Reply #14: if I were a cop? [View All]

[iverglas]

Ignore it, just as I'd ignore anything else someone said if it weren't relevant to whatever the cause of our conversation was.

We can all call cops anything we want to call cops. I called a pair of 'em fucking morons once. They then followed me and wrote me the ticket they had expressly said they would not write if I did the fucking moronic thing they were directing me to do (a U turn in a hugely busy six-lane intersection, to remedy the fact that I was in a bus lane that I didn't know was a bus lane, even though they were telling me that what I was doing was driving the wrong way on a one-way street, which it wasn't ...).

I ignored the ticket, and I never got anything in the mail. Guess they realized they were fucking morons and tore it up!

Cops really don't get to do anything at all about being insulted, any more than the rest of us do.

Of course, they can always put the details of the conversation into the record of their intervention that they write up ... and it might just get read out in court, and reported in the press ...