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Originally Posted by bobabode
97% of the cops I've met were OK. 2%were outright pricks. 1% made me want to piss my jeans. Necessary to have around. Wanna get to know 'em better? Drop off a dozen donuts at the local stationhouse!  |
I've found that a case of beer works better.
I remember about ten years ago I built a house for a highway trooper. Being a drinking man, he showed up at quitting time with a case of beer for my crew and myself.
Everybody slam dunked for or five beers (it was 100 degrees with 80 % humidity that day), and as I was leaving he asked me if I would like one for the road.
Pretty cool trooper, in my estimation. Of course, he was missing part of one finger due to a shooting he was involved in during a traffic stop. He damn near got killed, and he knew what a criminal was. He was also a lieutenant.
And there is no doubt in my mind that if he thought that I was so shitfaced drunk that I couldn't drive 6 miles home, in Bugtussell, he for sure wouldn't have let me drive, much less offered me one for the road.
Besides, he had just shoved about 200K in my hip pocket and said build me a house, so he had a certain amount of faith in my judgment.
Most cops ain't so bad.
Chas