Woo-hoo - we made the Drudge Report!

[Tallpine]

I thought I heard it was a trucker who spotted the white van at the rest stop and called it in. 

It was a dark Caprice instead of a white van but yeah.

I always feel better pulling into a rest area at night if there are some big rigs there already.

[Perd Hapley]

I think it's amusing the way some folks feel entitled to automatic recognition as "good guys" either due to SPF the way they dress or their magic permit. It's a white bread thing I'll never understand

Huh? 

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

I think it's amusing the way some folks feel entitled to automatic recognition as "good guys" either due to SPF the way they dress or their magic permit. It's a white bread thing I'll never understand


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Fistful beat me to it.

Huh??

[vaskidmark]

I think it's amusing the way some folks feel entitled to automatic recognition as "good guys" either due to SPF the way they dress or their magic permit. It's a white bread thing I'll never understand

Huh? 

Fistful beat me to it.

Huh??

Seriously?  What part didn't you get?  Or was it the lack of commas that threw you off?

Possessing that magic hall pass seems to be the biggest contributor to the notion.  I guess it's like going to church once a week - as long as you show up you demand to be seen as righteous no matter what you do the other 6 days of the week.

stay safe.

[AJ Dual]

The funny thing about C&SD's notion is that appearing predominantly Asian, he's arguably even "whiter" in most American racial calculus.

Maybe he works hard to offset it with a ghettoish swagger and ebonics in his public life. (shrug)

The hard part is how to promote one's self as both a ex-criminal and a ultra-.gov-brownoser simultaneously, so they can perpetually engage in a self-referential "appeal to authority"-debate fallacy on any topics revolving around crime, police, and civil rights. I mean, it's easy on the internet in text, but IRL it must be much more difficult.

It's not exactly the kind of thing they make a t-shirt or a badge for. OTOH, those Cafe Press kind of places can be of immense help in these matters.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I appear Asian? That's not the general consensus . And I think my persona is fairly constant. It's not like I play revolutionary on the net ala Walter Mitty .

To help fistful out I was/am amused at how folks react to cops doing what they get paid to do. In particular the umbrage and it's accompanied bombast.
To an outside observer it seems that folks seem to believe that they are clearly identifiable as good guys and as such the cops are abusing them. It's right amusing. More so when you see some of the interactions where seemingly bright folks assert what they imagine their rights are.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[fifth_column]

I appear Asian? That's not the general consensus . And I think my persona is fairly constant. It's not like I play revolutionary on the net ala Walter Mitty .

To help fistful out I was/am amused at how folks react to cops doing what they get paid to do. In particular the umbrage and it's accompanied bombast.
To an outside observer it seems that folks seem to believe that they are clearly identifiable as good guys and as such the cops are abusing them. It's right amusing. More so when you see some of the interactions where seemingly bright folks assert what they imagine their rights are.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I think people react not to what cops are paid to do, but to what we would like them to do.  Cops are paid to control, intimidate, and punish people.  What most people would like them to do is to stop treating citizens as the enemy.  The fact that cops treat me like I'm scum means that I'm going to treat them like they're scum.

[Scout26]

Putting this one in time-out for now....