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Julliant
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Even the most ardent of Michael Bay haters would admit that Barricade was a cool concept. |
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kevinx59
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Man thats a nice car, and I applaud him for basing it on Barricade (got the toy when the movie came out). That said, even though when it is parked you can see all the Transformers stuff, if I saw that while driving, my first instinct would be "oh shit a cop car". Especially since lately I've started seeing quite a bit more variety in police cars (especially Chargers) around SoCal. Not to mention you don't really notice the detailing when you're driving (something that's happened to me with mistaking retired cop cars for real ones). Still, it would be a shame to have to get rid of that car...
His theory of cars slowing down when spotting the car seems to work. |
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Tony K.
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Deleted a few posts for over-quoting.
Don't want your posted deleted? Then don't over-quote. |
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stonehand
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Same as here. Most of the police cars, both city and state, around here have the paint job and decals, but no light bar or mass of antennas. Lets them blend in better with traffic. |
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zachary.zhang.144
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It's interesting to read the commends! You should know these days a lot of news are baseless and not true. I have never been arrested for this stupid charge. And I got approved for this design at the beginning. Just see how my lawyer beats the crap out of Braintree Police Department in the court.
 Oh! just wish officer Blake Holt will actually show up on the court that day.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Good day Mr. Zhang! I'm the author of this article and would like to follow up with you if possible. I'm sending a PM over your way. Thanks so much! |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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I think it's funny that people are defending him impersonating a police vehicle and saying only an idiot would fall for it.
This guy is a dumbass imo but at least he didn't have bad intentions. If this guy was luring children into his car, pulling over women and raping them, or any other thing where his fake cop car was primarily how he fooled people, I wonder if we'd be calling the victims idiots for not recognizing something so "obvious"? He should face whatever penalties you get for impersonating an officer. |
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TarsTarkas
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He was impersonating a Decepticon vehicle from the Transformer movies, not actually impersonating the police. You have to be actually pretending to use police powers or representing yourself as a actual police officer.
If all he was doing was driving around in his Transformer's movie Decepticon replica, then he was not committing a crime. |
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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I badly wish this goes to court to establish a precedent, otherwise police officers all over the USA will be able to stop anyone under the pretense that "your car looked to me like a police car" and with all the models and color police cars come nowadays, any car can be said to look like some (past of present) model of police car.
I do not know what is more frightening, that this happened in the first place or that some many people living in the USA think it is right, it is like they are screaming "Take my fundamental rights and shut up" <--- insert Futurame's Fry with a USA constitution on his fist. |
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victor viper
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God, there are times I wish I was an attorney. I'd be salivating while thinking about how to spend my 40% cut of the 6-figure settlement that I'd be collecting in the very near future.
I wonder if the arresting officer is equally confused by the hundred or so white/silver/grey Crown Victorias/Impalas/Chargers they see on the street every day? |
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leesahlynn
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"Police Impersonation" is legally defined as "an act of falsely portraying oneself as a member of the police, for the purpose of deception" and specifically for vehicles "The imposter places police lights, decals, siren, or other equipment on a personal vehicle to disguise it as a police car and enable the offender to pass through red traffic lights, bypass traffic other non-emergency traffic would have to wait for."
They have to prove he was blatantly trying to deceive people and get around traffic to charge him with anything. It will absolutely be tossed out in court. I'm really surprised by the comments here, your car vaguely resembling a police vehicle that you drive while obeying all traffic laws =/= impersonating a police officer. The cop who arrested him over this should be fined for wasting taxpayer resources. |
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EyeOfPain
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Decepticon = Deception |
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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I was going to write a post saying "inb4 someone says Decepticon = Deception" but I did not thinking "Come on, nobody is going to do it" *facepalm* Amurrica, more than meets the eye ... |
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enurtsol
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Have ya guys seen these most expensive police squad cars (up to $4 million Bugatti Veyron)?
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EyeOfPain
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You should expect stupid comments in a stupid argument. If the car had a simple Bluesmobile paint job, it likely wouldn't have been a big deal, but once the guy added lettering and numbers in the places you'd expect them on a police vehicle, you're skirting a line you probably shouldn't be skirting as a law-abiding citizen. And I doubt it helped cops, as it could make it harder for them to meet their ticket quotas each month. |
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