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Show this next time your stopped by LEO
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elvenhome21
Regular Member
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couldnd that be conceived as impersonating a officer even though it would be a stretch of the law
couldnd that be conceived as impersonating a officer even though it would be a stretch of the law
Phoenix David
Regular Member
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I'm sure that will go over real smoothly with the Police.
I'm sure that will go over real smoothly with the Police.
Citizen
Founder's Club Member
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Were I the cop, I'd just point to my badge and raise you two consent searches, a dog-sniff, a field sobriety test, and an add-on chargeto whatever I stopped you for.
"Care to call or wanna raise me?"
Were I the cop, I'd just point to my badge and raise you two consent searches, a dog-sniff, a field sobriety test, and an add-on chargeto whatever I stopped you for.
"Care to call or wanna raise me?"
Citizen
Founder's Club Member
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elvenhome21 wrote:
elvenhome21 wrote:
No. But, the way some cops behave, they should be charged with impersonating an officer.
johnny amish
Regular Member
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Seems a bit risky to show a badge like that. A sense of humor is sometimes in short supply when LEO is around.
Seems a bit risky to show a badge like that. A sense of humor is sometimes in short supply when LEO is around.
Doug Huffman
Banned
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And there aren't any threads debating the value of badges worn by non-officers here on OCDO - it's a brand new idea!
And there aren't any threads debating the value of badges worn by non-officers here on OCDO - it's a brand new idea!
M
McX
Guest
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damn shame, but it may to come to pass; it seems like the ocers are the ones tht tow the line, obey the laws, have a social conscience, maybe we do need some form of id to show we are indeed the good guys.
damn shame, but it may to come to pass; it seems like the ocers are the ones tht tow the line, obey the laws, have a social conscience, maybe we do need some form of id to show we are indeed the good guys.
Doug Huffman
Banned
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Do you mean a white hat?
Think about stereotypical Good Guy images, do they feature body modifications, motorcycles, black hats, turbans, hookahs, scimitars? Which better fits the stereotypical image of a Good Guy, Ronald Reagan or Barack Hussein Obama?
Do you mean a white hat?
Think about stereotypical Good Guy images, do they feature body modifications, motorcycles, black hats, turbans, hookahs, scimitars? Which better fits the stereotypical image of a Good Guy, Ronald Reagan or Barack Hussein Obama?
M
McX
Guest
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to me the good guy is the guy with the gun openly carried on his hip, the rest of the image is open for debate.
to me the good guy is the guy with the gun openly carried on his hip, the rest of the image is open for debate.
Doug Huffman
Banned
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Black Bart?
Black Bart?
M
McX
Guest
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i don't realy know who black bart is. obama the good guy?! history will tell on that one. but your making me nervous doug, your avatar does show a black hat!
i don't realy know who black bart is. obama the good guy?! history will tell on that one. but your making me nervous doug, your avatar does show a black hat!
Doug Huffman
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bolles
The hat in my image - that is me and not some God Damned 'avatar'- is my every day brown fedora. I only wear my black fedora to church and 'occasions' in the winter. In the summer, I wear a white straw fedora-styled hat for occasions and one of a number of softer straw hats for daily wear. I'll wear the black hat to funerals when I dress in my "Don Huffman" outfit of double-breasted three-piece micro-wool suit.
As to OBONGO, don't keep such a tolerant open mind that good sense is lost. The history on OBONGO was written last week and should be obvious to all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bolles
The hat in my image - that is me and not some God Damned 'avatar'- is my every day brown fedora. I only wear my black fedora to church and 'occasions' in the winter. In the summer, I wear a white straw fedora-styled hat for occasions and one of a number of softer straw hats for daily wear. I'll wear the black hat to funerals when I dress in my "Don Huffman" outfit of double-breasted three-piece micro-wool suit.
As to OBONGO, don't keep such a tolerant open mind that good sense is lost. The history on OBONGO was written last week and should be obvious to all.
