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Steve M, What biker club do you belong to? You talk like you have a big beef against all law enforcement officers, and that you are just a law abiding biker who is always singled out, because of his bike. It would be a shame to waste all that pent up anger on people like us who dont all agree with you.
On your "STORY" about being pulled over with your ex-biker wife on back: You were pulled over with valid cause. Your wife should have been charged with "assaulting a police officer" I bet you were probably charged with that or "interfering" . You dont say what. I have found that to listen to the "STORY" of one who was "arrested for no reason at all", means that there was a pretty good explanation about what really happened by the arresting officers.
About being pulled over for not wearing a helmet: If the law was for you to wear a helmet, then dont Bit** about being pulled over for not wearing one. Being detained is a way for some police officers to say that "your own attitude during this traffic stop dictates how long it taked to write this ticket. "
On being 17 years old and buying weed: well let me see, He was stupid for selling it, he should have been arrested, but you probably thought he was the only good cop on this planet for selling it to you, too bad he was a criminal. You are a criminal for buying it, you just were not caught.
You lifes story reminds me of a movie. It starred Clint Eastwood and an Orangatang named Clide. There were two, one was "Any Which Way But Loose", I forget the other. But getting back to what your stories remind me of: the biker gang in those movies called the "BLACK WIDOWS. "
I think I will rent one of them tomorrow, so I can get closer to the true spirit of your posts.
All this is done in jest, and in no way reflects the attitudes and opinions of , oh what the heck, I meant every word I said.
And to that I clicked,
Scott, I'll have to admitt you are right on all accounts. Since you put it in such a civil manner, I'll respond in a civil manner and hopefully this thread will be short and fade out on good terms.
First off I believe cops are human and subject to a few bad ones. I do a lot of work at the local police department and most that I meet while working there are very polite and professional. Every so often I'll run across one who seems to have an attitude or a power trip. I guess that's par for the course with any group of people.
I no longer belong to any M/C club. I have never been arrested or charged with anything worse than a couple of traffic tickets, the helmet ticket, and disorderly conduct which was dropped. My ex wife was charged with assaulting a police officer, disorderly conduct and damaging the police cruiser ($250) which I paid. On the way to jail, the deputy told me I needed to get away from her. She was trouble. She was the reason I went to jail. They took me down because when I went to grab her for going after the deputy, he didn't know if I was going after him or what. She was trouble and is just now getting her act together. But nothing I'd want anything to do with ever again. To my benefit, the deputy didn't give me a ticket for speeding. I think he knew I was suffering enough from my own poor choice of a wife.
I realize riding without a helmet on public roadways was illegal at the time. I didn't know that the winding road in the park was considered a public roadway such as out in traffic. If I would have been on the dirt trail, it would have been alright. I just thought it was petty. I still do.
In our teenage minds, we trusted Teco. We got good weed and didn't worry about it's origin. Maybe a bad cop for doing that but there was no long term harm done. Just illegal. I wouldn't want him to be arrested for it. Once again, I think that would be petty. It's not LSD or meth, it's just weed. But that's only my opinion. The law makes his and my actions at the time criminal. Not the harm that it didn't cause. I hope he grew out of it like we did before he got in deep sheet about it.
I don't have a black chopper any more. I sold my Harley in 1988. I soon learned that I didn't enjoy not having one. So I bought a '92 red Fatboy. It's all legal and I don't hang out with the club anymore. But I do get singled out. I can understand it though. Who doesn't notice a Harley while the white Buicks whisper by unnoticed. Harley riders conjure up the old image of Outlaws. If I'm going to ride one, I have to accept that it's going to draw attention and sometimes negative whether it's invited or not. That doesn't mean I like to be followed or pulled over to have my numbers checked out of the blue, but I understand why. I just can't picture myself on a Goldwing again.
Movie? I saw Easy Rider once. I thought it was lame. I don't recall the other ones. And I don't look nothin' like the Orangatan. He had red hair.
Thanks Scott for being straight up and civil.
