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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever talked back to a cop? [View all]d_r
(6,908 posts)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.