I AM IN
when i was in high school i had a little bmw in a little town called gallatin tennessee. my jr year i had 2 cv strker 12s and a sounstream davinci amp is stolen out of my car. the school cop just shrugged his holders like well it is just a sound system. i looked at him, and all 6 ft 5 in and 300 pounds of me snapped. I cussed him up and down informing him that 2 felonies had been committed. theft over 5000 and theft/vandalism on government property. this idiot comes back with a tool box and pulls out some fingerprint dust. and READS THE INSTRUCTIONS. at this point i am livid, looking in my car to see a broken recaro seat, my dash looks like someone took a hammer to it and they took a crowbar to my trunk. completely destroyed my pride and joy. so he does his thing and I just get in my car and leave. :q:q:q:qing pissed.
wouldnt you know I get pulled over 16 times in 30 days. Keep in mind i am not from this little town. a friend of mine informs me that this town has whats called a "black list". they would pull me over and commence disassembling my car, knowing that it pissed me completely off. telling me that i had a tail light out. the old e30 bmws had an on board computer that would tell you when you had a bulb out. so to make a verry long story short, in the end i get 14 of the 16 tickets thrown out and 2 officers cited for harassment. I will never forget the judges name judge kittrel. she fuggin rocked. it didnt stop there ether i get 37 tickets in 6 mo. i got soo sick of it I started running from them. never once did i get caught running, NOT ONCE.
injustices happen like this every day. it is a gd sham that we have to live our lives in fear of who is supposed to be protecting us. free my ass, if they don't like you, you are a criminal. if you are different, you are a criminal . plane and simple.
They used to do that around here too (probably still do; I'm just not on the local scene as much as I used to be). It's a small town with a TON of cops, so I think alot of it is they're bored or trying to meet quotas so they harass people, specifically young people. Back when I had my Mark VIII, I used to hang out at the local car-guy hangout on the weekends. It was cool for a couple years, but then one cop started coming through and harassing us and making us leave. Then, over time, he'd come up there screaming at us and cussing us out and making us leave. It even got so bad, he would come in, shine his spotlight on us and get on the PA system screaming at us to "Get the F### out". Keep in mind, this was a busy shopping center parking lot with plenty of people around to hear. It was always just this one cop, and never anyone else. Other cops would just ride by us during the night and not say anything. Finally, one night the cop followed us to a fast food place where we'd usually go get something to eat and hang out after he would run us off. Alot of the guys that hung out with us had Hondas and other little imports (not ricer kids- these guys actually had something. Some of these guys had Civics that would outrun C6 Corvettes). The cop pulled in behind a Hyundai Tiburon with a wing and racing stripes (didn't belong to any of us, but he thought it did), and got out of his car pointing at the Tiburon and running his mouth, saying "I should tow your little piece of s### toy cars" and on and on like that. Before he could finish his rant, the security guard for the burger joint (the guy had to be about 60) walked up to him and said "Excuse me, that's MY car you're talking about, and I didn't call the cops and I don't see a problem here, so I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You're harassing our paying customers." Of course, the cop got pissed, but he never came in that parking lot again while we were there. After that, though, he started pulling guys over (mostly the Honda/import guys) claiming something stupid like a broken taillight and would completely search their cars (unlawfully, I presume. We all hated him, so I doubt any of them would give him permission to search), and afterward, the guys would check and their taillights (or whatever the cop had said was wrong) were working fine. Luckily, I flew under his radar with my Mark VIII (granny car, right?
), and never got any one-on-one harassment from him like other guys did. I haven't seen him around town in a LONG time, though, so maybe he harassed the wrong person and lost his job.
