Police

[Shran]

"Don't break my balls and I won't break yours"

This is true, I have always been nice to the cops I've talked to. Back home there were two cops that liked to pick on me though. One of them would sneak around my vehicles all the time and look in the windows and stuff. I always heard about it through somebody else who happened to walk by and see it happen, until I finally caught him doing it. He didn't really have an explanation besides checking to see if my exhaust was legal...yeah right. Didn't do it again after that.

The other one started pulling me over for the most retarded stuff..."running" a yellow light, 17mph in a 15mph zone, etc. I think she didn't like me because I thought her son was a little shit head in high school (he was) and I probably told him that on numerous occasions. I complained to her supervisor and she quit it, then got fired after she got complaints that she was harassing somebody else.

 

[TaddeoEG]

... cause ive went to jail for people following me before tryin to start shit and didnt want that again

Leads me to believe your driving style might not be quite as innocent as you imply.

Like others have said, be cool and recognize that the cops are just doing their job. Treat them with respect and they'll most likely return the favor.

 

[Hopman]

I have the upmost respect for cops and other law officers. Like most of you, I find that if you treat an officer with respect, even if you think he's wrong, the officer will respect you.

 

[AllanD]

when i was buildin my 5.0 i would start it up in my driveway and 10 mins later i would have a cop in my driveway tellin me the neighbors are complaining about the noise. lol my neighbors hated that truck and they couldnt wait till they saw that thing pull into the road so they could call the cops on me. i made sure she was all registered and legal before it even seen the street. sure enough the first day i drove away with it, the cops were waiting at the bottom of the hill and they pulled me over. they were pretty cool about it. all they wanted to know is if it was legal and safe. i popped the hood for them, revved it up a little. they said it was a pretty cool truck just dont drive crazy. we bullshitted for a few minutes and that was the end of it. the moral of the story is, the cops are just doing their job and if you respect them, they respect you. as far as my neighbors go, i would make sure i had it in 1st gear at about 3000rpms when i got close to the house.....haha

walking onto private property other than up your front walk to ring your doorbell without an invitation or a warrant is NOT legal.
IF they see you in the yard they are supposed to call to you
and ask something like "do you have a minute" or "can I speak to you"
before walking onto your property.

Most times people (and the police) who should know better
ignore the strict terms of the law...

As far as being on private property with the keys in?
There are restrictions on them there.

You can be completely blotto behind the wheel in your car,
IF you are on private property that is not normally accessable
to the general public.

Your own driveway, (unless the officer SEES you on a public road),
an industrial parking lot where YOU are entitled to be, but that also
"limits" public access... a small sign saying "Private property, No tresspassing"
is sufficient... they have NO right to enter.

they can briefly enter but if you tell them they are tresspassing
they've gotta go.

a small sign saying "private driveway" can legally protect you from
an obnoxious cop who wants to harass you for having an "open container"
"in" a motor vehicle... Who here has not worked on their truck with an open beer nearby?

To an officious asshole simply sitting on the drivers seat to change CD's
(with your legs outside the car) was an excuse for a cop to give a friend of mine a citation for "open container"... which he beat in court.
The vehicle was on private property.
It also wasn't going anywhere, no cylinder heads, but the judge dismissed the case before anyone could even tell him that...

Just don't do so with the vehicle parked at the curb.

Most cops are nice guys, but I've met my share of officers
who are genuine pricks that in another time would have
a bounty on their ass...

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[bigcountry]

i cant stand when ppl follow you that irrates me so much. i was with a budy and he had an 87 k5 blazer on 44s with a 351 stroker and full exhaust some guy followed us from a gas station he didnt spin any tires used his blinkers and still followed us everywhere we went like he went to the grocery store and he sat in his car and watched us and followed us through every trun and when we changed lanes so did he so my buddy calls his dad and tells him a guy has been following us for about an hour he tells us to get back to his house and this idiot followed us to his house and my friends dad was waitin on the front porch with a marlin 444 with 10 power scope and this guy was dumb enough to get out and start chedwin us out cause he reeved his motor a bit and this guy took it personal and also called the cops who showed up about 5 mins after we got to my buddys house and guess who went to jail? the guy who followed us for an hour he even said and his excat words were"i know what they did cause i was following them for an hour" the cop was ticked at the guy who thought he was doing the right thing

 

[dennis461]

This is true, I have always been nice to the cops I've talked to. Back home there were two cops that liked to pick on me though. One of them would sneak around my vehicles all the time and look in the windows and stuff. I always heard about it through somebody else who happened to walk by and see it happen, until I finally caught him doing it. He didn't really have an explanation besides checking to see if my exhaust was legal...yeah right. Didn't do it again after that.
...

