feralmerril
Absent Comrade
I am close to 73 years old. Off hand, I cant remember but once getting mad because a LEO was arrogant. But then I have a thick skin and really never felt or picked up on it like others seem to. I probley have seen it of course a few times where I wasn't involved. Oddly, I have noticed the bigger the LEO, the less I have seen it. I was NOT a leo, however many of the men I worked with were retired LE, and I was present in situations where there were interactions between them and others.
One time I witnessed a bad roll over with a lot of people in the car, maybe six or seven, some of them kids. Most were threw out but at least one was pinned in the car. This was just after that freeway was opened and it was in the dessert. I and another two or three guys used a jack to spread the door open and roof apart to remove the person. The car was upside down and here come another guy walking up smoking! We bellered for him to back off and I remember him looking insulted. Here come a CHP right after we got him out and he bellered at us all to get in our vehicles and leave. That left a rather bad taste in my mouth but I just walked off and left.
Another incident was a real humorous to me but not my friend. He, his wife and I were riding harleys on a narrow dippy desert road. Bill got ahead in traffic but I and a long string of cars had to hang behind a slow car for many miles. It got real aggravating as the car was going about ten under and eventually I bet there were at least 15 cars behind me like a funeral procession. Finally I seen my chance and passed. A long string of cars also followed me around. Now two things happened seconds apart. First I seen bill and judy pulled over and off their hog waiting for me standing under a huge Joshua tree along side the road maybe 300 yards ahead. Then I see a CHP flying around the cars pointing at each one of them to pull over. About 3 or 4 cars behind me! I coasted to a stop and got off along side bill and judy. The officer walked right down the line and got three or four drivers license`s as he come up to me. I knew I technically was in the wrong and didnt argue but then he asked bill for his license! Bill blew up and called him a name. I slightly knew the patrolman. Bill was a ex motor cop himself and they got into it. Bill said he seen the cop sitting off the road in a small turn off between some dips in the road. The cop guessed bill was leading us pack of speeders but bill claimed he wasn't speeding and had been there like 5 or 10 minuets waiting for me to catch up. With my sense of humor I thought it funny. I went to traffic school but bill payed the ticket as he lived about 70 miles away and didnt want to take a day off. I never had seen a cop hit paydirt like that. I think there were at least 5 of us got tickets! He was a mouthy forceful cop too, but when you are ticketing 5 men alone out in the middle of nowhere I suppose you have to come on strong. That was about 35 years ago and I got to go to school once more since then.
One time I witnessed a bad roll over with a lot of people in the car, maybe six or seven, some of them kids. Most were threw out but at least one was pinned in the car. This was just after that freeway was opened and it was in the dessert. I and another two or three guys used a jack to spread the door open and roof apart to remove the person. The car was upside down and here come another guy walking up smoking! We bellered for him to back off and I remember him looking insulted. Here come a CHP right after we got him out and he bellered at us all to get in our vehicles and leave. That left a rather bad taste in my mouth but I just walked off and left.
Another incident was a real humorous to me but not my friend. He, his wife and I were riding harleys on a narrow dippy desert road. Bill got ahead in traffic but I and a long string of cars had to hang behind a slow car for many miles. It got real aggravating as the car was going about ten under and eventually I bet there were at least 15 cars behind me like a funeral procession. Finally I seen my chance and passed. A long string of cars also followed me around. Now two things happened seconds apart. First I seen bill and judy pulled over and off their hog waiting for me standing under a huge Joshua tree along side the road maybe 300 yards ahead. Then I see a CHP flying around the cars pointing at each one of them to pull over. About 3 or 4 cars behind me! I coasted to a stop and got off along side bill and judy. The officer walked right down the line and got three or four drivers license`s as he come up to me. I knew I technically was in the wrong and didnt argue but then he asked bill for his license! Bill blew up and called him a name. I slightly knew the patrolman. Bill was a ex motor cop himself and they got into it. Bill said he seen the cop sitting off the road in a small turn off between some dips in the road. The cop guessed bill was leading us pack of speeders but bill claimed he wasn't speeding and had been there like 5 or 10 minuets waiting for me to catch up. With my sense of humor I thought it funny. I went to traffic school but bill payed the ticket as he lived about 70 miles away and didnt want to take a day off. I never had seen a cop hit paydirt like that. I think there were at least 5 of us got tickets! He was a mouthy forceful cop too, but when you are ticketing 5 men alone out in the middle of nowhere I suppose you have to come on strong. That was about 35 years ago and I got to go to school once more since then.
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