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Doughnut
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 06:46 pm: | 
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The thing that bothers me is that all the people I went through the academy with who I hated to be partnered with, (because of bad ••• attitude or simple incompetence), are the ones that seem to have gotten jobs. |
Ray_maines
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 07:16 pm: |
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Along4theride sez: "He said that when a cop pulls up next to you and waves his arms at you you're supposed to stay there and wait for him to come back???"
Ray sez when a policeman waves his arms and then drives off it means you're supposed to make a U-Turn and make serious tracks.
Blake sez: "I honestly have never had a bad experience with a police officer, traffic or otherwise."
Ray sez: God bless ya bro, may it ever be. If you ever do have a "bad experience" that really isn't your fault it will cause you to re-evaluate your feelings. Being an innocent victim really sucks and has the potential to make you bitter. |
Socoken
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 - 08:34 pm: |
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"The policeman pretty much has his mind made up when he opens the door of his car whether or not he's going to give you a ticket..."
"If you didn't get a ticket it was because the officer was on his way home from work, he didn't get a radar fix on you, he's too lazy to do the paperwork, or his pen just ran dry. It's NOT because you were polite."
maybe he had his mind made up and his decision was swayed by the attitude, good or bad, of the person he had just pulled over before you? so, if you get a ticket cause the guy before you was a jerk, its okay not to be respectful and pass the s**t down the chain? now, ive been on the business end of some really crappy tickets, but fair or unfair, be respectful and polite. its the "grown-up" thing to do. Im just a punk kid, and i know that much. |
Court
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 05:14 am: |
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>>>Being an innocent victim really sucks and has the potential to make you bitter.
That's pretty much life though.
I've got 2 legs and a back full of bullets from a "random drive by", I'm still a tad bitter about and the World Trade Center thing isn't going away either.
Innocent victims of anything find bitter lingers long.... |
Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 05:07 pm: |
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Some choose to harbor bitterness and hatred. It is an easy thing to do. The most gratifying thing I've found is to forgive those who wrong me. Life is too short to let hatred have sway over our lives. Not to say I won't act to defend myself or my country though, just that I'll do my best to avoid the hatred part. It's easy to justify hatred; the KKK and others of their ilk have been doing it for years. No thanks. |
Budo
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 06:19 pm: |
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"The most gratifying thing I've found is to forgive those who wrong me."
Depends on the degree of wrong. Yes, forgiveness can be great for your soul, however.
"I've got 2 legs and a back full of bullets from a "random drive by", I'm still a tad bitter about and the World Trade Center thing isn't going away either. "
Also Fred Rau once wrote about riding on the interstate fully loaded with his wife somewhere near LA when a car pulled up beside them with four banger looking guys inside of it. Suddenly his rear tire went flat and he almost did not make it to the curb. Turns out someone in the car shot his rear tire with a 9mm just to see them crash, tho they did not.
These guys, all of them don't get off. They should be made to suffer then allowed to die. ....
(Message edited by budo on March 22, 2005)
(Message edited by budo on March 22, 2005) |
Tom_b
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 06:35 pm: |
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I choose to pick my bitterness and hatred, someone who I don't know and is only doing their job in their mind isn't going to screw up my life. Be polite, it is the adult thing to do and get the unpleasantries over with as soon as possible and avoid confrontation. If I'm gonna mix it up with the cops I have a lawyer. I generally don't forgive those who wronged me, I'm not Jesus and don't claim to be. I'll pick my own battles, not some cop with a hard on. |
Ray_maines
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 07:15 pm: |
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As bad as it is when bad guys do bad things you can still live with it, that's what bad guys do after all. Assuming, of course, that you're still alive to live with anything. The more difficult emotional barrier is having a "good guy" do something bad.
We hire policemen to protect us from the bad guys and while we understand the police can't always be everywhere and protect everyone from everything we have the right to expect that they won't be the one to harm us. The pain of having a policeman rip the interior of your car to shreds and steal your money is the sort of pain that just doesn't go away. It really isn't too hard to forgive the individual but it's hard to rebuild the trust that's been destroyed. |
Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 08:23 pm: |
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Court,
In reviewing my preaching, I hope you didn't take my comments as a rebuttal to your post. They were not intended as such. Rather like your own they were aimed at the comments of others above. |
Cataract2
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:07 pm: |
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Court, are you serious about the bullet thing? |
Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 04:24 am: |
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Yes.
I have 98, (x-rays) are a wonderful thing, pieces of #4 and #5 shot in my left left, back, kidneys and right leg. Check of bone gone from ankle that, fortnately, had a cast on the leg at the time.
The cast was the funny part, it ended up saving my leg.
For the record, no amount of alcohol makes it physically possible to parachute from a speeding Buick Vista Cruiser. |
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