How do you feel when you see a police car?

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01 Sep 2012, 10:37 pm

I want to escape.



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01 Sep 2012, 10:58 pm

AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
InThisTogether wrote:
chris5000 wrote:
I let off the gas so I drop down 10mph lol.
when Im driving they dont bother me but when I walking down the street or something it makes me nervous I dont know why.


I'm the opposite. When I am walking, I don't mind, but if I am driving, I suddenly become hyper-aware of everything I am doing, and I usually immediately take my foot off the gas! It is probably because I am a fairly strict rule-follower, except when I am driving. 55 mph just won't do it for me! LOL!

Now, in your part of the country and your community, is it common for people to be walking in the middle of the day, or is it something uncommon that might draw attention?


People walk all over during the day. It is commonplace.


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01 Sep 2012, 11:08 pm

Now that I live out in the boonies and we only have 6 cops total, with only one on duty at a time, if I'm walking I wonder who it is and where he's going and sometimes I wave them down and get them to give me a ride where I'm going.

If I'm driving, I hope they don't notice me. No license, long story but it wasn't because of any bad driving on my part or anything like that. I need to go get it back but I just never manage to get down there on Thursdays.


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02 Sep 2012, 1:36 am

I worry about what will happen if they ask me to walk a straight line. :lol:



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02 Sep 2012, 1:56 am

I used to work as a civilian cleaning police cars in a police workshop they don't worry me abit. I'm more concerned they are going to yell out at me and say Hey washer woman can you come and clean my car its really embarrassing.



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02 Sep 2012, 3:09 am

Hope that they aren't involved in a gunfight of some kind.

Just as likely to catch a .40 cal JHP as their intended target.



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02 Sep 2012, 4:16 am

I'd say that it depends on the situation. I deliver pizza for a living and they generally let me be. The general rule is that a pizza sign is like diplomatic immunity unless you are doing something really stupid. However, if I do get pulled over and have to deal with them I get real nervous and may lock up. I might also data dump at them unintentionally, depending on how the conversation goes.

I also have a sort of cop radar that lets me spot them fairly easily. I can tell the difference between a Crown Vic being used as a cop car and a civilian one simply by the way it is being driven (my detail oriented aspieness and automotive special interest don't hurt me here either!). Cops have a way of driving with a more commanding posture, if you will, with respect to normal traffic. It's hard to explain but it's just something you learn to pick out when you spend a lot of time on the road. I can also spot unmarked Chargers, Wimpalas and Tahoes this way too. (It doesn't hurt that the Tahoes are lowered and use a front air dam that makes their front ends distinctive!) I haven't seen one of the new Caprices yet, but those too will be easy to spot as they are not sold here as civilian vehicles (it's actually a Holden Kingswood from Australia, if memory serves.)


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02 Sep 2012, 4:50 am

I get nervous and feel very anxious. Cops pull me over and mess with me all the time and I am not doing anything wrong and they tell me I look suspicious.


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02 Sep 2012, 4:57 am

I do worry when I see a police car. I worry irrationally that someone's put something in my bag and if they stop and search me I'll get arrested. I think this stems from going through an airport security once and my brother told me he'd previously had weed in the bag I was carrying. Until we got to wherever we were going and I could scrub the bag I was in a blind terror!

I worry when I see police around where I live and they're near me because there's a lot of police hatred around here. Someone shot at an undercover officer with a machine gun out of a moving car recently, so I feel a bit concerned being anywhere near them! I also feel like they assume I'm up to no good because I live on this estate and I look like a teenager.



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02 Sep 2012, 5:08 am

If I'm driving I feel an urge to brake hard, even if I'm driving below the speed limit. Otherwise, they don't bother me.



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02 Sep 2012, 8:41 am

I get a bit agitated when i see them, but then i have been arrested 5 times so i guess i get paranoid that i will be again even if i know i have done nothing wrong.



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02 Sep 2012, 9:10 am

When I see one as I'm walking down the street I don't really get nervous.

When I'm in my car though I get a little rattled as I'm scared they're gonna pull me over.



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02 Sep 2012, 10:11 am

I always get very nervous when there are police cars around. Especially when I'm driving. I have no reason to be because I'm not doing anything wrong. When I see a cop driving the same way I am, or parked on the side of the road, all of my attention is on it until I can't see it anymore.


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02 Sep 2012, 12:45 pm

scarred, they are pretty much legal, and moral bullies. I've went through a road block and one of my dumb pot head friends had weed on him. they bullied me into telling them if he had any weed on him. I of course said nothing. I don't see why cops feel the need to bully someone around who is being respectful to them in every way.


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02 Sep 2012, 12:52 pm

After being struck in the face by a cop I became more nervous when seeing police cars.



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02 Sep 2012, 1:36 pm

I'm terrified of the police. I've heard many stories of the police assaulting and bullying people on the spectrum.


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