# My encounter with an Atlanta Police Officer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941 "2007-05-13T17:49:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/21 "2007-05-14T23:20:58Z")
[QUOTE=glee] How much of a joke is this? Here in England, you can ask a (mostly unarmed) policeman for directions with no problem. [/QUOTE] Getting directions wasn’t the surprise - it was that the cop was willing to walk a block and a half with the OP to a transit station to find a map. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/22 "2007-05-15T00:57:29Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] Arrrrgggggggg !!! ( Exasperated Pirate, you have a call on Line 4. ) Well? What did I miss? Nice art? [/QUOTE] And cute babies! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/23 "2007-05-15T01:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Getting directions wasn’t the surprise - it was that the cop was willing to walk a block and a half with the OP to a transit station to find a map. [/QUOTE] 10 to 1 it was coincidentally on the route to a pastry shop. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/24 "2007-05-15T02:36:02Z")
[QUOTE=Geobabe] And cute babies! [/QUOTE] I missed my chance !!! I missed my chance !!! ( one for each baby. 😃 😃 😃 ) Take them to Centennial Olympics Park tomorrow to frolic in the water. I’ll be the corpulent man with stringy gray hair and a greasy " I Voted For Cecil Adams " t-shirt sitting on the bench eating cheddar popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/25 "2007-05-15T06:10:05Z")
Every neighbourhood, sometimes every block, in Tokyo has little police stations (called “koban”) where there are usually 2-3 officers at all times. Tokyo police spend a great deal of their time giving directions (which is not surprising, given how damned difficult it is to find most places). I’ve even had to ask a police officer at 4AM for directions, when a taxi driver abandoned me some blocks from the place I wanted to be. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/26 "2007-05-15T14:50:01Z")
Its far too little/ too late to say, but I’ve always wanted to go back to Atlanta. If you get the chance, the cable-car trip to the top of Stone Mountain is neat. I remember the waitresses being so amazing there that my coffee cup seemed to refill as if by magic … ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/27 "2007-05-15T15:44:59Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] The time before that, I was at a neighbor dividing up several ounces of pot on the table. The door opened and a uniformed cop walked in. While I remained pretty much paralysed, he came over to the table, filled and lit a pipe, and we smoked it. [/QUOTE] See, now that’s how a perfect world would work. Cop: “Is that a pouch of weed there on your passenger seat?” Motorist: “Uh, yeah … Want some?” Cop: “Sure, why not?” ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/28 "2007-05-15T18:20:44Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] I missed my chance !!! I missed my chance !!! ( one for each baby. 😃 😃 😃 ) Take them to Centennial Olympics Park tomorrow to frolic in the water. I’ll be the corpulent man with stringy gray hair and a greasy " I Voted For Cecil Adams " t-shirt sitting on the bench eating cheddar popcorn. [/QUOTE] That’s a bit of a trek for a weekday expedition with the boys by myself, but if you’ll be in town for another day or more, email me if you want to try to work something out. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/29 "2007-05-15T18:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger] I ran into a cop in the D.C. Metro today. Actually, I ran into whole crowds of cops – turns out there’s 25,000 in town for the annual memorial service to honor their fallen comrades. [/QUOTE] A cop convention is what I figured when I encountered a couple of Kentucky State Troopers at the Dunkin Donuts in Crystal City. When I asked where 'bouts in Kentuckty they’re from, about a dozen more uniformed officers strolled by. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941/30 "2007-05-15T18:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] The last time I interacted with a cop I was in my home town for the first time in many years, and I saw a cop car cruise by. I looked at it for a bit because my dad had mentioned the cars had a spiffy new paint scheme. A few mintes later it pulled up next to me and stopped. The window opened and a voice called out, “Come over here… (pause wile I walk to the curb)… What the hell are you looking at?”. “The paint job”, I say. “Well, watch it.”, and he drove away. [/QUOTE] “Why? Is it going to change again?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-encounter-with-an-atlanta-police-officer/403941.md?page=1)