Continue south to Catania,Sicily!:shocked:

If you need a hand signal translator I'm fluent after three years in Sicily. :D

Are you referring to the original poster or r_foye? If it's r-foye you need to read it again. He/she is/was obviously a law enforcement office with a wicked sense of humor. I loved it. Well done. :1rotfl: If you are talking about the original post and it's two updates, I agree with you completely. :(

Xavier

Leesburg Cop
 

Reviewed the post to date
Memason "this IS getting good"
Sparky-30 "Do I have what it takes" in my occupation I received some serious threats from guys with flat noses and deep voices.
kippyclubb I have a cousin who lived in LA and belonged to a biker club in his day and whom I love to this day . So my remarks were not about bikers per se but the fact that they were speeding and apparently unnoticed by the cop.
gmcneill your post addressed my very thought. this was about one guy not all of law enforcement
784 caroline"we don't know that"
rfoyle "please don't either you or Xavier hold back.
brill n brillo your friend had a restriction was pulled over and look at his reaction
jackz the capitalization was for emphasis but thank you for the reminder as the nature of caps

We all should learn from our mistakes and it is good for the soul to admit them.
Like all of us there are issues that we have to deal with and on some days they just don't sit right. That was what it was like for me on that day and the last thing I needed was to have some guy for no apparent reason ride my tail. Normally I would have ignored it but this guy caught me on a bad day. Because there was and never would be an opportunity to tell this guy how I felt I made the mistake of blowing off steam here and if you will recollect I said I felt better..thanks for listening on my very first post.

I heard several different point of view but I do not recall reading were one person said you have a right to feel that way. A close friend of mine who is a priest what have said you had that right but as a responsible person you did not react irrationally. I was over this issue immediately after my first post. What had taken me by surprise, some pleasant, was that there was such a reaction. so my hats off to sparky30 and his LOE buddies people really are in your corner.

Leesburg has bad neighborhoods and drug problems in that area. There are gangs in that city that drive high-end vehicles (just like yours) on the highway during all hours of the day and night. Maybe this guy was just being safe and running your tag and such....

I was definitely not talking about the OP. IMHO, the OP's concern was just a case of their verbalizing paranoia and an expression of personal opinion. However, it did not rise to the level of intentional ridicule or facetiously mocking law enforcement officers.

I also respectfully disagree with you about r_foye's post. I saw it as a fictious monologue with ridicule, presented as humor, as an objective with no indication that the poster really was an active or retired law enforcement officer. If it was clear to me that he/she was an officer, then I would have just moved on and not make a post, figuring he/she was just engaging in some self-depravating humor.

Anyway, I really do hope that I'm wrong and that law enforcement people did find some humor in it instead of being offended by it.

I was kinda defending your position/mindset, actually. My friend was upset that his plate got run by the deputy for no reason, same as you weren't happy about having the Leesburg fellow following you for several miles for no apparent reason. In my friend's case, the deputy only uncovered the 'suspended license' issue AFTER running the plate which was prior to him "lightin' 'em up" and pulling my friend over. No way for the deputy to have known about it otherwise. My friend was only upset about having his plate run for no reason - he had no issue with the licensing questions as he knew he was driving within the parameters of what was allowed by the restriction and always carries the paperwork with him to support it.

Bill

The really cool part about being me is that I don't have to prove who I am to anybody on this forum. But just so you know, I am retired law enforcement and the post was exactly what you said it was, " a fictious monologue with ridicule." It was what we in law enforement call "sarcasm" And it was Ridicule aimed at one of the most ridiculous posts I have ever seen on this forum. Now Im sure those of you with sensitive bellies will be offended with what I just said, but thats okay, im a bully and the badge is weighing heavy on me right about now, so I'll just go lie down and dream of the glory days when the retirees shook in their loafers when they saw me coming...

Office-r_foye, thanks for your explaination and for your prior service to your community. Because of your explaination I can now understand where you were coming from and no longer view your post as being offensive to law enforcement officers. I also hope you understand that my comments were born out of respect for the those who have honorably served.

In conclusion, I must now lower my head, put my tail between my legs and admit... I NOW GET IT! :1rotfl:

Seems like some on here are over-analyzing this...
Cop was just doing his job, profiled a vehicle that was driving on the highway at an odd hour. Somehow the driver took offense and displayed it on a forum. Next time stay in the right lane to avoid suspicious behavior.

What if you were really a drug dealer going to a house and the cop just doesn't pay any mind to you. At that point you get to your deal and shots are fired killing innocent bystanders (one of them being someone you personally knew).... See, don't you wish the cop would have done his job, ran your tag and made sure nothing went down?

"People hate cops until they desperately need their help."

.

Man I hate it when I miss graciegirls stuff! I've got to get it before she erases it.

