until I leave the city limits. I think they assume that anybody that is on the road after midnight is drunk or up to no good.

I have a true story about how a friend of mine got some payback for these types of police tactics...

My friend is the postmaster a nearby town post office. The local police started harassing him and his employees because they were going to work at early hours. After being pulled over twice and given field sobriety tests on his way to work by one particularly aggressive cop, he decided it was time for a little payback. Let's just say that cops bills, paychecks and other important documents started getting "lost in the mail" some even got "mistakenly" rerouted to China he also ended up on every junk mail list in the country... After a few months he must have got the message because he hasn't harassed a postal employee since then.

Too bad we all don’t have that kind of power.

Ahh, the Newman strategy. Nice!

Dark Blue, Light Blue feud.

Are the postal employees and cops in that area of different ethnicities, like the NYPD & NYFD?

My friend is the postmaster a nearby town post office. The local police started harassing him and his employees because they were going to work at early hours. After being pulled over twice and given field sobriety tests on his way to work by one particularly aggressive cop, he decided it was time for a little payback. Let's just say that cops bills, paychecks and other important documents started getting "lost in the mail" some even got "mistakenly" rerouted to China he also ended up on every junk mail list in the country... After a few months he must have got the message because he hasn't harassed a postal employee since then.

My first good laugh of the day - thanks!

My friend is the postmaster a nearby town post office. The local police started harassing him and his employees because they were going to work at early hours. After being pulled over twice and given field sobriety tests on his way to work by one particularly aggressive cop, he decided it was time for a little payback. Let's just say that cops bills, paychecks and other important documents started getting "lost in the mail" some even got "mistakenly" rerouted to China he also ended up on every junk mail list in the country... After a few months he must have got the message because he hasn't harassed a postal employee since then.

That sounds like the routine that court reporters have always used with new lawyers. Treat us right, don't hassle us and just let us do the job the way it's supposed to be done, and you will at least sound coherent in the transcript.

There's verbatim and verbatim. The lawyers who pester us to do their jobs for them, expect us to be their "assistants" or "valets" during breaks, or who try to correct the transcript to reflect what they wanted to say rather than what they actually said ... [and who do they think they are to do that, Congressmen or Senators?] ... they're going to get a really .. REALLY .. verbatim record ...

every cough ...
every stutter ...
every incoherent phrase without either a noun or a verb ...
every time they pick their nose ..

.. it will all go into the record.

You'd be surprised how long it takes sometimes for these "professionals" to understand cause and effect.