I've had I think four runs ins with the coppers, 2 were bad, 2 were good.
The first one was when I was about 13 or so and I was in an underground carpark which had stairs up to the movie cinema I was about to go into. My only intention for being there was that it was the quickest way. Anyway, a couple of cops came up to me when I was in the car park and asked to search my wallet. Of course, being a 13 year old I complied immediately, and there wasn't anything dodgy in it. I'm not sure why these dickheads wanted to illegaly search a minor though.
The next time was a good-one. I was about 18 and cocky as hell. My friends and I were walking back home from some pub and we were all pished. Being idiotic teens we were pulling down signs and carrying witches hats and the like. The cope drove past and saw us. They were calmly talking to us and for some reason I started saying "if you aren't going to arrest us then piss off. My parents are lawyers and I know my rights, so arrest me or get back in your car and fuck off. " Very arrogant and condescending as I frequently was around that time of my life. Luckily my friends pulled me away and apologised to the police officers who were very decent and told them to look out for me as I was obviously a bit drunk and aggresive. Good cops.
My next run in was bad. A group of mates and I were walking down from someone's house to go to a club and another bunch of people were driving. We left earlier since they were driving and we wanted to arrive together. The car drove past us and they pulled over to say hi. I ran up to the car while it was going about 2klm/hour and pretended to get hit (i.e. just pretending to bounce off the car). About six plain clothes officers piled out of this car and this real power tripping bitch of a female detective charged me with 'disorderly conduct'. When it went to court the magistrate said it was a ridiculous waste of police resources booking people for things like that and the detective should be embarrased for doing so
. I was let go without any penalty although I was judged 'guilty'. But no record or punishment (go figure).
The final time was good. I was really drunk and
stupidly decided to drive home when I was at a house which was 5 minutes away by foot. At a red light I tapped the car in front of me (kinda hard but no damage) and the occupants of the car got out, looked at me and called the cops. The cops came, breathoed me and I blew .197 (me = dickhead, dickhead I know). Anyway, the cops were great. They took me the station and went through the procedures and explained everthing courteously and clearly to me in my inebriated state. They told me that since my reading was so high they were required by law to
lock me up for at least 4 hours. I told them I lived just up the street and my mum was a lawyer and would look after me and they let me go home, even gave me a ride.
So, from my experiences, some are good, some are assholes. Like any proffession I guess. I don't hate cops and I think most of them do a good job under VERY trying circumstances. It's just that as drug users, we on this board are on the wrong side of the law, leading us to have probably a more negative overall view of police than the general population. Anyway, thanks for reading (if you did
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