would you use completely useless debris firewood? (or, i need to vent about cops)

[Order 66]

yeah... vent post bear with me

so i was having a chill night on the beach. had a campfire going, had music going , stars were out blah blah... pretty much guaranteed to get laid here. so the fire was dying out and the wood was getting low. so i notice off to bank there was a pile of rubble... i'm guessing it used to be a shower stall or something but it was completely obliterated by hurrican ike. like, there's literally nothing you could do with that wood. it was ruined.

so i carried it over to the fire, along with a broken sign (i'm guessing this is where i really fucked up) and all of a sudden a bunch of cops shine a light right in my face and yell WHO THE FUCK PUT THAT WOOD IN THERE and i was like 'uh, it was already there officer' and he was like UH HUH BULLSHIT YOU WANNA PLAY THAT GAME FINE PARTY'S OVER then he opened up my cooler and doused the fire with all my beer then he rummaged around hte cooler more until he found a glass container and said OH GLASS CONTAINER HUH ... ON A BEACH??? so then he wrote me a citation with destuction of public property and having a glass container. which should run me at about $500+ ... i know lawyers in the county but i don't know how much they'll be able to do.

the owner of the hotel came out and apologized. said that he was sorry, the cop was responding to an unrelated noise complaint and saw me out there. ... anyway it wasn't even the money it was just a perfect night completely ruined. the owner said i could use his balcony and party out there but my beer was all poured out and i was so pissed i just took a bunch of xanax and went to bed. and i've still been taking xanax because it's the only way i can calm down from this

anyway. would anybody ever conceive that rubble of wood could be "public property" that could be destroyed. because this cop acted like i was out of my fucking mind thinking that i could use that. i would think anybody could make that mistake but he acted like i was retarded

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[Order 66]

could somebody change title to 'would you use completely useless debris as firewood? (or, i need to vent about cops) ... sorry. thanks

[Starla]

I had something happen to me last weekend with the cops. I was on my way back from the store, and a cop coming toward me flashed his headlights and drove on. I had no idea what the problem was, since none of my lights were out. I get down the road a way and out of nowhere he is behind me, and hits his lights. So I pulled over and he was a complete asshole from the get go, asking me why I didn't pull over when he flashed his headlights. I said I had no idea he wanted me to pull over, especially since he drove on past me and disappeared. Anyway, the reason he pulled me over was because he said my fog lights were too bright and he wanted me to dim them for on coming cars, which is ridiculous, I've never shut them off before because I don't see how they are that bright.

While he was waiting for me to get my insurance card, I said "it must be a slow night" and apparently that pissed him off too. After he came back he said... next time you better pull over instead of acting like you have no idea what's going on.

Still have no idea why this asshole pulled me over. It's not like my lights are those blinding halogens.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i thought you always had to dim your fog lights for oncoming traffic.
maybe i'm thinking of a different kind of car lights. i don't really know all the terminology.

[reprise85]

I probably wouldn't have used the wood, but that is bullshit that they gave you a citation and treated you like shit.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

what about using the beer to put out the fire? how is that allowed? it doesn't make much sense to me.

even if a fire was somehow illegal, i'm sure they're not allowed to take someone's possessions to put it out.
illegal barbecue in your backyard? ok, fine, i'm going into your house, and will take whatever i feel like and throw it on your barbecue. because you're breaking the law and i'm a cop. that's how it works. i can do whatever the fuck i want now with you and whatever you own. have a nice day.

[Trotskilicious]

yes that is how it works, your word against mine and i have a badge. faggot.

[killtrocity]

FTP

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

yes that is how it works, your word against mine and i have a badge. faggot.

This a thousand times.

Get off MY beach you queer. I like how they searched your belongings in order to find a problem to pin on you. Sounds like good police work all around. These boys in blue keep us safe from guys like you who try to burn down our beaches and sell drugs.

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Starla

I had something happen to me last weekend with the cops. I was on my way back from the , and a cop coming toward me flashed his headlights and drove on. I had no idea what the problem was, since none of my were out. I get down the road a way and out of nowhere he is behind me, and hits his . So I pulled over and he was a complete asshole from the get go, asking me why I didn't pull over when he flashed his headlights. I said I had no idea he wanted me to pull over, especially since he drove on past me and disappeared. Anyway, the reason he pulled me over was because he said my were too bright and he wanted me to dim them for on coming cars, which is ridiculous, I've never shut them off before because I don't see how they are that bright.

While he was waiting for me to get my insurance card, I said "it must be a slow night" and apparently that pissed him off too. After he came back he said... next time you better pull over instead of acting like you have no idea what's going on.

Still have no idea why this asshole pulled me over. It's not like my lights are those blinding halogens.

This reminds me of the time I got pulled over for not using my turn signal to take an exit ramp. In reality the charge was "Operating a foreign vehicle at night in a fucking hick town surrounded by the world's biggest asshole army aka PA State Police aka a fucking street gang with protection from the law."

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by duovamp

This a thousand times.

Get off MY beach you queer. I like how they searched your belongings in order to find a problem to pin on you. Sounds like good police work all around. These boys in blue keep us safe from guys like you who try to burn down our beaches and sell drugs.

yeah and the justification for that is "well he looked suspicious so i did a search" which is an exemption to the constitutional rights that are pretty clearly stated

it basically allows cops to search people's cars whenever they feel like it

being a minority is the same thing as being suspicious duh

[Trotskilicious]

[slunken]

FUCK COPS

[bignothing]

So what's the solution here? I know it's great to be "fuck da police" and punk rock and all but I'll take some occasional abuse of authority over lawlessness. In general. It depends on the extent worse things are happening.

