My trouble with the Law.

The same night my flash drive got stolen here I also got pulled over for speeding. I was going 57 in a 45 coz I thought the speed limit was 55. The fun thing was that I had a carload fo russians with me and I happened to pull over into a vacant construction site. SO it was one of those "KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!!!" deals. So i got out of the car, I got cuffed and frisked and treated like a common criminal. He saw my hitchhiker-killin knife's handle and thought it was a gun under the seat and he had called for backup and there were like 4 cops and they had thier guns and stuff. It was SO cool.

Anyway, since I am a smooth son of a gun, I got the ticket written down to only 55 in a 45 and no resisting arrest (they said that if I had pulled any further into the driveway of the construction site, I'd have been reisisting arrest by fleeing) since it was only 10 over the speed limit it will not count against my license or insurance.

Anyone else have any cool stories about the cops?

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<span style="color: white;">My pals and I, 3 guys and one of the guys girlfriends were wandering home from a bush party that was broken up. Somebody called ahead saying they heard cops going to the general area the party was being held, so everybody bailed. My pals and I threw in all the tables and seating into the fire and left it burning...

We walk down the trail and finally get back to the road, to find two cop cruisers that had pulled over a car load of kids from the party. They pointed their searchlights down the trail, and some stupid punks that were 'with' us managed to get seen. We booked it down the trail, but the cops followed. 6 of them, all with flashlights. Luckily we had already consumed our alcohol, but my pals precious marijuana stems were dumped by the cops. I was searched, the female officer found a condom on me, and I asked if she was interested. Her male colleague didn't find it as humourous as I did and asked me my name. Funny enough, he and I shared the same first name, and I pointed it out. He wasn't too amused. I had to walk home alone like 4kilometres drunk as a bastard. It sucked!</span> leftmargin=2>

I had a SWAT team come to my house once....long story.

rs6 said:
I had a SWAT team come to my house once....long story.

Well Christ man, this is the place for it!

yeah man lets hear it

best i've got:

my brother and i were driving to Springfield (about an hour drive) when
we got pulled over for failure to yield to a parked emergency vehicle
(there where 5 cars in the other lane so we couldn't yield so we slowed
down to like 45 mph which should have worked) we forced some amish off
of even the shoulder they had to drive on the grass embankment, then he
whipped out and pulled the same thing on them and made the amish go
around him again

it was funny at the time just watching the amish pass around on the grass slope

meh

Yah I have a good one.

Back when I was 17 or 18, I worked at a gas station. Typical job, fill the tank, minor service work. The only reason I mention it is because of the locale. One night, payday in fact, I took my check to my favorite liqour store to cash, because they knew me so well, they always did it for me. I spent about 50 bucks on a killer new bong while I was there. All glass blown and fancy like, and then proceeded to head on over to my buddy's house to buy an ounce of weed(Note: this post is not pro-drug, it's just where I was at the time). I scored, and took off driving. I needed a place to check out the bong and have a few tokes, and the gas station came to mind.

I pulled in, opened up the shop, and prepared the bong, but I did'nt want the boss to smell the odor, so I locked up and hopped back in the car and pulled around back , parking next to one of the cars awaiting service in the dark,(or so i thought). I packed the bowl, and lit' er up and proceeded to inhale in the cozy diarkness of my auto, stereo blasting. about half way into my first hit all hell broke loose. A bright light blew up into my car and I, being the dumb kid I was looked around, all the while still burning the bowl and inhaling. It was to my complete and total suprise that I turned, and was face to face with a plain clothes police officer and his flashlight. Not only him, but four or five other officers surrounding my vehichle, guns drawn. Needless to say thats when I decided to exhale,coughing furiously at the same time. I think he smiled but i am not sure.

It turns out that the car I parked next to was not awaiting service, but was an abandoned vehichle, filled with stolen personal property from the chief of police of Manhattan Beach's own home. The cops had been staking it out for some time it seems.

The police (and remember this was the 70's) did a check, found out I was'nt the guy they were looking for, and actually let me drive myself(all buzzed and such) to the police station for booking. They took my picture, my new bong, my weed, and sent me on my way. No ticket no nothing.

This by the way was my second bust for pot that year. The first timne I got a 200.00 dollar ticket.

