# Middle finger in public

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-finger-in-public/250630>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-finger-in-public/250630 "2004-06-16T11:03:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-finger-in-public/250630/21 "2004-06-17T20:19:50Z")

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Years ago, in my elementary school days, I remember a boy in the back seat of our school bus flipped a following sheriff off, and the bus was immediately pulled over. IIRC, the driver talked to the cop for a few minutes, and we ended up being late for class and the driver gave the whole bus a long speech about not doing that again. I don’t think the boy got in much trouble, however. This was back in the early to mid-eighties in Georgia.

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