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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Mrs. Pelham Bleu did skydiving one time and I was nervous on the ground.
Unfortunately here in the States, many a popo are corrupt pieces of poopie. Not all of them certainly, but even a few bad apples make the whole bushel look bad.
My brother is a defense attorney with a track record of putting dirty cops away. He has countless stories of cops planting guns or drugs on to a suspect. Usually those suspects are drug dealers/known gang members that the police can't seem to catch with anything illegal. So they make something illegal.
Add that with the systematic racism in our country and drug laws that perpetuate that. For example, the 100:1 ratio. When Reagan was president, he signed into law a piece of legislation that established mandatory minimum 5 year sentences for cocaine possession. The 100:1 ratio established that to qualify for that mandatory sentence a suspect had to be caught with 100g of powder cocaine or 1g of crack. Now think about what types of people commonly use powder vs crack cocaine. 3.5 oz for powder gets 5 years or a gram of crack. A coupe years back Obama signed he fair sentencing act which reduced gat ratio to 18:1. Progress, but still we are comparing distribution quantity to personal use quantity with the latter primarily existing in low income minority communities. Institutionalized racism at its finest.
I have a lot of respect for the job and the authority within it, however that doesn't mean I respect the officer. If the officer is polite and has detained me for legitimate reasons I'm totally alright with it and look at as them doing their job. Unfortunately I am frequently searched illegally and detained illegally. I never get in trouble but it really gripes me that they can break the law as they see fit under the guise of "doing their job".
What really pisses me off is when I am harassed and illegally detained and searched or when I can tell that the officers are blatantly lying to issue a couple citations. Also the very few times I got popped, the officers made up a totally bogus story to make their illegal search sound legitimate. Unfortunately it then becomes their word against mine and those odds are heavily slanted.
I assume if your populace is less crimey, cops would be too. I don't hate the police. Met many nice ones. Met many others who were straight ******** in life and work. Peoples people, some are bad. And if you are an ******* an get to carry a gun... Can't imagine that would improve your demeanor.
I asked a cop a couple years ago for directions to the library in February. He sat and listened to me... Then suddenly goes Barney fife and screams at me to get my hand out of my pocket and step 10 steps back and explain myself for approaching him like that...
last spring I was walking my dog and a cop stopped me and said I was suspicious. Asked for my wallet. Well I don't carry a wallet when walking my dog as I don't expect I'll need it to traverse a neighborhood. Had to sit there for like 15 minutes trying to explain that I'm visiting my parents and they live two streets away.
He won't give me a ride or follow me home to confirm. Then he gets even more suspicious that my address doesn't match my parents... Because I'm visiting sir!?!
I was bringing some yerba mate in to work, loose in a ziplock bag and thought man that could be mistaken for green way too easily. Imagine trying to explain that one to a cop, yeah right it is tea. Keep it in the packaging Joe.
True but i would get a kick out of a cop taking it too far and after investigation has to admit he harassed you over tea.
My luck tends to heavily swing to the bad luck side of things. I almost got arrested for mistaken identity once. A guy was trying to arrest me because he thought my motorcycle was the dirt bike a kid was riding behind and through the parking lot of Gander Mountain in beautiful Scranton PA. It sucks being at the mercy of a dolt with a badge.
I shoulda thought to post this first thing this morning: Happy Star Wars Week!
Yeah I'm pretty jazzed about that. I drug my feet getting tickets and ended up with a Sunday evening spot, so I'll be hiding from the internet starting Thursday.
The upside is my tickets are at an Adult movie theatre so beer will be flowing.
Got mine a few weeks ago, Thursday at 8:30. Good luck with your internet fast!
Cops lie for a living and especially when they stand to "profit" somehow.
I once had a cop straight up FAKE a positive drug hit on my car to search it. When it was proved to be faked every cop involved covered for him all the way up the chain. Another cop and his partner once blatantly lied on the stand to put my father at the scene of a crime that would've put him in jail for 10-30 years. They knew he wasn't there and involved but he was the solitary person arrested in a multi state roundup who was not getting a conviction. Those officers had a 99% conviction rate didn't want one to get off and ruin their rep. Luckily my dad's attorney could prove my dad was at work 50 miles away at the time. The cops stuck to their lie! Makes me wonder how many of that 99% were innocent!
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Does this mean there will be more Family Guy Star Wars spoofs?
I'm taking this couch!
I'm taking this couch!
@The_Janitor
You said your boss fixes up old mics? Here's the ones I got from my friend. The green bullet is by far the worst off. Others might be fine, just haven't tested them yet. That 520 would be cool fixed up if he knows where to get parts.
Shure 520 "green bullet"
Uher M516
Shure Model 545 Unidyne III
Realistic 33-1070B x2
You said your boss fixes up old mics? Here's the ones I got from my friend. The green bullet is by far the worst off. Others might be fine, just haven't tested them yet. That 520 would be cool fixed up if he knows where to get parts.
Shure 520 "green bullet"
Uher M516
Shure Model 545 Unidyne III
Realistic 33-1070B x2
I know plenty of cops. Always have. They've always been good people. That having been said, they've been good family friends (or outright family) and I've never really needed much of a reason to meet a cop outside of my own social gatherings, so my experiences may be different than others. I will say, however, that many of my cop friends/family will readily admit that there are plenty of cops who aren't exactly the most upstanding citizens either, or just have general personality flaws that you'd think would exclude them from service.
Cops are people too, but when they have a bad day, they get the opportunity to take it out on a lot more people and to do so more freely. Thankfully, I give them no reason to give me any attention. I also think that they deal with a lot of stuff nobody wants to deal with, so we should at least give them a bit of slack for their (and our own!) well-being.
Cops are people too, but when they have a bad day, they get the opportunity to take it out on a lot more people and to do so more freely. Thankfully, I give them no reason to give me any attention. I also think that they deal with a lot of stuff nobody wants to deal with, so we should at least give them a bit of slack for their (and our own!) well-being.
Cops are like politicians, sure you assume(and hope) that there are some fine upstanding ones out there but the individuals making the news generally aren't.