I have since given up drugs(well not right then, but....since then you know :rolleyes: )

Juim that's an awesome story :smile:

Haha, awesome stories indeed. The cops here are pretty nice for some reason, my friend was going 115 in a 45 and got off with a warning. Don't... know... how. I've done the same thing Juim has (pulling behind gas stations to toke it up), but a whole bunch of my friends worked there so we could park in between two of their cars and not have to worry about coppers.

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Maps! - Audio blog!

My only real run in with the police was 2 years ago. I got caught
trying to buy booze with a fake ID, and while I didn't have to deal
with the police on the spot, a couple of weeks later I got a phone call
on a Thursday night and had to show up at the station
immediately. I didn't know where the station was (since I was new
to the town, being at college 4.5 hours away from home) and I ended up
meeting the cop at a parking lot in town. Mind you it was about
11 PM at this point, and the whole thing felt really really
sketchy. The cop asked me if I was cold and offered me a seat in
the cruiser, but there was no way in hell I was gonna get in the car
with him. My imagination was running wild, and I took my chances
out in the cold. Overall, he was really quite nice because I was
so cooperative he told me he'd put in a good word. But I ended up
having to pay about 400 dollars in tickets anyway and then had to go
through the alcohol justice system (ie. get tested to see if I was an
alcoholic -- which I wasn't). All the tests and meetings cost me
another 600 dollars. Really all in all it was just a big scam to
pass kids around through the massive bureaucracy and take money from
them. Needless to say I didn't get much from my parents for
Christmas or birthday that year.

Ever since that day I haven't fooled around with fake ID's, and while
that means I can't go to the bars with my friends, I'm perfectly happy
waiting for my 21st birthday (in two months). Because, if I
were to get caught twice I wouldn't get any leniency from anybody.

Almost got busted while riding a tram without a ticket one night
several years ago. I was standing by the door (as I always do when I
don't have a ticket) when a solid-looking guy in civilian clothes
approached me and identified himself as being a controller. He wanted
to see my ticket, which I didn't have thanks to my legendary stinginess. I smiled and started
searching my pockets, as to show that I indeed have a ticket, just that
I didn't know where it was. Suddenly, the tram came to a halt and the
doors opened. I waited and pretended to be searching my inner-pockets.
Then, suddenly, I sprinted out of the
tram, moments before the doors slammed shut (the doors on old trams
literally slam shut and have no sensors whatsoever).

My mate had UK police barraging down his flatmates door to repossess his computers etc for child pr0n :-X He also got fined something like ?20,000 for piracy and is currently on bail.

Crazy eh? Sitting watching TV in your room and you hear 20 cops bust down your door and running through your house!

Addicted to Morphine, for trying to buy alcohol underaged, I reckon a cop who needed money conned you! $400 tickets? Nah, he conned you completely dude.

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I know the amount I was fined was f**king ridiculous, but its not like
he told me to pay him directly under the table to make it all go
away. He wrote me up 2 tickets, which clearly stated it was
within his legal right to fine me from 200 dollars up to something
crazy like 1000 dollars, and then I had to pay through the mail and
write a check to the county government.

It wasn't the particular police officer who conned me, but rather the
county government. I have a feeling they do it regularly -- they
punish out of town college kids severely because they're under the
impression that we're all rich brats who don't care and can afford to
pay the fine.

My mate had UK police barraging down his flatmates door to repossess his computers etc for child pr0n :-X

Were they acting on a rumor or on facts?

Andrei said:
Were they acting on a rumor or on facts?

That would be a crummy rumor to have floating around about you :-\

Well, rumors often lead to such things. And even if they don't find
what they need to confirm the rumor they're bound to find something else.

How does a rumor like that even get started!?

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Psst Andrei... I hear Nickelplate imports child pornography from Canada. French Toast is also in on it.

HEY!! French Toast was the only model I had, thanks for scaring him off...

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You'll never get away with such a thing! Unless you give me a cut, that is.

I'm still here, don't worry.

My story also involves weed, but it's less exciting.

I was smoking up at lunch with some friends when we heard sirens
very close. Since we were stoned we were super paranoid,
so we ran into a residential neighbourhood and hid in the bushes for
almost an hour.

It was interesting, not really exciting or eventful though, and there probably wasn't any danger for us from the cop car.

