The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[Benn Roe]

On the topic of expert policing, I got pulled over yesterday for making a "what the fuck" face at a cop who beeped at me for no fucking reason. I was pulling up to a stop sign, and he turned across me and beeped at me. I made a face because I was basically stopped by the time he beeped, and certainly at no risk of hitting him. Then he backed up into the intersection to try to cut me off, pulled me over, and literally said the reason he pulled me over was "you ran a stop sign and then made a face at me like it was my fault". Asshole. He didn't give me a ticket, though, so I wandered over to the station to ask what that meant and possibly complain about the whole incident, and after hearing my story the desk sergeant's response was "it sounds like you just hurt his feelings", like that's a perfectly reasonable reason to pull someone over. And cops wonder why everyone hates them...

[frodog]

Imagine being a cop... not allowed to have feelings or a bad day, yet expected to be sympathetic and nice all the time, while knowing people hate them and are itching to file a complaint for the slightest misstep. Assholes.

[dubkitty]

as someone who's been living in fear of the cops since the 1960s, you'll perhaps pardon my lack of sympathy.

[BitchPudding]

USPS tracking can lick my whole balls. Everything was good till my shit was leaving LA for the past 6 damn days. Fucking fuck

[jrfox92]

Imagine being a cop... not allowed to have feelings or a bad day, yet expected to be sympathetic and nice all the time, while knowing people hate them and are itching to file a complaint for the slightest misstep. Assholes.

Normal people aren't allowed to beat the shit out of people and point guns at them whenever they want with little-to-no consequences.

[gnomethrone]

BLUE FEELINGS MATTER

[lordgalvar]

USPS tracking can lick my whole balls. Everything was good till my shit was leaving LA for the past 6 damn days. Fucking fuck

Everything is messed up down here at USPS. I think they hired a ton of helpers (not full time employees and first time I've seen it in LA) and they're training them now. I had a magazine shipped (a friend ordered) from the next zip code over...1 week to go under 3 miles. It's the dang regional center and they ain't movin' crates.

Seasonal dude did carry a bumper for my truck to my house...I thought it was ups, but smartpost. UPS is screwing USPS more than Amazon in my opinion (smartpost sucks).

[Bassist_Diver]

Imagine being a cop... not allowed to have feelings or a bad day, yet expected to be sympathetic and nice all the time, while knowing people hate them and are itching to file a complaint for the slightest misstep. Assholes.

Normal people aren't allowed to beat the shit out of people and point guns at them whenever they want with little-to-no consequences.

I was watching Around the Horn earlier today and one of the topics that came up was this player on the Eagles saying that any team that hasn't signed Kaepernick while still starting a crappy quarterback deserves their situation. Two of the panelists used their time to bemoan the fact that Kaep has become bigger than the cause he originally started kneeling for - that cops are getting away with beating and straight up murdering black Americans at a horrifying rate, and something needs to be done about it. Hell, most Americans think Kaep is kneeling because he disrespects the troops or America or whateverthefuck Fox New tells them or their neighbor/coworker/acquaintance. And most people think Black Lives Matter is 100% pure anti-cop, saying All Lives Matter is inclusive to black people, and that saying Blue Lives Matter is just meant to show support for the police (spawning the confusing spinoff of Red Lives Matter to show support for firefighters, because who the fuck is anti-firefighter?!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMMNvYTEyI[/youtube]

[dubkitty]

arsonists.

[BitchPudding]

USPS tracking can lick my whole balls. Everything was good till my shit was leaving LA for the past 6 damn days. Fucking fuck

Everything is messed up down here at USPS. I think they hired a ton of helpers (not full time employees and first time I've seen it in LA) and they're training them now. I had a magazine shipped (a friend ordered) from the next zip code over...1 week to go under 3 miles. It's the dang regional center and they ain't movin' crates.

Seasonal dude did carry a bumper for my truck to my house...I thought it was ups, but smartpost. UPS is screwing USPS more than Amazon in my opinion (smartpost sucks).

damn, that sounds fucking shitty. Hope things get easier.

Tracking updated, said shit left LA today instead of earlier in the week. Ill just assume it'll get here eventually and stop bitching.

[Benn Roe]

Imagine being a cop... not allowed to have feelings or a bad day, yet expected to be sympathetic and nice all the time, while knowing people hate them and are itching to file a complaint for the slightest misstep. Assholes.

Cops are allowed to have feelings and they're allowed to have a bad day. But, taking out their bad day on random people on the street, especially in the form of gross abuses of power, is fucked up and shouldn't be tolerated. This isn't unique to their field of work. Retail employees can and do get fired for letting their bad days affect their customer service, and that has a fuck of a lot less severe consequences for society as a whole. The truth is that a staggering percentage of cops abuse their power every single day (sometimes in relatively innocuous ways, as in my case; but often in profoundly fucked up ways), and then virtually all of the others adhere to some blind fraternal allegiance that keeps them from cutting loose the really problematic officers. That is not reasonable behaviour, and that's why people hate them.

[frodog]

as someone who's been living in fear of the cops since the 1960s, you'll perhaps pardon my lack of sympathy.

I was just commenting on the situation where, as a bicyclist, you make a face at a cop in an intersection, and then get so annoyed that he talks to you that you consider filing a complaint, although nothing happened. I understand that some are afraid of cops, just don't maybe see this interaction as an example of "asshole cop". In the case with a burglary not properly investigated or something, that's a more serious thing.

Anyway, it was an offhand comment to that post, it just painted a strange picture to me.

[calfzilla]

Wife was rear ended on her way home from work. Supposed to be a nice, happy day and then that happens while I’m on the phone with her. The guy that rear ended her apparently has a bunch of tickets already and may or may not have legit insurance so that’s fun.

[frodog]

Imagine being a cop... not allowed to have feelings or a bad day, yet expected to be sympathetic and nice all the time, while knowing people hate them and are itching to file a complaint for the slightest misstep. Assholes.

Cops are allowed to have feelings and they're allowed to have a bad day. But, taking out their bad day on random people on the street, especially in the form of gross abuses of power, is fucked up and shouldn't be tolerated. This isn't unique to their field of work. Retail employees can and do get fired for letting their bad days affect their customer service, and that has a fuck of a lot less severe consequences for society as a whole. The truth is that a staggering percentage of cops abuse their power every single day (sometimes in relatively innocuous ways, as in my case; but often in profoundly fucked up ways), and then virtually all of the others adhere to some blind fraternal allegiance that keeps them from cutting loose the really problematic officers. That is not reasonable behaviour, and that's why people hate them.

I don't see the gross abuse of power here. I know they happen, but you said yourself you made a face at him. It was petty to stop you for that, but if nothing happened... cool.

[Benn Roe]

To be clear, I was driving a car, not riding a bike. Again, I freely admit that this particular incident was pretty minor, but the existence of more severe abuses of power don't make this any less an abuse of power, nor do they make me any less annoyed about having my time wasted. That cop is licensed to pull people over for breaking laws, not for hurting his feelings. This largely falls into the "mild irritation" parameter of this thread, but speaks to a larger issue with cops in general. I also don't know that nothing happened. I didn't get a ticket, but he logged my license, insurance, and registration, which almost certainly means I'm likely to get less leniency in future incidents. Hell, for all I know my insurance could go up over this. It's doubtful, but who knows?