From the time I was 18-24 I was in the Army reserves. A goodly portion of my unit was in law enforcement of some kind. I kinda got the false impression that Cops/Police were all cool because they were all such fabulous people in my unit.

I have since discovered that to be in law enforcement you almost have to think exactly like a criminal. In fact, you need to think so much like one that its barely discernible from being one. Most law enforcement are warped and think the rest of the world is to. Its that old adage "Those that steal feel everyone does or those that lie think everyone does"

Anyway, most, if not all of them have issues.

That said. I have nothing against them cause its a hazard of their occupation and any of them who do not think so, die young.

I had a very good cop friend who got his face shot off during a routine traffic stop. He was one of the ones who was nice.

wouldnt want to be a cop, no way, no how....not even in this relatively mellow burg....did my time in the firing line, aint up for it again....

....but when i got out of the service, i worked construction, put together my first real seriously working band, and we went at the local circuits, worked alot, developed a decent hard working rep, and had little trouble earning a living...

but occasionaly ya get the arshole that likes to stiff ya on a paycheck, and ya have to take matters into your own hands....

club owner wants to stiff us an extra 400 bucks after the bar tab etc for the band was paid, hell, that was a nights pay for the sound man....we werent having it, we argued with this arse all the way out to the parking lot, where he proceded to crawl in his dodge van, and turn it over to warm up, and we are still going back and forth, quite loudly and profanely at this point....he tells me to f**k off, (we are kinda over a barrel) i return the favor, he crawls back in his van, im pissed as hell, i jumped on the bumper and head butted his windshield. much to everyones surprise. and it spider webbed about a 2/12 foot radius, which stunned everyone, including me. so i jumped on the other side of the bumper, and did it again, new spider web....mayfield, shocked, opens his door, slowly crawls out of his van.....didnt say a f**king thing. took out his wallet, peeled 4 hundreds off the top, handed em, crawled in his van and split.....

and we notice cop car sitting across the street, county sherriff actually getting out of his vehicle and coming towards us.... we had been loading equipment up during all this hoopla, and didnt really pay much attention, i didnt even know he was there.....

apparently they had been called because of a disturbance at the bar we were at, (us) and he had been watching and listening the whole time....

he writes up a ticket, im already pissed, i think im going to jail....hands me the ticket, which was for parking the truck next to a fire hydrant for more than 15 minutes to load equipment, winks at me and says, "bout time someone shook that assholes cage...." and went back to his car....apparently the owners not only stiffed quite a few folks, hes also got the ama union guys bearing down on his ass too.....hes a crook, and the sherriff knew it....

he was out of business 6 months later.... " SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

here endeth just one of many.... " SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

Doc B...

Heck yeah. I've headbutted people, but inanimate objects just ake it REALLY awesome. Seriously, that's so freakin cool, I can see it in my mind and I wanna fight someone.