[redbreegull]

police treating people like shit is an endemic phenomenon that nearly everyone who has ever had an encounter with a cop has experienced. I would hardly describe the abuse as "occasional." The US police are the biggest fucking gang of racists, terrorists, and authoritarians anywhere around.

[yo soy el mejor]

i pretty much deserved every brush i had with the law. i'm lucky there weren't more - i did some dumb shit. but one instance i did not appreciate: i was pulled over for making a turn without signaling. i was on my way home from a party at my friend's house and was all wet because of the slip and slide and was only wearing a swimsuit bottom and a t-shirt that barely covered my butt.

when the cop saw this he told me to get out of the car. f'ing perv.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by bignothing

So what's the solution here? I know it's great to be "fuck da police" and punk rock and all but I'll take some occasional abuse of authority over lawlessness. In general. It depends on the extent worse things are happening.

just some basic etiquette and politeness no matter the circumstance would go a long way

[Trotskilicious]

Excuse me sir, I say is this a fire? I am unfortunately going to have to put a stop to that, also I will need to search your bag in the interests of making sure you did not bring any dangerous glass containers to this beach, hopefully you are not so inconsiderate to do so. Thank you for your co-operation.

instead of EX TER MIII NAAATE!!! EX TERRR MIII NAAAATE!!!

[redbreegull]

I actually had an experience similar to Order 66's except that the cop let me go for some reason after being a total shit to me. Some of my friends and I were having a fire at very popular student haunt down by the water where we went to school. The land is technically owned by a church, but campus security had jurisdiction via the church being on friendly terms with the school. Anyway some dick local cop comes down, shines his light in our eyes, tells us he has been hiding in the bushes listening to us for ten minutes (wtf) and we are having an illegal fire. First he tells us that the fire is illegal because it is on public property, then he tells us it is illegal because it's on private property, then he demands to know where we are all from and pulls out the I'm a local hick and you have no right to exist here you liberal city assholes card. Then he starts accusing us of tearing up this wooden stairway nearby to build the fire (blatantly false, I would never do that), and then gives us a lecture about how stupid we are because as college students we should understand how we are destroying the environment by having a bonfire. Then he made us pour out all our beer and told us how lucky we were that he was just a nice guy trying to educate us because he could have arrested us for drinking without our IDs on us or something. It was fucking infuriating but he didn't write us up and he didn't search us (I had weed on me), so I guess I should be thankful he was only a regular dick cop and not a mega dick cop. A few nights later another cop went down there (probably the same guy) to harass some students and they called campus security, who arrived and then the sheriff and public safety had a huge screaming match over who had jurisdiction in the area. It was cool.

but yeah I really don't understand how anyone can be cool with the police. I wish I could believe that corrupt asshole cops are a minority amongst a generally good institution but I just don't think it's so. I've never had an encounter with a cop who wasn't a condescending manipulative asshole and who wasn't clearly in the profession to be a law-sponsored bully of the populace. I swear it must be every micropenised angry high school football team-reject in the country who go on to serve as police officers

[redbreegull]

also you need so much moral flexibility to be a cop. I have trouble understanding how these people sleep at night knowingly doing racist shit to people and convincing them to give up their rights as their job

[Trotskilicious]

well if black people didn't commit so much crime we wouldn't be prejudiced

[Bread Regal]

every experience i've had with a cop has been categorically bad.

like even cops that are directing traffic. one time i was on my bike riding to work and i had to cross an intersection where the traffic lights were being worked on and the cop refused to let me cross. i sat there for ten minutes waiting for him when i yelled at him "ARE YOU GOING TO LET ME CROSS OR WHAT". And he yelled back "NO".

"WHY"
"TOO MUCH TRAFFIC"
"I AM TRAFFIC"
",,,"
"I HAVE TO GET TO WORK, DUDE"
"I DON'T CARE. CROSS AT THE NEXT INTERSECTION"

The next intersection was literally 2 miles in either direction which was just a completely unnecessary inconvenience for someone like me who's kind of a stickler for obeying traffic laws while cycling, so I broke the law and jay walked. I walked my bike back over to the intersection and heckled him for a while an called him a worthless pig and I got really crass about it. Like really crass. "Fucked your mom last night in her wrinkled old pussy and made her eat her own shit off my dick and then your dad felched my cum out of her asshole" And he was just fuckin fuming, and he couldn't do anything about it because he was stuck in the middle of the intersection. I considered it a minor victory.

[sppunk]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

This is an instance where cops should've been less passive and shot him.

[AndySlash]

Originally Posted by Starla

Anyway, the reason he pulled me over was because he said my fog lights were too bright and he wanted me to dim them for on coming cars, which is ridiculous, I've never shut them off before because I don't see how they are that bright.

a valid defense.

[Trotskilicious]

starla's one of those people

[Trotskilicious]

what kind of motherfuck would leave their high beams on oh starla's that kind of motherfuck

[AndySlash]

they're not that bright!

[Trotskilicious]

the scourge of many a Texas Farm to Market route

[duovamp]

How cool would that be if cops hunted white people for sport instead of black people?

[duovamp]

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