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On Dec 21, 2012, at 5:26 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> At 05:03 AM 12/21/2012, Bill Bartlett wrote:
>> Good for shooting cats and other vermin, but a cop showed up at my door a year or so back and told me he had received complaints from a neighbour about me shootin' rabbits and stuff around the town and insisted that I stop it.
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> reminded me of something I'd forgotten. Back when I lived in the 'hood, a neighbor who didn't like the music I played (he was a crank) and couldn't get the apartment complex to do anything about it - because it wasn't loud enough outside the door for them to do anything -- decided to harrass me by calling the police and, at first, telling them that he suspected domestic violence.
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> The police showed up, pushed their way into the apartment, and asked to search around - one of the cops already was while one had me in the corner, asking. In that "search" they found a broken beebee gun in my son's room. They picked it up and asked, "What's this?" in a tone of voice indicating that they'd discovered contraband or something.
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> Me: "Broken beebee gun. My son seems to like collecting broken stuff." (my inappropriate response to threat is to crack a joke, which the sizzlean don't like.)
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> Basically, even though guns are allowed in this country, the cops will still treat you - if you belong to the correct class - as if you shouldn't own them and that owning them is a threat.
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> In related story, when they searched my bookshelves... I was so ignorant(don't do drugs) that I thought they were after my shelf of books on Marxist theory! lol
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