Shouted at for riding a scooter yesterday, which is weird  By  dirkgently (Read 3,517 times)

Yes...you need to treat cops like any other armed gangbangers!

Not gangbangers but they have to deal with a lot of them. Too many of them take pot shots at the police nowadays especially when they patrol secluded areas. The incident I mentioned was up in the White Mountains where they were having a bit of a problem that they were trying to keep low key. My friend foolishly tapped on the window of the cruiser and said "License and Registration Please" as an opener to ask for directions which was not a very brilliant thing to do.

I have on a number of occasions worked as a police and prison consultant troubleshooting their software and data issues. None of the officers I have worked with personally would I treat or classify as "armed gangbangers".

Both of us had our hands in view. I was angry but I also didn't get belligerent and cuss at him. Telling cops how I feel is just something I do with no fear. I have no warrants so I don't fear being arrested. I am allowed to speak my mind and I will for sure call them out if they are in the wrong or put MY life in danger because they are breaking traffic laws.

I debated with an old cop for almost 20 min in GA. before I called him a liar and said the conversation was over. All of it was over him pulling next to me at a gas station and hearing my stereo... (2-10's and 2 sets of components running about 1,200w). The thing is, he said he was at the light about 70 feet away and could hear my stereo, a complete lie as I had my volume almost all the way down for the past 3 miles I had been driving because I was on my Bluetooth in a call. So he tells me he could ticket me for my stereo and that I need to keep it down. I said you absolutely can not do anything and I can listen to it at ANY volume I wish. At this point he tried to be a bad a$# and took in some air and squared off with me trying to intimidate me... didn't work and I squared of with him with a smile. I said "something you want to say"? He said that if I kept getting smart with him he would arrest me and would take my stereo out of my car.

I let him know that if he kept harassing me and threatening me I would file a complaint against him for being full of sh%#. He was pretty hot by this point. He said give me your drivers license and I said no, I haven't broken a law and you have not detained me or read me my rights. I said, what you can do is apologize for wasting my time and stop being a liar. I told him that my stereo has been down in volume for a very long time and there was no way on this planet that he could hear it from the distance he claimed. I said nobody has called and complained about my stereo so you can move on, this conversation is over. I walked inside, got my stuff and left. He followed me most of the way home... so I kept the stereo off lol. It's nothing more than abuse of power... he probably didn't like the N.W.A. rap music I listen too and formed an opinion in his head of me and went with it. I forgive him though.

I know I'm a little late to this conversation. But, what I'm taking away from this is,.... why is it you had a scooter out on the road with no title? Which, in-turn, means no registration, no tags, and no insurance? Fines, license suspension (then renewal), court costs, etc. could easily exceed $1500-2000 (at least here in OH)