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To: elmatador who wrote (32940)5/3/2003 1:40:46 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
elmat,

I can confirm the awful U.S. policy of police to assume any citizen who gets out of his vehicle to talk mano-a-mano with a police officer is considered a mortal threat.

This shocked me recently on a trip to visit friends in Portland,OR. I was detained in a nearby suburb of Portland, Oregon, where I was on a mission to find a Greek deli to surprise my hosts with some dolmas and souvlaki for our big fat Greek dinner party. Not knowing the area, I was driving below the speed limit on a commercial avenue, endangering no one, in order to read the roadside signs to find the deli I was seeking.

All of a sudden, I've got a huge sound of sirens from the rear, and a light show that would put the Grateful Dead to shame.

I pull into the lot of the next commercial establishment and we have half an acre for the "confrontation". I immediately get out of my truck and am immediately chastised by the local police for doing so. I decline to get back in my rig or down on my knees and ask if I can help him. This befuddles him and he tells me that I'm driving erratically. I tell him I'm not local. This befuddles him further. After ignominiously asking to put his nose on my face to smell me for alcohol, he directs me to an out of the way and inconvenient Greek deli several miles out of town.

America. Land of the free and the home of the brave. This cop will think twice about his demeaning "breathalizer" test now that SARS is a distinct possibility in his immediate aerosol future. <g>
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