F the Police

This post has nothing to do with music, instead it deals with an incident that happened to me when coming home from work. After work I took the train home and it was a normal trip until I exited the train and entered my van for the five minute drive back home. Right after I exited the parking lot a cop pulls up behind me. For some odd reason I knew he was going to follow me for a minute and then eventually pull me over. Just like I thought, that is exactly what happened. I saw the lights flashing behind me and I pulled over to the side of the road.

I saw a young cop come up to my window and ask for my license, registration, and insurance which I gave to him. He asked me where I was coming from and I told him The US Attorney's Office where I work, hoping that it maybe would get me off the hook for whatever I had done. He took my information back to his car and quickly came back and told me to get out of the car. He walked me to the rear of my van and I immediately thought it was something petty like the tail light being out. He then told me in these exact words "It clearly smells like weed in there" and I just laughed and said there is some old surfing gear in there, that is about it. He would then call up two more officers who pulled up with their smug attitudes thinking they are all high and mighty when in fact they're officers who have absolutely nothing better to do than to annoy innocent citizens.

One of the three cops came up to me and said we're going to search your car, and I quickly reacted by saying, "Don't you need a warrant to do that?" He replied with, not unless you give us permission, if you don't we are going to wait here for awhile and we will get the search dog to sniff out your vehicle. If I weren't drained from work and hungry I would have said yes, bring on the dog and the warrant but I didn't have it in me to wait that out. I allowed them to search my car and they sure did a thorough search and to their dismay they found nothing besides a smelly wetsuit.

Throughout the search I showed a clear amount of dissatisfaction by laughing the whole time and shaking me head. During the search they asked me ridiuclous questions like "Do I smoke pot?" and "Do my friends smoke pot in my van?" I told them no repeatedly and said quite clearly "I have never smoked pot in my life" which is the truth. When they finally gave up on the search fifteen minutes later they just said alright we're done and I quote "You're lucky we didn't find anything." I hate to curse on here, but what an asshole egotistical thing to say, I clearly stated that I have never smoked pot in my life so why the hell would I be lucky to NOT have pot in the car?

The cop would then search in his bag of tricks for some excuse for pulling me over and said "The reason I pulled you over is because I noticed your Mom's license has expired." What the hell does that have to do with me? Do I like like a forty year old woman? He was driving behind me for long enough to see what I looked like, and I sure don't look like a middle aged woman. What is even worse is that my Mom's license wasn't even expired, we double checked today and it is good until 2008.

This isn't the first time I've been pulled over for no reason, I was pulled over for crap like this two months ago. I'm so sick of these pompous thug cops who think they are above everyone else just because they wear some pathetic badge. Especially these low life cops around me who patrol the safest area's in the US. Just because they don't have any other crime to combat doesn't mean they need to prey on teenagers who don't know the law so they can take advantage of them. I am sick of their crap and their big-headed attitudes and I for one refuse to put up with it. I made it known that he wasn't going to hear the last of me, I went out of my way to shake his hand and said "Thank You Officer Ridgeway" nice and clear with an extremely sarcastic tone. When I go back to work at the Attorneys Office on Thursday I will be speaking to one of the attorneys about this bogus event. I wish these wimp cops could be thrown into an area like Newark NJ where they could actually see what it's really like to be a cop...