I never knew what those stickers were for. I figured they had something to do with gay marriage like the ones with the yellow equal sign.
I never knew what those stickers were for. I figured they had something to do with gay marriage like the ones with the yellow equal sign.
Ojala wrote: In my opinion only a fool would have one of those blue line stickers on a car. Well, either a fool or a wannabe cop. If I was going to burglarize a car I would break into the car with a blue line sticker...or an nra sticker...or a gun manufacturer sticker... Pretty good chance there is a gun in the car. And I have talked to burglars who knew to look for those stickers.
OTOH, in traffic nobody in their right mind berkeleys with that rusty truck with a NRA sticker on it.
I had a similar situation years ago when I was 18 and driving my hopped up Super Beetle. Was following a friend someplace down a county highway. He is driving a firebird and easily passes what I seem to remember as one of those turbo dodge chargers from the 80s. I go to pass the guy (Who is doing 5 under the limit) and he speeds up to block me.
I drift back and he drops to 10 under.. So I go to pass again and stays next to me till 15 over.. I fall back and he slows way down.. fed up, I dropped it to second and flew past him and eventually caught up with my friend who was waiting at a store 5 miles up the road.
Mr turbo dodge pulls in behind me ranting and raving about how he is a cop and is going to run my license in the morning.. yadda yadda yadda. I am a skinny kid of 6 foot and 135 pounds.. this dude lifts. Until my friend stepped out of the firebird. He took one look at my -very- Italian friend, gave one last threat of about issuing me tickets, and took off as fast as he turbo dodge could take him
To the OP. You definitely need to call the local PD and fiel a report. Any chance you got his tag number?
We have had several cases of this happening around here. They always target pretty women and the perp drives a SUV looking vehicle. One was sexually assaluted.
In reply to spitfirebill:
Anti-stance is damn lucky not to have been ass saluted!
I believe GA state law requires any police vehicle display minimum 6" tall letters in order to pull someone over. I know in this instance you were already stopped, but just as a conversation point.
I sell the blue line stickers. Most cops don't want to use them.
Ojala's point is basically why. Also if the car sits outside another house, etc. You can go on for hours about why not to have one.
Also, in most cases, white lights aren't a suggested method of pulling someone over. The only cars in this state I'll stop for have a red flashing light and a siren.
I find the symbolism of the sticker a bid sad. If the blue line separates good from bad, why is the "good" part black also. Shouldn't it be white? It seems to reinforce the "bad" attitude some police have for the common populace (treat them like criminals, as the sticker symbolizes).
Ojala wrote: Pretty good chance there is a gun in the car. And I have talked to burglars who knew to look for those stickers.
And most low rent "non-violent" criminals, such as burglars, want absolutely nothing to do with firearms. Too risky of getting extra jail time if caught. 
aircooled wrote: I find the symbolism of the sticker a bid sad. If the blue line separates good from bad, why is the "good" part black also. Shouldn't it be white? It seems to reinforce the "bad" attitude some police have for the common populace (treat them like criminals, as the sticker symbolizes).
To be fair, making good vs. bad a white vs. black issue would be racist as all berk. 
SWMBO's dad is a part-time deputy in the town she grew up in, he doesn't work as a LEO unless it's a busy time, like holidays or if the department is short staffed. Anywho, he's got one of the black with blue line front license plates on his truck. I never really thought about it until we borrowed his truck to move. I got the friendly "nod" of the head greeting from just about every cop I met while driving that truck, and I was almost 200 miles away from anyone that would have recognized the truck as SWMBO's dad's. LEOs never paid any attention to me unless I'm doing something wrong in any other vehicle. Then it dawned on me that it must have been because of the license plate. So at least some actual LEOs recolonize/respect the symbol.
In reply to bigdaddylee82:
The recognize them as a show of support for them(exactly what they are supposed to be)
kylini wrote:aircooled wrote: I find the symbolism of the sticker a bid sad. If the blue line separates good from bad, why is the "good" part black also. Shouldn't it be white? It seems to reinforce the "bad" attitude some police have for the common populace (treat them like criminals, as the sticker symbolizes).To be fair, making good vs. bad a white vs. black issue would be racist as all berk.
Even if in the cowboy movies the bad guys always wore black and the good guys always wore white? Is there embedded racism in that?
kylini wrote: To be fair, making good vs. bad a white vs. black issue would be racist as all berk.
Oh, good point!
How about yellow and brown? 
SVreX wrote:OHSCrifle wrote: Learned something new tonight. About that sticker.Me too. Wiki on the Thin Blue Line
Huh. All this time I thought it was a flag for some cool obscure country I hadn't even heard of yet.
PHeller wrote: I wanna make stickers that say "Praternal Order of Politics" but looks exactly like FOP sticker, though I'd probably get pulled over more often.
That would be hilarious...more so if you get a matching T-shirt that says "I Support P.O.o.P" in very large text.
aircooled wrote:kylini wrote: To be fair, making good vs. bad a white vs. black issue would be racist as all berk.Oh, good point! How about yellow and brown?
Light brown and yellow would probably be fine with the NAACP even.....
failboat wrote:SVreX wrote:Huh. All this time I thought it was a flag for some cool obscure country I hadn't even heard of yet.OHSCrifle wrote: Learned something new tonight. About that sticker.Me too. Wiki on the Thin Blue Line
spitfirebill wrote: To the OP. You definitely need to call the local PD and fiel a report. Any chance you got his tag number? We have had several cases of this happening around here. They always target pretty women and the perp drives a SUV looking vehicle. One was sexually assaluted.
Nope, no tag number. I wish I would have been quicker in my thinking so I could of asked for a badge. If none was presented I would of called the cops. Oh well, next time gadget, next time.
ive had a real cop flash his brights at me to try to get me to pull over. I assumed thats what he wanted but since thats not red's and blue's i kept driving. when he did finally hit his lights i finally pulled over. he asked why i didnt stop when he flashed his brights and i told him i dont pull over for every car that flashes there brights at me
Wally wrote: I never knew what those stickers were for. I figured they had something to do with gay marriage like the ones with the yellow equal sign.
you were one step ahead of me .. I'd never even noticed them 
I had a run in with a real cop in uniform in a marked car not too long ago(Christmas shopping season). I was in the right lane under one of 4 traffic lights over each lane. I went straight and the lane immediately ended and was a break down lane. I slowed and made my way into the lane to the left as the guy in the pickup truck in front of me did as well. Cop comes flying up from behind us and pulls us both over. He gets up to my window and starts screaming at me about thinking I don't have to follow the rules of the road because I think I'm special. My wife and daughters were in the car. My youngest started crying. I wasn't even sure what I was pulled over for until 2 minutes worth of screaming lecture, and I had to ask what I was pulled over for. I tried to point out that there was a traffic light over what I thought was a travel lane. Further served to infuriate the guy. I was literally starting to say we needed to continue the conversation at the police station in front of a supervisor when he got another radio call to respond to an accident. He sped off without another word. Flash forward four months. Same cop drops dead while driving his police motorcycle and all of a sudden he's a hero. Thousands of cops on paid work details show up for his funeral. Why do we have to pay our cops overtime for a whole day so they can go attend a funeral for a cop they didn't even know?
Somebody probably forgot to use a turn signal and he had a massive coronary.
Couple years ago I was headed to work at 4:00 in the morning. It was about a forty minute drive. On a two lane road I came up on a old square body S10 doing about 10 under the limit. Being O'dark thirty and no other traffic I just pulled out and went around him without even slowing down.
Dude starts flashing his lights and gunned it. He got right on my ass, flashing his brights for about five miles until we hit a red light. I got into the left turn lane and he pulled up beside me on the right.
He waving and yelling hanging out the window. I see he is in a uniform and he pulls out a badge. I reached over and rolled the window down. At this point I could see that he was a rent a cop. He's ranting and raving about me passing him. I didn't say a word and just stared at him. The light turned green and I just smiled at him, revved it up and dropped the clutch leaving him in a cloud of tire smoke.
I'll never understand how people can get so upset about getting passed, especially when they are going so slowly. I have no tolerance for power trips either.
Appleseed wrote: Somebody probably forgot to use a turn signal and he had a massive coronary.
around here that wouldn't matter … the LEO's don't use their signals anymore than the general population
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