Story number 2 involves not me, but a friend of mine. He (with
his mom, was a few years ago) went to the doctors office because he had
a really sore throat. He was sent for XRays at the
hospital. I know you're like wtf!? but that's what
happened. His mom thought it was suspicious, but just went along
with it because the doctor got pretty pissed when she questioned it.

Now, this being Canada, we don't pay for those kind of things. We
give the people our health card and they charge the government and all
sorts of stuff happens and eventually the doctor gets payed.

So he kept getting sent for really weird procedures and things like
that, until his mom decided to get to the bottom of this by calling the
police, and they found that about 40things a day were being charged to
her Health Card.

Anyhoo, long story short the doctors office was doing this to many many
people and they were using the money they earned to fund a nearby
terrorist cell. I was fortunate enough to be nearby when they
busted the place, it was so cool. Lots of guns and yelling Go GO
GO!!!! Just like CS, except they didn't get stuck on doors and
yell fag a lot.

'Twas a fun day.

the last time i was cited to appear at court, was as a witness against some arsehole that had been trying to threaten some of my workmates. it had been a few years since my last appearance at court, before all this heightened sucurity had started, so i hadn't thought about the small knife (burnt with tacky bits) on my keyring, or the nipped joint in my bag. 'though i did think about them as soon as i walked into the court foyer and saw the big metal detector thingy, and the guy at the gate who wanted to search my bag. i think my heart rate doubled.

the knife, keys, coins and other metal stuff all went into a plastic tub that didn't get checked, and either the guy was only looking for sticks of dynamite wired to alarm clocks, or he didn't know what a joint was. lucky me. :smile:

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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.

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December 24, 2003

I was going 42 mph in a 25 zone. Yeah, I got pulled over that night, and the cop only gave me a warning, thank god. The cool thing is that she wrote Merry Christmas on the warning!

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.... :wink:

here endeth just one of many.... :heee:

Doc B... :dodgy:

That's one of the more badass things I've ever heard... headbutting a windshield! Jeeeesus.

<span style="color: silver;">Cheated. Caught. Trial. Time. Half-way. Probation. Restitution. End.
</span>

Haha, nice one Brasso! m_iRespect++;

Christ I've been programming too much today :sad:

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Addicted to Morphine said:
That's one of the more badass things I've ever heard... headbutting a windshield!

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.

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...it got the job done, and was totally spontaneous....its one of those where you sit back afterwards as it sinks in and go.."wtf just happened??" ...was actually a pretty damn dumb thing to do....a number of s**tty things could have happened...s**t, some idiot/maniac head butts my windshield, yer liable to get shot...but i got lucky...and i have a nice little 3/4 inch scar right above and between my eyes to remind me what a drunken idiot i was that night, and the folly of my youth... :/

Doc... :dodgy:

Haha, nice one Brasso! m_iRespect++;

Christ I've been programming too much today :sad:

Did you have to make three copies while you were at it? :rolleyes: By the way, your variable names are disgusting (But you're using the MS standard, huh?). :razz:

Brasso, that's crazy. You're crazy. How do you still have a face? What else have you lobbed your body through ... or through your body. You've mentioned nails and your hand, now your face and a windsheild.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Actually I never really bothered with hungarian notation for naming things in the past - just using a few of my own little rules and otherwise used a logical name - but all the HL2 code uses hungarian and it has grown on me. I don't really see what is disgusting about it; it's descriptive and doesn't bloat names too much. What convention do you use? I'm perfectly open to suggestions :smile: I'm sure you've mentioned the inefficiency of that form of incrementing/decrementing in the past, but could you remind me? I've a memory like a seive for these sorts of things :biggrin: Not that such optimisations are even remotely worth caring about in the vast majority of scenarios of course :razz:

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I dunno about Hungarian notation, but the Hungarian language is CRAZY weird! Don't even bother to try learning it, because you won't nobody ever will... lol

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Dark Tree said:
<span style="color: silver;">Cheated. Caught. Trial. Time. Half-way. Probation. Restitution. End.
</span>

We're talking school here?

