LOL. I've been pulled over twice for speeding, two different streets, but both streets with businesses and 4/5 lanes, but where the speed limit is 25. I was also pulled over for having part of the year tag on my license plate ripped off (someone had apparently tried to steal it), and twice for a headlight being out when I didn't know it was out. My ex though? He gets pulled over on I-75 all the time.. at least once a year, I think. And he was pulled over at least once for having expired plates.

Is there an "upside" to the whole incident?
 

"July 22, 2009 | When I heard that prominent black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested for breaking into his own home in Cambridge, Mass., it made me proud of America. It may seem paradoxical to focus on the positive side of the preeminent scholar's public humiliation. This is, after all, a distinguished staff writer for the New Yorker, the man who helped Oprah find her roots. It may seem that there's no positive side at all. (His own neighbor, a Harvard magazine employee, didn't recognize him and called the cops. How pathetic is that?)" - James Hanahamn

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2...y_louis_gates/

Interesting piece - the only thing I would add is that I've heard of a number of instances with both the Cambridge and Boston PD where they've refused to provide their badge number to an individual, and the instances have involved people of all ages and races. So, it sounds like it may be something with the local police departments in the area.

My guess is they take it more as the person asserting their own authority, and less as an actual serious request for their badge number.

Hmmm maybe they thought it was a loaded cane. :p


With all the talk of speeding, I thought about my friend who lives in Orlando in Windermere. The speed limit is 35. She has gotten THREE tickets for driving 36 in a 35 zone. :rolleyes: The cops around here are pretty flexible. They don't really bother you unless you are going maybe 10 miles over the speed limit.

I concur. You can be the most intelligent successful African-American in the world,but to some people,all they see is skin color.

Hm, you seem to have a deep seated problem here.

Not every white has the same feelings and not every black does either. True or false? As I see it, none of us were there and actually know what truely happened one way or the other.
So now because I say something you assume a terrible lot and from what is read and posted here by some who seem pretty radical and as some say, play the racist card. That is not suppose to a problem on this site but I may be in error. So I guess is this is a problem among some supposedly educated people. I see or feel a lot of racism on this site.

Dr. Phil,

I'm not getting why you think that if you aren't currently threatening, you don't get arrested.

I don't think Gates needed to be arrested at all, but assuming for a minute he was actually doing what he was arrested for (eta: disorderly conduct, I think), I don't see how being old and needing a cane would in itself make him less "guilty" or arrest worthy. You could be guilty of whatever without being physically threatening.

Again, not that I really think he was. But oldish, cane using guys can still commit crimes.

Yeah, I have a "deep-seated" knowledge that you're drunk half the time.

Only half?

Amazing and I have read some of your posts so that makes you special?

You seem to make yourself available for demeaning people on this site.Oh well, I guess you are or seem to be a wanna be. I am not sorry that I may have offended you, but you are offensive! Actually you suck.

According to you and others I am someone who you and others seem not to like. I really do not care. There are some very nice people here. Why do you not join them?
Grow up and be a real person.

Tom, seriously, you need to get a life. Why do you repeatedly return to a site where the members can't stand you? You have your own site now. Go there. And, by all means, please stay there.

Mods: Can't he be IP-banned so he isn't able to continue this crap?

I don't think that.

Sounds like someone needs to take their own advice.

So why did you remark about how he was handcuffed?