On the roadside I give common courtisey I would give to anyone, but i don't cowtou, quivver and beg.. The worst they can do is kill me, and I have no fear of death...
In the instance of being given reasonable requests, I will abide, but I refuse to be pushed 1 inch. In the past I found one inch leads to a win, and that win leads to a mile, and I just don't do it that way anymore.
I might not get to go home, but that is the chances you take these days. There are bad guys, and then some are bad cops.
I am more like Patrick Henery.. Give me Liberty or Give me Death.. it's all the same thing to me.
I spent 10 months on a motorcycle in the USA armed with a Kimber .45 CD Pro II. I openly preformed civil disobeance in the form of ccw carry. I just don't care. I hit 40 states and was legal in about 18.
I was never stopped one time, but on the other hand I did stop several times to help stranded motorists, all but one I was able to get running again.
The one was on a new custom chopper and his ignition went dead. There were no parts in the Bad Lands National Park, and he did get a truck and trailer by the time we parted ways.
I have pulled cops and their cruisers from snow banks in my New Hampshire, so I am not all bad assed. I just don't take crap handed on a badge from anyone ever anymore.
As a citizen I expect to be treated accordingly, with courtisey. Respect is an earned thing as I see life. There is no uniform I just respect demanded or not.
If I was speeding which i haven't been caught for since 87' I will take the ticket no problem. If a lamp is out I will take that ticket too.
Ask me for an instant search for no reason as I don't do drugs and I don't drink and drive, then the answer is no.. If then I get bullied there will be trouble.
I am 56 and have seen more than my fair share of people in certain so called places in life bully others because they can.
I have been beaten by cops because I have long hair and they wanted that to mean I had drugs. At that time I was cuffed to a steel rail in the cops garage. I had done nothing other than have long hair.
I still have that long hair. Charlie Daniels with his long hair country boy tune sums me up pretty well other than I don't smoke pot.
Treated fairly, I behave the same way. Just don't push me. Note I didn't quote MASTEROFMALICE calling me a name, and I didn't respond calling him any name.
It takes a lot more than being called a name to set me off. Now recalling the blood and guts of my lovin' brides parents sets me off, and I get Hot..
Where there is a problem as I see things , is where MASTEROFMALICE will trust his brothers in blue, for no more reason than they are like him.
I am a Biker, and I don't allow other bikers I ride with to be less than courtieous to others. If they act that way i split, and that is the end of that.
If I was paid as a biker (i wish), I would excercise a little more than just split..
I would weed out the bad ones..
I also once did historical living events for children in schools, and was paid to present a character at certain years in the past history of the United States of America.
The last day I did one of those was the very day of Columbine.
By contract i was hired, and the school by contract was to inform the police way before hand. I found long before that last day the police will not confirm such things, so i would find from the police myself if they had infact been informed. At this event like all others the police had been informed.
When I arrived at the school I was met by 6 state police cars, and 12 troopers. They formed a circle around me, and one stepped up and said you can't do this event with any weapons, can you still do the event?
Unfortuantley, he was actting rather smuggly, and so not being pushed so easy i reached for a dress, and placed this over his chest lightly and smiled.
Oh you would be safe thinking I just made a enemy, because the other 11 burst into laughter. Had he just not been so smug, things would have worked out better, and his frail ego would not have been challanged.
Well, I gathered my things, other than bow drill, flint and steel, my Nor West gun and the hawks and we all entered that school.
As always I began with 30 kids, which soon turned to 90, and then the enitre school body, plus 12 state troopers LOL. We all ended up outdoors, and I did the entire deal less the muskets and the fires bits, but when I was done some 4 hours later, one of the state troopers asked if I would be willing to go ahead with the missing parts. Of course I said yes.
One trooper went with me to get the rest of my gear, and asked to see how and what would be done, and I showed him, explaining each step.
We then went back to the assembly and I repeated it live this time. I made fire with the bow drill, and the flint and steel, and made the musket "speak".
Since then I have always wondered about that 12th trooper in the dress