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Re: Big Banana Car

#101

Post by ahazred8ta »

x______________ wrote: post #46
ceejayoz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. That's a clear Fourth Amendment violation. Same with the "pulled over to give you an ice cream" feel-good ops they do. https://abc7ny.com/post/video-police-hand-out-ice-cream-inst... An illegal detention is still an illegal detention if it's being done nicely.

Finally! A nice story about cops pulling over a 23-foot banana motor vehicle for years without any consequence other than spreading joy to the people involved and years of fame! No? You could also pull the public tax dollars spent card, or other crimes not being pursued while you're at it but it won't help sour the mood!

There was a security incident in 2002: Trooper Fears the Wurst, Stops Wienermobile in DC -- Hot doggers grilled near Pentagon

Re: Big Banana Car

#102

Post by phyzome »

friedtofu wrote: post #58
phyzome wrote: post #50

Is this LLM-written, or is this just the sort of annoying "breathless" style of writing that LLMs were trained on?

I hate that we have to ask this question but I'm wondering like cj...what made the post sound breathless? I type like OP pretty often. His post has plenty of valid punctuation. Commas, periods and dashes that(IMO) make me think it isn't LLM-written. I would honestly be surprised if it turns out it was written by an LLM.

In large sections, every sentence is its own paragraph. I don't know what it would be like without all the extra linebreaks, but as it is, it feels like the author is getting their breath back in between sentences.

(I've also seen this style on an LLM-written site.)

Re: Big Banana Car

#103

Post by x______________ »

ceejayoz wrote: post #91
x______________ wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A police officer marched up to the banana and delivered the news. > "'The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.'" > For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. > "He said it so straight-faced," Braithwaite recalled. "And I'm like, 'Oh yeah.'" > The banana jokes, he said, are "never-ending." > Fortunately, so are the laughs. ..Are we discussing the same article? >…

> For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. This is not a good story about cops. This is a good story about a guy, that includes cops as part of its plot. It's like those "kid sells his toys to fund parents' cancer treatment" stories local news does as a feel-good segment. Great kid! Shitty system!

> For a moment, x______________ didn't know if he was being serious or not.

I'm still inclined to think that an /s is coming up in later replies. A bad story about cops and a banana motorist is that the motorist is dead, incarcerated or has a bounty on his head and is traveling around the world to ..evade.. his notoriety.

Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun.. or as Braithwaite put it, "more whimsy"!

Don't they? Help me understand..

Re: Big Banana Car

#104

Post by qingcharles »

forinti wrote: post #56
harwoodr wrote: post #19

I used to drive a 1991 Suzuki Cappuccino - a tiny right-hand drive kei sports car. The first couple of years I drove it, the police pulled me over on a regular basis - no tickets issued but lots of questions asked. One time while I was waiting for a light, an officer knocked on my window (which is somewhat startling)... I rolled it down and he excitedly asked "What kind of car is this?!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

That's just not enough motive to waste someone's time. And, no offense intended, that car is not that interesting. I guess policing must be boring.

I was stopped eight times in one day driving my DeLorean "time machine" replica. My friend has videos of the (literally) hundreds of times he has been stopped.

It's always for some made up traffic offense ("your lights weren't working, try them now; oh they are fixed; can me and my partner get a photo with your car?").

Re: Big Banana Car

#105

Post by qingcharles »

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #83
init2null wrote: post #14

Every time he gets pulled over for a selfie it's an abuse of power. If he can't ignore it, they shouldn't be doing it. Wait for a random encounter in a parking lot or gas station like the rest of us.

The thing is, you can be reasonably sure when you pull over a big banana car, that the driver won't be a curmudgeonly prick who invokes the fourth amendment.

I had a car that was pulled over dozens of times so the cops could take pics with it. Most of the time it was cool.

Two times pissed me off: one time a cop had just pulled me over on the highway for a pic, okay cool, I pull back onto the highway and went maybe a mile before I was pulled over a second time by his buddy.