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McX
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i'm sorry doug, i didn't mean to incite you. the history of black bart was good reading though. i'm glad to see you got alot of hats, i'll have to see what i can do to outfit you in the much sought after, and very stylish mechanix hat. then you will be truly one with the universe. and yes the prez. is writing quite a history on a daily basis now.
i'm sorry doug, i didn't mean to incite you. the history of black bart was good reading though. i'm glad to see you got alot of hats, i'll have to see what i can do to outfit you in the much sought after, and very stylish mechanix hat. then you will be truly one with the universe. and yes the prez. is writing quite a history on a daily basis now.
Archangel
Regular Member
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Isn't Black Bart related to Black Jacques Shellac?
Isn't Black Bart related to Black Jacques Shellac?
johnny amish
Regular Member
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The last time a group of ocers got together at the picnic in West Salem and wore alike t-shirts we were called paramilitary wackos and a bunch of roadies. I don't think the public can handle all of our coolness.
The last time a group of ocers got together at the picnic in West Salem and wore alike t-shirts we were called paramilitary wackos and a bunch of roadies. I don't think the public can handle all of our coolness.
junkie
Regular Member
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Doug Huffman wrote:
Doug,
Why do you always bring up "body modifications"? You seem to think that anybody with a "body modification" or some different internet name is a monster. You say this without even knowing the person. You are starting to sound like a broken record.
Doug Huffman wrote:
Doug,
Why do you always bring up "body modifications"? You seem to think that anybody with a "body modification" or some different internet name is a monster. You say this without even knowing the person. You are starting to sound like a broken record.
MarlboroLts5150
Regular Member
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'll continue to say 'til the day I'm dead.....
BADGES ARE STUPID!!!!! Unless you are LE, or security of some kind, leave 'em alone.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'll continue to say 'til the day I'm dead.....
BADGES ARE STUPID!!!!! Unless you are LE, or security of some kind, leave 'em alone.
Doug Huffman
Banned
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junkie wrote:
It is likely that I will never 'know' a person with indiscreet tattoos or body modifications, or dreadlocks or head lice or body odor. I am sure that I will never know anyone introduced to me with some different and monstrous internet-name, not for "monster" but for bathetic[sic] ignorance. It is quite likely that I will never meet any one very different from me. I will be as civil about it as possible, but notice that this forum response is not addressed to anyone personally, for instance.
Think about the idea of injected self-esteem, contrasted with esteem acquired the old fashioned way - by earning it.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bathos
junkie wrote:
On principle. Broken record does sound like uncompromising and principled, doesn't it?.
It is likely that I will never 'know' a person with indiscreet tattoos or body modifications, or dreadlocks or head lice or body odor. I am sure that I will never know anyone introduced to me with some different and monstrous internet-name, not for "monster" but for bathetic[sic] ignorance. It is quite likely that I will never meet any one very different from me. I will be as civil about it as possible, but notice that this forum response is not addressed to anyone personally, for instance.
Think about the idea of injected self-esteem, contrasted with esteem acquired the old fashioned way - by earning it.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bathos
Shotgun
Wisconsin Carry, Inc.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Guh44IBBQ
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwprS_L6tg
Take your pick.
Flashing a mail order badge is for rubes and wannabes. Not a good idea.
Any imagined benefit is far outweighed by the potential for trouble.
LEO's will be the least impressed by it, and most people over the age of 12 will be equally unimpressed.
The only things that meaningfully suggest to someone that you are a law-abiding citizen are your behavior and a clean record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Guh44IBBQ
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwprS_L6tg
Take your pick.
Flashing a mail order badge is for rubes and wannabes. Not a good idea.
Any imagined benefit is far outweighed by the potential for trouble.
LEO's will be the least impressed by it, and most people over the age of 12 will be equally unimpressed.
The only things that meaningfully suggest to someone that you are a law-abiding citizen are your behavior and a clean record.