Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 9385501)

I now feel the need to get a British car sticker just for the hell of it.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 9385516)

Sally - you should get a Mexican flag for your car :eek:

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 9385518)

Anchor Baby on Board :lol:

Originally Posted by Awesome Welles (Post 9385495)

I beg your pardon? The OP gets a speeding ticket - maybe - just maybe because the cop has got a bee in his bonnet about immigrants and assumes that because the OP has a foreign flag attached to the car they are immigrants and deserve speeding tickets like everyone else.

Flag - action
Speeding ticket - reaction

With the greatest of respect, what the **** are you on about?

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 9385533)

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 9385506)

Err...shouldn't it be speeding - action?

You actually think it's perfectly fine for cops to make up the law as they go along?

Originally Posted by dakota44 (Post 9385531)

Ahh for the good old days of profiling...like my hippie days. Peace sign on your car? Long hair? Instant road stop. :lol:

Disclaimer: I was only a hippie because most of the hot girls were. :)

Originally Posted by Awesome Welles (Post 9385571)

I'm also a little sensitive to indiscriminate slagging of law enforcement. My daughter is a LEO and i have many, many cop friends. They are not all pigs.

Originally Posted by Englishman43 (Post 9385582)

Funny you say that, I used to travel to and from the US and Oz to England several times a year, at the time I was wearing rings, earrings, necklaces , always carried a guitar and backpack and wore t-shirt and sandels result everytime I came through the airport I'd get hassled.

Originally Posted by Awesome Welles (Post 9385571)

....and there's the rub, perhaps, because I suspect it was speeding - action.
I think the flag is a diversion to deflect the real issue that the OP got busted for speeding and felt the need for some mitigating circumstance. So I'd ask again, why the flag in the first place?
My position is the antethesis of racism and segregrtion - I'm touting (badly, it would seem) integration - all as one, in one nation (that has a perfectly good flag, if you are so heraldically inclined).

I'm also a little sensitive to indiscriminate slagging of law enforcement. My daughter is a LEO and i have many, many cop friends. They are not all pigs.

Originally Posted by Awesome Welles (Post 9385310)

PR is a US territory, that bit I get. Can you think of a single instance where the 'government' of Puerto Rico in any way integrates with or contributes to the economy of the US?

Originally Posted by Awesome Welles (Post 9385378)

Yes, I think I do agree with the sentiment.

Although I'm not ashamed of my nationality, I think it would be inappropriate and offensive to shove it in the faces of the people who have welcomed me into this country.

I just don't feel the need to metaphorically shout, "Look at me! I'm different". Those that do - and sticking flags all over your car is just that, in my view - should not then piss and moan when their actions incite a reaction (justified or otherwise).

The reaction of the LEO in the original story is also inappropriate - but would not have happened (if indeed, it happened at all) if the driver hadn't felt the need to telegraph his/her 'individuality'.