Xavier

Say whaaaaa? C'mon Graciegirl. Just cause you're back up north doesn't mean you don't have to talk to us. We miss you! Talk to us . . .

I just wish the farmers and the cowmen could be friends.

First to identify the musical gets a hug.

The farmers and the cowmen should be friends in OKLAHOMA, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!

So far this year, 26 officers have been gunned down - 44 percent more than the 18 shot and killed at this point in 2010.
The next time anyone is tempted to make a disparaging remark about police officers and taking donuts breaks, please remember the families (specially the little children) of these dead heroes. These men and women died protecting us......not eating donuts.

I can never understand why it's such good sport to minimize the dignity of police officers by painting them as donut hounds.

That would be me, and I am a huge supporter of the police officers who protect us. My grandfather who raised me was a police officer in Columbus, Ohio for 37 years. I have never had any kind of dealings with an officer of the law that was not positive, even when I got a ticket years ago.

My attempt at a little levity and my posts about the law enforcement people here in The Villages eating donuts in the parking lot at Publix only meant to reinforce my view that this place is safer than most places. I would like to add that I have never, ever, personally seen them munching donuts.









Maybe one bagel.

Initially, I was going to make a comment that this thread needs to be put to bed...because like many threads on so many forums, things seem to get beat to death. As a retired Chief and 30 years in service, the comments and topics regarding police officers/departments is nothing new to me. I don't take offense to the posts and remarks that we hear most of the time, in fact, I am often heard to make jokes and comments about cops and donuts and other remarks like "why don't the cops go after real criminals and leave the traffic violators alone". I think most of the time, comments such as these are all in fun, although I know that there are some real haters out there.

I don't believe the original poster here meant anything derogatory. I think he was just looking for opinions, although I may be wrong. I appreciate (which prompted this response) the Talk Host commenting about the seriousness and inherent dangers associated with police work. Thanks!

Take a minute if interested, to read my latest story "The Meet" on my blog, On the Road with the Chief. It's relevant to this topic.

Chief X

Chief X..... I read your blog and I think you might just be my write-in candidate for President in 2012! :D

Hey Mike.......who's that in the Foster Grants? :1rotfl: Welcome back!

Bill :wave:

What? You didn't recognize one of those motorcycle cops from the TV show CHIPS? Poor guy, you must have run out of your pop-corn supply and going through withdrawal! :a20:

Yeah....back from the dark side . . . :D

I hope this one doesn't give Tony the willies..... EEEKKKKKKK!!!

Now that really gives me the willies.

Leesburg cop
 

If I had intended a social experiment I could not have picked a better title. never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine my original post would have gotten seven pages of chatter. In fact when keyboarding the original post I just envisioned my thoughts being disappearing into space. Certainly my emotions regarding this even went that way.

Chief X thank you I was not being critical of copS only the action of one cop that caught me on a bad day. Nor was i implying that the copy was after me. In fact that was the only reason I referenced my vehicle. While I understnad the nature and benefits of profiling I also understand that people can also be blindsided by that process . It was also interesting to see how certain words had different meanings and created different reactions from people reading the same post. for example a politician can get bad reaction from me if he refers to social security and medicare as entitlement programs since i was forced into both programs with payroll deductions. In fact when I ask politician when they use entitlement to mean yhat you sir mean that you are entitled to raid these programs to fund your pet projects.

So once again if I have upset anyone mea culpa. As far as this thread goes I will now run silent and run deep.

"Willie"......that's one of my numerous nicknames......... :shocked:

Bill :MOJE_whot:

You the man
 

As a relative new "poster" to TOTV (but a reader for 10 months), I've seen so many times the multiple reactions to what seemingly was an innocent post. I guess it is just the "nature of the beast" on TOTV.

I've been followed rather close by the police too, but not for 5-6 miles. I think the suggestion to pull over into a public place would have saved a lot of frustration. But that is "hindsight".

Don't lose sight of the fact that is forum is AWESOME as well as the good folks who post here. Do we overreact at times? Yes. Are we still "good folk"? Most assuredly. Do we sometimes get too wordy or seem to go on and on and on? I'm guilty. :shocked:

As far as the "seven pages of chatter", heck, I read through 7 pages of chatter about an alligator walking across a golf course!! :1rotfl:

Bottom line. You experienced an uncomfortable situation which I think most can relate to. As you implied above, we certainly have beat this "dead horse" (topic) to death to the point the horse's hoofs are barely showing above ground. :)

So I give you a "You the man" award :thumbup: for hanging in there through the reactions to your posted situation. I just freshened my "5 o'clock somewhere" and purpose a toast :beer3: we move on to the next threat!!

:spoken:

Rubi,

Give it up. :boom: :boom: :boom: