You don't have to be black to be profiled in this country
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Friday, August 22, 2025 00:02
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Yep, hubbs got ANOTHER ticket.
Every time he goes driving at night around here they pull him over. It's that he's 6 foot..... three hundred pound.... shaved big dude. They single him out as a threat EVERY time. This one was for doing ten miles over, like everyone else was doing.
He's been pulled over at least forty times in the last eight years. Gotten so paranoid he has a gun in the car with him at all times.
Between the crappy education system, the asshole cops, and the nonexistent healthcare...
THIS COUNTRY BLOWS!!
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Profiling.
Long hair man, driving a VW bus, with deadhead stickers on it, headed to a town where the Grateful Dead will be playing in the upcoming weekend.
Odds are that this individual, with an out-of-state license plate on his vehicle, will have some amount of controlled substances ?
Wish, I have to say, there's something else going on with your story that isn't making it to this thread. 40 times in 8 years ? Really? I've not had 1/2 that many encounters in 30+ years of driving.
Oh, he was going +10mph over the limit ? Doesn't matter that 'everyone else was doing it '. If he was doing something wrong, then he was doing something wrong.
Slow down,and drive during the day, if it's that big a deal.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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Quote:Hubby has gun and is stopped by the police many times a year. Try to imagine the police seeing that gun. What do you think will happen next?
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yep, hubbs got ANOTHER ticket. . . . Gotten so paranoid he has a gun in the car with him at all times.
My belated advice: get $1,000,000 life insurance policy on Hubby with you as the beneficiary.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Wish, I have to say, there's something else going on with your story that isn't making it to this thread. 40 times in 8 years ? Really? I've not had 1/2 that many encounters in 30+ years of driving.
Lucky you.
It got to the point where he would get pulled over every weekend just going to work. Maybe it's the new car, they don't know who it is again. When they get to the window and ask for the license he says right off that he has a permit to carry concealed and has a gun in the car.
You think just because it don't happen to YOU it don't happen???
And don't give me the hypocritical "breaking the law" crap either, because if you go the speed limit here you are gonna CAUSE accidents with people swerving around you like that.
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He was getting stopped b4 he started carrying ?
Like I said, more to this story
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Quote:"Hello Officer! I have a license to kill." Obviously the police will then have absolutely no reason to continue harassing Hubby: "Sorry, Sir. I didn't realize you were James . . . James Bond. Say hello to Her Majesty for me."
Originally posted by Wishimay:
When they get to the window and ask for the license he says right off that he has a permit to carry concealed and has a gun in the car.
How likely is that scenario where a concealed handgun makes a bad cop respect Hubby more?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Like I said, more to this story
Like WHAT genius? He has NO RECORD, was in the army, and actually applied to BE a police officer at one point.
Hell, he's been walking through Wally world and people have picked fights with him because he looks so intimidating. Guys at work have done the same thing several times. They've even admitted that they picked on him because he's big- later when they got to know him. He has a resting face that looks mean mug, but he's more civil than most around here...
PS. HE HAS TO WORK THIRD SHIFT. No way around that right now.
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Originally posted by second:
How likely is that scenario where a concealed handgun makes a bad cop respect Hubby more?
You are trying so hard to convince me he doesn't NEED a gun and that being around one is more dangerous, and you are totally right...if we lived in a perfect world. We don't. EVERY OTHER CAR HERE HAS A GUN IN IT. We live in a world where movie theaters, malls, offices, and even relatives houses have a tendency to be unsafe.
I don't like it either, but I'd also hate ta get shot and have no defense when other people start shooting. Hard to say "Wish I'd been able to fight back" WHEN YOU DEAD.
He has unfortunately been so traumatized by people picking on him that he no longer feels secure without a gun. If I can't convince him to leave the gun at home, you really think YOU can??
I'd pay real money to see that.
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All human beings profile, we would be dead if we didn't. It's called judgement- without it we would try to pet a lion because it is technically a cat.
Is it fair? Hell no, but it is natural, and in many ways it is needed. It is natural to identify a 6'3 250+ male as more threatening than a 5'4 woman..... I'm not defending people by saying its okay to act on bias. But profiling is human nature....
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