Just ask this guy how to talk to police

 

[mini274]

This is tn dude. work him over with a 30 pound sledge. idk about elizabethton but down here in seymour, the cops dont care. they pull you over, do whatever they gotta and then smile and wave to you the next time they see you.

Im originally from tn... i recently moved to indiana if it was tn i would be talkin to the cops for hours... i went to a garage today to talk to a guy about parts and told him wat had happened last night... he looked at me and said yep thats about right... so now i know i cant even run the rpms up enough to hear the blow off valve without some idiot following me with the cops on the phone... this tempts me to move back to tn if i could get a job their

 

[martin]

I think you need to cool off a little. Last week the cops broke into my house at 2:30 in the morning, kinda shocking way to be woken up. Turned out there was something wrong with my phone line and it was calling 911. I'm just glad they didn't mace my dog and shoot me. You have to give them some leeway as they don't know what they are walking into, some people they have to deal with are real a-holes. Another thing to think about is that the person they dealt with before you might have pissed them off and they take a while to cool off. I've had my issues with them in the past also but as I get older and cops get younger my tolerance seems to improve which tends to make the conversations slightly more civil. A little more tolerance on both sides would be a good thing.

 

[Ozwynn]

I think you need to cool off a little. Last week the cops broke into my house at 2:30 in the morning, kinda shocking way to be woken up. Turned out there was something wrong with my phone line and it was calling 911.

I'd get proof of that if I were you. if they had broken into my house at 02:30 there would be dead cops on my floor.

I have already dealt with an asshole cop that thought he could break into my house at mid-night because of some suspicious activity in the area.... Claimed he saw the subject run into my house (this is the same cop that follows me all over town, this is the same cop that got his ass beat by me at the dairy queen, this is the same cop that arrested me because the Private school got broken into, this is the same cop that plants drugs during a search and if i could prove it he would be in jail)....... locked and dark house....... and told me he had the right to search it and it was legal for him to be there..... arrested me for threatening him with a fire arm and resisting arrest....... charges were dropped and if he ever sets foot in my house again he will get a bullet in his head.

 

[Shran]

BDAB, you get into the weirdest shit.

 

[Ozwynn]

BDAB, you get into the weirdest shit.

it goes back to highschool. he was a bully then and is a bully now. I did notice the other day his house is forsale and I haven't seen him patrolling for a couple days..... I am going to ask about him at the next council meeting.

 

[mn_smokeater]

BDAB, you get into the weirdest shit.

no kidding

i learn new things ever post i read from him. lotta good life lessens and advise there

 

[erocka1982]

some ppl grow up and some ppl dont. i went to school with this guy thats a cop in my village now. he was total asshole in school and thought his shit didnt stink. when i found out he was was hired here i figured, this will be interesting, but turns out hes pretty cool now. he pulled me and a buddy over cuz we kept hittin his switches and draggin the ass of his truck and bouncin it and stuff, we ended up hangin out on the side of the road just talkin for like a half hour. he told us he pretty much had to pull us over cuz we were being "unsafe" but never planned on giving us a ticket, just wanted to check out the truck. now on the other hand i can think of a couple other cops that prolly would have givien us a few bullshit tickets and been a total jerk.

 

[erocka1982]

my reply to ALLEN D>>>>i hear ya about the tresspassing thing but the cops were just responding to a complaint and they had to come up and talk to me. i didnt care. F those neighbors for complaining cuz my half built truck "brought down my property value"<<<(yea they really said that). lol the cops in my area have a reputation for being very strict and they have the highest DWI arrests in the area, but i dont cause MUCH trouble and i repsect them so they are cool to me.

 

[snake]

I want to know why the dumbass wanted your address 4 times... weren't you at your own house? Isn't it on your damn license that he just handed back? WTF?