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Once when I was in high school I had to do a fundraiser for my senior trip to Europe for three weeks.

I ordered 200 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts and went to 8 different police stations. I sold 100 dozen.

I've never had a major incident with the cops. I got hassled a few times for skateboarding in junior high and we had one tiny incident with the campus cops at the University of South Dakota while my friends and I tried to jam out at the Music school, but nothing that compares to one of my best friends. He was pulled over three times as he drove to Vermillion, SD to visit me during homecoming weekend. One of the Deputies was the counties own K-9 unit. I believe they wanted to search his car two of the three times.

My god Joe, don’t you see the error of your ways? By walking you are putting another Ford employee out of work. Not to mention, you are not supporting the war on terrorism. If you do not burn your quota of fossil fuels, how can we legitimize the good fight?

Walking is for non-Patriots – Get with the program.

Hoo-RAH!

now THAT'S marketing.

"Tell you what, though, ever since I got to doing security at the ballpark, it's just shaking the women off the dick in spades"

you sir, are a terrorist.

clear as day anybody can tell.

stop hating america and start bombing towel heads.

"I only get up on them towelheads that terrorize between East 10th and the Hardees's down thataway"

Did the cop specifically ask you if he could search your bag? If he did and you consented to being searched, the cop didn't do anything wrong- he's free to ask all he wants. But he shouldn't have searched your bag without asking first. Same rule applies to the trunk of your car.

There is an exception though- if he has a reasonable suspicion that you're up to no good (aka that criminal activity is afoot), he can pat you down and (*I think*) look in your bag. (law students- does a Terry stop give a cop the right to look in a bag? My guess is yes).

In reality, this stuff only comes into play where a cop searches you and he finds something illegal. Then your lawyer would challenge the leaglity of the search, and move to suppress the evidence. If a cop conducts an illegal search but doesn't find anything, it's not really gonna get back to him, unless he feels you up and you have rich socialite parents.

yeah. he asked. I consented with sort of a wave of the hand and some other gesture. Again, I was just shocked that it happened. The assholeness comes not from the search but from the fact that he asked to search and if I had weapons. I was just walking on a sidewalk.

Thought this was interesting, especially considering all Joe's troubles...

Investigation uncovers thousands of bogus inspection stickers
By the Associated Press
July 28, 2006

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- Thousands of Hampton Roads motorists have been cited with possessing fake inspection stickers and many more could be on the roads, state police said in announcing an arrest in a counterfeit sticker scheme.

Investigators estimate at least 10,000 to 15,000 decals were made and sold at prices of up to $100.

The stickers are intended to ensure that unsafe cars stay off the roads. Cars found with phony stickers usually have bald tires, shattered windshields or brake and suspension problems, investigators said.

Brian K. Jones of Portsmouth has been charged with forgery and is scheduled for trial Aug. 21 in Portsmouth, Senior Trooper M.A. Bailey said Thursday. At least one state inspector was charged with selling legitimate stickers without inspecting vehicles. More arrests could follow.

"We've either shut this down or we've made it go underground," Bailey said.

According to investigators, most of the stickers were sold by middlemen who looked for expired decals or rejection stickers on cars, then approached the drivers.

Legitimate inspection stickers feature black borders around the month and year boxes, an outline of the state, the state seal and a letter followed by seven digits. Each sticker has flecks of metal embedded in the paper and the word "void" is perforated down the middle so it tears when peeled off a windshield. The side of each sticker is serrated after it is torn out of a sticker book.

After a few crude imitations, the counterfeits improved in quality, investigators said.

In May 2005, State Police started sharing information with city police departments, asking them to look out for the fake decals and to share information with them.

Since then, Chesapeake police have charged about 2,000 people with having the stickers on their cars, Bailey said. Virginia Beach and Portsmouth police also have charged drivers.

So far, State Police haven't documented any crashes caused by cars with fake stickers.

"We do have a lot of cars that are dangerous," Bailey told The Virginian-Pilot. "So far, we have been very, very, very lucky."

Possessing the stickers is a Class 1 misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. Making and distributing the stickers are felonies, police said.

Fuck Critical Mass.

do you really think that the cops are making these laws?