about that Police officer you just flipped off

[69white hat]

In Arkansas it is now a law to wear a seatbelt.  If an officer sees you not wearing it they can pull you over just for that and its a $50 ticket.  I haven't gotten one, but it still gets under my skin.  The state trooper dick heads are the worst about it.  It should be my right.  I'm putting no other person in danger except for myself when I don't wear it.  I just don't understand how I am allowed to ride my motorcycle without a helmet on but I can't drive down the road without wearing a damn seatbelt??? I mean come on. That is pure bs.  That is an example of how the law is more corrupt than it is helpful.   

It only JUST became a law?? Wow. Been the law where I live for probly 20 years. I do remember lots of people complaing about it when it came out, but not so much anymore. In fact, where I work, work vehicles have gps now that know not only when youre speeding, but if you are wearing your seat belt. Get caught once and it's off to a new job. No warnings. They got a few people when that came out but I havent heard of anyone geeting nailed for it in a long time. It's just 2nd nature now.

[ACUDANUT]

I agree that there are a lot of dumb laws out there.  However, they are meant to protect you.  We call Motorcycle riders "organ donors".  They are just too dangerous with all the idiot drivers out there.

Back to the O.P.> Police Officers are needed just like Truck drivers (just in different ways). Neither get paid much and are seldom appreciated. That's all.

Maybe we should have a different posts complaining about BS laws. (Police Officers don't make laws, they enforce them) 

[Bobs69]

I have never been upset when I have been stopped for something I am guilty of or for being stopped for a routine pull over.....I wouldn't want to be a policemen I don't have it in me....you need to have a personality that's a bit of prick I think just to deal with all the assholes out there, and there's many
And I do think they can be heros......if they go above and beyond the call of duty to save someone why shouldn't they be called a hero...thank goodness they are out there

I was pulled over a few weeks ago.  For speeding home from work.  I was a few hours behind schedule.  It was the first time I got caught for speeding to or from on my commute (70km).  Man I hated to see that streak end.  Once I seen the lights I was totally blown away.  I wasn't looking for cops that day, especially one in a SUV.  I slowed right down and drove slowly until there was a SAFE place to pull over.  I knew there was on ramp coming up.

She showed her appreciation for that and my honesty and manners.  I got a reduced ticket.

[flyinlow]

They work nights, weekends and holidays. They deal with the seamier side of society, they get second guessed, they have to clean up horrible messes and sometimes they have to tell people their loved ones aren't coming home. Their job is probably often boring and then can get fatally exciting in a moment. Sometimes they get to save a child.

Glad most of them are there.

While I don't like occasionally being chosen to pay the go fast tax, I try to remain civil about it. Never flipped a Police Officer off.

[Cooter]

real good friend of mine is a cop. He is off duty. He clearly witnesses a guy coming out of a bar drunk, climbs into his car and drives off. He radios to a buddy who's on duty and advises him. While in route, he decides to tail him just to make sure he doesn't kill someone.
pulls up in front of his house and sees the car still running in the garage. No lights on in the house, so he sees his fellow officer pull up outside and off duty now, gives him back up as they approach the house. His buddy takes the back and Chuck takes the front door. He knocks on door, no answer. He can clearly see someone moving round inside. He announces again, "Police sir, open up".

Bout this time, he sees the guy emerge from the side door in the open garage with his hand behind him.
"Sir, please show me your hands!". Chuck said he actually saw the guy for a split second think about shooting him.
Chuck's fellow officer comes around the back and demands he "doesn't do it", and the guy lays the gun down on the hood of his still running and radio blaring, car.

Once out on the curb, Chuck asks the guy "what were you thinking? I coulda shot you dead where you stood for that?"
Guy replies "I thought you were breaking in and I gotta right to defend my home and family"....
Chuck says "you know that's a lie. I stated numerous times Police, open up sir". You just thought you were busted for drunk driving and I'm off duty. I didn't catch you, so you were about to die for a misunderstanding.

