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  1. I just think it is a shame that citizens don't do more about this. I do fear turning the police in. As I said, I have many examples, one in which I was forced off the road. This was a state trooper. I got the tag number of his vehicle, and the next day went to the local state trooper office and reported it. The guy essentially told me that since it was my word versus the cop, I was wasting my time. He said he could not run the tag number to find out who the cop was. He then excused his behavior by stating "Well, cops are human too, we make mistakes" to which I respond "But when this or any other non-cop human makes a mistake, we pay big fines, higher insurance, and are punished for our mistakes. And what the officer did was no mistake, but was careless driving." He told me to leave. And when I try to tell this story, people act like I'm some kind of anarchist trying to ruin the world. This is not at all what I want. Think of it this way, as a parent, would you tell your children not to smoke or drink, while smoking and drinking in front of them? Being guilty of what you tell people not to do, in my book, lessens one's credibility, and trusthworthiness. As much power as we rest in police and state troopers, they should certainly be worthy of that power. And we need a better system in place that deals with these abusers of the law.
  2. perhaps, but just for the purpose of discussion assume that the cop was just out to joy ride up and down the highways. A state troopers main purpose is traffic enforcement. If nothing else, he should have been after me for maintaining the speed I was. I was breaking the law just as bad as he was, yet without a badge to excuse me.
  3. BUT THEY WERE JUST HANGING OUT IN A PARKING LOT!!!! Blike, my mother is a paramedic, and has been for this same county for 15 years. For paramedics, atleast around here, they are not supposed to exceed 75 mph while performing emergency traffic. (emergency traffic means lights and sirens must be on). I have another example. I work 45 miles away from my home. I stopped at a gas station on my way home from work one night where the state troopers take their breaks. As I was pulling away, a state trooper flew out from around the building, cut out in front of me and forced me to screach to a halt. He rolled out of the parking lot, did not come to a complete stop, did not use a blinker, and proceeded in the same direction I would be heading. So I followed him. Keep in mind I'm on a motorcycle that accelerates to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds, tops out around 97 mph in about 9 seconds. Anyhow, I decide to follow this guy, once again, to see what the hurry is. I accelerated as fast as I could on the highway on ramp, and by the time I merged onto the highway was running about 80mph. The cop was about 1/2mile ahead of me. I continued accelerating, reached top speed and just barely started closing the gap. As I approached the cop, he accelerated to well over 100 mph, and MAINTAINED THIS SPEED FOR 15 miles. He got slowed down in traffic, and I caught back up. I always maintained about a 1/4 mile gap between us. He exited the highway on an exit before mine. I followed. He didn't come to a complete stop, didn't use a blinker, and simply got back on the highway traveling the opposite direction. This is where I stopped following. At no point did he have any reason to be driving as he was. There was no other officers on the road, hardly any traffic on the road.
  4. The speeding cop had pulled into a gas station with 4 other cops standing around. The gas station wasn't open, 24 hour pay at pump. I think perhaps the county I'm living in is rather corupt as compared to most. I've heard many stories of cops selling drugs, busting the drug bust, taking the money, then reselling the drugs. But who do you call when cops break the law? As I mentioned, other cops accuse you of being on drugs, or something to dirty ones credibility, when you accuse a fellow cop of disobeying the law. dunno if this belongs in politics, thought I'd try to change the flavor a bit.
  5. While I think labeling him a terrorist is a bit harsh, he did base the entire iraq war on lies. The only difference between now and then, is we know they were lies. Saddam was a bad man, killed lots of people, but show me a society that hasn't. Even the great USA is built on a destroyed nation of american indians. How many died so the USA could become the power it is?
  6. This is a topic I've been thinking about for some time. It seems that police officers are above the law. I want to mostly focus on traffic law. Now, understandable that a police must be able to exceed the posted speed limit in order to respond to certain calls, and this is not what I take issue with. My problem is what seems to be a growing number of police who seem to misuse there power, and vehicles, for their own entertainment, or just to get from A to B quicker. Example. Just last night my friend and I went to Huddle House around 2 am. When we left, we were heading west on highway 64. We noticed a cop approaching rather quickly behind us, blew through a stop light, and proceeded by us in excess of 65 mph. The posted speed limit was 45. The entire time he never had his emergency lights on, didn't have his sirens on, and didn't so much as blow a horn when busting through the stop light. Now, Jon and I decide to follow him to see what he is in such a rush for. We went on for about 1 mile after he passed us, when we notice 2 other cop cars, parked in a gas station parking lot. They were all standing around, smiling, laughing, and conversating. We pulled into the gas station and started pumping gas. I asked the one guy who passed us why he was in such a hurry, to which he rudely replied "I was obeying all traffic laws, are you stoned or something?" Now, this is just one of many examples I've personally seen of cops abusing the laws. I want to know, who polices the police? Is it right that they should be allowed to drive as fast as they want, not obey safety ordinances, abuse the vehicles that our tax dollars provide, waste the tax money by standing around in parking lots in the middle of the night (in a nice, relatively crime free part of town I might add)? What can be done about this? Because reporting a cops bad behavior to another cop just gets you funny looks. Cops have a mentality that anyone who isn't a cop is a liar. Ask a DA. But we must not let these power abusers get out of hand, because the more they abuse the power, the less rights we have. Another point I'd like to make on this subject. If a cop is blowing through traffic lights, excessively speeding, and all for no good reason, what kind of message is this sending to the rest of society. As police, they are supposed to serve and protect, to uphold the law. If they do not respect the law they are entrusted to uphold, how can they possible enforce it?
