NevDull’s Take On Things

Cop Craziness

October 30th, 2005

I was up in neighboring towns tonight, getting some low grade booze (flavored beer, Smirnoff Twisted) and some food. Cops were out in force, looking out for mischevious folk. There was a car stopped in the middle of the street, at an intersection, which looked like it was waiting for a sign from God. I honked, in case it was an old guy falling asleep at the wheel. Turns out it was a cop in an unmarked car. He started the strobes and didn’t move the car. What the fuck is that, some kind of macho bullshit? Do you go around a cop stopped at an intersection for no apparent reason? Is he just being a fuckwit who’s going to stop you if you deign to go around his shittitude?

Who knows?

I saw plenty more cops on the way to the liquor store.

When I got there, I mentioned the police presence. The guy behind the counter said that it’d been a much quieter night than previous years, partly due to a curfew.

I’ve not heard anything about a curfew, so I’ll be looking into it a bit.

I later went to the White Castle in North Bergen. Saw more cops on the way to that… some speeding by me, some on bikes. Pulling into The Crave Zone, I passed a posse of teens walking near the driveway. I ordered at the drive-through and then while waiting for my food, saw lots of flashing lights around and sirens and police cars and SUVs speeding up. Pulling out, I saw the teens all leaning up against the perimeter of the car, and nearly avoiding a collision with a police SUV on the way out, I figured out that the 8-10 cop cars that had converged upon the area were there because of the teens.

I sure as hell hope they had guns or grenades out in the open. While the group had got me thinking about how I’d use my car as a weapon if it turned out that they were up to no good, the police response bordered on Shock and Awe. And I could have gotten smooshed by the black and white Explorer that sped in as I was leaving.

Maybe I’ll actually read a newspaper tomorrow to find out what happened.

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