Good morning to you too.

[pasithea]

Well gee,

My morning is off to an great start. I'm about a half hour behind schedule getting to work, head out, and find that my speedometer, headlamp mount, and even the broken reflector on the front of my bike have all been stolen. Including the lights on my rims. How nice. If I thought the cops would do anything, I'd buy new gear and a wireless webcam this weekend, but I know better. My house in Tulsa as robbed and even though the guy sold stuff to my neighbor and his girlfriend was willing to testify against him, the cops said there was nothing they could do. And that was about $1000 worth of stuff, not $25.

Hey, speaking of worthless cops! At the train station this morning, some fucknugget had run over the orange cones in front of the HANDICAP RAMP and parked their car there. There's this fat waddly bastard rent-a-cop that's always standing around the station to shout at bicyclists, skateboarders, and the like. Since I was already mad, I shouted at him, "Hey! Why don't you be useful for once and ticket that car parked in the handicapped ramp."
He, of course, got indignant and shouted at me to mind my own business. So I repeated, "There is a car. Parked illegally in the handicapped ramp."
He said, "And what do you want me to do about it? Do you I look like a cop to you?"
Me: "Well, you could at least CALL a REAL cop. What do they pay you for anyhow?" and then I walked away shaking my head.
Worthless fat fuck. This is the same guy that was standing there, maybe 10 feet away when that guy threw himself in front of the train. And you know what else? Seriously, he didn't NEED to be a real cop. The parking lot is Caltrain property too. Dur. Not to mention, it wasn't like someone was stopped for a minute. This car was parked, and no one was anywhere near it nor went near it for the ten minutes I was waiting for the train.

So. What have we learned today class?
A) Some people are selfish and lazy and would rape their own grandmother.
B) Cops are fucking worthless when it comes to handling crimes.
C) Cops exist mostly to try to make honest people into criminals.
D) Rent-a-cops are infinitely more petty and useless than real cops.
E) Cops generally pathetic macho assholes with low self-esteem.
F) Even if you point to a crime in progress, 9 out of 10 cops prefer donuts to action.
G) We're forced to pay thousands of tax dollars each to support useless fucks.
H) All of the above.

God bless america!

Oh, and as a final note for any right-wing fuck that might be reading this, why yes, I do live in a mostly hispanic apartment and yes, odds are high that it was probably a mexican kid who stole my stuff, and no, this doesn't make me rush to support Bush's ethnic clensing. In fact, if anything, it makes me hate you even more, you miserable pasty bastard because you know? There's a good chance that assholes like you are making them feel angry and powerless and thus lash out at any white person. (Since I observe the $200 baby buggy sitting in the space next to mine was not lifted even though it was worth 5 times as much and easily resellable. So thanks, you fucking asshole. We reap what you sew all across the world. BTW, how's your little Police Action going in Iraq? Ooooooh. I see. We're the world police! Well then, I guess given the quiz above, that explains a lot, doesn't it!

Edit: On the bike ride from the train to work, a little girl smiled happily and pointed at my hair and demanded her mother look, and when I was cycling past the warf, a barge was unloading two 20-foot tall women made of scrap metal. One was fully erect and the other's arms and head were being assembled. My world is better now.

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

Despite what the police claim, they serve nobody and they protect nobody. Arguably they're on your side if you're rich. They're mostly there to make money for municipalities, and to be all the great-purveyors-of-right when it makes them feel good. They have pretty much nothing to do with actual justice.

Obviously I've been having a morning, too.

*sigh* That's neat, about the big statues. Do you think there's any way to find where those are going to be once completed?

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

"The policeman is not there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder."

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

Icky... Hope your day turns around. I keep my bike inside my apartment, and inside our building during work hours.

Lost and found

[frith]

My bike got stolen once. The cops found it a few years later and returned it to me (but the thief was never found). Another time my mother asked the cops to knock on my door to see if I was still alive (I was not amused). Mostly cops are there to keep us sheep in line, sheep who don't want no problems with the Law. Petty crooks, well, they don't have a "reputation", so they don't have anything to lose. Cops don't have any leverage on such people.

[plucky.livejournal.com]

I'm making the assumption that your bike was locked up because if it wasn't then they were making a statement. The whole bike being gone, eh, money or something. Sorry to hear about that though..you know, it coulda just been kids who thought the stuff was real cool, not condoning stealing stuff or anything.

As to the whole cop thing, I agree. You know, that might have been that fat-fucks car, parked there between donut breaks because he couldn't waddle out to the nearest open spot like any normal person.

I could never be a "real cop" myself. I want to help people and lessen peoples grief. We got burglarized in Sacto and the only reason we got our stuff back and the guys got caught was because they got interrupted stealing a car and dropped the bags of our stuff then one of them got beat up real bad and had to go to the hospital on my stolen bike. Not really the cops great detective work, practically dropped into their laps. The female detective turning our stuff over to us was cool though, especially when we told her that if she found our 9mm that they could just melt it (damn thing was more trouble than it was worth). It was funny seeing the strange, confused looks she kept giving me and Voidheart (white couple with mohawks) cuz we came in with our bud/roomate who is Filipino/Danish (mocha skin, black curly hair).