If you plan on getting super drunk this holloween... don't drive.

[Big Pacific]

See that's the problem, while you think you are driving perfectly you are actually breaking a ton of frivolous traffic laws, what beer is saying is during the day they turn a blind eye, at night, when they are on the prowl for drunk drivers they use those reasons to pull you over.

Exactly, if you are white, you think they are looking for DUI's or padding the tax roles, if you are a minority? You think it's racism.

I ride sport bikes, get pulled over ALL THE TIME for the stupidest shit, never get pulled over in my car. Is it because of the bike?

[Hanzo]

Is it a black bike? If it is then there's your problem.

[Big Pacific]

Is it a black bike? If it is then there's your problem.

Sorta, it's black/orange. Dark enough to be profiled i guess.

[Dii]

See that's the problem, while you think you are driving perfectly you are actually breaking a ton of frivolous traffic laws, what beer is saying is during the day they turn a blind eye, at night, when they are on the prowl for drunk drivers they use those reasons to pull you over.

I've never been pulled over driving drunk. We've been pulled over MANY times while sober though, only to be let go because they didn't find anything.

Its very typical for them to walk up and say "Do you have a license?" They don't request our license, first they make sure we have one (cause we're beaners, ya know?)

[Big Pacific]

Odd, they say the same to me.

But i'm not a minority? Maybe it's just jargon?

[Dii]

Odd, they say the same to me.

But i'm not a minority? Maybe it's just jargon?

Do you live near LA?

[Hanzo]

I've never been pulled over driving drunk. We've been pulled over MANY times while sober though, only to be let go because they didn't find anything.

Its very typical for them to walk up and say "Do you have a license?" They don't request our license, first they make sure we have one (cause we're beaners, ya know?)

So the cop walks up and asks if you have a license to operate the motor vehicle you are operating?......

[Dii]

So the cop walks up and asks if you have a license to operate the motor vehicle you are operating?......

They pull us over, but yep.

[Blade Runner Division]

Exactly, if you are white, you think they are looking for DUI's or padding the tax roles, if you are a minority? You think it's racism.

I ride sport bikes, get pulled over ALL THE TIME for the stupidest shit, never get pulled over in my car. Is it because of the bike?

The friend I have who gets pulled over most, he is white... HOWEVER, racial profiling definitely happens, in the area I am in, it happens the farther out you get from the Twin Cities. My dad had two friends drive all the way out to support him when my Grandma passed away. They literally had a cop u-turn to follow them, they tailed them for about ten miles. That kind of stuff always happened to black friends of my dad's, especially his hunting buddies from work.

I actually have never hear any of my black friends complain about being harassed first hand, joke about the stereotypes obviously, but I have a Latino friend who was harassed daily by cops when he was a teenager.

I know this is all anecdotal, I imagine it varies from place to place. In New Prague, Minnesota, were people used to close their shudders when they saw a Swede driving through, it is going to be more noticeable.

[Satanic Mouse]

WCG, the only forums where a drunk driving discussion transcends into a racial profiling discussion.


Gotta love it.