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Way over the top, seems to me.
I mean...wow..threatened by the way someone looks at you...coward.
If you and I were in a bar, and I kept giving you the "evil eye" or "mad-dogging" you, you'd just ignore that, or would you ask me what my problem was?
Originally posted by rival
What....exactly....is a dehumanizing stare...?
A Jedi mind trick...?
Originally posted by sylent6
If the officer tells you to stop horseplaying in the water because an accident could happen..well stop doing it and move on.
I try to be as reserved as possible because, like I said, their life means nothing to me, so why interact with them when it will just lead to trouble.
Easy answer..ignore you..I figure if you got a problem with me...you would step up and do something. If not...keep staring...cuz I ain't gonna get any prettier...
Originally posted by Bedlam
Originally posted by sylent6
If the officer tells you to stop horseplaying in the water because an accident could happen..well stop doing it and move on.
The real question is - is that a lawful order by statute? The cop doesn't get to make up # as he goes, he's supposed to enforce laws. Not make them. Is there an order against horseplay? Other than, of course, some mopery law that should be taken away from cops anyway.
eta: it sounds like the cops were mistaken about a fight, then were embarrassed and had to take action to "control the situation". You act the way you train, unfortunately.
etaa: when we first moved the business to Florida, we were out trotting down the beach road one morning when a local cop instructed us we were to pick up and bag garbage someone had thrown out on the verge. We politely informed him it was not our garbage, which he knew because he had sat there and watched us chugging that way from a half mile off, it was not our property and was on city right of way anyway, it was not a lawful order, and at any rate there was no protective equipment. He informed is "I'm the law and I'm giving you an order, so it's a lawful order". Alas for him, that proved to be so very untrue, when our attorney called the city and thanked them for his opportunity to take them to federal court for his very first opportunity to defend someone's 13th amendment rights. It turns out "lawful order" has a very limited definition. Which they all got to relearn, at length, since they didn't seem to know that.
Seriously, if it was just up to some beach cop to decide when 'horseplay' is illegal, why don't they run up into a high school football game and issue a few lawful orders for them to stop hitting each other?Answer - they can't. They don't have that authority.edit on 31-5-2013 by Bedlam because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DeReK DaRkLy
reply to post by butcherguy
I try to be as reserved as possible because, like I said, their life means nothing to me, so why interact with them when it will just lead to trouble.
Of course it could lead to trouble, which is why normal people don't stare down the cops like they want to pick a fight. If someone is stupid enough to behave this way, then the police will naturally wonder why this person is behaving aggressively, what their intentions are, and whom they might try to harm.
Originally posted by sylent6
Horseplay can cause accidents to happen, if its legal or not. Its a safety hazard so yea..a peace officer tells you to stop horseplaying in public because it possess a risk of injury then do it. That's not making up any law, thats common sense.