There's always money in the banana car
Captain America turns head I understood that reference
Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
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Re: Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
#52Are you driving a banana, or are you happy to see me?
Re: Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
#53So 100s of cops have done their jobs?
More like 100s of cops have abused their authority to harass a middle aged artist. At even just 10 minutes a stop, that is over 30 hours of this poor man's life he has spent staring at the berries and cherries just because some entitled cop thought he deserved a photo op.
The police are human too and often bored on shift. The world needs more whimsy!
I understand your perspective, but viewing police as solely as a potential threat is not spreading whimsy.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "For the first eight or nine years I was the most pulled-over man in America," he said. "It was constant." > Often officers simply wanted photographs. > Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation. > His favorite stop happened in a small mountain town in West Virginia. > A traffic light turned red. Braithwaite stopped. The light turned green and he made a leisurely turn through the intersection. > A f…
Sounds like a fun way to make a lot of friends in law enforcement :)
Right, there's definitely not a bunch of pressure from the fact that they can throw you in jail for basically anything and probably get away with shooting you if they really wanted that would get in the way of a real meaningful relationship...
Re: Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
#55I saw this very banana car while I was having brunch Sunday morning in Ballard Seattle!
Re: Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not true at all. The police can stop a vehicle for any suspicion of unlawful activity. For instance, to question a driver about the street-legal-ness of their homemade banana car. You can, however, refuse questioning and refuse any inspection of the interior of the vehicle and just ask them to cite you for what they pulled you over for.
They are required to have reasonable suspicion that the banana car is unlawful in some way. (e.g. missing required equipment, etc) Simply wanting to question the driver or get a picture for funsies is not quite enough.
IANAL, and would like to believe that what you say is true, but I think in most jurisdictions "reasonable suspicion" that the vehicle was not street legal would float as justification for a stop.
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#57I'm glad the owner takes it lightly, but isn't this actually an abuse of power? If I can't pull someone over because I want a photo with their car... cops shouldn't be able to either, right?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you tolerate small abuses, and let people get accustomed to abusing their power in small meaningless ways, the abuses will only grow.
I can assure you, pulling over the banana stand is not the road to death camps. The death camps are.
Roads don’t start at their end.
And it didn’t start there in Germany, either banana cars or death camps.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have a point, but stopping a car as a police officer is a much less consensual interaction than having a quick chat at a red light. It's a very forceful way to have a friendly conversation.
squints have you met any police?
Yeah have you? They carry guns and are prone to violence in the US at rates disproportionate to the rest of the population, and that's just against their own loved ones.
> Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 24 times more common among police families than American families in general.
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