Steve M, What biker club do you belong to? You talk like you have a big beef against all law enforcement officers, and that you are just a law abiding biker who is always singled out, because of his bike. It would be a shame to waste all that pent up anger on people like us who dont all agree with you.
On your "STORY" about being pulled over with your ex-biker wife on back: You were pulled over with valid cause. Your wife should have been charged with "assaulting a police officer" I bet you were probably charged with that or "interfering" . You dont say what. I have found that to listen to the "STORY" of one who was "arrested for no reason at all", means that there was a pretty good explanation about what really happened by the arresting officers.
About being pulled over for not wearing a helmet: If the law was for you to wear a helmet, then dont Bit** about being pulled over for not wearing one. Being detained is a way for some police officers to say that "your own attitude during this traffic stop dictates how long it taked to write this ticket. "
On being 17 years old and buying weed: well let me see, He was stupid for selling it, he should have been arrested, but you probably thought he was the only good cop on this planet for selling it to you, too bad he was a criminal. You are a criminal for buying it, you just were not caught.
You lifes story reminds me of a movie. It starred Clint Eastwood and an Orangatang named Clide. There were two, one was "Any Which Way But Loose", I forget the other. But getting back to what your stories remind me of: the biker gang in those movies called the "BLACK WIDOWS. "
I think I will rent one of them tomorrow, so I can get closer to the true spirit of your posts.
All this is done in jest, and in no way reflects the attitudes and opinions of , oh what the heck, I meant every word I said.
And to that I clicked,
Scott, I'll have to admitt you are right on all accounts. Since you put it in such a civil manner, I'll respond in a civil manner and hopefully this thread will be short and fade out on good terms.
First off I believe cops are human and subject to a few bad ones. I do a lot of work at the local police department and most that I meet while working there are very polite and professional. Every so often I'll run across one who seems to have an attitude or a power trip. I guess that's par for the course with any group of people.
I no longer belong to any M/C club. I have never been arrested or charged with anything worse than a couple of traffic tickets, the helmet ticket, and disorderly conduct which was dropped. My ex wife was charged with assaulting a police officer, disorderly conduct and damaging the police cruiser ($250) which I paid. On the way to jail, the deputy told me I needed to get away from her. She was trouble. She was the reason I went to jail. They took me down because when I went to grab her for going after the deputy, he didn't know if I was going after him or what. She was trouble and is just now getting her act together. But nothing I'd want anything to do with ever again. To my benefit, the deputy didn't give me a ticket for speeding. I think he knew I was suffering enough from my own poor choice of a wife.
I realize riding without a helmet on public roadways was illegal at the time. I didn't know that the winding road in the park was considered a public roadway such as out in traffic. If I would have been on the dirt trail, it would have been alright. I just thought it was petty. I still do.
In our teenage minds, we trusted Teco. We got good weed and didn't worry about it's origin. Maybe a bad cop for doing that but there was no long term harm done. Just illegal. I wouldn't want him to be arrested for it. Once again, I think that would be petty. It's not LSD or meth, it's just weed. But that's only my opinion. The law makes his and my actions at the time criminal. Not the harm that it didn't cause. I hope he grew out of it like we did before he got in deep sheet about it.
I don't have a black chopper any more. I sold my Harley in 1988. I soon learned that I didn't enjoy not having one. So I bought a '92 red Fatboy. It's all legal and I don't hang out with the club anymore. But I do get singled out. I can understand it though. Who doesn't notice a Harley while the white Buicks whisper by unnoticed. Harley riders conjure up the old image of Outlaws. If I'm going to ride one, I have to accept that it's going to draw attention and sometimes negative whether it's invited or not. That doesn't mean I like to be followed or pulled over to have my numbers checked out of the blue, but I understand why. I just can't picture myself on a Goldwing again.
Movie? I saw Easy Rider once. I thought it was lame. I don't recall the other ones. And I don't look nothin' like the Orangatan. He had red hair.
Thanks Scott for being straight up and civil.
