Yeah but they’re getting a bit funny of late.
Last year I was headed out to my mothers place to help her with some yard work. Anyhow, there had been some road construction and things were a bit different since I last traveled that road.
Woooop! I was speeding but hadn’t even determined what the speed limit was at the time I was nailed. Three different signs—anyhow that’s off point.
He was real nosy, it was 8am? 9am?, I have an very clean Oldsmobile, not a hotrod and not a junker. I suppose I wasn’t dressed to the nines—I was dressed for yard work.
He wanted to know where I was coming from, where I was going. He was very young, too. He really made me uncomfortable, I don’t think a policeman has made me nervous since I was a teen but he sure did. It was a darn interrogation!
I don’t have any stickers on my car—I like a clean car. I had no tickets, I certainly have no warrants. I was going to help my mom for gosh sakes!
I’ve had less trouble going onto base at odd hours. He acted as if I was going through some check point. I stopped at the next picnic area and had to call my mom and get over my jitters. It truly unnerved me.
He wasn’t like police that I recall from the past. Watching this policeman on video makes me think it’s the new normal.
Like i said upthread, some cops are a-holes, just like
i wanted to wring the neck of the lady at the dry cleaners ... the clerk at the post office.
Yeah, I know it’s creepy knowing they have a gun and all of the power at a police stop.
That’s why i want to make my police stop as short as possible.
My last stop was two years ago. I drive a sports car and, like most owners don’t have a front plate. He pulled me over and stood way back from the drivers side door. I do not hear out of my left ear so i kept jerking my body around to hear him.
He asked for the usual stuff, the day was HOT ,,, very HOT. He wanted my engine off. I asked to step out of the sweltering car. He said, “no”.
I sat and sat and sat. I was miserable. But he came back and let me go.
Yeah, sometimes they irritate me. Make it short.
Most cops today are nothing like the cops we grew up with....I knew them by name and they knew who I was...got caught drinking beer (underage) behind the school more times than I could count...
“you boys know you arent allowed to be here after dark, or drinking, put that beer in the trash can and you better be gone when we come back in 15 minutes”
“Yes sir”
They would pull out....we would grab our beer and go someplace else.....but they also knew we were harmless teens just having fun....not a major crime wave.
Hell I remember a time when I was a kid the cops dropped off my grandfather drunk WITH his car.