Other time I was just rolling into LA for a comic con, it was 3am and I'd been driving for about 14 hours. I was minutes from my hotel and of course here come the cops. I had to make a big detour to find somewhere safe to stop. The next day someone said "Oh, I think my buddy stopped you last night!" so I had him call his cop friend and was able to safely cuss him out from a distance :)

On the other hand I had one awesome experience with the cops in Oxnard when we put my car on the train tracks and accidentally set off the barriers and caused an enormous tailback in each direction at the railroad crossing. I thought the cops would be mad, but they were hilarious and promised to figure out the traffic snafu for us.

https://imgur.com/a/pBcLKqz (we didn't realize the barriers automatically detect stuff on the tracks)

Then an hour later when I was driving the car down the tracks again another cop walked up on me all mad and told me he was writing me a ticket for driving on the tracks, but when I read the ticket he'd written it out to Marty McFly and had a great laugh about it. Here's a pic of him booking Marty haha

https://imgur.com/a/vm0ud5y

Re: Big Banana Car

#106

Post by BoorishBears »

cj wrote: post #100
BoorishBears wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's crazy to you because other people are applying critical thinking and you're not. The cop comfortable with pulling over the funny looking car (that looks like a banana) is the same cop with unreasonable understanding of the responsibility they're given. It wouldn't matter if the banana car man has a sign that says "I love cops free donuts in the back" What's really crazy to me is that someone is working over time…

> What's really crazy to me is that someone is working over time to try to police (literally) other people's negative feelings about cop misconduct. It’s crazy to me that you view it as “policing” your opinions rather than simply seeing my viewpoint as just that, and opposing viewpoint. I’m not policing you. Just offering a different perspective. I apologize for speaking up. So much for free speech :) But I’ll say it…

It becomes policing when you say:

> "I appreciate your anger, but it’s misplaced here."

Weird mix of narcissism to think anyone cares if you appreciate their anger, and arrogance to think you know where it belongs.

You're definitely confused. We can leave it at that.

Re: Big Banana Car

#107

Post by ceejayoz »

x______________ wrote: post #103
ceejayoz wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. This is not a good story about cops. This is a good story about a guy, that includes cops as part of its plot. It's like those "kid sells his toys to fund parents' cancer treatment" stories local news does as a feel-good segment. Great kid! Shitty system!

> For a moment, x______________ didn't know if he was being serious or not. I'm still inclined to think that an /s is coming up in later replies. A bad story about cops and a banana motorist is that the motorist is dead, incarcerated or has a bounty on his head and is traveling around the world to ..evade.. his notoriety. Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun.. or as Braithwaite…

> Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun…

No, cops are not entitled to Fourth Amendment violations as fun. Turn on the radio or something.

I am entitled to fun, too. That doesn't mean I get to pick kicking you in the shin as my fun.

Re: Big Banana Car

#108

Post by [deleted] »

BoorishBears wrote: post #106
cj wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's really crazy to me is that someone is working over time to try to police (literally) other people's negative feelings about cop misconduct. It’s crazy to me that you view it as “policing” your opinions rather than simply seeing my viewpoint as just that, and opposing viewpoint. I’m not policing you. Just offering a different perspective. I apologize for speaking up. So much for free speech :) But I’ll say it…

It becomes policing when you say: > "I appreciate your anger, but it’s misplaced here." Weird mix of narcissism to think anyone cares if you appreciate their anger, and arrogance to think you know where it belongs. You're definitely confused. We can leave it at that.

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Re: Big Banana Car

#109

Post by cj »

BoorishBears wrote: post #106
cj wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's really crazy to me is that someone is working over time to try to police (literally) other people's negative feelings about cop misconduct. It’s crazy to me that you view it as “policing” your opinions rather than simply seeing my viewpoint as just that, and opposing viewpoint. I’m not policing you. Just offering a different perspective. I apologize for speaking up. So much for free speech :) But I’ll say it…

It becomes policing when you say: > "I appreciate your anger, but it’s misplaced here." Weird mix of narcissism to think anyone cares if you appreciate their anger, and arrogance to think you know where it belongs. You're definitely confused. We can leave it at that.

I don’t mind the insults. I’ll let the downvotes speak for themselves.

Re: Big Banana Car

#110

Post by eru »

n4r9 wrote: post #88
harwoodr wrote: post #19

I used to drive a 1991 Suzuki Cappuccino - a tiny right-hand drive kei sports car. The first couple of years I drove it, the police pulled me over on a regular basis - no tickets issued but lots of questions asked. One time while I was waiting for a light, an officer knocked on my window (which is somewhat startling)... I rolled it down and he excitedly asked "What kind of car is this?!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

It's pleasantly surprising how much positive vibes you can get driving an unusual car. On a business trip last year, I arrived late at night to the hotel and there was a rank of the smallest cars I'd ever seen: https://www.drive.com.au/news/microlino-battery-electric-bub... The next morning I was able to hire one out to travel to the venue. At a pitstop on the way, another driver followed me into the carpark and exci…

I guess you wouldn't really want to go any faster in this kind of car?
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