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d_r

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14. I have several times
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 09:17 PM
Jul 2013

I've been drunk and argued with them as they broke up a party.

One time when I was in my early 20s I was buying somethings at the grocery store and I was talking with someone on the way out, there were some cigarette lighters hanging on a display and I set the bag down looking through the lighters for a certain color, one on the end fell down and I picked it up and hung it back up and I saw out of the corner of my eye a cop looking at me. I knew he thought I was pinching one, so I walked out the door and sure enough he followed and a few steps later he caught up to me and said something like "Ok let's have it" and I said "what" and he said "that lighter you stole" and I said I didn't and he said he saw me. And I said "you saw me put a lighter in this bag?" and he said yes, and I said "and you're a fucking liar" and handed him the bag. He went through it and left in a huff.

I was totally trapping him and enjoying it, and the person I was with was about to shit their pants.

I said on here the other night about them using the drug sniff dog and searching my friends car, didn't talk back that night was scared shitless.

I always used to smart off at the border patrol stop because I knew they just wanted to hear me talk when they said "where you headed tonight?" so I'd say something goofy like "to pick up your mom for our date." I used to get those guys to laugh. I was always pissed off that they would stop you for no reason like that. I wouldn't do that post 9-11. No way in hell.

I got stopped a couple of weeks ago for a speeding ticket on the interstate in freaking Atlanta. I was not an asshole to that guy at all, I was yes sir no sir, but i also was like "come on everybody is speeding are you kidding me?" He gave me "it was your turn." He still gave me a ticket but he knocked it down.

Yes it is white priviledge and also I am pretty good and being cocky and being not an asshole at the same time. It has to do with eye contact and confidence, and those things come with white priviledge.

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Does "Yessir" and "Nosir" count? pscot Jul 2013 #1
only the border patrol/homeland security Kali Jul 2013 #2
I cussed out a customs agent for stopping me once HipChick Jul 2013 #3
That's what lawyers are for. n/t bluedigger Jul 2013 #4
No but I have flirted with one. hrmjustin Jul 2013 #5
Twice. Arrested both times. Acquitted both times. rug Jul 2013 #6
Oh yeah - more than once. ConcernedCanuk Jul 2013 #7
take my advice Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2013 #8
You're in rare form tonight, aren't you? Callmecrazy Jul 2013 #17
! Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2013 #20
!!! Kali Jul 2013 #25
I am not at liberty to discuss the details but, Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2013 #52
"since he had done nothing wrong the cop couldn't actually do anything" Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #9
Yes, but... cyberswede Jul 2013 #10
Yes mythology Jul 2013 #11
Not me, but my father did graywarrior Jul 2013 #12
Yep. Got arrested about forty years ago for it. struggle4progress Jul 2013 #13
I have several times d_r Jul 2013 #14
2 or 3 times - they ignored me LiberalElite Jul 2013 #15
Only pipi_k Jul 2013 #16
Yeah, I've done that... Callmecrazy Jul 2013 #18
Just a little. Incitatus Jul 2013 #19
I got into a heated argument with a cop Major Nikon Jul 2013 #21
My wife did and it was hilarious jrandom421 Jul 2013 #22
good lord, where to start! Joe Shlabotnik Jul 2013 #23
Nice :P Why would they check like that?... Locut0s Jul 2013 #30
Oh, yeah. Not afraid to verbally defend myself, if necessary. closeupready Jul 2013 #24
Yes blueamy66 Jul 2013 #26
yes the L.A. Sheriff Department is so vile Ghandi would talk back to them . olddots Jul 2013 #27
Wow that's a horrible practice :( Locut0s Jul 2013 #29
^^^ This. Iggo Jul 2013 #40
Never Xyzse Jul 2013 #28
Yes, but in another context. Heidi Jul 2013 #31
Lol that's a good one... Locut0s Jul 2013 #32
His deputies had just been issued those black, SWAT-team-esque uniforms, too. Heidi Jul 2013 #33
Oh great. Sounds like he thought he was... Locut0s Jul 2013 #34
Yes. It worked out alright cause I was right. In_The_Wind Jul 2013 #35
No but.... mockmonkey Jul 2013 #36
Fuck yes. Chan790 Jul 2013 #37
So this Uncle Bob... Locut0s Jul 2013 #45
No. Chan790 Jul 2013 #47
Ahh fair enough lol. nt Locut0s Jul 2013 #51
No, because I'm black and cops have a tendency of shooting black people who talk back to them. nt MrScorpio Jul 2013 #38
Yes sadly that's ill advised, especially in the states... Locut0s Jul 2013 #44
Oh gawd yes! Iggo Jul 2013 #39
Yes, I was arrested by the Illinois state cops at an anti war demo in 1970. mysuzuki2 Jul 2013 #41
Once, sort of BainsBane Jul 2013 #42
No miked62916 Jul 2013 #43
Of course. I'm married to him. tavernier Jul 2013 #46
Yep, my Sergeant............... mrmpa Jul 2013 #48
Yes, but only to a couple of them that I dated. n/t RebelOne Jul 2013 #49
I got in a car accident about two years ago. Initech Jul 2013 #50
Just: "No sir" and "yes sir". Lil Missy Jul 2013 #53
Yes, many times however truegrit44 Jul 2013 #54
only once, because I felt accused steve2470 Jul 2013 #55
After being pulled over for driving eratically... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #56
I'm sure cops get tired of... Bay Boy Nov 2013 #57
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