No big story. I just love the bluntness of the policeman in this case.
OK, What’s a “mook”?
I didn’t know people actually said mook, outside of Law and Order. Maybe NYPD Blue. Do people really say skell?
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Interesting. Of course I’ve heard it used, probably only on TV, and I had a vague idea of it’s intent, but I never realized that it was a racial slur.
I don’t know about real life, but it was used on “Miller’s Crossing,” and it is almost a staple for crossword puzzles.
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Heh, I like the line ‘You know who I am, I know you know who I am.’, although he really should learn that it’s appropriately said ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ as indignantly as possible.
I wouldn’t have known who he was on sight so obviously that still wouldn’t work on everyone.
Mook is not a racial slur, and never has been. The article says moke was once used that way, but is now obsolete.
Well, according to CNN, he was actually arrested for:
[ul]
[li]Driving with an expired permit.[/li][li]Driving without insurance.[/li][li]Driving an unregistered vehicle.[/li][/ul]
Li’l bit more than “being an asshole.”
Of course, he was pulled over in the first place for “making an unsafe lane-change.” I.e., DWB.
They do at my job.
Wow. How do you buy a car that costs almost half a million dollars and not even insure or register it? I mean, I’m unemployed and driving a '96 Saturn, but I can still manage to meet those requirements!
The term “moke” is not obsolete in Hawaii. Don’t refer to any local with the term or you’ll be broken into little pieces.
Wouldn’t it be nice if “being an asshole” really was a jailable offense? I don’t know if the jails could hold 'em all, but it’d make life much more pleasant.
According to the first listing at Urban Dictionary:
The subsequent definitions are similar.
I picked up “mook” from Chris Moore’s Island of the Sequined Love-Nun. It’s a fun word. 
But where do you work? Is this a police thing? (sorry for the hijack but I’m kind of curious.)
“Well, according to CNN, he was actually arrested for:
Driving with an expired permit.
Driving without insurance.
Driving an unregistered vehicle”
Hmmm…why do I think, though, that he might not have been taken in had he been less of an asshole. Like this: “At first he refused a police order to get out of the car, instead making a call on his cell phone, tourist Ian Parvess said”. He might have gotten away with a huge ticket and so on, the “asshole” might have been the tipping point.
That’s quite an assumption. How do you know that his “unsafe lane change” didn’t make people swerve out of his way, nearly causing an accident? Without knowing what happened, you really can’t say if it was a DWB situation or not.
A fairly funny scene in the movie Mean Streets revolves around that very question.
JOHNNY BOY
(interrupting)
We won’t pay…because this guy
(pointing to JIMMY)
is a…mook.
JIMMY
But I didn’t say nothin.
The fellows look at each other bewildered.
JOEY
(to JIMMY)
We don’t pay mooks!
JIMMY
(angrily)
A mook…I’m a mook…
(pauses)
What’s a mook?
JOHNNY BOY
Yeah.
JIMMY
What’s a mook?
JIMMY’S BUDDIES
- I don’t know.
JIMMY
You can’t call me a mook!