No I was driving home from visiting my gran, when they stopped my car, I had no id, I have my name and,adress And they checked me on the pnc, which Gave, no return as I have no criminal record, they then arrested me for giving false details, as they believed I looked the"sort you've a criminal record, which was largely down to my driving an old car And not the sort of car someone at the post address I lived at would have And having a criminals face, allegedly ?
No as soon a my wife turned up In the jag,with my photo is they let me go , I'm not a criminal type, I wasAt that time employed by a petrochemical company as an environmental manager, , previously Id been employed by an EU development agency working in Jordan,,( and they serious Vet, you) this thing your developed that I openly dislike the police as I'm a criminal is just fantasy, Decent law abiding people hate them as well. They pulled me up and arrested me for no other reAson than I looked poor, as the wife had the jag and I was numbing about in a very old astra And they didn't believe that someone driving an old car lived in the big posh estate with the footballers
Fitted me up for what, ? , they let me go once they had established I was a middle class professional, i didn't say every hates the poli c, most peOPLe just dislike them, but quite a few hate them.
I know people dislike the police, you can always tell the policeman at the party, stood on his own like he has a smelly fish in his pocket,Even people who work for the tax man won't talk to them,heLl even policemen don't like policemenFitted you up to be stopped by the police, it screams the police being told to look out for you. Play the victim by all means and think the police picked on you because you look iffy but I promise you, someone phoned up gave them your details and you were stopped.
Keep thinking people dislike the police, you're wrong but you don't usually let that stop you.
Have you got any close friends who are policemen, ? Very few people have,I used to get stopped all the time.
Young guy in a big car out late seems to equal a reason to be stopped.
6 times in one night is my record
Going against the popular advice, I always carried some documentation and never had an issue (over and above the hassle of being stopped that is).
When I had a loud exhaust, I also used to carry an excerpt from the construction and use regulations along with a sound pressure level meter in the glove box - that way when I got stopped I could prove my car was 2db under the legal noise limit rather than have the trouble (after the first time) of a defect notice nobody was able to sign...
I can't say it ever gave me cause for dislike or hatred of the police though.
Assuming the story is factual, which seem the case, I commend the gentleman. I am puzzled where the line is for defending yourself, you family, and your possessions. I hope the homeowner could end such a confrontation quicker, even if it meant more brutal, in the U.S. Just seem like there was tons of just cause there.
the lines are clear as mud, there are situation like the one in the sword case where they are " reasonably " clear, but after chasing him to the garden carrying a sword even those get blurry if he had inflicted a serious injury. what's really unclear I mean really really unclear is the protection of possessions, where there is no threat to the person. causing serious injury to someone who is in the middle of stealing your car or walking out with your tv will be very very hard to justi , so going out of the safety of your home to protect your car and knocking him out cold with a wheel brace or sneaking up being someone leaving your house carrying your 50' plasma and hitting them with rolling pin would most likely see you in a bit of bother.
well that the police being wrong, owning a samari sword is quite legal,importing selling etc is not, unless it's a genuine samari sword where is quite legal all round.
