Items in uk.transport

Subject:Re: Cops' cop car gets clamp!
Date:Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:24:24 +0000 (UTC)
From:"Cast_Iron" <CastIron_881@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:uk.legal,uk.community.policing,uk.transport,uk.local.hampshire

"Mike" <spamdump@fensoft.co.uk> wrote in message
news:O98J5TB3EHa$Ewni@fenlandsoftware.demon.co.uk...
> In message <ee75dcb6.0309170520.59800694@posting.google.com>, Dave Babb
> <buffy500.nospam@ntlworld.com> writes
> >Mike <spamdump@fensoft.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:<uowR8sKJbwZ$Ewqc@fenlandsoftware.demon.co.uk>...
> >> So you accept some police are "fight happy" then?  Judging by your
other
> >> posts you've given the impression that police are all "sweetness and
> >> light".  If a police officer wants a fight, s/he doesn't need any
> >> provocation - your being there is sufficient.  Remember, that can
attack
> >> with impunity, if you attempt to defend yourself, you'll be the one in
> >> court.
> >
> >I accept coppers are human, and as many memebers of royalty,
> >government, company directors have proved many times over recent
> >years. Not everyone is perfect.
> >(execpt half the posters here !)
> >
> >BUT I still maintain that to come accross a copper who would stop a
> >member of the public and threaten and abuse them verbally, when said
> >member of public cooperated and spoke to them in a reasonable manner
> >is very very very unlikely.
> >
> In police speak "co-operate" means "boot-licking".  If they order me to
> "lick their boots", I'll refuse.  In their eyes (and yours it seems)
> that makes me unco-operative.  Well, if they don't like my exercising
> what few legal rights I still have: tough.
>
> >(And if you are already a well known scrote, then you'll get dealt
> >with in the manner that you require. And if that involves being put
> >over the bonnet of a car, then maybe next time you will not try and do
> >a runner or punch your way out of being arrested.)
>
> Even suspected criminals have the right to be treated with courtesy.

How much patience would you have with a dickhead who won't learn and you
keep seeing him time and time again for petty pathetic offences?