Recent content by MikeK

Thanks!

Have fun! PS: Your en is much better than our, whatever.

So far I've been lucky. The most aggressive thing ever happened to me was someone called Security at the retirement community where I live and sometimes fly around in and reported "Some kind of UFO looking for a place to land." Most of the old-timers here just stop and look up, like, "What...

If you can manage to squeeze out some gushing, soul-wrenching tears and Academy Award-worthy weeping, that usually works on women. She might even give you lunch.

I agree. As a certified computer dummy I would think the DoD has geeks on board who have good cause to recommend this action. Even if it is a bit of a stretch there is no good reason not to exercise this caution. Better safe than sorry. Which prompts the question of why some of our own...

Exactly right. And it seems that sort of thing is becoming more common as American police become more militarized. The situation has increasingly become them vs us.

Quite right!

Wow! You've had quite a revealing adventure, one which I hope will be more widely reported -- as it certainly should be. I think your Rick Steves idea is a good one, but the story will need to have more substantive footage and evidence to be presentable. So the question is whether it will be...

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Thank God.

People also die every day because of improper motor vehicle operation and during various sports activities.

Yes. You're right. Some TV police programming, such as NYPD Blue, Law and Order and others are fictional. But COPS is reality TV, meaning it (obviously) is not fiction. Rather, a TV crew rides along in a patrol car during a normal duty cycle and they film actual activity (arrests, etc.)...

Based on what I've seen happening in the UK with regard to aggressive Muslim migrants it looks to me like you will soon wish you had a gun.

Why not? It affords a handy reference for police conduct in certain (not all) situations. What do you find wrong with it?

You were speeding. That called for a summons -- nothing more. All the drama over an old BB-gun was redundant and should not have called for him behaving like, as you've said, "a class-A jerk." You said you had behaved properly and politely, which should have been sufficient cause for him to...