Sorry kids . . . No more snow days
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Ian
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Saw a pair of truck balls one time on a white trash beater, guy couldn't afford a real pair of Truck Nutz so he had a couple of tennis balls stuffed inside a filthy pink sock hanging from his rear bumper. That school bus would look even more appropriate with a couple of basketballs inside a laundry sack. Probably just me, but if you're going for a theme, I say go all the way.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Never underestimate the ability of white trash to come up with new and ingenious way to offend even the most hardened person of average intelligence. Back in pre-historic times, say 1990, something like truck balls or the F word displayed on your vehicle where I used to work would get you pulled over and lectured on the fact there were women and kids around. If the offensive material didn't disappear post haste, then the fine tooth comb came out and every little infraction would be ticketed over and over until they got the idea. I think that made for a better society myself.
Way back further than that, in the 70's I had a rear window decal that covered most of the window. It was a rather mean looking eagle carrying a banner that said . . . F*** Communism. Got pulled over a few times but no tickets. The conversation usually ended with me asking since you don't like that sign should I assume your a communist? That didn't make any friends but neither the sign or the question was illegal and it stayed there as long as I had the car.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Where I grew up in the '50's, the first word of your sign would have got you a butt kicking from your neighbors. Poor mountain folks tend to be religious and moral.
L Ross
Well-Known Member
Ah Bret, wasn't that fine tooth comb a wonderful thing? I ever carried a window tint meter on my motor. Trans 305 was a useful tool. I also used to use traffic laws to solve burglaries and such. The detective division had cart blanche to deal away my traffic tickets for the greater good. Intel garnered through traffic work even figured into a homicide investigation.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We never had tint meters either. If I couldn't see into the car, it was too dark, end of story. V+T to solve burglaries? War story time! So my mother owned a bar in a little mountain town, Racquette Lake NY to be exact. She got burgled one night. Another Trooper was working the case. I was working evenings, sitting in the frozen wilderness near Indian Lake NY waiting for some sort of ticket to come my way so I could get the brass off my a....backside. I was what they called "a low producer" as far as tickets went. Anyhoo, 10:30 on a Sunday night and there goes a van with one tail light. So I pull it over. Lo and behold it's this dude that worked part time for my mom. I shine the flashlight in the van and there's envelopes of cash. Ok...where his license? He forgot it. Whose van is it? He borrowed it from another guy I know. Where is he headed? Uh.....to see.....uh.....his mother!...thats it! ...his mother is sick. Okay, so I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree but even I can tell this is BS, and since his license is suspended, the plates don't match the van and the guy is sweating like a 14 year boy who just found his Dads Playboy collection. In the end, not only did I solve my mothers burglary, (which redeemed me for the DWI I tagged in her parking lot earlier!), I solved a whole freakin' series of burgs and larcenies. Turns out every missing purse and wallet in a 3 miles area was in this guys footlocker, plus the van was stolen, the plates were stolen and he'd done at least 4 or 5 other burgs.
All because of a tail light.
All because of a tail light.
Rick H
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Arrested one guy and his partner....on a B&E (burglary in most states), cleared up 180 cases....a two man crime wave. Stupid? They carried cash, guns, and a portable TV, dragging the cord from the site of the B&E to one of their mother's door, in 4" of fresh fallen snow. It didn't take a bloodhound to track them. They were young druggies and mean....one of them was killed a few years later trying to run down an officer. Yeah, they were out in less than 2 years after doing 180 B&E's.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Twice I "solved", if you want to call it that, burgs by finding the defendants wallet at the scene! Multiple instances of finding the BG from an impression of their license plate in a snowbank or the whole darn rear bumper being torn off. One burg to another bar the idiot waded through a field of burdocks to reach a rear window, while wearing a wool coat and left his trail through the snow home. He still had burdocks in his hair when I got to him. One burglar parked his truck behind a manure pile and buried it...and then couldn't understand how I knew it was him when I tagged him coming back to get his truck the next night. That one ended a series of burgs that covered 3 or 4 counties and several years. He was a tough cookie to crack. I said, "Look buddy, you're toast. We got you at the scene, it's all over." That was all it took! He spilled his guts! Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford would have been sorely disappointed! 
Rick H
Well-Known Member
When we do it is because that Nobel Laureate is having a Dumb A$$ attack. Believe it or not we are all subject to doing that.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Au contraire mon amis! (I have no idea if I spelled any of that right) I got 2 guys in a Caddy one fine early summer afternoon on their way back to college at about 85 mph. In the back seat were several large paper shopping bags. I stuck my head down closer to the window to get a better look inside the car and the smell hit me like a ton of bricks. 21 lbs of pot. They'd gone to Albany to pick up a load for their frat house supply. They're both handcuffed to the guard rails and the skinny red headed one says, "Wait, how long is this going to take? I'm supposed to leave for a summer study session on the Amazon River next Monday!". I allowed as how he was looking at spending a significant amount of time in jail unless his folks bailed him out and even then, it was (I think) a C Felony at that time and I was now obligated to let the judge know he had the intent to leave the country. In the end both these kids were from good families, bright as all get out and, at least up to that point, headed for the sky in whatever fields they were pursuing. They just weren't smart enough in the right way as far as not sticking out like a sore thumb when they had a car load of pot.
Another one that sticks out in my mind is the 2 research veterinarians that got caught trespassing on private lands down in the Adirondacks. They not only passed by all the signs, they went right into the club grounds themselves through or over some locked fences, I forget which. It was beyond believing it was any kind of mistake and then they compounded it by getting froggy with the caretaker. So there they are in the back seat of the Troop car telling me what a bunch of BS this was and one says to the other, "What do you think Dave Barry would say about this?" I jumped right in, being a big Dave Barry fan at the time, "I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! Two educated, professionals ignored multiple layers of "No Tresspassing" and "Private Property" signs, climbed a couple fences and entered a private estate. When the care taker caught them they tried to intimidate him and pushed him around until his brother showed up with an axe in his hand. Then these 2 educated professionals whined about how unfair it all was when they got arrested!"
Even smart people do stupid things.
Another one that sticks out in my mind is the 2 research veterinarians that got caught trespassing on private lands down in the Adirondacks. They not only passed by all the signs, they went right into the club grounds themselves through or over some locked fences, I forget which. It was beyond believing it was any kind of mistake and then they compounded it by getting froggy with the caretaker. So there they are in the back seat of the Troop car telling me what a bunch of BS this was and one says to the other, "What do you think Dave Barry would say about this?" I jumped right in, being a big Dave Barry fan at the time, "I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! Two educated, professionals ignored multiple layers of "No Tresspassing" and "Private Property" signs, climbed a couple fences and entered a private estate. When the care taker caught them they tried to intimidate him and pushed him around until his brother showed up with an axe in his hand. Then these 2 educated professionals whined about how unfair it all was when they got arrested!"
Even smart people do stupid things.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Back in the 70's where I grew up that would have gotten you pulled out of the vehicle through the window and used as a punching bag. Later on the police would have come along and given you a second dose. Legality wasn't the issue. Manners were and some things just weren't done. In other places I imagine it was different, but that's what I grew up with.