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Originally Posted by silverwhaletail

Nice fotoe! Nice car! But, but, but...that ain't no silver whale tail. An', an', an'...you look like a freakin' cop! Oops, ya are one, ain'tcha? Sorry.

Well, ossifer, I'm a feller cop - oh no, no, not a real cop! I just play one when I'm investygatin' fotoes. Phew! Like I'm a freakin heeroe who risk my preshus life like a, a, a dop or fire man? Yeah right. Git outta town! Ha ha ha ha!

But, back ta my fotoe investygation. You ain't foolin' no one by not wavin'at us 'cause yer goin' so dam fast it ain't safe ta take yer han's offen the steerin' wheel! No sirreee! I kin tell, ya cain't fool me!

How kin I tell (heh heh heh)? 'Cause the chane link fense ain't all blurry lookin!!! Gotcha, copper! You be busss ted!

Seriously, is that your Volvo, Officer? I can tell from the prancing moose on the fender that it's some kind of rare racing Volvo (one that I've never seen - amazing!).

Or is it a friend's that you used to pose in and make us guys jealous?

Now, real seriously, first, I'm not easily pigeonholed - I'm registered Independant; had to register as something if I want to vote.

Second, I have the utmost respect and admiration for any public servant who risks their life on a daily basis, e.g., cops and fireman (uh oh, should I have said firepersons?). And mail...persons too (there's some nasty dogs out there). Building inspectors? Um, not so much.

I don't know if your cop duties include making traffic stops, but there's something that most citizens never even think to consider and that is that on any day, any cop, even in the nicest of neighborhoods, can pull over a vehicle for rolling a stop sign or whatever and be shot dead.

It just never occurs to them. But I'm dead positive that you know it. That's what I mean, for them whut don' unnerstan' it, when I say that cops and firemen put their lives at risk every single day that they show up on the job. They (you) don't have a clue what kind of criminal or whacko they might encounter on any given day. Thanks for your service.

Third, you can't legitimately ascribe cop hatin' to liberal Democrats exclusively. That would be profiling (I have some thoughts on that later). That is glaringly obvious from the many, MANY, posts on OT and PARF made by died-in-the -wool, gun loving (many of whom are gun toting as well) conservatives who post here and rail on endlessy about dirty cops, cops being nothing more than armed revenue collectors when they get ticketed for speeding in their silver whale tail () or make a human mistake, posters who stereotype cops.

Anyway, I'll post my thoughts on stereotyping/profiling later. G'night copper.