# Don't know how to feel about this cop's question... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263 "2011-10-30T06:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/381 "2011-11-09T13:52:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > That’s because it’s donuts you’re supposed to wave at them. Everyone knows that. Come on, don’t be perpetratin’ hurtful stereotypes here. I find most cops are happy enough with leftover birthday cake 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/382 "2011-11-09T15:36:00Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > \ **Joey P.** and **Bob Ducca** , I don’t know why, but you guys are growin’ on me. :eek: Well, I am crushed, absolutely devastated, not to be included in your special little club. My life, such pathetic portion as now remains to me, will never be the same. Lucky for me I have all these cookies with which to console myself. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > You say you are a hippie? Or _ex_-hippie? Because you clearly burned one too many fucking brains cells you fucking dipshit moron. _At no point_ did I say or suggest that police are ever required to be honest with a person they are dealing with on the street/in a parking lot/in the world, _where ever._ Jeezus. > > What I _was_ saying, was that IF the cop was lying about why he lit me up (which he can do, but he still should have a valid reason for doing it, even if he isn’t honest with me when I ask him) then his true motivation for lighting me up was wrong. That motivation being simply his notion that I didn’t fit his conception of what disabled people look like. That doesn’t seem like a valid reason. > [@billfish678](#): > > Except it fucking is. Yes. I plead possibly guilty on the self destruction of brain cells. Being a humble, self deprecating kind of guy, I have been known to tell those questioning my cognitive powers that I used to have hair and I used to have brain cells, but I seem to have fewer of both these days. But I have taken a Darwinian approach – the brain cells I have left are really kick ass, super duper brain cells. And they actually revel in a good soaking in alcohol. Just for fun, as entertainment for the rest of us since you aren’t going to be reading this anyway, let us look at those two statements above. In the first you admit that LEOs are not required to be honest with you. Then in the second you whine, bitch, and moan that _this_ LEO wasn’t _honest with you_. Just as you have throughout this thread. The obfuscation regarding his “motivation” is just that – a distracting technique intended to divert our attention from your massive cognitive dissonance. Or it indicates a certain, shall we say, lack of strict logical rigor in your own thinking processes. As you have been told repeatedly, the cop’s “motivation” may have had absolutely zero to do with handicaps or with parking. And he was under zero obligation to reveal it to you, hence the acceptability of a lie. The consensus, if such can be judged from the totality of posts in this thread, is that your arguments fail and your outrage is misplaced. Sad for you. And really, is “fucking dipshit moron” the best you can do? Or does the inclusion of repeated “fucking”s heighten the insult level? I’m sorry, but on a scale of 1 to 9 where 9 is “Greatest mother fucking cock sucking bastard get of a syphilitic whore insult of all time”, your efforts fall somewhere between 1 (vacuously pathetic) and 2 (sophomorically lame). C’mon, man, where’s your fucking outrage? According to you I’ve misrepresented your arguments and called you names. I have absolutely devastated your arguments here (to say nothing of your fond preconceptions) and (by betting on your return to the thread) belittled your determination and resolve. And still, the best you can do is to cut me out of your club and call me something I might hear on the playground when 2nd graders are having recess? Gaahhh! This, like your OP, is poor, shallow, and overly self righteous. Get with it, dude! The standards of The Pit demand better! When come back, bring game. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/383 "2011-11-14T12:43:37Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I thought we had something special. My world is falling apart. You were always my favorite part of the duo. **Joey P** is just jealous because his solo career has tanked, and he ends up doing Saturday afternoon birthday parties, dressed as a clown. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/384 "2011-11-14T14:31:27Z")
This is the best thread ever. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/385 "2011-11-14T14:36:33Z")
Yup. Keep in mind that the top spot is up for grabs anytime **Ambivalad** has to park his car or see a parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/386 "2011-11-14T14:57:30Z")
Nothing says “good time” like some good old internet hating. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263/387 "2011-11-14T15:03:06Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Now was it any of this cop’s goddamn business in the first place what my disability was? Probably not, in the legal sense of things. Out on the street, yeah, he probably wanted to know why you deserve special treatment. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > \*Don’t get me wrong, I’m very very thankful that he’s even enforcing the spots at all. But like I said, once he had confirmation that the parking was indeed legal, ADIOS! If you had started off praising his dedication to catching the scum that steal parking from the truly needy, things would have gone different. But hey, then there wouldn’t be a bitch thread about it, so it all works out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-how-to-feel-about-this-cops-question/601263.md?page=19)