Being Opressed sucks.

lucky_8 said:

cops never do their job all they want to do is to give you a ticket

I'm finding it hard to disagree in the case of the two I met today. :p

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Things like this remind me that our justice system needs work.

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get a paintball gun and hide in the bushes. when they walk by. snipe
them out! lol, just kiddin.

but seriously though, that really blows! i'd just keep riding, and just
not pay their goddamn tickets, cuz if you've already won, they can't
legally ticket you.

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harper said:

read through MR? i'd rather drink bleach. it's more refreshing.

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lets go for a protest owen.... tomorow, I'll go ride where you ride
because I wanna talk to the cops....

PROTESTS !!!!!

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Oh owen,

There is a very simpe solution to your problem, simply carry a gun with
you and anyone that attempts to oppress, you shoot. Problem? Solved.

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My question is why do you feel that it's necesary for the city to
provide you an area to practice your sport?

People out street racing on the freeway could make the same arguemnt,
when they get tickets for speeding and wreckless driving. Since you
didn't provide us with a facility for auto racing we had to use the
public freeway and therefore you can't ticket us, despite our activity
being against the rules.

Also if you ever expect authority to change their ideas about certian
groups, i.e. teenagers, you need to show them through your behavior
that their ideas are clearly not accurate. Your behavior in this
incident has simply reinforced their stereotypes. Good Job Owen.

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Well, over here, we do have spots made for street racing, we have the
spokane speedway people can go and use. We have outside skateparks that
anyone can use, blades, bikes, skates, and yes, even unicycles, I have
ridden there.

There was only one time a cop pulled me over while riding, well, two
times, but the first time, was cause that bikes wernt supposed to be
ridden in an area from one spot downtown, to another spot, and we
needed a helmet, I was gonna re-state what the rules and laws really
said about it, to prove him wrong, but I decided to walk my uni down
the block, across the street, then remount, just to make it easy on me
and the cop.

The other time was because there was a bridge crossing a river
downtown, which on the outside of the bridge, where concrete slabs
sticking out for some decoration thing, so I did a trials line jumping
form one to the other across the river, then back, the cops told me not
to do it again cause i could fall and it was just a safety issue, so I
agreed and went to a new spot to ride.

I really wish skateparks would allow unis and other sports in, it would
solve so many things.

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you show them! how dare they try to stop you unicycling the forceful
prohibitation of unicycling itself is a crime!

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if you already won sommat in the court, you have a copy with you proving
it.put in their face and say, under artical 559-1 bla bla i am
permitted to ride in this park.

personally i would take em to court 🙂 what's price can you put on a
barrister when satisfaction enf result.

Also only other thing is to goto the papers, they love opression stuff
😉

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:eek: i just had an awesome idea.

we make the worlds best skate park, build it in the middle of a big
city, and stick a sign out the front "UNICYCLES ONLY", that'll show
every other sport!

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Something like this happened to me lately.

Leo, Tom and I decided to go and ride some trials and street whilst the
England footbal game was on, that way no-one would be around and we
wouldn't get any hassle. WRONG! The only people that were about were
the police!
We rode a weird monument thing for about half an hour, there was a
police van sitting outside the pub. The police men (and women) watched
us the whole time, but didn't say a word.

Then we rode down the road a bit and started trying to gap a different
coloured stripe in the pavement, within 30 seconds there was a
"community support officer" on our backs! He said "Can you jump of of
that!". At first we thought he was interested and was asking what we
could do on the unicycles. But he was being SERIOUS! I couldn't beleive
it!

We asked him why and he told us that you weren't aloud to ride or skate
in the town centre. Then Tom helpfully pointed out that there was
no-one about, so surely we weren't being a nuicence. He told us that
there was a skatepark round the corner for riding in.

Then we told him that his mates had just been watching us ride the
monument for at least half an hour and didn't seem to have a problem
with it. This comment [censored] him off a bit because his face started
going red. He then told us that people coming out of the pubs could
throw our unicycles through a shop window and cause criminal damage.

People can also throw bricks, beer bottles, other people aswell as him
through shop windows, I think a unicycle would be pretty low down on
the list!

At this point we decided to leave, thinking we had pushed our luck
somewhat. Mind you, he couldn't have arrested us anyway as he was only
a "Community support officer".

Gave us a giggle!

Rock on!
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lucky_8 said:

cops never do their job all they want to do is to give you a ticket

Yeah...well, when they've got quota's to meet, they'll pick on just
about anybody for just about anything...haha.

Glad I haven't had any problems with cops...yet...[knocks on wood].

Owen, it seems like they'd rather have you being one of the drug
pushers, rather than being a physically active member of your
community. One thing though...Don't give them an attitude. All it
does is bolster their ego, and make them think they're getting one more
'rebellious youth' or 'juvenile delinquint' off their 'precious'
streets (it's all about 'image' so they can tract in more money to
increase the local economy). Instead, you could've enthusiastically
educated those cops about your unique sport. "What am I doing? I'll
tell you." I feel your frustration, but just be overly positive to
them, almost to the point of being cheeky.

