Posted By Krush on 09/22/2007 1:30 AM
I had a friend that got arrested for being stupid, yes for being stupid.

Posted By zenthrus on 09/22/2007 10:13 AM
Pity that doesn't happen more often. On the other hand, prisons are already pretty crowded...

Posted By Teflon Jeff on 09/24/2007 3:54 PM
I had a friendwho got pulld over for yelling "Sooey!" at a police officer ("Sooey!" is a traditional Hog call, for those not in the know)

Posted By BoloBaby on 09/25/2007 5:51 PM
WTF? Why the hatred of cops? I bet if a gang was following you and ready to beat your arse, and you saw a cop standing there, you'd count your blessings.

Grow up.

Posted By Cthulhufnord on 09/21/2007 11:44 PM
Here's my ticket from the other day.  Note the lower right hand corner.

I had a friendwho got pulld over for yelling "Sooey!" at a police officer ("Sooey!" is a traditional Hog call, for those not in the know)

WTF? Why the hatred of cops? I bet if a gang was following you and ready to beat your arse, and you saw a cop standing there, you'd count your blessings.

Grow up.

Like it or not, agree or disagree, pissing off cops is NOT a smart thing to do.

Posted By Diomedes on 09/26/2007 7:42 AM

However I'll admit, life with police officers is preferable to the alternative in my mind.

Posted By Pedro on 09/26/2007 1:44 AM

Yeah, just pray that single cop doesn't run faster than you...


Btw. what does the phrase with finger mean?

IIRC a variant with the two middle fingers down and index and pinky fingers up was a taunt by Welshmen to the English during the middle ages. The English used to cut the two middle fingers from Welsh bowmen and the "horns" salute was to show that they could still pull their bowstrings.

According to a popular myth the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The story claims that, before the battle, the French boasted that they would cut two fingers off the right hand of captured archers and that the gesture was a sign of defiance after the greatly outnumbered English won the battle. (This false etymology has also given rise to an alternative name for the gesture, which can also be known as flicking an "archer's salute" or just an "archer's"[citation needed]). However medieval warriors had no interest in capturing common archers that could not be held for ransom, preferring instead to simply kill such prisoners.Ώ] Furthermore, mutilating a prisoner to stop them from using a bow wouldn't make sense, since killing them would stop them from ever serving the enemy again. There is also the fact that accounts from the period make no reference to the French mutilating their prisoners by cutting off their fingers.ΐ] (The first definitive known reference to the V sign is in the works of François Rabelais, a French satirist of the 1500s. Α])

The same story has circulated in the US as a supposed explanation for the use of the middle finger as an obscenity, with the added flourish that the slang term for the sign, "flipping/giving the bird," has something to do with feathers on arrows. This is untrue, as the middle-finger sign dates at least to ancient Rome and symbolizes a penisΒ] "giving the bird" dates to 1800s British theatrical slang, meaning to be driven off stage by goose-like hisses, and was apparently linked to the middle-finger sign by US military pilots in the 1960s. Γ]

The belief that the V sign originated among archers might have its origin in the work of the historian Jean Froissart (c. 1337-c. 1404), who died before the Battle of Agincourt took place. In his "Chronicles," he recounts a story of the English waving their fingers at the French during a siege of a castle, however he makes no reference to which fingers were used meaning that this is not evidence of the origin of the V sign.

Posted By BoloBaby on 09/25/2007 5:51 PM
WTF? Why the hatred of cops? I bet if a gang was following you and ready to beat your arse, and you saw a cop standing there, you'd count your blessings.

Grow up.

Well the whole thing would not have happened if I knew he was a cop. It was a foggy morning and he was tailgating me,

Posted By Wolfgang on 09/27/2007 5:51 AM


Here is a life lession don't give anybody the finger and there will be no chance you get a ticket

Posted By Cthulhufnord on 09/27/2007 8:52 PM


That's not likely going to happen.  Most of my Driving experince has been on and around the roads of Boston.  I am doing my best to curb my irritation of other drivers on the road these days*.














*Although Rhode Islanders can still be taken prisoner and taken to the nearest millitia.  Rhode Island Colony Baristars are of course required by Mass Bay Colony Law to be shot on sight.

Posted By Teflon Jeff on 09/29/2007 1:29 PM
Yeah, I think most police are great.

And if you're speeding, you deserve a ticket. Like it or not, it is the law.

Posted By Cthulhufnord on 09/29/2007 4:29 PM

In some areas, particularly highways they ought to consider increasing the speed limit.  In several sections of Mass there are highways where 90% of the traffic is going 20 miles over the speed limit.  Me I'm just one of the 9% who go no faster than 10 miles over the limit.

Posted By Cthulhufnord on 09/30/2007 6:33 PM

Yeah well in many ways other States are much more "Progressive" than Massachusetts and New England in general.  We have some of the weirdest laws still on the books here.

Posted By zenthrus on 09/25/2007 2:12 PM
Cops don't seem to like much of anything. Make bacon references? Cops are upset. Give them the finger? Cops are upset.

Sheesh, you'd think they'd have more of a sense of humor when being abused for doing their jobs

Posted By Teflon Jeff on 03/24/2008 2:12 PM


Campus security gets mad at me for continuously referring to them as Spam.