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BobR

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Telling the police to "please stop me"
« on: May 23, 2019, 06:45:23 PM »
As we chip away more individual freedoms (voluntarily) in the name of fighting crime.

https://www.khq.com/news/new-spd-program-aims-to-reduce-overnight-auto-thefts/article_a785255a-7d90-11e9-9964-0b248d356e37.html

What happens when they pull you over to make sure your car isn't stolen and you *may* have had a beer or two or the car smells like pot. Maybe these people think they will get a pass because it is voluntary, guess again people.

I don't like things like this, too much giving up rights for "safety".

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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2019, 07:14:42 PM »
Hell no.
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2019, 07:35:00 PM »
Someone didn't think that through. 9 times out of 10, if you're driving between 1 am and 5 am and that's not normally when you are on the road, it means there is some kind of emergency and you don't have time to be dicking around with the police.
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2019, 10:49:25 PM »
When I lived around Dallas Texas the car theft was bad and police had a program like this where you could join where if they saw your car out after certain hours they would automatically pull you over. They also did glass VIN etching for free. The cars that were targeted most weren't really what you might expect. People told me my late '90s Tahoe was actually a prime target.
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2019, 11:18:54 PM »
Meh. I don't see anyone giving up their liberties. They're not passing a law that takes away anyone's rights. It's just a voluntary program.

Maybe they're people that don't drive around late at night, and don't drink, either.

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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2019, 11:23:30 PM »
I think I remember hearing about them trying that in Tulsa a few years ago.
Big deal when it started, quietly faded into the obscurity it deserved.
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2019, 06:39:54 AM »
Stupid, plus patrol officers don’t have time to be dicking around with this retarded *expletive deleted*it.
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2019, 08:39:12 AM »
Texas has, or had, the H.E.A.T program (Help End Auto Theft). Same concept... a sticker that screamed "Stop Me!".

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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2019, 12:20:13 PM »
Sometimes I see cars absolutely covered with stickers, usually some combination of rainbow, BETO, BERNIE, GORE, Keep Austin Weird, peace signs, and so forth.

Adding one of the "please stop me" stickers could results in much hilarity.  >:D
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Re: Telling the police to "please stop me"
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2019, 02:11:54 PM »
 :rofl:

The worst one I've seen was a van that someone was using as their pro-tobacco, Religious Right campaign bus. It was half religious iconography, and the other half was about how you'll die if you stop smoking.  Not if you start, but if you stop.
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