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Originally posted by Bent Wookie@Dec 13 2004, 02:19 AM
Just curious tho when you state police have entered a house uninvited, do you or the engaging in a pursuit in an unmarked w/o lights on, do you know the cirmcumstances? I wud like to hear them and perhaps shed soem light on such situations.
Thanks
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the house incident happened over 5 years ago, and to be fair it was at 8 in the morning and involved a keg of beer and a rental hot tub.
the chase incident i will not go into, it has not been cleared to me by those involved but suffice to say the driver of the chased car is sure glad he had a witness with him.
my time in calgary involved some crazy stuff but it is over for me, i might write a book one day aboot that crazy stuff i have seen and heard of.
as to details of situations ask anyone who has partied hard in the fairest city and i bet they all have some bad-apple cop stories.
for myself i used to think the rcmp here in bc were a cut above such things, what with the psychological profiling and the natural consequences of slanted hiring practices - dropping the size requirement for men and targeting female minorities for hiring.
but quite recently a co-worker was driving a company truck that matched a description of a drug mule truck in prince george and while he was getting out of the vehicle for the police to search it, he saw a cop drop a bottle into the back seat of the truck.
this is all heresay of course, but he called the cop on it and was allowed to move on.
as for myself in this province i call Bring Cash, in february i was pulled over for an insurance check and the cop didn't quite understand the concept of alberta insurance. my car was towed and i was handed a no-insurance ticket. icbc sent my court date to a 10-year-old address and i am just now fixing the situation nearly a year later. but one bogus charge, one icbc messup (not out of character), and one court mis-filing later i am fighting to stay on the straight-and-narrow. might have to get a lawyer, i really don't want to but in bc theatrics are quite important. if only i was a visible minority.
these incidents are pretty minor compared to what i have seen in calgary, due largely to the calming-down of my own lifestyle. but i am growing quite tired of it all. i am not the only one i know in my age group and demographic similarity that is quite apathetic of canada and its unique and nagging problems.
perhaps witnessing greater inequalities throughout the world will cure me but for now i am quite put off by what i have seen and experienced. it seems to me that the best idea is to live under/beyond the system, the penalties are not harsh - $600 here in bc as opposed to $2500/2875 ($375 registration) in alberta.
why insure your car if police will impound it anyway?
why pull over if some crooked cop will drop a bottle in? maybe he'll drop a bag in too. the rcmp in bc get moved around a lot and do not know the backroads.
add to all this the rampant problem 5-10 years ago in vancouver of carloads of east indian immigrants finding lone white drivers to smack into and sue. i guess i can't really blame them, they get off the boat and this is how it works. do what your uncle says because he's been in country for ten years. if you're coming from a poor village in india you have no illusions of law and order.
canada has some basic problems that are fed by a system that rewards people based on who their grandparents were. nowhere is this more evident than in bc.
i am not racist but i see a system that is a breeding ground of racism.
there are cancerous issues festering with many straight members of society right now. a lot of people aren't aware of it but it is not a situation that is improving.
i don't know if this will ever come to a head in canada, so much as contribute to many other problems. if the government is taxing you to death, but overlooks marijuana grow-ops under a certain size, why not get into bc's #2 industry? seems the authorities are encouraging it.
in 50 years some forgotten documents might prove elements of the US government participated in kennedy's assassination. around the same time we may get our hands on justice department directives in british columbia outlining steps to allow and foster a marijuana economy.
it astonishes me how many people, in less than a year here, that i have met that are openly criminals. make no bones aboot it. 'hey, how is it going? i steal cars'.
why play straight? who's making the rules? who's enforcing them? why?
i am beginning to ask these questions.