You don't have to be black to be profiled in this country

POSTED BY: Wishimay
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Saturday, March 28, 2015 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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!!

Only 40 times in 8 years. I certainly had 40 times per year during a 10-year span.

Is this town small enough that you can visit the city council meetings and ask why the cops are so lazy that they cannot find any real miscreants to hassle? Actually, never mind that. A friend has every snowflake for miles around plowed into his driveway by the local highway road crew.

SECOND

Saturday, March 28, 2015 4:04 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

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.

In Texas, we are approaching a perfect world from a different direction.

I live in Baytown, Texas. The State Senate passed an Open Carry Gun Law last week. Yesterday the House committee approved the bill. Soon the Governor will sign it.

Once that law passes I'll feel so much safer knowing that I am as well armed as any police who profiles me and stops me while driving.

If there is anyplace I cannot take a gun, I won't go there anymore because I won't feel safe being around a bunch of unarmed civilians.

Here are the news stories:
www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0317/Texas-Senate-approves-open-
carry-gun-bill-What-are-the-repercussions-video
http://kxan.com/2015/03/26/house-committee-approves-open-carry-sends-b
ill-to-floor/

WISHIMAY

Saturday, March 28, 2015 6:48 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

I certainly had 40 times per year during a 10-year span.

That's about three times a MONTH. Did you have to pass through a police state on weekends or???

AURAPTOR

Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:11 AM

Like what ? I have no idea. All I know is there's more to this story, whether you're willing to admit it or not.

Possible you're blind to something obvious, but point is, cops don't single out 'rough looking guys' , on the fly, over and over and over, w/ out something else going on.

They just don't.

WISHIMAY

Saturday, March 28, 2015 7:57 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

They just don't.

That's the most preposterous thing I've heard this week. Thanks for the laugh

AURAPTOR

Saturday, March 28, 2015 8:48 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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Originally posted by AURaptor:

They just don't.

That's the most preposterous thing I've heard this week. Thanks for the laugh

*shrug*

Paranoid much ?

SIGNYM

Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:35 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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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.

What I find rather puzzling is that someone who is normally part of the "right to carry" crowd suddenly finds that carrying is wrong .... when it's meant as protection from the police, and not meant to intimidate suburban patrons at Starbucks.

It's those flexible morals you gotta watch out for on this board!

WISH, getting a lot of tickets (especially moving violations) can drive up your insurance rates, so aside from the pain-in-the-assedness of getting pulled over all of the time and the inherent danger of getting shot ANY time, there are pocketbook consequences.

But to some extent, this is a bit self-inflicted on your husband's part. My hubby is 6'3" and at one time weighed 300 pounds, VERY physically fit, and was NEVER pulled over by the cops. When he was younger (still big, still fit) he was pulled over all the time.

The difference is that when he was younger - in the Vietnam War days - he had long hair (a ponytail, in fact) and a beard. He was CONSTANTLY getting pulled over and being called a "hairbag"; at one time a cop broke his taillights and then issued him a fixit ticket.

Now, I know that your husband can't voluntarily shrink his height, and it's also unlikely that he will ever lose sufficient weight to go from being "big guy" to "skinny as a rail", but .... does he HAVE to shave his head???

Shaving your head, unlike height and sex, is voluntary. I know it's wrong for cops to treat all shaved-head guys like homies, just like it's wrong for cops to treat all barely-dressed women on the street as hos ... yeah, you should only respond to what people DO, not what they "look like they might be doing" but .... why put a target on your back?

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My hubby says I should take this comment back.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:46 PM

Sig actually makes the same point I was making earlier about profiling a long haired single guy ,driving a VW Bus, with out of state plates, which is covered w/ Dead Head stickers, en route to a city where the Dead are getting ready to play.

That band, and others, are well known to attract fans who follow them from gig to gig, and a vast majority of those fans do in fact partake of illegal drugs. Anyone riding in a van or bus like that might as well paint on the side " HEY COPS! PULL ME OVER !! " .

Wish, there's clearly something obvious the cops are seeing that is some how not registering w/ you or your hubby. Nothing about being 6'3 and 300 lbs is, by those criteria alone, reason to be pulled over.

As I said, there's more to this story.

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.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

WISHIMAY

Sunday, March 29, 2015 5:07 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

does he HAVE to shave his head???

Receding hairlines look ridiculous on big dudes. Maybe he should grow a duck dynasty so he can fit in with the rest of the unwashed masses...

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, March 29, 2015 6:23 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
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!!

If he gets pulled over constantly for speeding, then maybe he should stop speeding. If he has been caught numerous times for it, he's probably in the system as a recidivist speeder.

Like this woman I knew who lost her licence for going through red lights, I think it was her third or fourth time she'd been caught. Geezm it's hard to be sympathetic, just dont do it.

If you know the cops have you on their radar, then just follow the law. Cant be too hard to drive at the speed limit, can it?

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