Reply #14: And you spend a ton of money on an attorney and lost time off the job

[Gman]

just to get the ruling and not even a "Sorry!" from anyone.

I'm 52 now and knew about "probable cause" when I was 16 and just got my license. So did all my friends. We had good reason to know, as people do now. I smiled real big at the cop when I would say, "No, you can't look around in my car." when I was pulled over for simply having long hair and driving a Volkswagen.

I had to educate my wife about cops (we've been married 10 years). She thought all cops were great and wonderful and have the purest of intentions. One morning not long after we were married, my wife told me how she was working in the yard while I was at work and this "very nice cop" stopped to ask her if everything was OK and to chat a bit. I said, "That sorry SOB! He was hitting on you!" She was shocked I would say that. I proceeded to tell her how cops are the biggest whore dogs you will ever find. Later, my friends of many, many years told her the stories like my being pulled over in my VW for no reason and other unethical as well as immoral experiences with cops. What convinced her was that the president of the PTA was a cop and she was Vice President. She was telling me what a nice guy he was. I told her to watch him like a hawk because he can't be trusted because he's a cop and has no loyalties. She was shocked for the last time when he politically turned on her and a lot of his other "friends". Now she knows.