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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Originally posted by Wishimay:Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
And no, getting caught for being a habitual dickhead on the road...
If going ten over is being a dickhead to you, I'm sure everyone here is a dickhead every day!
It's not going over 10 that makes you a dickhead, it's doing the same thing over and over again and then whining that the same thing happens.
The reason that fines are hefty is they are supposed to work as a deterrent. And I might point out that at $200 a pop, it hasn't changed his behaviour, so what is the point of $30 or a $100.
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WISH, you said your hubby wears a mining helmet and his skin gets irritated where "the straps" rub. Do you mean "the webbing" ... the internal straps that hold the helmet off your head? Or some sort of "under the chin" strap? (I used to wear a hardhat.)
Let's see ..... he can't stop shaving his head because of his helmet/hardhat.
So he gets pulled over when other people don't.
Which leads him to carry a gun.
And he speeds because (guess what?) he was "in a hurry" (every time?)
So he keeps getting tickets.
You might want to re-look at that chains of decisions and consequences and see if there aren't other options.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You might want to re-look at that chains of decisions and consequences and see if there aren't other options.
Every damn day... Every damn day I wanna pull up stakes and never come back...
And thanks, but don't feed the troll Kiki
So not worth it.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
You ignore the road and those around you because you're on the phone, you've made it the business of everyone around you.
Blah blah blah blah.....
YOU CAN ONLY DRIVE ONE CAR AT A TIME AND IT BETTER DAMN WELL BE YOURS
Is what it ALLLLLLL comes down to.
Seriously wish, you're 14 yrs old, right ? You're sounding like a petulant , spoiled kid . Show an ounce of maturity. If ya can .
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He's been pulled over at least forty times in the last eight years.
Except this is only the third ticket.
In his lifetime? In the last 8 years?
The reason why I ask is because in my whole lifetime I've gotten one moving violation (rolling stop). In the interest of full disclosure, I did get out of two others, also rolling stops - once because I was going through the university past midnight in summer when it was deserted (except for, apparently, the campus police), and the other because I had a visibly ill small child (pale, sweaty, glassy-eyed, inwardly-focused) in the car, and I was trying to drive her home smoothly so as to avoid having her barf.
In my lifetime I've been in 6 minor fender-benders with other cars. Twice I was in my lane passing a line of cars in their lane and people pulled out and clipped my rear quarter panel (hard to say it was my fault since they got the back half of my car), twice I was rear-ended at a stop sign (minor crunches, not high-speed, both times we got out, looked at the scuff marks, and drove off), and once I was hit in a parking lot by a woman backing out of a parking spot (also my rear quarter panel). The one time that was my fault, I backed into another car in parking lot (I had a severe migraine and could barely see, all I was trying to do was get myself 3 miles to home).
There's the two freeway collisions I had with trash on the road, where traffic was fast and tight I had no opportunity to brake or maneuver.
And there's the 3 high-speed freeway accidents I KNOW I avoided by being concerned over how someone else was driving, and pro-actively getting out of the way - and watching an accident unfold in the spot where I WOULD have been if I hadn't taken action.
There were the two accidents I had while I was bicycling, once I was forced into a curb by a car passing too closely, and once I was T-boned by a driver pulling out of a parking lot. That last one was the only consequential accident I ever had, since I hit the pavement with force and suffered a concussion.
I've had perhaps 4 or 5 fix-it tickets, mostly for running lights, brake lights, and directionals. And of course some parking tickets.
That's my 4 decade+ year record.
Of all the tickets and accidents I've had, when it comes to being at fault, I've had one moving violation (rolling stop), one at-fault minor contact, and 4 or 5 minor mechanical fix-it tickets, in well over 40 years.
Maybe it's unusually clean. Maybe I've been unusually lucky. But I do mind the speed limit, use my directionals, don't tailgate, stop completely behind the limit line then move forward to make a right-hand turn as allowed by California law, and try to watch for other drivers.
So, while the number of stops your husband has had is vastly excessive and indicates profiling, I also find the number of tickets to be somewhat high. While the stops are frustrating, it's the tickets that do economic damage. If he could avoid the tickets, it would be helpful.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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I've never had an accident. Had maybe two or three tickets, can't remember. I did back a little too far into a culvert once on a dark night with no moonlight and my friend had to get his tractor to pull me out 
Hubby had a teenage girl bump him at a light once, she got out and asked him if "they could settle it with sex" 
I also had a drunk driver tap our bumper on my B-day a few years ago. Hubbs got out and asked the guy if he was OK and the guy backed into a row of mailboxes doing about thirty to try to get away. THE COPS got our location confused and missed him.
All of his other crashes were because of deer or snow...
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http://news.yahoo.com/chris-rock-keeps-getting-stopped-cops-taking-pho
tos-151815905.html
I think this is a pretty good idea. Judging by the comments some other people think no cops ever profile...
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It seems like, over time, the balance of my driving is city/ freeway as compared to yours, and so my hazards are mostly other drivers.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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Every damn day... Every damn day I wanna pull up stakes and never come back...
Really??
All I'm doing is suggesting that you re-think your chain of decisions.
Why don't you explain why it is that this has you so angry? Because I don't get it.
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Speaking of accidents ... this has NOT been my month! Four weeks ago, I was driving home in the dark in the right-hand lane, in light freeway traffic, minding my own business, when then next thing I knew....BAM! An 18-wheeler knocks me half out of my lane. It had been coming up behind me from my left, then suddenly for no discernable reason whatsoever the driver decided he just HAD to be in the right-hand lane, and altho there was a crap-ton of space behind AND in front of me, decided to pull right into me. So I drove onto the shoulder and the truck driver just took off. Dented the driver's side drawer and tore the strip off the side.
Last night, I was driving home in stop-and-go traffic. I wasn't even moving! BAM! The guy behind me rear-ended my car! Fortunately, no visible damage.
WTF?? Does my car have a "HIT ME" sign on it???
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
WTF?? Does my car have a "HIT ME" sign on it???
I'm sorry, the prescribed RWED allowed response here goes something like :
If YOU were watching the road better, more aware of other drivers, didn't have a radio on, had given a BJ to a traffic cop the night before, had committed to driving the long way home even if it means an extra three hours, been using a microscope to make sure you keep five miles UNDER the speed limit like a good little citizen, worn a day glo suit, covered your car in the American flag so that it was more visible, held your tongue just a certain way.................
See whut I mean? SHIT HAPPENS. And it pisses you off.
As for leaving here...
It's because I'm TRAPPED, I haven't had a vacation ina DECADE, I'd love to see most of the people I know LOBOTOMIZED (well, more so) and EVERY FUCKING DAY OF MY LIFE BRINGS IT'S OWN SPECIAL HELL.
But, I'm talking to people here. I know I'm supposed to be a "trooper" and "grin and bear it" so others don't get offended. FUCK THAT. I'm not gonna pretend to be mindlessly happy just cuz some people on the 'net want me to be.
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