Anyone having problems in Arizona?
May 24th 2011, 9:01 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
The more I think about it, what are the odds this knucklehead peeler would even recognise the English flag if it bit him on the arse? Was it the OPs accent that did it? Or is he well tanned perhaps, a bit Mediterranean in appearance?
I doubt it was the flag - if it doesn't have some sport team or military insignia on it, nobody recognises it out here. For all the copper knows that cross could represent anything, not necessarily another country.
Sally - you should get a Mexican flag for your car
May 24th 2011, 9:05 am
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May 24th 2011, 9:09 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
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?
Flag - action
Speeding ticket - reaction
With the greatest of respect, what the **** are you on about?
"the driver hadn't felt the need to telegraph his/her 'individuality'.
May 24th 2011, 9:10 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Ahh for the good old days of profiling...like my hippie days. Peace sign on your car? Long hair? Instant road stop. 
Disclaimer: I was only a hippie because most of the hot girls were.
Disclaimer: I was only a hippie because most of the hot girls were.
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May 24th 2011, 9:12 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
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May 24th 2011, 9:13 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
May 24th 2011, 9:33 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
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.
May 24th 2011, 9:40 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Finally got PO'ed so removed all the jewelry & guitar, changed to a button down shirt and dress shoes and my carry on became a laptop bag result never been hassled since.
May 24th 2011, 9:41 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
[QUOTE=Awesome Welles;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.[/QUOTE]
Little story for you..back around 1990 the London evening news paper ran a small story about how a police unit had smashed this guys door down with axes to enter
The truth about how a little old lady from next door came out and opened the door with the key never came out ....
the axe story was far more impressive
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.[/QUOTE]
Little story for you..back around 1990 the London evening news paper ran a small story about how a police unit had smashed this guys door down with axes to enter
The truth about how a little old lady from next door came out and opened the door with the key never came out ....
the axe story was far more impressive
May 24th 2011, 9:56 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Was the OP indiscriminately slagging off law enforcement? Seems to me, assuming his story is correct, he has a legitimate gripe about this individual's conduct.
May 24th 2011, 10:17 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
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.
May 24th 2011, 10:55 am
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
....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.
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.
May 24th 2011, 12:20 pm
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
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'.
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'.
Seriously, they're showing they're English, Scottish, where ever else in the world.
It's only a complete moron who would take offence to it and think that everyone that had a sticker was a foreigner and not a US citizen.