<span style="color: silver;">Lol. Yeah I wish.
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I was in the car with a friend of mine who was going 94 in a 65, a cop
was waiting around a bend and got him. 95 would have been +30 and
ment bad things, so when the cop explaind that he was relived, but
things went down hill after that. The cop took all the paperwork
from my friend back the the cruiser, only to come out a moment later,
his hand resting on his gun. The cop asked my friend to get out
and proceeded to cuff the kid. He asked if any one else in the
car could drive, lucky for me, we had another friend with us who could
drive.

So our first driver gets taken away to jail, way out in the
sticks. Ya see, we had just crossed county lines so rather than
take him back into the city the cop took him way-way-way out into the
suburbs of atlanta.

Later we find that Kris (the suspect) was taken away for driving with
out a license. Why would some 19 year old with no license would
be doing +29 in the middle of the night? Well turns out he didn't
know that three months earlier his license had been revoked becuase
according to the Government Kris was 6 years old. 12 years prior
Kris's loving parents had made a mistake and put today's date where
Kris's birthday should have been. So after Kris had applied and
recived his license the DMV checked with another branch of the
government and found out that they gave a "6 year old" a drivers
license. So like any well oiled part of our system they revoked
Kris's license without even a phone call.

<span style="color: silver;">Sounds like that would have been a buzzkill for the night, but oh man.....good story.... Needed more aliens though.</span>

DrGlass said:
So like any well oiled part of our system they revoked Kris's license without even a phone call.

It's okay though, his dad's albino.

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Doc that's messed up. Did everything get sorted out in the end?

in our more na?ve years, some 8 years ago, me and my m8s from our hiphopband went out to spray some grafitti pieces during daytime. we were ofcourse spotted by numerous people, one of which called the police. Luckily we grew tired of it after 10-15 minutes, and just when we jumped on our bikes and rode off, the police crossed us. my m8 had the reflex to throw away the spraycan unnoticed, or we would have had to pay big time.

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That happened to us under similar circumstances actually, minus the good reflexes bit. There was an old building down by the harbour that was decrepit and due to be pulled down, but it was a decent skate spot so we used to rollerblade there all the time. One day one of the guys brought some spray cans and we were doing our best efforts to "tag" the building, but before long the police turned up. They came around the front of the building and caught one of us completely red handed, and a couple of minutes later one of the guys around the back of the building walked around the side with a can in his hand, asking "who's up next?" to an audience including police officers :biggrin: Only the ones with cans on them got into any trouble over the matter, but it only really amounted to getting their names taken and parents notified. I guess that's the benefit of tagging condemned buildings :smile:

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If you are tagging, chances are you want to be known. I guess those guys were.

As for the rest of MY criminal record (there's not much):

I've been pulled over 3 times: once for an outed taillight, once for 67 in a 55, once for 57 in a 45. the first time, I got a ticket and my mom's boss got it pled down to "faulty equipment." and now this ticket is going to cost me $85

I never really did much bad stuff. I wrote on a school with sidewalk chalk once. The teacher got me in trouble, but i never knew if it was or actually doing the writing or for using Sidewalk Chalk on a school instead of School Chalk.

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pfftt..."tagging", in my day, meant "knockin' a sob's nose thru his eye... :wink:

my one real run in with the law....san diego county in the late 70's, i was on ships liberty for 2 weeks between cruses...we were gonna pull out to go reload stores, ammo, weapons etc....

my wife, three buddies off the boat, and eir ladies were gonna go out on the town that night, everyone dressed to kill but me,i was late getting home, they are all drinking cuervo, offered me a couple quick ones when i walked in the door.......s**t...i forgot to pick up cigs...so, i take my barefoot, cutoff jean, no shirt wearin ass to the 7-11, 2 1/2 blocks down from the apt...got my cigs; im late, the ole girl was getting bitchy, the guys are pissy cause im late, etc etc....

i jump in the car, my old 73 dodge dart, lol, peely squeal out of the parking lot towards the apt. ......friggin cop coming the other way....i headed towards the parking lot of the apt, he'd turned around, lights and siren running, i pullled in the parking lot, settled the car, got out, and this asshole busts me for: dui, willfull reckless, and flight to avoid prosecution....off to county jail....my wife is standing in the back bedroom window watching this whole thing....sob wouldnt even let me go in and put shoes on....i didnt resist at all, but there it was....quite embarrasing.....san diego county jail, truly sucked...i sat there in my shorts in a bay....and i was pretty.....grrrr.....took 3 days, it was the weekend, and she came and bailed me out, which was hell for her.....

