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Originally Posted by onslowe
I grew up in NYC. One learned profiling early, especially on subways and subway stations.
I'm no expert, and I never 'violated' someone's alleged constitutional rights. But it got me away from or out of danger umpteen times.
Imagine how many dead police officers there would be absent the survival tactic of profiling?
I agree with the OP. Many many times, tattoos are a signal. Some idiot wants to 'belong' to his peer group of losers and social misfits. Or wants to imitate those role models locked up in prisons.
I grew up seeing men once in a while with one or two on them. Not a 'sleeve' as they now say, nor a full back full of drawings. I am glad I am not in the 'dating game' now. Women with tattoos are not my cup of tea. YMMV.
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onslowe: your story brought me back to a time when my friend his wife mine and me traveled from upstate to attend the Yankee/Red Socks double header. My friend had a new Cadillac that he was very protective of and so arrnaged for overnight stay i White Plains. We took the train from there to Yankee Stadium.
When we entered the train at White Plains the train was bare at the next stop people boarded but crowded around us and this same scenario repeated it self for a good number of stops. I found this behavior to be peculiar until i recognized the social-economic change the closer we came to the inner city in passengers and now realized what the people in White Plains had done and probably did every day