Respecting others' cars

billy-ray wrote:i have had the same problem twice now. the first time i was pissed off but i didnt say anything because i didnt want to start problems i just hopped in and moved it. last night on the other hand i blew a gasket. i can put up with a lot of crap but when some gang banger wannabe threatens my girlfreind and then his family member has the nerve to rest his lazy A$$ on my car i get a little ticked off. i first noticed it the walked outside told him to get the f@#$ off my car and then through my hands up and yelled "you scratched the paint" while him and all his wannabe gangbanging buddies were out front told him he better have some respect for other peopls stuff and then parked somewhere else. one of there girlfreinds had the nerve to walk out the ally to see were i had parked then ran off when she saw me. i walked back over to my girls house and got the dirtiest look from those sobs but i was hopeing the would have tried somthing because i would have put all of em in the hospital. i dont let anybody sit on my car. no feet on the dashboard. your butt belongs in the seat and your feet on the floorboard. i dont even let my girlfreind sit on my car and this punk thought he had the right to do as he pleased. these gang banger wannabes annoy the crap out of me because they have no respect for anything and think everything belongs to them

74MonteCarlo wrote:A guy leaned on my car once, and I set the alarm off on him.

The incident was recorded by a camera mounted on the Mustang's dashboard.

It shows, at 7:50 a.m. on Aug. 6, Goodwin's silver Isuzu Rodeo pass by, McNevin following and eventually pulling her over.

As McNevin approaches the Rodeo, Goodwin opens her door and launches into a stream of criticism and questions. She tells him he pulled her over for no reason, says Boynton Beach officers are "the worst" and, according to the officer's report, calls him racist. He tells her that in addition to speeding, she has a broken windshield, a broken tail light and isn't wearing a seat belt.

At 7:54 a.m., a dispatcher adds one more offense to the list: Goodwin's license is suspended. McNevin tells Goodwin she is under arrest. He directs her to put out her cigarette, get off her cellphone and step out of the car. She says, "No, I'm calling somebody." He repeats his order and tries to grab her wrist, but she pulls away and says, "Stop. Don't touch me."

McNevin draws his Taser and points it into the car. A second officer opens Goodwin's passenger door and tries to grab her cellphone.

It's impossible to see on the video what is happening inside the car. In his report, McNevin wrote that "it appeared that Goodwin attempted to slap Officer Reynolds." She says she never did that.

At 7:55 a.m., McNevin, who has never shot his Taser before, fires the two probes from his stun gun into Goodwin's left arm.

She shrieks in pain and slides out of the car. Her body vibrates violently on the ground as she continues to wail.

McNevin shouts at her to turn over on her stomach and put her hands behind her back. Do it now, he says repeatedly. Do it now, or you're going to get Tased again, he yells.

The video doesn't show Goodwin on the ground. She cries out, "I can't."

Then, less than a minute after the first shock, another pop is audible, followed by the clicking sound of the Taser cycling another 50,000 volts into her body for five seconds. She screams anew and yanks one probe from her arm.

She sobs for several minutes, quietly, repeatedly whimpering, "Oh, my God."

The two officers put her in handcuffs, remove the remaining probe and walk her to a patrol car.

"It's over and done with," McNevin says. "We've been Tased before. We know it's not that bad."

Goodwin responds: "I don't care what you say. I've never been Tased before."

Sgt. Sedrick Aiken, a department trainer who watched the video, said McNevin's actions were appropriate, even ideal.

An officer facing a noncompliant person in a car has to consider several potential problems. If he physically forced Goodwin out of the vehicle and onto the ground, he might have injured her. She might have had a weapon hidden in the car. If he used pepper spray, her eyes could have been affected for an hour, or he might have sprayed his partner.

billy-ray wrote:i have had the same problem twice now. the first time i was pissed off but i didnt say anything because i didnt want to start problems i just hopped in and moved it. last night on the other hand i blew a gasket. i can put up with a lot of crap but when some gang banger wannabe threatens my girlfreind and then his family member has the nerve to rest his lazy A$$ on my car i get a little ticked off. i first noticed it the walked outside told him to get the f@#$ off my car and then through my hands up and yelled "you scratched the paint" while him and all his wannabe gangbanging buddies were out front told him he better have some respect for other peopls stuff and then parked somewhere else. one of there girlfreinds had the nerve to walk out the ally to see were i had parked then ran off when she saw me. i walked back over to my girls house and got the dirtiest look from those sobs but i was hopeing the would have tried somthing because i would have put all of em in the hospital. i dont let anybody sit on my car. no feet on the dashboard. your butt belongs in the seat and your feet on the floorboard. i dont even let my girlfreind sit on my car and this punk thought he had the right to do as he pleased. these gang banger wannabes annoy the crap out of me because they have no respect for anything and think everything belongs to them

Rago wrote:...... So some of us guys decided to start our own "gang" complete with confederate flags! I learned a few things......

billy-ray wrote:...i am for a free country not one like russia were they say its free but the government still has total control.

' HARRY ' wrote: I have to agree with you about Ku Kluxers, Rago. Racist scum of the earth. The whole lot of them wouldn't make a pimple on a real Confederate soldier's arse. One of these days, I'll tell you the story about the time they tried burning a cross in our front yard when I was a kid back in the '50s. Yep, that's right...... My Grandma was a card carrying member of both the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution...... And these idiots were going to burn a cross in our yard because they didn't like our religion?!? I don't think so!

Or the time my Grandfather infiltrated the Klan at risk to his own life in the '30s.

Or the fact that our Cousin and Jeff Davis and others fought for and finally after 3-1/2 years, got a conditional emancipation for any slave who took up arms for the South enacted into law by the Confederate Congress. It allowed for his freedom and the freedom of all his family as well and there were provisions granting him and his family 3 acres of land and a mule at war's end. This pre-dated Lincoln's 'emancipation proclamation' and Lincoln's proclamation was without legal standing in the South during secession anyway. You won't find that in the revisionist history books. And I doubt if they bother to mention that Lincoln's proclamation specifically exempted freeing slaves in Northern states. Nor did it address white Europeans bound into indentured servitude, either. Not many people realize that there were a dozen or more black slaves who were freed and who voluntarily took up arms for the South alongside their former masters even before this measure was enacted. And then there were the free men of colour who formed black regiments in Louisiana. Their Fathers and Grandfathers had fought the British alongside Andy Jackson and Jean LaFitte at the Battle of New Orleans. These men had been free men for generations. And when the Yankee occupation forces invoked harsh martial law in the South for a decade following the end of hostilities, these men and their families had their land stolen and given over to either the federal government or to politically connected carpetbaggers just as our own family's land was taken.

But those are stories for another time. I don't want to be rude and get too far off topic on Cort's thread here.

Stars and bars forever,

Harry

P.S. >>>> Yes, I understand your proudly flying the Confederate flag. In early '67, we flew the stars and bars over our little piece of hell next to the LZ at Con Thien until it took a direct hit from an incoming Chinese made rocket. I think we pissed off the NVA and their Soviet 'advisors' on the other side of the river because they walked artillery across our position at 50 meter intervals daily after that.