You need the Tijeras_Slim Approved Doormat.
Posted on 07/10/2006 6:53:23 PM PDT by StACase
My back yard backs onto a pond with a park on the other side where for over 25 years the local July 4th fireworks have been set off. I have an annual party and the best seat in the house. This past July 4th I was with some of my guests down by the pond when a plain clothes cop hollers across the water at me and my guests that if we cross his yellow police line set up at the park entrance he would arrest us. I hollered back, just keep your barricade out of my yard, and that was the end of it, or so I thought.
As it turns out, and I didn't see it, but I am told that some time later this cop came through my yard and told my neighbor's guests they were too close to the fireworks and would have to move. That's why I'm lucky, had I seen it, I'm sure I would have gotten in this cop's face and most probably would have tried to shove him into the pond.
Hi, Hair. I do the Carnation show every year. Small show, not many problems. We do have access to the cops and the firemen, but usually I have to handle it before they show up. (The locals know ALL the shortcuts)
He had no authority to be on your property without a search warrant. Therefore no, I don't think you are being overheated at all. But I am curious, did you go down and talk to his boss? That a$$hat needs to be put back in his place.
Officer, this is all private property and we'll stand where we like.
If the fireworks are "too close", MOVE THEM!
And by the way, what science did you use to determine "too close"?
You need the Tijeras_Slim Approved Doormat.
If it had been me? I'da stepped outta my trailer with my wife-beater shirt and my Buttweiser, Marlboro danglin' from my lips, a half dozen bottle rockets stuffed in my back pocket... I would have trained my one-eyed glassy stare at the ociffer and told him to kiss mah butt! He ain't got no right to step a dang foot on mah property...
Then I woulda had to yell at Darlene to git back in the trailer and take the rugrats wit her and shut up that damn dog! He's irritatin' the crap outta me...
That's whatta I woulda done, I tell you whut...
Nope. And I moved. ;)
Ha, ha.
Good on ya!
Yes, those thoughts crossed my mind, and perhaps I might even have been intelligent enough to limit my actions to that, but I know I was pretty hot when he was hollering at me and my guests from the park. Managing to contain myself when, as I was told, he came on my property would have taken extra effort.
I've decided to keep a low profile on this incident, our little community is less than friendly to its citizens.
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