  7. someone told the joke: Two men walked into a bar. You'd think one of them would have been smart enough to duck. Well, To women walked into a bar. And they say women are smarter then men.
  8. Two rednecks, GW and Jeb, were riding along in GW's truck one day. GW pulled off the road and stopped. GW pointing, said "Right down yawnder is where I first had sex!" Jeb replied "Really, how was it?" GW says "Oh, well it was great til I notice her mom was right behind me" Jeb says "Oh hell, what did she have to say about that? GW says "BAAAA" ___ A redneck family are visiting a big city for the first time. The father ans son are in the hotel lobby when the spot an elevator. "What's that Paw?" The boy asked. "I ain't never did see nothin' like that in my life" Replied the father. Seconds later an old frail woman walks in the hotel door and hobbles to the elevator. She presses the button with her cain, waits for the doors to open and gets in. The father and son, still amazed by this contraption, continue to watch. They hear a ping noise and the doors open again. Out steps a beautiful 20 year old busty blonde. The father looks at his son and says "Go get your Maw !"
  9. There was this fly. He was buzzing around over the top of a pond. There was a fish watching the fly, hoping it would drop six inches so he could jump up and eat it. There was a bear, watching the fish, hoping the fly would drop six inches so the fish would jump to eat it and the bear could swipe the fish out the water. There was a hunter, watching the bear hoping the fly would drop, the fish would jump, causing the bear to move out into a clear shot. There was a cat watching all this go down, hoping to steal the hunters sandwich when he went to retrieve the bear. So, the fly dropped six inches, the fish jumped in the air to catch it, the bear swiped the fish up, and the hunter fired. The loud sound from the gun startled the cat, causing him to jump into the pond. The moral of the story: When the fly drops six inches the pussy gets wet.
  10. A blonde, brunette and redhead were all pregnant and visiting the doctor. While waiting to see the doctor, the brunnete says "I'm going to have a girl because I was on top when I conceived." The redhead says "well , that means I'm going to have a boy, because I was on the bottom." About this time, the blonde bursts into tears "Oh no, that means I'm going to have puppies".
  11. A guy was speeding down the road one night at 90 mph. A state trooper pulled him over. He asked for the guys license, and notice he was a doctor. So the state trooper asked him what kind of doctor he was. The guy replied "a Proctologist. I bend people over a table, and have a tool that can stretch an asshole a few inches, or up to six feet." The state trooper, puzzled, asks the guy "What in the world do you do with a 6 foot asshole?" The Doctor replied, "Give him a hat and a gun and call him a state trooper."
  12. drz

    Tesla Coil

    What is the difference between a tesla coil and a typical automotive ignition coil? I even notice on one of my Z cars the coild has "TESLA" printed on the outside. My reasoning for this question is, if tesla coils are essentially the same thing, why not just go spend $20 bucks and get a coil from the parts store?
