I can stand cops sometimes.

[Former_240_s14]

My bro Sam and I were on our way back to my "pad" lol, after a night at a sweet club. We both were totally sober "sp?" but a little tiered considering it was 3am. On my main road back home we were talking about old tickets and times we had been pulled over. My friend sam was saying how he has only been pulled over once, and he was driving tonight too. At that same instant I see red and blue lights turn on behind us. He gets scared and begins to turn into the next subdivision. The sheriff comes to our car and the first thing he asks is..."okay guys, how much have you all drank". We reply "none officer". He goes ..."okay then, how much dope have you all done?". We reply "none officer"! He gets a little mad and then says "so your tellin me if I bring a drug dog over here he wont smell a thing?" We reply yes officer. He then goes "okay let me see your id". Sam then pulls out his military id. The cop then sees that and says, "boys go out and have some fun and be careful". Just cause the dang military id he totally changed his tone of voice and left. Ahhhhhh!!!!:rant

[ninjak84]

Might not have been that. He might have just seen your ID, noticed it wasn't on any "Wanted" posters, and let you guys go after believing you didn't drink or smoke anything.I mean, it probably was the military ID, but I'm just saying

[Former_240_s14]

Yeah yeah I get what your saying, jk, lol.

[UncleBen]

hey Rubin, just be glad you and your boy were cooperative. if you had been rude and short, u coulda got in some trouble. but yea that is pretty stupid, how he totaly changed his attitude when he saw the military ID. but oh well, its all over now, and you didn't get in any crap, so be thankful.

[theTony]

Yeah that's hard to do being the smart a$$ that I am. Always be polite no matter how big a jerk the cop is being to you. Man that is the hardest thing for me to do, but it can keep you out of trouble.

[Repo Man]

I'm convinced my military ID kept me from getting about $400 worth of tickets early last year when I got pulled over in my '72 Camaro RS. The sheriff's deputy saw it when I pulled my license out, but didn't say anything besides slow down and don't call attention to yourself. Thanks officer! They're definitely not ALL bad.

[darkeagle]

Yeah I think most of everyone dont like cops. My mom back when she was 16 or 17 was out in the kmart parking lot in the snow doing doughnuts and officer pulled up and asked what she was doing? my mom said what does it look like I'm doing doughnuts. The officer looked around then back at her and said carry on as long as you dont hit nothing. hahahaha :evilhaha

But be thankful he didnt give you a ticket of some sort or another. It could have gone worse and all, and you always want to keep your cool with them no matter what smart@$$es they can be.

[PalmerWMD]

I thinks its the whole psychology of it.because you suddenly graduated fro a young punk to someone who will fight for USA.

I think some of the cops bias toward us is understandable and not unreasonable.

Its not consistent either though and can't alwasy be relied on.

Especially around large bases where lots of young soldiers often get into trouble, there military ID can be a liabilty.

In some locations the local sherrifs office may have even had a jurisdiction disagreemnt which will actually make 'em harder on military.

(Example Camp Ripley Minnesota: The local sherrifs dept had tried to take advantage of the artifically low posted speedlimits on a military post to make money for the county.

The MP's kicked them off post with extreme prejudice, but since then a military ID will get you into a LOT of trouble outside of post when stopped by the local PD)

But when you are in an some areas where the Police is tired of local civilian punks, they consider you an automatic good guy if military.

I once got off with a wanring when driving from NYC on christamas day with my class A uniform hanging in window coming home from holiday leave.Admittedly road and visibilty conditions where perfect..., but I was clocked 89 in a 55....

On the other hand a member of my unit was stopped and ticketed for going 70 in a 55 where flow of traffic all around us was 67-72 mph I was w/ him).He even got an attitude from the cop , even tho the driver (a MAJOR in an antiterrorist unit!) was extremly polite and had everything ready right away.

So you get all kinds...

Fred...

[PowerPuff]

It mos def was the military ID. I dated a Balto County officer for a few months last fall and did a few ride-alongs - whenever he'd pull over a kid for speeding or just doing stupid stuff in general, if they produced a military ID he would always let them off. Guess it's kinda a common courtesy deal with them I guess, he mentioned they really shouldn't write up military boys...

[ninjak84]

My biggest problem with police is that they don't understand how much their mood depends on how bad they can screw you over. If a cop just nails some guy for doing 100 in a 30 zone, and sees you doing 32 in that same 30 zone, he's probably going to jump all over you.