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New Ironically..
My recent contact (and rare: over decades) with--in this case a 'Highway Patrol'--a matter which wasn't about infractions and such: was Remarkable.

This was a literate, friendly, Helpful guy right outta Norman Rockwell (but sans the treacly over-drawing of that legendary schmaltz-Master.) He noted my comments (on a mundane matter at hand) and I, realizing how 2017-Un-common was this interaction.. stood around for many minutes merely engaging in non-trivial Conversation.

(Was sooo tempted to utter some facile can-o'-worms platitude like, WHY. can't. all. ?? well-Most.. of your profession Be LIke You? ... given that such utterances [Duhh..] virtually demand next a Full Monty discussion etc. etc. I settled for just enjoying a [+]-surprise amidst the daily ... you. know.)



'Twas por moi an also decent-reminder that: *Every* cop must be treated as a Human, first) ..at least until s/he reveals his/her upper-torso tattoo of Der Führer writ-Tall. {{sigh}}


Carrion..
sometimes it's Tasty
New back in my thumb-tripping days
…the California Highway Patrol, on those occasions when I (a skinny undergraduate with hair down past the middle of my back) had anything to do with them, were unfailingly courteous and professional. Indeed, trapped one night on a desolate onramp near Milpitas, I flagged one down, explained my urgent need to make it back to Santa Cruz for my morning dishwashing shift, and prevailed upon him to give me a lift to a far better-traveled ramp a few miles down the road.

Now, my exchanges with local police, a demographic that appears to attract aged-out school bullies, tended to be of an entirely different character. Few things say “we don’t like your type in our town” as eloquently as a beating administered by three armed and uniformed men. That one was an outlier, but the usual tenor was, as Bob Dylan once put it, “the cops don’t need you, and man, they expect the same.”

cordially,
     One [sadly..] for Static - (Ashton) - (12)
         Two perspectives. - (static) - (11)
             The police even do that explicitly - (drook) - (7)
                 That's why a gun in your hand is better than a cop on the phone. -NT - (mmoffitt)
                 Ironically.. - (Ashton) - (1)
                     back in my thumb-tripping days - (rcareaga)
                 And most of them won't even understand how it's so wrong. - (static) - (3)
                     In the U.S. people teach their kids to treat cops like guard dogs - (drook) - (1)
                         Yeah, that's wrong. -NT - (static)
                     watch "alaska state troopers" they also have been trained like that -NT - (boxley)
             Back when I was in High School (59-61) . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                 That stayed true there from 74-77 as well. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                     It Rizzo's army here -NT - (crazy)

The simplest explanation is that I'm an idiot!
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