And as far as your observations about the bigotry of the bourgeoisie, I
totally agree. It's all about the money. It's sad when systems value
money more than human lives. Sometimes it seems that some of the older
generations have seriuosly forgotten what it's like to dream, or to be
a kid. And history has always enjoyed the story of the 'underdog' or
eccentrics like Einstein--but in everyday reality westernized
un-culture seems to be intolerant toward anything 'different' or
'unique' or 'eccentric.' People are so busy watching the clock, and
staying ahead of the competition that they don't have the time to stop
and understand anything out of the norm of their lives that are defined
by mindless routines. They're so busy worrying about scrimping and
saving, so that the bills get paid, that they must just see this world
as a cold dead place, and all they have to satisfy it with the little
time most have away from the work place are empty material goods that
they don't need in the first place, but somehow 'affirm' their social
standings in an impersonally greedy society. I blame the corporations
for this...by setting levels of perfection that they purposely know no
human can ever attain, so they'll keep buying more and more and "new"
and "improved" and "better" and "bigger" and "faster faster FASTER!"
and "state of the art" and "high tech" and you don't want to get left
behind because you'll look mediocre and out-dated to the next guy--It
really has no room left for nostalgia. Sure, I'm exaggerating
slightly. But, sometimes you can feel it in the air in all of the
urban sprawl of suburbia, especially. I have to wonder, if that brand
of competitive Westernized homogeniety born out of nationalistic pride
and traditional iron girded super power ingenuity, is really good to
sell to the world. After all, all that competition is just a race to
an unattainable finish line.

If they want to 'keep kids out of trouble,' they should be pushing
these kinds of creative and active things, and new ideas. Maybe then,
Michigan for one, wouldn't have the enormous (61% I think) level of
obescity that it does.

Ugh, sorry if I got carried away in that rant.

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lucky_8 said:

that has to suck. It is the same way where I live except i know cops so
it helps. one of my friends got her skate board took and got a ticket
for walking down town holding her skate board. cops never do their job
all they want to do is to give you a ticket

Yes, I agree with everything this guy has said. All policemen are the
same, I mean, come on! Look, we just heard lucky's side to the story,
Im sure thats the whole truth. I'm sure thats what
ALL police want to do. Psshhh, think about what
your saying.

Im sorry Owen, it must suck for that to happen, just remember,
policemen arent all the same.

Mike

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Keep on fighting! I'm going to go ride on the stairs right out side the
police department. See if I can get any [censored] from pass-er-by-ers.

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swarbrim said:

Yes, I agree with everything this guy has said. All policemen are the
same, I mean, come on! Look, we just heard lucky's side to the story,
Im sure thats the whole truth. I'm sure thats what
ALL police want to do. Psshhh, think about what
your saying.

Im sorry Owen, it must suck for that to happen, just remember,
policemen arent all the same.

Mike

Did I say they were?

But think about it for a second. The job of being a policeperson
implies power over others, the right to bear arms and in some cases,
the right to use force upon a civilian.

Does it not make sense then that some people would be attracted to this
job simply for those reasons?

All I'm saying is that I don't trust the type of people who are
attracted to this line of work.

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No, I ment what Lucky_8 said.

I can see your points but all I said is they arent all the same. It
wasnt directed at you.

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no worries man, just saw a good oppurtunity to bring that onto the table
:P

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Its cool.

I can see what you mean about them having more rights, but without
those rights the job of the police man wouldbe next to useless. Its a
tough call, and I'm sure in a handfull of policemen you could get one
bad egg. This bad egg could cause problems to you and others, just
dont let this get you down. Stand up for what you believe in,
everyones different.

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Murde Mental said:

Did I say they were?

But think about it for a second. The job of being a policeperson
implies power over others, the right to bear arms and in some cases,
the right to use force upon a civilian.

Does it not make sense then that some people would be attracted to this
job simply for those reasons?

All I'm saying is that I don't trust the type of people who are
attracted to this line of work.

I think it's your attitude with cops that makes them treat you like
they do. I've only ever heard stories like yours from people who have
bad attitudes about cops and authority. As soon she started approaching
you she say in your body language and demeanor that you were going to
be a jerk to her, so she treated you the way she expected to be treated
by you. And you know what you treated her exactly as she expected. Go
figure. I'd be willing to bet that if you didn't hold a general grudge
against authority in situations like this nothing would come of it but
a pleasant conversation. You and your attitude are the biggest part of
the problem here, and why the situation escalated like it did. You had
a great opportunity to prove her wrong and show her what teenagers are
really about and that they have positive things to contribute.
Unfortunately you didn't. You ruined the opportunity because you felt
like you had something to prove. You acted exactly the way you like to
think ALL cops act. Typically when a cop approachs someone they let the
civilian lead on how the incident is going to run. if you'd smiled at
her instead of giving her an "I hate cops" scowl, i bet you the whole
thing would have run much more smoothly and would have ended much more
in your favor.

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