  13. I wouldn't really call these horror stories, but they definetly spooked me. Once, I woke up in the middle of the night, and sat up quickly. As I wiped my eyes and looked around in the moon lit room, it seems like everything in the room was levitating about 3 feet in the air. As soon as I realizes this, everything came crashing down. The sound woke up my parents, who of course did not believe me. I've since discounted it as just a dream, and I must have hit the wall or something to wake my parents. Another time, a myself and a friend were hanging out in the woods behind my house one night. We were sitting on a fallen tree when I noticed this sound, like a drum, but it sounded like a heart beat. At first I ignored it, but as time went on it kept getting louder and louder. I asked my friend Joe, "Do you hear that sound?" He was completly silent. When I asked him a second time, he tucked tale and ran like hell. The sound was really, really loud, but we heard nothing rustling through the trees and leaves. So I proceeded to follow Joe out of the woods, and noise sounded like it was right behind me. The very moment I stepped out of the forest into my back yard, the sound was gone. I have never been able to explain this one. My mother tells a story of when she was quite young, living in a trailer with her younger brother and mother. Grandma was in her bedroom, my uncle was asleep, and my mom was doing dishes and cleaning up for the evening. Grandma screamed because her light suddenly turned on for no apparent reason. Mom goes in to check on her. Grandma claimed that Satan turned the light on, mom tried to comfort her, turned the light back off and went back to what she was doing. This repeated a few times, until finally mom carried a cross and bible into the room. At this time, she said she felt a strong wind push past her, and went out through the front door of the trailer, completly removing the door, frame and all. My explanation for this one is my Uncle, even today he is quite the prankster. I believe he kept turning the light on, and the wind my mom felt was likely from an open window (this was in florida). The only thing I can't really explain is the removal of the front door. 1 more. I forget the date, but long before the automobile I had family in PA. It was a young couple, recently married who purchased a house in the area. When they moved in, there was this black cat living inside the house. As they moved all their things in, the cat would destroy them. Each night for instance, the cat would find its way into their closet, a shred their clothes. Finally, they decided to capture the cat and drop him off in the middle of the forest, far away from home. The next morning, the cat was back, their clothes shredded once more. So they believed the cat to be a demon, and requested the services of a priest to perform an exorcism. After this, the cat disapeared, not in thin air, but was just never seen again. However, the following week, they awoke to find a large portion of the exterior of their house missing. An entire wall had virtually vanished, with no rubble in the yard. They packed their bags and head to florida. Ok, 1 more story I just remembered. Again, nothing horrific but definetly makes you wonder. A few years back we were out riding motorcycles at this place claimed to have been a satanic worshipping ground. I noticed this blade sticking up out of the ground, so I went to retrieve it. It turned out to be a bayonet from WW1. It had this odd rust looking coloration to it. It reaked of blood. I also found the case for it nearby. Anyhow, everyone who has every seen it agrees it smells like blood. So I decided to try and clean it up. I got rust remover, some metal polish and got it shiny as new. It still smelled like blood. I soaked it in alcohol, still stunk. I removed the wooden handle and poored gas on it, set it on fire and let it burn out. It still reaks of blood. I had known a guy who said he was a Wiccan priest, I showed it to him once. He said this blade has seen lots of death, and was possessed by a spirit. Unsheathing the blade in a home released this spirit into that home. I had found and unsheathed it inside my house shortly before my first story in this thread.
  14. swf is a flash file. Are you sure you've got a flash player installed on your system? can you view this only reason I can think of why it wouldn't play. Of course it could be something in your coding, but always start at the power cord.
  15. I know mIrc has socket connections in its scripting. I'm a lil rusty, but seems you could connect to any ip, on any tcp port using these commands. If you have mIrc, open up the help file and search for "socks" or it might be "socket commands", something to that effect. At one point in time, some years ago I had made my own firewall program using mIrc. However, it would allow the incoming connection, only to bombard that IP with a counter attack. But we used to DOS each other offline for fun back in those days.
  16. Lighter vehicles are awesome. Yes, lighter = faster. My bike, a DRZ, accelerates to 60mph in around 4 seconds. It only weighs 270lbs, around 30 lbs more then myself. However, I am educated and quite expierianced in operation motorcycles. And that is what is important, IMO, is knowing how to drive. Many people here in america are pure idiots when it comes to driving. Few people know how to recover from a slide, much less intentionally slide to avoid a collision. While I agree we need to move our vehicles towards more efficient and cheaper production, we need to move our drivers into a more educated position behind the wheel (or bars in my case). One way to do this would be to require ALL DRIVERS to aquire an SCCA license. This requires completing to racing schools. No, we don't need to race down the highway, but if people are more educated about how to handles their vehicles, you will see a sharp decline in motor vehicles accidents. As is, it is entirely too easy to get a license. __ Sorry, I know thats not what you are talking about, but it is quite related. As to lighter vehicles, I say make them out of cardboard and aluminum, so long as people know how to drive.
  17. drz

    Cabriosaurus?

    http://webpages.shepherd.edu/MKYNE01/About%20Crypto%20Zoology.htm however, a google search for "cabriosaurus" provided 2 results, neither of which seemed to be dealing with animals.
  18. better drawing is all about practice. You want work? Start making animated cartoons and submit them to the various animated cartoon websites on the web. And keep in mind, better drawing isn't always the key to a succesful animation. Look at southpark, for instance.
