Harassed on the way to the nats?

Wow. What a bunch of whiny, ignorant BS this thread has turned out to be.

Those of you that were stopped for doing ANYTHING illegal, no matter how minor or even ridiculous, GET OVER IT. You broke the law. Maybe it was dumb, maybe it was flat out stupid, but it just wasn't your day now was it? You broke the law, you got stopped. End of story, grow up, don't blame it on the officer that caught you.

To all of the conspiracy theorists bemoaning being used to fund the city/county budget, two things. One, your beef is with the lawmakers that passed all these ridiculous revenue based regulations, the LEO's enforcing these laws/regulations are just doing their job. And probably getting leaned on by the very lawmakers/politicians responsible for the lame regulations in the first place. Two, if you weren't violating said law/regulation, perhaps you wouldn't get cited for it.

To the law enforcement officers that posted, congratulations. Your posts are pretty much the only ones on this entire worthless thread that make any freaking rational sense. Barring one or two others. Pretty incredible that the LEO's that have posted have managed to remain calm despite being bashed constantly in this thread, while everyone else has devolved to name calling for no apparent reason whatsoever.

LEO's are just people. They are human, they make mistakes, and they occasionally get pissed off. I don't think anyone that's posted on this thread so far can blame anyone for getting pissed off. Some LEO's, just like some of the people that have posted on this thread, are just a-holes. The fact that they are also LEO's should not reflect on LEO's as a whole, just as I wouldn't want any stereotypes about FABO members drawn from this thread.

I drive my Challenger almost every day. It's freaking loud. It has rust. It rattles, squeaks, leaks, drips, smells of exhaust and has more than a few intermittent wiring gremlins. I drive it like a muscle car and have fun doing it. I even live and drive in (gasp!) California. And despite all of that, most of the time it's fairly legal. And I have never been pulled over in it (knock on wood), despite driving it for the last 3 years. I have definitely had my plates run on several occasions, and on more than one occasion have received the hairy eyeball from a law enforcement type. And probably deserved it.

If you do get pulled over, don't be an a-hole. If you don't think there's an "attitude test", and repercussions for "failing" it, well, no wonder you don't like LEO's. Maybe its not fair, but if you had to worry about every dumb traffic stop being your last because of some lowlife moron with a gun perhaps you would have a better grasp of "fair", and how it applies to real life. LEO's have to deal with things most people never experience, or experience only once or twice in a lifetime. LEO's deal with the worst our society has to offer every single day. And yeah, it will give you a bad attitude after awhile. Especially when 90% of the general population take them completely for granted. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. If any of you think you can manage your current standard of living in a society without LEO's, well, you're dumber than I thought.

And no, I am not a law enforcement officer of any kind.