It seems to me that SA cops just prance around with a badge and a gun.
Did some training with the justice department at Curry street TAFE last year........Coppers are getting taught properly, the lecturers (all ex experienced police) point to the culture of individual police stations as the biggest problem ONCE a young policeman gets brought down from his high and mighty perch( that alot these teachers say the young uns are on)
Amyways i have to agree with you though...........thursday i decided to drive my defected car(heasdlights/tyer) to the auto election to chat about the options in fixing the headlights(old car if its to expensive im not going to bother fixing it)but i thought maybe i have a loose earth/switch and i wanted to show him the poltigiest throughtout the dash when you try to work the lights.....Then i was contemplating going to a property with a heap wrecking cars and heaps of spare major fuses to see if 1 of them was dodgy.
Got 30 meters up the road when i passed an un marked patrol car, he immeaditly did a u turn(no indicator) as soon as the sirens went on i pulled over, got out the car and met him with the infringement notice, told him what i was doing..............he looked at front of the car, looked the tyers..........asked me "what about the tyers? i said im not going to bother if i cant get the headlights working (done for scrubbed front left)..
This is where it came scary.............he asked me "is there anything in this car that shouldnt be" i was taken aback and said "what shouldnt be?"
He replied cannabis as he half stepped in the drivers seat........looked under the seat..........half bent over the passenger side......
Went around the other side of the car..............tried to open the passenger front door..i unlocked it...he looked under the seat.............picked up my jacket and felt it, looked at an old reciept, and looked under the fuses and tools on my passenger seat.....looked in the back visualy................
He then in a very much child like manner and laugh said "why did you look down or am i to suspicous?" now at 2 points i recal looking down when in the car.
When he did the u turn i knew why, i looked to see if the expiation notice for the defect was on the passenger seat( i carried it for this very reason/ i believe its law)
The second time was when i pulled over and got to get out and meet this person i grabbed it( natural)
He then proceeded to bully/intimidate/interrogate me over driving this car.......bombarding me with questions, not letting me finnish before asking another, cutting me off agin to re ask one before..............asked me where i worked........if i had been in trouble with the police before.............. i responded to being in trouble with the police before with " i dont deal with you guys".............Scary time again as he replied in a child like manner and laugh "whats a matter dont you like us"
"I replied i dont break laws"
He kept trying to mix my story up.........saying but you said that..this was pure bully stuff.trying to mix me up..he clearly wanted to do me for something........clearly
It came up i was on a DSP.........he grilled me about that, what for..............who gave you the injury.............was it in this town..............
Told me to go home........ring everyone up first before you go there.notify them where your going.........
Various times he stopped looking at the car, walking around it, thinking.chewing his finger.....one point he went down on his knees.........just looking at the door as if was admiring his hair in the paint reflection.............
He wrote down my milage, felt the tyers to see how warm they were ( lived 250 meters away) , took the name and munber of where i was considering going depending on what the auto electricain said( that person is not happy now)
I dont have a criminal record.i dont hang around with anyone who does...........i keep a quiet life...am not known to the police or have been investigated for any crime since i was a teenager over 20 years ago...............
I have had a without due care in 1989 and another in 1992
I got done for speeding on highway one in 2001
and by a speed camera in 2003.....
I did what he told me ( he wouldnt answer my questions about places of repair and continueing what i was doing) i made appointment with auto electriian for next morning, drive there in the pouring rain when most cars have there headlights on....auto electrician tells me he is to busy but you might have a loose or dodgy earth..........come back monday............This auto electrician i have always just turned up asked him about whatever drama's that lead me there, sometimes i go back at an arranged time..........others i have fixed myself..........the copper made me tell him the adress of the auto electrician only to test me!
As someone who has done some psych training to me this guy displayed various psychotic tendancies.............
Edited by waratah, 16 October 2010 - 06:28 PM.