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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie Got a quickie for the policemen on this forum - I know you are out there. Train watching - arms go down, signals flash - no train. Maybe one of the usual pigeons set it off. They have trouble in that area. Cruiser - gentleman inside on cell phone, didn't hesitate but instead pulled around the arm and went on his way up the street, still talking on his cell phone. I listen to a scanner and know those cell phones are used for conversations they don't want on the radio. So he probably wasn't talking to dispatch to go to a call. He was talking to who knows, and none of my business, but it irritated me that first he went around the gates and 2nd that he didn't stop and look to show others sitting there waiting that this is what you legally do when there is no train coming. He wasn't calling the railroad, cuz he was on the phone well before he got to the gates - in fact driving parallel to the tracks and was actually trespassing on rr property. Maybe that should have been my first clue. I know police are humans, too, but should show by example! Mook [/quote] Well, the general feeling that they are above the law they enforce is one of the reasons why i dislike cops in general. Such is (while not universal) a prevalent attitude. I used to work at a mall, and it was not uncommon to see an on duty officer pull his cruiser into a fire lane and park while he slips insideto do some last minute shopping for the holiday, then well sincehe was in there anyway, stop by the coffee bar to chat with his buddies. I used to thrill on telling such cops to write themselves a ticket, especially when I'd note little "extras" such as the wheel nearest the curb being in excess of 18" away from the curb.[4:-)] What? Well heck yeah Mook, of course doing that made me popular, why do you think I did it in the first place?[^] I remember one "hot shot" in particular that after months of "razzing" each other back and forth,. after I found out he was about to be a daddy without the help of his wife of 6 years, he finally snapped and ambushed me (verbal confrontation only) coming out of work one night, telling me how lucky I was that he was a good cop and a good christian, or "we'd be rolling right there on the dark sidewalk together" I told him I wasn't into guys, so "sorry"...[}:)]
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