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03-29-2006 #61
Personally mate, I'd prefer to see someone passed out in a British pub - asleep on a bench in a park or puking up on his way back from the pub after a kebab than the police arresting people for this....oh wait, I would have been in jail now if I'd lived in Texas.
It's bollocks - pure and simple bollocks.
Of course there are good laws - but this is just crazy.
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03-29-2006 #62
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Originally Posted by Felicia Katt
Another example of tolerance by the police: One night my girlfriend and I were pretty drunk and two cops were standing right outside the door of the bar we were leaving. Now we’re both guilty of public intoxication and we knew it. I decided to have a little fun and we approached these two cops. I asked, “Excuse me officers but is this illegal?”, and I yanked her shirt up and showed them her tits. One redneck deputy belted out “Gosh dang look er there!” The other said “That’s not illegal in my book.” I asked “Wanna touch em?” He laughed and said, “I’d love to, but that is highly illegal for me.” Pretty funny.
There are bad cops out there, but for the most part they’re just people like you and I. You show them respect and treat them as people, and they’ll generally be tolerant unless you’ve committed a serious offense. Now, if you approach them with your feathers ruffled, in their head they’ll think “Okay what can I charge this bastard with.” Anyone who is willing to take a bullet on their job has my respect.
And we’re not sheep here in Texas as Seanchai would have it. One day an asshole (major asshole!) patrolman tailgated me for a mile because I wouldn’t get out of the fast lane on the freeway. I thought, “Fuck him” and I stayed put. He pulled me over pissed off to high heaven. He yelled and ranted and I stood my ground insisting very austerely “On what charge? On what charge? On what charge? ” I wasn’t speeding or anything. He said “Keep it up and you’re gonna go to jail.” I said “Keep what up? You lay one hand on me without probable cause and I’ll have a lawsuit on your ass Ajax won’t scrub off.” He got one inch in my face and yelled “Fuck you!!!!”, stormed to his patrol car, burned rubber, and I flipped him the bird as he screeched by. He knew he had one foot in the door at the Houston Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division, and decided to terminate his little traffic stop for his own good.
The police may have 0.08 as leverage, but we citizens also have that key phrase “probable cause” on our side. A civil rights violation goes all the way up to the mayor and sometimes ends up in the national media, and he wanted no part of that.
I’m all for the public intoxication laws here in Texas. I worry more about the citizens in this state than I do the police. Many citizens in this state are bigger assholes than the 99% of the police out there just trying to do their job, and that is a fact.
Just my two cents.
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03-29-2006 #63
Why were you driving in the fast lane and wouldn't get out of the way? I'll never understand that about driving in US how clearly the inside lane is the fast one but if someone is doing the speed limit "it's their goddam right to cruise along a that speed" - would never happen in Europe.
Texas on the whole is pretty good for that though, was most impressed by drivers on smaller roads in SE Texas who pull onto shoulder if a car is coming behind them faster to let past.
You think being drunk and your girlfriend acting like a slut in front of an officer is funny? I just don't get it, where is the humour in that?
I've been pulled up a dozen times - never for DUI as I don't do that but for speeding which I do way too much - I act courteous and 9/10 have had courteous cops, I don't have an issue with police or authority, I have an issue with a law that takes your freedoms away but hey, if you're happy demeaning your girlfriend in public and cruising in the fast lane needlessly, your liberties and your value of what those liberties mean to you are obviously different to mine and seem to work in your favour!
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03-29-2006 #64
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Originally Posted by seanchai
You can either look at this as a violation of their civil rights, which is not the case. Or you can look at it for what it really is. The police intelligently utilized the legal limit of 0.08 where the public intoxication law is concerned to diffuse a potentially volatile situation. I for one, was very appreciative of that law that evening. I was actually getting so unsettled by their behavior that I was rushing through my meal to get out of there. No one should be in that position as a paying customer, and this is why the bars are not considered to be private establishments, so the police can step in and keep things safe. That is fine for me.
In Europe, probably the most eventful thing would be everyone raising their mugs and chanting “Ziggy Zoggy Ziggy Zoggy oy oy oy!!!” You don’t need a public intoxication law in that kind of an environment. What you need in there are naked mud wrestlers.
Cheerio!
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03-29-2006 #65
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Re: DEATH!!!!
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03-29-2006 #67
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Originally Posted by seanchai
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03-29-2006 #68
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Texas is gonna lose a lot of fucking money from this. Very dumb. Obvious a half thinking retard approcved that. The sad part is everyone else must eiother be stupid or too much of a coward to speak up. What should have happened? Before going to that extreme they should have atleast watched those drunks and see oif they attempted tp get behind the wheel. Then move in for the arrest. That's common sense. Arresting people in bars is just idiotic.
Smoking kills people, second hand smoke is deadly if an establishment wants to ban smoking mor epower to them. If the city wants to ban smoking in public places, good. If an establishment wants to allow smoking though it should be up to the individual to decide if he wants to frequent that place.
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03-30-2006 #69
Nice retorts, InHouston!
Now get out of the fast lane!!
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03-30-2006 #70
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Originally Posted by seanchai
Ziggy Zoggy