PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

By law in GA the Sheriff is the top LE officer in each county. He is elected by the people of the county, but his salary is paid by the state, he works for the governor. We also have a city PD that handles most LE duties inside the city limits. We are only one of 8 counties in GA with a separate county PD. Our Sheriff could, if he chose to, take control of both the city and county PD, but it would be political suicide here. We also have a small city in the southern part of the county that has a 2 officer PD department. Why, I have no clue. You see this in a lot of counties but there is no need that I can see.

We have an agreement between the Sheriff's dept and the county/city PD's. The Sheriff runs the jail, provides security for the courthouse and has a warrant dept. They don't worry about traffic or investigate crimes. They CAN write traffic tickets, but only do so if they see something really dangerous. They don't have radar so they can't write tickets for speeding. They can write a ticket for driving too fast for conditions though which is hard to defend against. In reality, the only time one of our deputies will stop someone is if they suspect a drunk driver. The city and county PD take care of those duties within their jurisdictions to prevent duplication of services. If the city or county issue a warrant for someone it goes to the Sheriffs dept who send out someone to bring them in. Sheriffs deputies are also responsible for transporting prisoners to and from jail, court or even to another state if necessary to bring someone in. If there is ever a disagreement over who has authority, by law the sheriff gets the final vote. BUT... since it is an elected office he has to be careful if he wants to be re-elected.

 

We were typing at the same time. Nothing unusual about what happened to you. An officer saw you run the light and under the circumstances that is a good indicator of a drunk driver. You were detained by a cop who had no means of writing you a ticket until someone else could get there and write the ticket. They determined you were not a drunk and issued a ticket for running a red light. It could have been a lot worse. A LOT worse, and they could have justified it. You could have been sitting there for hours while they did breathalizer tests and brought in drug dogs. All the stuff in the truck sure could have looked like stolen merchandise

I don't know if you saved any money or not. I blew through a stop sign a few years ago. It was on a road I'd driven over a million times, but not within the last 2 years. The intersection used to open to through traffic going north/south and west bound traffic had to stop. Westbound the road dead ends into a T. They turned it into a 3 way stop and I simply didn't see the new sign. I was southbound, no other cars in sight and I slowed and made the left turn without stopping. After getting the ticket I had to go back and check. I literally never saw the stop sign, nor did my wife, but it was there. I think I paid $65 and it had no effect on my insurance. Not worried about points. That was 5 years ago and I average about 1 ticket every 10 years.

 

I was never even asked if I'd been drinking.

 

My uncle is a police officer, and a couple other relatives are as well. I respect the police, but I've had some unpleasant experiences with law enforcement in Doylestown Borough. The first and most notable of these incidents occurred in March 2014, and I wasn't even driving! I love photography, and don't care what people think of my typical subject matter (I like taking pictures of trucks). I went to a residential part of Doylestown, and unknowingly started taking pictures on a street where four different houses had been burglarized in less than a month and a half. I go to the same barber as the cop who initially stopped me, and this is how I was able to get the whole story.

Apparently some woman thought I was on her property taking pictures through her window (BULLSHIT) and called 911. As I was walking back to my truck to go home, the sergeant of what was then the Doylestown Borough Police (now Central Bucks Regional Police)pulled up curbside, got out, and asked to see my ID.

Before long, two more police vehicles and three more cops (including a plainclothes detective) showed up, and they held me there for like 20 minutes. I was asked the same questions over and over had to show them the pictures on my camera.

I would also like to point out, before you criticize me, that I have Aspergers Syndrome, which is a high functioning form of autism. I do not deal well with those type of situations, but I handled myself well enough to not be handcuffed, searched, and/or put in the back of a police car.

It is because of the 2013 photography incident that I placed police officers in the same category as nazis for more than two years and had a great disdain for law enforcement as a whole.

 

That right there is why I'm weary of police, even though I've never been arrested and don't have any kind of "record".

 

I've said it before and I will say it again; I've got nothing no problems with law enforcement. I respect police and appreciate all the work they do, as well as the fact that they put their lives in danger on a daily basis to keep us regular Joes and Janes safe.

However, what irritates me to no end is that cops pull people over based on their appearance or the appearance of their vehicle. My cousin's boyfriend was pulled over by a Maryland Trooper in a company work truck for speeding or something, and the trooper said he smelled weed.

My uncle was pulled over by two North Carolina troopers for being a shirtless guy with tattoos, and driving a beat up Toyota pickup with Pennsylvania plates and a Pit Bull-type dog in the front seat. They claimed he hadn't been wearing his seatbelt but let him go without even a warning after finding no drugs or weapons among the boxes of car parts in the bed of his truck. The aforementioned Pit Bull-type dog, normally friendly and docile but very protective of his master's truck, wouldn't let the troopers anywhere near the cab so they just gave up.

I'm just jaded...

What else is there to say?

 

@ABA180

You should see (and hear) what I've done to my stereo system!

• Pioneer AVH-1330NEX head unit
• JBL GTO 609C component speakers
• $240 Kicker 11HS8 8” 150 Watt Hideaway Compact Car Audio Powered Subwoofer Sub HS8
  Kicker 11HS8 Hideaway 8" sub
• Rockford Fosgate R150X2 Prime 2-channel amplifier

 

I like it man..are you running another amplifier besides the Prime?

 

The sub has it's own built-in amp, but no other external amplifiers...

 

@ABA180

Installation of subwoofer and amp HERE.

 

@ABA180

Installation of Pioneer head unit HERE.

 

Nice work man! I managed to not remove my seat but it was about a day's work installing mine..

 

Six hours for my neighbor and me; We ran the wiring under the carpet...

 

Good stuff..bet the Misfits would sound good on that thing!

 

Yup about the same. I had a guy help me who is a professional though..

 

I've cranked One Last Caress before!

 

@ABA180

Did you put a backup camera in your truck?

 

Underage drinking laws are a crock of shit. Everybody in the world (except maybe Iranians born in the laat forty years, because the ayatollah is a bunch of shitheads who banned mere alcohol consumption) has drank underage before, including myself!

I do not condon underage drinking at all. One of my former friends (who was 23 at the time) hung around with kids as young 14. A guy and a girl, both aged 14, were hanging out at his house. They found out I was 21, and immediately askend if could buy them beer. My response was "Are you fucking serious?!?!"

My idiot former friend wanted them to hang out, but they correctly assumed that I did not want them around and showed themselves out. The 14-year old girl was also hitting on my other friend, who was 19 at the time.

My friend whose house it was had the balls to get mad at me for telling his underage friends my age. This cute girl, who I assumed was at least 20, asked me how old I was and I saw it as a harmless question and told her I was 21. Either she or he friend then asked me if I could buy them booze.

 

Anyway, as a libertarian, two of the things I want are smaller government and less rules.

So many of my friends have lost their licenses for underage drinking when they weren't even driving. I think the law comes down too hard on offenses relating to underage drinking.

Back in 2012, one of my friends got pulled over simply for being a young girl driving a shitty '92 Saturn late at night. She got a DUI for a BAC of .02, less than a month before her 21st birthday. She lost her license for six months and had to pay about $10,000 in various fines and fees.

A few weeks later and the officer would have sent her on her way...

 

My personal trainer told me how she got arrested at age 20 for riding a wave runner after drinking. If she'd been 21, she would have gotten a few tickets relating to reckless boating, but she wouldn't have been arrested.