Doesn’t he do this in every thread? And doesn’t he usually come back three posts later?
The OP of this thread is either dishonest or pathetic.
Dishonest because, really, the worst possible interpretation of his description is that the cop was being kind of a jerk. That’s it, no sinister conspiracy, no agenda, just a jerk cop (for the sake of argument, I don’t necessarily agree with that interpretation). What’s not to understand? Where is any possible confusion?
Or pathetic in one of two possible ways: either the OP is indeed trolling for attention, as so many have suggested; or (worse in my opinion) he is so immature that he can’t let go of an incident as trivial as this, and gets his emotional reward from making it a Big Deal. Who among us hasn’t suffered from someone who was a jerk and who had some power over us - a boss, a parent, a teacher, even a doctor. So what? Who among us is so emotionally retarded that we can’t (at least eventually) just shrug it off and move on?
I don’t know if the OP ever had any emotional therapy after his disability; if not, he should. It’s not a small loss and I can understand someone making it an unhealthy focus of their attention. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Roddy
I think most people in this situation, if indeed the cop was being a jerk, would have thought “Dayum, what a jerk” and gone on their way without dwelling on it.
But not all.
My mother has a friend* (actually former coworker she’s too nice to tell to take a flying leap) who is the biggest drama queen grudge holder I’ve ever met. She blows every little incident waaaay out of proportion. Supermarket checker was rude? Right to the manager to complain to try and get the checker fired and/or free coupons. Driveway gets plowed in in the winter? On the horn to the municipal building to get the street department over there RIGHT NOW to shovel it out for her. She has alienated most of her immediate family because every little disagreement is perceived as an epic snub and they don’t understand that she blah blah blah. According to my mother she’s still nursing grudges from the 1970s.
There’s a subset of people who just can’t let go of a problem and they’re not happy unless they spread it around. They thrive on argument and drama and confrontation and justify it by saying they’re just standing up for their rights they don’t want to be taken advantage of and honestly don’t perceive that to a neutral outsider they come off as raving maniacs.
*The irony here is that this woman still uses the handicapped parking placard of her mother, who died at least 15 years ago, and all the police in our town are too afraid to trigger World Wars IV-DLV by confronting her about it.
Dammit! Don’t give the OP any ideas!
I have little doubt that Jamie posted this story here in the (severely misguided and tone-deaf) hope that he’d get enough support/info to help him sue the police force for discrimination. Doesn’t matter if he has a solid case or not, he just wants the settlement. It’s his MO.
When my older boys began driving, I worked really hard at making them understand a few truths about driving. The two most important truths, imo, were: 1. Driving is not about the size of your dick. 2. When you get stopped by a policeman–and you WILL, eventually–remember that it is not the job of the police to be polite to you.
Perhaps Truth #2 is the one they had the most trouble with. My son, at 16, was an innocent bystander who got left behind when all his buddies did a fast fade when a police car lit them up. They checked his ID, etc, and got ready to send him on his way when he dropped a baggy on the ground. It happened to be his OTC L-Lysine, a granola-type supplement he takes for canker sores, and it happened that the pills were sorta crushed by riding around in his pocket.
Son was absolutely OUTRAGED at the way he was treated! Handcuffed like a common criminal! Thrown into the backseat! Threatened with arrest! Called a METH DEALER!! He was a really good kid, did well in school, kept pretty clean, etc…and he couldn’t accept that the police didn’t see that when they looked at him, and man! they were so RUDE.
Well, yeah, they were. Because as far as they knew (until the drug team came to field-test the white powder), they were looking at a meth dealer. And they don’t have to be polite, no matter how righteous your cause or your situation may be.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is…I think it’s nice if everyone is polite. But cops don’t get paid to make nice with people who they suspect of breaking the law. Sounds like he was suspicious, realized fairly quickly that his suspicions were unfounded, and went on his way, assuming that you would do the same. I sure wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
ISTR that’s the case. What the hey? Let’s go for an “anchor pool.” The winner gets bragging rights; losers, well, they’ll just have to work on their prognostication skills.
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It was probably pretty scary for him. Outrage is a normal reaction to fear.
I’ll take the afternoon of 11/10
Afternoon of 11/11/11.
Like the cop?
I actually do expect police to be polite, at all times.
They are public servants, after all.
Not that that happens much, although the British police seem quite pleasant even while doing a body search for drugs.
I think y’all are too optimistic. Make mine Nov 4, 00:00 to 11:59
“Righty-o, old chap, if you’ll kindly remove your knickers and assume the position (rubber glove snap) we’ll get this dashed inconvenience over with right quick. Dreadfully sorry, old bean, just lean forward and think of England, wot?”
Not to worry. The teenage little shit will just wave grandma’s placard out the window, and according to our friend here, that should cause the cop to say “OK no problem sir, sorry for the inconvenience.”
Or perhaps the cop will use his super cop-powers to check via long distance viewing to see if the driver (sorry, parker) is entitled to the placard)
IME, limited as it is, those who are polite in public tend to be rather diffuclt to deal with at home.
“Drop that knife!” Sigh. “I mean please drop that knife.”
It’s polite to actually quote people or use their correct names so they can find you talking shit about them.
If grandma gives her placard to some teenage little shit to use illegally, it’s not any different, from a systemic perspective, from grandma using it herself. The space doesn’t become available when grandma’s parked in it.
If she sends some teenage little shit to the store to pick up her prescriptions, it may be worth it to her that the teenage little shit saves a couple of minutes not having to hunt for a parking space and walk across the lot before he returns.
Gee, if that is indeed a reasonable justification for someone other than a disabled person to obtain and/or use a placard, then I’m sure the law is written to accommodate it, right?
Or perhaps not.
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