Cool Cop Thread

[BLACKCHARM88]

Revved at a Ferrari(one like Magnum PI drove), then about a mile down the road a silver Explorer pulled me over. Cop told me I didn't signal, went into the furthest lane, and accelerated to fast. Slap on the wrist. All of my brothers are police officers, two I get along great with, the other one not so much.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

a rebellious drug using loser with no concern for anyone but myself

Qft. Still have my issues from time to time but I'm still young

[Exodus_2pt0]

a rebellious drug using loser with no concern for anyone but myself

Been there, don't miss it.

[Dozyproductions]

yes but there is a big dif between a suspended license and just not having it on you at the time. "smh" for clarifying? :roll:

Stay in highschool.

I just remember old timers telling me about asking cops for rides home because they were too drunk. I feel like you do that now and you'll just get thrown in a drunk tank and get fined a bunch of money. To serve and protect has turned into to serve you and collect unless, as many of you mentioned, you have a family member or friend who is a cop. That's not bashing, just an obvious shift in the mentality. I can also see animosity over cops who are going 90 on 65mph freeways without their lights on and then catch any of us going 71. They aren't above the law either and the coolest ones I've met know it and own it.

[blunttech]

What were you doing as a young person?

a rebellious drug using loser with no concern for anyone but myself

[Stanley Rockafella]

Honestly I dont' care for them.

Not in a bad way but not in a good way either. They've never really helped me out except for giving me tickets when going slightly over the limit 10-15kph. Esp when living in SK or Alberta they were all over me like shit to a wool blanket.

My immediate family on the other hand...they never did so well, probably because of the crap they were involved in.


Funny, where I live now in Vancouver, my morning commute includes driving at speeds over 20 or even 30 kph at times and nobody blinks an eye. Heck, this is the longest i've gone in my life without getting a speeding ticket. Everyone does it on my mornign commute and the cops don't seem to care. I guess they so that just to keep the flow of traffic moving in a smooth and efficient manner considering the heavy congestion.

So I guess in that way, that's cool of them

[e30onBBSs]

I lol'd.

Back on topic, being that my car wouldn't pass NC inspection due to not having a cat I generally tried to avoid cops if possible. Even though there was no cat the car wasn't much if any louder than stock at low revs. One day a while back I went to the bank used one of the drive through lanes, but there was a cop already in line so I pulled in 2 lanes over. With no A/C I had the windows down and the cop says to me "Hey, is than an S52?" At this point I was caught very much off guard, partly because I wasn't expecting conversation and partly because of the opener. We speak briefly then he asks to pull into the parking lot to continue the discussion. Really cool guy, and it turns out he's an e30 guy and used to crew for an e30 race team. We talked for 10 minutes or so about cars and racing, then parted ways.

yeeee! I'm surprised some cops got into being a cop as a second career. Wouldn't be so bad.

[matthugie]

He got a new user title..

I lol'd.

Back on topic, being that my car wouldn't pass NC inspection due to not having a cat I generally tried to avoid cops if possible. Even though there was no cat the car wasn't much if any louder than stock at low revs. One day a while back I went to the bank used one of the drive through lanes, but there was a cop already in line so I pulled in 2 lanes over. With no A/C I had the windows down and the cop says to me "Hey, is than an S52?" At this point I was caught very much off guard, partly because I wasn't expecting conversation and partly because of the opener. We speak briefly then he asks to pull into the parking lot to continue the discussion. Really cool guy, and it turns out he's an e30 guy and used to crew for an e30 race team. We talked for 10 minutes or so about cars and racing, then parted ways.

[e30onBBSs]

What I miss

No cop bashing

[ThatOneEuroE30]

He got a new user title..

What I miss

[flyboyx]

Cop bashing on here is frowned upon. I'll go ahead and clean it up now, but anymore bashing and I'll just start cleaning house.

looks like i missed something good.

[JasonC]

Peter, good luck with your future endeavors on this forum.

He got a new user title..

[E30 Wagen]

My uncle is a cop, very cool dude. Level headed, calm, and in touch with the real world. Anybody who bashes cops are selfish jerks.

[e30onBBSs]

Ive had tons of bad experiences with cops as a young person. And the funny thing is.. Everyone Ive had I was breaking the law or generally being a dick. Since I wised up Ive not had one bad experience with a cop in 30 years

What were you doing as a young person?

[blunttech]

Although I think that cops don't entirely deserve their reputation, I do think there is something about the position of authority that attracts assholes to that line of work, so the number of assholes in the police force might be a little higher than the average.

That said I've never had a bad experience with a cop, so I can't really bash them. The few that I've met seemed like nice guys. And the media really doesn't help since they only report on what they do wrong.

Ive had tons of bad experiences with cops as a young person. And the funny thing is.. Everyone Ive had I was breaking the law or generally being a dick. Since I wised up Ive not had one bad experience with a cop in 30 years