Well, if that’s the service you expect from your public servant, perhaps we’re getting the government we deserve?
I read the OP and not much else. I usually just let everyone just let off steam (or vent their hatred in some cases) in these threads about what some cop did. I just wanted to say that many times I have been confronted with “Whats your badge number?” They say it like it’s a cross to a vampire. I couldn’t care less. I give my name, number, spell it out for them, even offer to write it down. I couldn’t care less if you know my name or badge number. It’s not like it is a secret. Whatever call I’m on is on record in headquarters anyway so it’s not like I can do anything anonymously. Go ahead, ask away.
In the US, we’ve got so many stupid rules* about where citrus from one state can and cannot travel that I’m not surprised that they took away your grapefruit. It’s asinine, but they’re trying to protect the citrus crops from any potential citrus contamination/disease.
[sub]*No, seriously, we do. Any state that produces citrus cannot ship to any other state that produces citrus, and sometimes cannot ship to neighboring states for fear of “teh plague” that might result from cross-contaminating citrus crops. It’s understandable, though, when you see what happens during a citrus canker outbreak. They more or less have to cut down all the trees in the area and sometimes burn the land before they’re satisfied they’ve eradicated the problem.[/sub]
I’m so glad I no longer live in a football town. I spent four years in Tallahassee, and the two homecoming weekends per year were enough to last a lifetime, especially considering that FAMU’s homecoming normally was heralded by Tennessee Street shutting down from 3pm to 3am on game day and shootings in the local malls. Thing is, the majority of people coming in for FAMU’s homecoming game never went there, had no relatives that went there, and they flooded Frenchtown with more cars than the rest of the area; just about every non-alum came to cause a ruckus and have a wild party in the streets. FSU’s homecoming crap wasn’t much better, but at least we didn’t have to worry about getting shot at in the mall or Tennessee Street shutting down completely for twelve hours during the FSU homecoming weekend. Fanaticism seems to bring out the worst in people.
I figured it was something like that (it was a very nice grapefruit, though). I thought that people had given up on containing citrus diseases since Katrina blew everything all over, though?
Thank you. Jeeze, it’s not like it’s a stupid thing to ask - is there no such thing as accountability? I wrote a letter praising a state trooper once who stopped and changed my dad’s tire, too - it’s not like I’m one of those whiny people who have a Letter to the Editor in every damned paper or something.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t do it nicely. 
If you say it with the tone like you are presenting me with Kryptonite I’ll throw the tone right back at you.
Well, I’m not dumb enough to be rude to the cops. Seriously, I was never less than civil. I work with the public too and I don’t like people to snap at me, either.
We haven’t had a major citrus scare since Katrina, but they still have a lot of rules about agricultural products that are made in multiple states. You can’t have certain items shipped to other states if they also produce that item. Part of it is cross-contamination issues, part of it is trying to keep people buying that state’s products instead of a competing state’s similar products.
I’m pretty sure Cops Writing Cops is a real website… down to the misspelling ‘Polcie’ in the page title.
They view themselves as different from regular people, not obligated to follow the same rules, a special class of society.
You wanna know why people hate cops? That’s why.
Even if it’s just a speeding ticket, it’s the attitude that they do not have to follow the same rules as what they refer to as ‘civilians’.
Bet it would be a blast to have you in the back seat if I got pulled over.
You’re making me snort out loud here.
Yeah, but SC has always been, ah, how to put this, a “second tier” team. That’s changing every year. Look for it to get much, much worse.
Some ass border guard in Trukee California seized my Avacado once, So I feel the pain. However my criminal Master plan to smuggle fruity goodness into the state still succeeded with a second Avacado I had cleverly disguised as slices between Bread, Bacon ,Turkey ,and Swiss cheese. Take that California!
And that is something I wish we could make them stop doing. Police (except as far as they might be coincidentally also a Reservist or something) are also Civilians.
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Zsofia**, no, that’s not the service I *expect *from a public servant, it is just a very real possibility. And the risks outwiegh the pluses by a factor of 1000+.
You assume I would ever ride in your car, let alone get in the back.
Again, part of the attitude that they are different or set apart. I wish they’d stop doing it too. By definition unless a person is in the military, that person is a civilian. I think that this is where the ‘us vs. them’ starts, and it sure doesn’t get better when so many cops want to put on their BDUs and view every non-cop not as ‘person’ but ‘potential criminal’.
It’s an suv with rear dvd. You could watch cartoons or listen to the radio. 
Edit. It has leather seats too.
And it misidentifies the OP as a ‘he’ to boot!
I’ll drive.
The traffic cop may have considered it shitty duty, but as I’ll bet the cop wasn’t complaining about the time and a half OT pay he/she was making for the game day traffic duty.
Whenever people talk about cops and firefighters getting preferential treatment, they always justify it by saying how dangerous their jobs are, protecting us, etc. Since my husband has been working as a Construction Safety Officer, I’ve learned A LOT about construction safety statistics - if you want to worry about your husband getting killed at work, wives of construction workers should be an awful lot more worried than wives of cops.
Construction fatalities, 2006, U.S. - 1226 (the highest of any industry).
Protective service fatalities, 2006, U.S. - 42.
Part of that of course is that there are a lot more construction workers than there are cops and firefighters, but still - 1226 deaths, in a country that has laws like OSHA? So you don’t think I’m bragging here, Canada’s record is no better. 42 dead cops and firemen is also unacceptable, but I don’t think it’s entirely accurate to think of cops and firemen as the only people in dangerous occupations.
(Not aiming this at you, by the way, catsix. Your post was just my jumping-off place for my points.)