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What are some things that you guys stop/ticket people for, regardless of what they tell you?
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  • Pamiam
    quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
    Ever stop anyone for failure to signal? I HATE it when people fail to signal a turn...!

    What's even worse than those are the morons who signal for OTHER PEOPLE!

    "No, I wasn't turnin', but that feller in front of me wuz so I wuz signalin' fer him". [V]
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  • Grunt2
    D.U.I's and littering...
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  • sandwarrior
    Interesting responses.

    First, I noticed one HUGE pet peeve of a bunch of yours was NO INSURANCE. That is the biggest scam in America! Now they check your credit. Heavy debt on the cards...insurance bill goes up. That's about as right as letting the mob have Chicago back. Anyhow, here's my circumstance with that. I logged in Montana. I got stiffed by an employer for five grand! It's a misdemeanor in Montana to not pay wages owed. So, as I'm trying to recover from this and two other financial nightmares in the past two years. I get pulled over because my dim burns out right when I switch from high to low beam...about 3 miles from the middle of nowhere, Montana. The other car was a state trooper. He pulls us over, dings me for no insurance. So, when my 8 month pregnant wife goes to court the Judge says, "No Excuse!" He threatened her with jail time if she didn't pay the fine. She asked, what his excuse was for not making my former employer pay...or go to jail? We took that through the court system. Fergus County Montana said, "They just didn't have the resources to collect it." Even though they knew right where he was. That combined with the $250 bucks worth of tools stolen from my truck, and getting $15 in restitution has permanently jaded me to the law enforcement system. Even this post! You pick and choose what you decide to enforce!!!?? How 'bout just enforcing the LAW...period.
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  • Colt Super
    quote:Originally posted by xxx97
    quote:Originally posted by catpealer111
    quote:Originally posted by Flyin_Paulie
    quote:Originally posted by xxx97
    when did the public start calling police officers (cops)?

    Every since I was kid.[:)]


    I believe "COP" is an acronym for "Constable On Patrol"
    Chief Of Police..

    From: "Copper helmet">"Copper">"Cop" - English.

    I think it's a demeaning and insulting term. I refer to them as "Policemen".

    Doug
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  • shoff14
    I was eating Chocolate Fudge Rounds once will driving down the road. Darn tailgater was getting annoyed with me because I was driving to slow. I was doing about 60, road was a major speed trap. I have a sun roof in my truck, push the power button to open, throw Fudge round straight in to the air. SMASH direct hit! Oh that was fun right in the center of the windshield.
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  • JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by xxx97
    when did the public start calling police officers (cops)?

    Nobody really knows the origins of calling police cops, but it's been around about as long as police. This explanation is about as good as any:

    Come and get me, Neo-Hegelian.

    Dear Mr. Morris: What is the origin of the word "cop," used to denote a policeman? -- Sam Weissman, via the Internet.

    Funny you should mention cops. I live in New York City, which gives me the opportunity to observe just about every variety of police behavior imaginable. I also own, and occasionally listen to, a police-band scanning radio. (Yes, Virginia, it's perfectly legal.) Most of what I hear is pretty routine for New York City (riots, explosions, flying saucer landings, etc.), and the language, while often colorful, is fairly mundane. So imagine my surprise recently upon hearing an officer in the field ask his dispatcher to explain the "etiology" (a very fancy word for "cause" or "circumstances") of a situation he was being sent to investigate. Now we know where Philosophy majors end up. The dispatcher, incidentally, was not amused.

    Meanwhile, back at "cop," the most commonly-heard theories trace "cop" or"copper" meaning "police" to copper buttons worn on early police uniforms, or to copper police badges supposedly issued in some cities, but there is no convincing evidence for any of this. Still other theories explain "cop" as an acronym, standing for "Constable On Patrol," "Chief of Police" or other such phrases. But these "acronym" theories bear all the hallmarks of being spurious after-the-fact explanations invented to explain "cop." Among other sticky details is the fact that acronyms were virtually unknown in English before the 20th century, while "cop" itself was well-established by the mid-19th century.

    To cut to the chase, the police sense of "copper" and "cop" probably comes originally from the Latin word "capere," meaning "to seize," which also gave us "capture." "Cop" as a slang term meaning "to catch, snatch or grab" appeared in English in the 18th century, ironically originally used among thieves -- a "copper" was a street thief. But by the middle of the 19th century, criminals apprehended by the police were said to have themselves been "copped" -- caught -- by the "coppers" or "cops." And there you have the etiology of "cop." Case, as the cops say, closed.
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