  19. I was arguing with a creationist once upon a time, trying to defend science. Anyhow, she stopped me in my tracks (years ago) by mentioning "How can you trust science's claims on evolution, when, they can't even predict the weather from one day to the next?" And I hate to say it, but she is right. Weather prediction sucks. Seems like they were better at it 10 or 15 years ago. They have like, 30 possible tracks for the hurricane to go, even though when Ivan first formed I was guesinng land fall in texas, New Orleans or Alabama, and was pretty close considering I didn't use the super computers. But I also think the news likes to tell people what they want to hear. When we have a nice, moderate temp day, the weather reporter trys to act like he created this wonderfull day for us.
  20. wow, thats pretty odd. I've seen one do something like that before, but it was obviously melted. It was plugged into an old AC, which locked up, kept drawing current and melted the wire, the cover, the box and the electrical wiring in the wall. Was your house flooded deep enough for the water level to reach the receptacles? Perhaps if the power was on, the water shorted them out causing that reaction. What kinda material are they made out of? If plastic, one sure fire way to prevent this from happening again would be to replace with some kinda ceramic or metal covers.
  21. Well, I'd say you haven't met the right guy yet Sorry, couldn't resist. I can't, and won't, really argue this point any further. Some people think drugs are bad, and regardless of how much information they are shown to the contrary will not change their mind. Same with sex, cheeseburgers or wine. And no, those numbers did not account for the deaths caused by indirect usage. But I mean indirect pot smoking death could be some numbnuts stoner smoking a joint while driving (always use a pipe) and drop it down his pants, or on the floor, causing them to swerve and hit another car. And you told me not too, but I will anyhow. My mother is a paramedic. She has never, NEVER picked up a person involved in an accident stoned. For one, they cannot verify stonedness, and two, most accidents happen with sober drivers, theirs more of them.
  22. I remember watching a discovery science show about going to mars. In it, they described solar sails as being a means of making the voyage. They said in order to acheive the speed needed to reach mars in a decent amount of time, they would launch the craft towards the sun, effectively orbiting around it as close as possible. Once the craft was in line with the path to mars, the sail would be released, with the craft already moving at incredible speeds. Of course, this was also speculating on future possibilities, not realities.
  23. I tend to agree with that. I don't think it is a racial issue, but even when traveling to another country it seems atleast decent to try to learn some basics about the common language. I think in order to become a citizen of america, one should know english, or atleast partially know it. But I don't think citizens are the ones to worry about.
  24. lol, understood. You did not actually offend me. Very little offends me, the least of which a persons opinion. My only reason for responding is that you hold some false beliefs about drugs, you don't seem to understand there is a difference between "Use" and "abuse". Anything can be abused. I believe Jesus was the one who said "Everything in moderation". Drinking to much water can kill you, having to much sex (unsafely) or doing to many drugs. Eat too many cheeseburgers seems to be quickly approaching #1 killer.
  25. Did you know in 2000, 435,000 people died from smoking cigarettes? 85,000 from drinking? 20,000 from sexual behaviours? 540,000 people in 2000, died from things that are perfectly legal. Do you know how many people died from smoking pot? Quit draging other drugs into this, check the thread title. For one, this isn't even about whether pot is right or wrong, this is questioning the evolution of it. But you've spammed it enough you've forced me to break out the gloves. So do you? How many people died of pot? How many people reported to the hospital for treatment of some physical ailment caused by pot? In 2000, Of all the illegal drugs, there was only 17,000 deaths. Pot did not cause a single one of them. Drugs in general are illegal, not to keep stupid people from enjoying life as you seem to believe, but because it causes the government to miss out on tax money. It causes big corporations to miss out on drug money. Hemp products would really hurt the cotton industry. Its a stronger product. You can make bio-diesal, and due to it only taking 120 days to grow in full, in a wide variety of enviroments, could actually provide a solution to the coming oil crunch. And I mentioned in my other post I don't really agree with hard core drugs. I've seen them kill my family members at too young of an age. I've seen them ruin peoples lives. However, I know dozens, DOZENS of people who live a perfectly normal life, pay bills, raise children, own property and businesses, are respectable members of the community who smoke pot. And whats funny, smoking pot is not illegal. Possesing it is. Same with any drug. This is a case of the government playing nanny trying to tell people how they need to live. Forget the fact that people have been using pot, and other drugs in some form, for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, we need to tell people what is best for them. It would be much like the government deciding since so many people die from sexual diseases, it is illegal to have sex without marrying the person. As you mentioned, you seem to be rather carefull, test yourself and your partner often. You take the responsibility to live the lifestyle you choose to live. I would not dare call you a moron for being sexually active, why do you call me a moron, even though I take responsibility for the lifestyle I choose to live? Thats the key, let me live how I want, you live how you want. As long as one of us isn't stepping on the others toes, we should have not trouble. You have no business, and neither do I, determining how someone else lives their life.
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