Point-Seven-five wrote:AND...
...You didn't have to pay a penny extra for the live episode of COPS.
Just my luck that all I ever get is a good breakfast that can keep me in the saddle for at least 600 miles.
Years ago, when
Cops was a thing on cable-ish TV, I was camping at the BMWRA rally in the North Carolina, Fontana Dam, circa 1997. The very same place that Deliverance was filmed back in 1971. The local sheriff decided the rally goers must be a bunch o' bad asses, and so had his deputies do helicopter flyovers of the rally site with the theme from Cops, "Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gunna do when they come for you" blasting loudly from speakers, ala, Apocalypse Now. As well, they were stopping everyone at the gates, coming and going, under the guise of safety and welfare, i.e., searching for guns, drugs, knives, & perhaps whether the rider liked frilly ladies' panties in secret.
That pissed off more than a few law-abiding Beemer riders to no end, some of whom were lawyers themselves. A suit was brought, which garnered some regional media attention. Local new reports over the weeks and months showed a majority of the locals not happy about the abuse the riders copped, especially since they had dropped a load of money into the local coffers of restaurants, motels, & etc. And let's face it, you're not gunna see a burnout show or white pointers up on stage in a wet t-shirt contest at the average - middle of the road, middle agers - Beemer rally.
It all seemed to go a bit quiet. Then the sheriff was brought up on charges perhaps a year later. Seems he lost an election but left some damning evidence of kiddie porn on his work computer, ending up in his own slammer.
Years later, and I mean like 22 years later, I move to a suburb of Tacoma Washington called Lakewood. There's a lot of suburban neighbourhoods, cul-de-sac, strip malls, along with leafy parks, and a large joint military base nearby, which, let's face it, attracted a certain calibre of individual, often in need of a quick pickup or pick-em-up. The girls and the dealers were obvious in those days. You know, places where the trash wasn't collected as often as where the mayor lives. The show Cops, if it had six segments to an hour-long show, three of them were as ride-alongs with the Lakewood Police Department. Bad boys bad boys...
One can never escape the reach of the law.