Truth be told, this is what stuck out most to me about the OP.
I think the issue here is not so much makeup as way too much makeup. Which generally indicates you are a streetwalker, or are so clueless that you don’t realize you are making yourself look like a streetwalker, or are actually Tammy Fay Baker. None of these are good things if you are a female cop (or a male one either).
“Nut! Oh, nu-ut!”
“He’s not here, officer.”
He’s French. It’s pronounced “Fah-GHA-tee-Ay”.
Same here. I’m still unsure what the hell the OP was so pissed at the cops about.
I would think Scandanavian, possibly Norwegian (or maybe even Danish). In the old country it was probably Fåghatter.
Before I read any of the replies, I’m going to bet that only a small minority of the responses will be sympathetic.
Anyway, my sympathies. Whatever your neighbors’ motives are, repeatedly calling the police with nonexistent noise complaints is harassment. And I have no difficulty believing a cop acted homophobic without saying anything overt.
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He went on to explain if you ask a woman if she’s a lesbian she will respond with: “Why man? WTF does it matter? you gotta problem?” If you ask a gay man if he is gay he will respond with a flamboyant: “Guilty!”
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That sounds high-larious. It’d be funnier if there weren’t so many gay people with very good reason to keep it secret.
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Unless the local police are in the habit of randomly harassing quiet lesbians, I’d say her rage should be directed at whoever called them.
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If the police are repeatedly answering specious noise complaints, they’re complicit in harassing these people. The fact that they’re doing it on behalf of nutcase neighbors doesn’t change their role in it.
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Or being everything you hate, and still realizing you wanted him to take you, take all of you, then and there?
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Wow, what a gross thing to say.
In many cases, the police are required to investigate all reports of suspected domestic violence. They may have no choice. If so, your complaint isn’t with the officers but with the law.
Having quiet time late at night interrupted by a rude cop duo who made cracks about her sexuality and attempted to intimidate her brought on by a neighbor with an unknown beef. And I really only skimmed the OP.
I’m going to send my first grade teacher a bouquet of flowers because between this and the non-paragraphed OPs that show up every once in a while, it appears she has taught me how to read English at a level far beyond what most people are capable of.
I guess I missed all those parts with cracks on her sexuality, intimidation, and rudeness. And I read the OP. Weird.
Were you wearing ‘sensible shoes’ when the cops came to your door?
Because I have a couple lesbian friends who always keep a pair of 4 inch ‘fuck me’ heals right by the door for these occasions.
I flashed on Wolowitz’s mom from “Big Bang Theory” - “Who’s at the door? Is that a sex criminal?” screeched at the top of her lungs.
While I was reading this thread, someone unexpectedly knocked at my door! It was a guy looking to do some yardwork. Or a guy looking to rob my house if it was unoccupied. He did have a rake, though.
Did he accuse you of living with someone? Because that would be homophobic.
I understand that people are saying this, but I have to say I have my doubts that this is always the case. Imago’s neighbors are not the first people to discover using the police to harass people; since she mentioned I think four instances of noise complaints by these people, all of which were illegitimate, the cops should be aware of the problem.
If the law really allows absolutely no discretion, then yes, I have a problem with it, but I’m sure at very least it also criminalizes abuse of police services like this, and they ought to be assessing fines or whatever is in their power against these neighbors. But I suspect that probably, in most jurisdictions, if the police are certain that the call is not a legit complaint, that someone has the authority to say they don’t have to go out. Because I can’t imagine that this is such a rare phenomenon that they don’t have a system to deal with it.
Two a.m. visits from the police are potentially a major annoyance; it’s easy to imagine an elderly person being scared out of their wits, and I wouldn’t appreciate the interruption to my sleep.
Also, buy them loud toys and drums. It is a duty.
Must look nice with their jammies.
I always thought “domestic dispute” just meant a fight between people who live together. Pretty sure I’ve seen brothers and sisters and cousins and moms and dads and grandparents and grandkids all beating the fuck out of each other at one time or another on COPS, where the police refer to them as domestic disturbances.
At any rate, I wouldn’t fly into a rage if someone assumed my sister and I were a couple. And we’re not… I mean, anymore.
It’s possible that they were perfectly pleasant and charming officers and the OP is a tinderbox of issues willing to explode if someone says match. But it’s just as likely that the officers conveyed less than pleasant attitudes through tone and body language that got the OP so het up. Either way, it’s the internet so it doesn’t matter. It’s not like being rude to the OP is going to get her to change the story.
Nope - I shut the door too fast! Ha!
Yeah, not quite what I was suggesting, either. But you’re right. Who gives a shit?
That seems reasonable, but it hardly excuses saying something mean about a police officer’s makeup on the Internet. What are we, savages? [Translation: I am really confused by the responses in this thread.]
My daughter used to shout that out any time there was any evidence of police, either in the car, house, a restaurant, etc, when she was about three. It was interesting, 'specially to watch the reactions of others hearing her.