they dropped all the charges but the dui....700 bucks and probation 3 years, 1st offense (and only)....now, the navy was not happy with me.....

the boat pulled out on monday, i missed ships movement, on top of my ships duty day, and they nailed me at captains mast for UA (awol) , and missing ships movement....250 bucks for 2 months, cost me a stripe, and 45 days restriction to the boat....which wasnt so bad after i got to the boat, we were at sea.....

the ole lady still reminds me of that one on occasion... do not drink and drive....especially half naked....

Doc B... :dodgy:

I think Kris got it all sorted out, still had to pay the ticket but
lucky for him the judge saw that the system had messed up and let him
off easy.

dr.B that is a sucky turn of events.

Run ins with the law? Hmm..

Breaking and entering a farmhouse..

Smoking dope, several times..

Vandalism..

Drunk and disorderly..

Swearing at police officers..

Loads really, only ever been cautioned though!

I must be strange I guess. Other than normal traffic tickets and I think those are preordained, I have never ever had any confrontations/ordeals with the law.

Most likely due to my being associated with them in the Army at such a young age. I was 18 when I joined BTW.

I never thought of it before now. Its never actually come up before this thread. I have truly been law abiding. :eek:

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lONG jON sILVER said:
well shiver me timbers Jim lad, it aint against the law, it's only taboo

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fishy said:
<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting lONG jON sILVER</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>well shiver me timbers Jim lad, it aint against the law, it's only taboo

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Yeah, well. Doing illegal actions and running astray of the law are not universally interchangeable. :wink:

Lemme rephrase. I have never had to go to court for any reason.

whispers

Besides, no one has of yet convinced me that piracy is anything more than a reverse con game preformed by those with the money to complain about it legally. It going to take quite a bit more to convince me that I am doing anything wrong.

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only time ive been to jail, *now ask me about the shore patrol* and i am definately not proud of it....i was quite young, impetuous, and pretty much a f**kin' idiot.....the folly of youth....and i learned a helluva lot from it.... :wink:

Doc B... :dodgy:

*damn i wish i was young again*

Oh come on Orph; whether you care or not, surely you can see that you are taking somebody else's hard work for free when you pirate things? Do people not deserve to be paid for what they have made? Whether it is a computer program, game, movie, music CD, or whatever, you kidding yourself if you don't think you are doing anything wrong by simply taking their wares for nothing. Whether or not their goods are worth what they charge is another matter.

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This is exactly how I view it.

If... They got as concerned about my movie disk or game disk if i burned it in the yard, as they do if I copy it, then I'd believe they were concerned. Its my movie. Its my game. I can, and will do with it whatever my heart desires. I actually download nothing these days. I did download a bunch. Nothing worth a poot since I now have a DVD and have no interest in AVI's any longer. I can say, that I never downloaded anything that I wasn't willing to own, and more than likely have a DVD of it around here someplace.

Still. I never asked anyone to view things like I do, and I trust that you are not currently asking me to see things your way.

Or, am I under some misconception Master Duncan?

Nobody, and I mean nobody will ever tell me what I can do with my merchandise, once I have legitimately purchased it.

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jon, i have the utmost respect for you man, you know that....but, i have to deliver my take on this, after all these years...lol

you buy the cd, you can make as many copies as you like....give em away as gifts, coasters, backups, whatever....you SELL any of em, after all MY hard work, im wanting my money. its not just "intellectual property", theres alot of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears, not to mention the debt to get it all done...thats MY work yer talking about....not yours.....my business that i put together that yer making money on.....not my family or kids....

now, if you were to ask me nicely about redistribution or something, we'd be able to reach an amicable solution.....but dont just blatently steal my s**t.....

ok....i have some back alley s**t myself...so to a point, im a hypocrite...pc proggys dont quite fit in the same class as music in my view....yes, alot of hard work and sacrifice, but the rest doesnt cross lines even remotely....but they deserve their props, and their cash....and basicly, the same respect

copy to yer hearts content bud....you bet.....just dont sell em... :wink:

///end rant....tnx for listening...

Doc... :dodgy: