crazy government people

[Gr8Scott]

A year has passed and I've still not been harrassed by police officers. KAC is WAY letting us down on the harrassment front. He's gonna have to step it up a bit if I'm going to get my fair share of harrassment. Right now I'm feeling left out. Maybe I should cop an attitude with the officer next time and see if that helps him to decide to harrass me. Seems like being polite and cooperative isn't getting me anywhere.

[GuitarStv]

I've always been polite and straight with police and they've never given me any problem when I'm doing my thing. I think that the police base a lot of how they treat you on the way that you dress and act however. I'm pretty respectful and clean cut, so maybe I get off easier.

I fast tracked through high school so that I could take a semester off and work to pay my way through the first year of university. I worked nights at a crappy telemarketing place for a while and didn't have a car, so I met a guy who worked there and we carpooled. This guy was a decent person, but very eccentric. He was about 6'2, 250 lbs, had a long scraggly beard, wore a leather jacket all the time, and drove a beat to snot piece of crap car. He kinda looked like a biker/pedophile/drug dealer. Carpooling back from work with him (at around midnight or one in the morning) for about five months we were stopped by the police AT LEAST three times a month. It was getting so bad that I'd start laughing every time the police pulled us over (which really seemed to tick off the police).

I said he was eccentric right? Well, he was trying to kick smoking one month and he had heard that burning incense can stop your cravings for a smoke . . . so we were driving along and he had four sticks of incense burning in his cup holder, and billowing blue smoke floating around the car. When we got pulled over that night it was the third day IN A ROW that we'd been pulled over that week, so both of us started laughing before the officers got to the car. We must have been there for an hour while the police officer and his partner patted us down, talked to both of us separately, searched the car (which we really didn't care about), double checked the licence, plates, insurance, asked for MY drivers licence (I wasn't even driving), asked us to show that the left and right turn signals worked, and checked the trunk of the car. We were still polite, and they let us go . . . but I can see how having that happen to you all the time would make you upset at police.

[Gr8Scott]

I've always been polite and straight with police and they've never given me any problem when I'm doing my thing. I think that the police base a lot of how they treat you on the way that you dress and act however. I'm pretty respectful and clean cut, so maybe I get off easier.

I fast tracked through high school so that I could take a semester off and work to pay my way through the first year of university. I worked nights at a crappy telemarketing place for a while and didn't have a car, so I met a guy who worked there and we carpooled. This guy was a decent person, but very eccentric. He was about 6'2, 250 lbs, had a long scraggly beard, wore a leather jacket all the time, and drove a beat to snot piece of crap car. He kinda looked like a biker/pedophile/drug dealer. Carpooling back from work with him (at around midnight or one in the morning) for about five months we were stopped by the police AT LEAST three times a month. It was getting so bad that I'd start laughing every time the police pulled us over (which really seemed to tick off the police).

I said he was eccentric right? Well, he was trying to kick smoking one month and he had heard that burning incense can stop your cravings for a smoke . . . so we were driving along and he had four sticks of incense burning in his cup holder, and billowing blue smoke floating around the car. When we got pulled over that night it was the third day IN A ROW that we'd been pulled over that week, so both of us started laughing before the officers got to the car. We must have been there for an hour while the police officer and his partner patted us down, talked to both of us separately, searched the car (which we really didn't care about), double checked the licence, plates, insurance, asked for MY drivers licence (I wasn't even driving), asked us to show that the left and right turn signals worked, and checked the trunk of the car. We were still polite, and they let us go . . . but I can see how having that happen to you all the time would make you upset at police.

Hmm... You have a point there. It makes sense in a way. If someone looks creepy or strange, I kinda want the cops to be checking them out and following their gut feelings etc. Never know. The one time they don't a serial killer will pass right under their noses with the lower half of some 10 year old's body in their trunk. Of course, that's how Ted Bundy got away with it for so long. Noone believed it could be him because of the buttoned up way that he looked. That being said, Bundy was a bit of an anomoly. He clearly fit in with society etc and still somehow chose or was compelled to murder people. Most of those types really do have something "odd" about them. Maybe it's eccentricity or maybe they eat human flesh. Who knows?

[Jake]

To get recruiters off of your back - tell them you're going into arm/leg/back/whatever surgery soon and because that you can't hold a rifle/walk ever again/etc.



Worked for me.

[LesStrat]

*enters data into his personal file in DC with note disqualifying him from any government employment*

[schecterplayer]

I have never been harassed much by army recruiters because my parents and I were always carefull to sign all the forms that prevent public schools from giving away your information to outside organizations. The marines finally got my address a while back but I really don't care about them wasting tax money to send me letters. Police on the other hand... My last experience with the cops wasn't so great: the guy patted me down no less than three separate times in a futile attempt to locate the nonexistant drugs he obviously thought I posessed.

[garublador]

I have never been harassed much by army recruiters because my parents and I were always carefull to sign all the forms that prevent public schools from giving away your information to outside organizations.

Don't worry, they'll get it when you turn 18.

The recruiters were pretty pushy when I graduated from high school. I had to flat out just tell one guy that I didn't care about my future to get him to stop calling. It didn't seem that significant at the time because I also had every frat from the university I was going to attend calling me up all summer, too. They weren't any better.

I've never had problems with the cops. I got pulled over once after coming out of a lit parking garage after a bar show when I didn't have my lights on and the guy was a bit of a jerk, but I don't blame him considering the circumstances. There was a dude trying to start fights the whole time and apparently it spilled out onto the street (not a good idea when the bar is next to the police station, by the way). I hadn't had anything to drink but got pulled over. He had me step out of the car and looked at my hands (nope, wasn't hiding any beer there). He asked if I had anything to drink and I said, "No." He kept pushing it and said he was going to give me a breathalyzer (sp?) test and that if I was lying there would be trouble. I took the test and he gave me a verbal warning about the lights. About that time the drunk guy and another cop had wandered over and at the same time the drunk guy was saying he didn't have any problems with any of us, the rest of the pepole in my car were telling our cop that he was the jerk making all the trouble and trying to start fights.

[LesStrat]

I have never been harassed much by army recruiters because my parents and I were always carefull to sign all the forms that prevent public schools from giving away your information to outside organizations. The marines finally got my address a while back but I really don't care about them wasting tax money to send me letters. Police on the other hand...

Just wait until you register with Selective Service....

[Gearjoneser]

I remember the recruiters calling me. I'd say "let me ask YOU some questions."

Do I get free food? Yes
Do I get free guns? Yes
Do I get to wake up at 11 everyday, sign autographs all afternoon, get onstage and rock, then drink booze with groupies all night. Ummm. No.

Well then. I'm not what you're looking for, because that's how I plan on living.


Everytime a recruiter would call, I'd just change the main punchline. Another time it was...do I get to wake up at noon everyday, and run around naked making chicken noises? Oh yeah....one time I told the guy to hold, while I get my dad, then my friend takes the phone, doing a perfect impersonation of Ronald Reagan. Hello? Well....my son doesn't seem to be interested, and as President, I feel he'd be much more suited to a higher position in government." hahaha

[schecterplayer]

My friend Toby had the best response to an army recruiter I've heard. A marine corp recruiter called him and asked what he planned on doing after high school and he informed him that he intended to smoke pot, not pay his taxes, live in a squatter cabin and be an unemployed bum for the next couple of years... the guy actually hung up on him.