Paraquat
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It isn't a blanket statement. It's my own feelings based on... you know what? I typed that all out already.
Let's cite my last speeding ticket. "Excessive speed". I have datalogging software on my car. I printed out a graph of RPM, engine timing, vehicle speed, coolant temp, intake air temps, o2 sensor data. I plotted my speed. I have a GPS - I extracted the information and I plotted it's course and speed and over layed it on Google Earth. No radar, no lidar, no laser beams, no air craft, no drones. Just his word against mine. $319 dollars later... and that's only because the judge knocked it down for me. Not even a work zone.
My girlfriend got in a fender bender. Small town cop showed up. He was a kid she went to high school with. He said, and I quote, "If I want to pull someone over I just tell them they have a marker light out. Even if they don't, no one knows what it is."
One night I was pulled over. I was questioned and released with a warning. The officer said I had a license plate light out. I asked him "Is it something I can see now?" He said "Yea, it's obvious". When I cracked the door LESS THAN AN INCH he drew on me and shouted "STAY IN THE CAR". I said "I asked you if I could see it, you said yes..." "You can see it on your own time!" Guess how that ended? I didn't have a light burnt out.
Let's rewind a bit. I was 19 (at the time, legal to shoot long guns in CT and it was common practice to scrounge live, unfired rounds that others had discarded at my range). I was launching Estes brand model rockets in a field. Someone called the police and said I was discharging a fire arm wildly in the air. The police were waiting for me at home. I had a single shot gun shell in the back of my truck I had collected previously. Breach of peace, 100 hours community service.
Before that, I was a pizza delivery lad at 16 (and didn't know my rights). I got pulled over. The cop said I looked suspicious driving home at 1 am. He found a bunch of maps on my passenger seat, said he was going to search my car, and began questioning me about the maps. I was released.
I'm not going into my whole history. It's not spotless, I'll be the first to admit that, but it shows a history and you can derive a trend from this history.
--Steve
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