Chuck calls me from time to time. Some of the sh*t he's had to deal with is every bit as dangerous and life threatening as war.
this is why I'm kinda on the side of the law when it comes to traffic. Every time I've been busted, with the exception of the one time I had to spend a few nights in county, I've been totally at fault and treat the officers with surprisingly ( based on my croud) respect.

[Bobs69]

It certainly doesn't do you any good to be ignorant to the police.  Especially when you know you're in the wrong.

I was racing with a co-worker on the way home from work.  I got a phone call the next day from the cops and we discussed it.  I never came right out and admitted anything, but I did say that "we had an understanding and thanks for the reminder."  It was an "off duty cop" that seen us.

I was once told by a friend that the police (OPP) are never really "OFF DUTY."

Another thing I was told.  If you are a real bastard to the cop that pulls you over and you decide to try and fight the ticket, you really screw yourself.  The cop will remember you in court.

[moparsr2fast]

While I don't like occasionally being chosen to pay the go fast tax, I try to remain civil about it. Never flipped a Police Officer off.

   I would sooner get into a ring against Hulk Hogan before I showed the disrespect of flipping off an officer of the law.

  I have always been polite and considerate those instances, although I was pulled over once coming home from work at 3am. He told me the plates on my Bronco were registered to a different vehicle in a city 40 miles away. Since I bought the plates new when I purchased the Ford, i mentioned that i didn't think it was possible for them to be registered elsewhere. He got very ticked off and threatened  me with a fictitious  ticket. I just bit my tongue and cooperated knowing full well I was being lied to by a hardass cop. Didn't receive so much as a warning ticket.

[Steve P.]

My view on many cops is that they got into the job one person. After a while of seeing how the others with more time on the job do it, they follow suit. This is most times when their head becomes too big to get through many doorways.

I have a buddy who is a retired NJ cop. Great guy. He recently told me that the thing he hates more than anything else in life is a crooked cop. Said he knows way too many of them and had issues with many because they knew he would not falsify their reports. As he tells it, when he started out the taxes of a city or county took good care of payroll. Today taxes still are used for pay, but that most use huge sums of their ticket collection to pay for cars and equipment and judges.

Red light cameras collect huge money everywhere they are set up. The cameras are NOT owned by towns, cops or municipalities. They are corporate owned and take the biggest chunk of the money brought in by the tickets..

NUT SHELL: We are a LONG WAYS AWAY from Mayberry.... To protect and serve has all but been forgotten in many areas. Damn sure the truth here....

Paul G, I had the exact same thing happen to me at my job in NY, just before moving to Florida. Only the cop I had thought my air compressor trailer should have had brakes. He actually tried to give me hell for a 4-wire plug and not 6 or 7 wire for the trailer brakes!!!

There are times when they just cannot be so stupid as to think they know everything!! I just told him that (I agree they should have brakes on them too).. Sheesh!!!!!

[AKcharger]

Hooray for the Police...They're here to help! 

[ACUDANUT]

My view on many cops is that they got into the job one person. After a while of seeing how the others with more time on the job do it, they follow suit. This is most times when their head becomes too big to get through many doorways.

I have a buddy who is a retired NJ cop. Great guy. He recently told me that the thing he hates more than anything else in life is a crooked cop. Said he knows way too many of them and had issues with many because they knew he would not falsify their reports. As he tells it, when he started out the taxes of a city or county took good care of payroll. Today taxes still are used for pay, but that most use huge sums of their ticket collection to pay for cars and equipment and judges.

Red light cameras collect huge money everywhere they are set up. The cameras are NOT owned by towns, cops or municipalities. They are corporate owned and take the biggest chunk of the money brought in by the tickets..

NUT SHELL: We are a LONG WAYS AWAY from Mayberry.... To protect and serve has all but been forgotten in many areas. Damn sure the truth here....

Paul G, I had the exact same thing happen to me at my job in NY, just before moving to Florida. Only the cop I had thought my air compressor trailer should have had brakes. He actually tried to give me hell for a 4-wire plug and not 6 or 7 wire for the trailer brakes!!!

There are times when they just cannot be so stupid as to think they know everything!! I just told him that (I agree they should have brakes on them too).. Sheesh!!!!!

I think I know what you mean ?