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Bugnin
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This. And I've been pulled over by a police vehicle with LED lights inside the car instead of overhead ones. You can't even be subtly impersonating police. Period. |
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TarsTarkas
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Getting pulled over is to be expected, but when the officer walked over to the car and saw Decepticon written on the sides, that is where it should have ended. Hell, I would have had my picture taken next to it.
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mangamuscle
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But then he continued to read punish and enslave and then he thought "Hey, he is impersonating us!" 
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sirdano1
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Yep, this bastard needs to go to jail. |
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Kougeru
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Ronin2081
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The only ticket he should be getting it for speeding or some other traffic violation because last I checked "impersonating a police officer" isn't really a ticketable offense.
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Kikaioh
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Well, it does put a different light on the matter if he went to the police beforehand to make sure the design was road legal, and an officer approved of it.
That said, considering the design does show the words "Police" printed on the side of the car, combined with the classic color scheme, I can see how other officers would consider that as impersonation. I'm curious what the relevant laws are in Massachussetts, and how they'd be interpreted in this case (from what I've read, certain states require that there not be any police identification markings on the vehicle). |
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Ronin2081
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I hope they arrest strippers who pose as police officers too.
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TarsTarkas
Posts: 5823 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Police departments sell out of service vehicles all the time. If they are street legal, then his car is street legal. Doesn't matter what the general populace think, unless he is pulling people over. What about people who cosplay or dress up as police officers on Halloween or at parties. Impersonating a police officer means you are falsely pretending to be a police officer. Dressing up or having a car that sort of looks like one is not impersonating a police officer. Pulling people over, detaining people, and claiming you are a police officer IS impersonating officer. Yeah, he will be pulled over occasionally, but that should be the extant of it. |
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shiranehito
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Personally I don't think that he's impersonating police. If people slow down just because they think it's a police car, it is not any bad thing, is it? It's not like he's pulling over random cars, dressing like a cop and making silly charges or demands. He just painted his car white and black, without police sirens too, plus he already got a permission.
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Kikaioh
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Again, I think it's probably an important factor that it does actually say "Police" on the side of his car, at least according to the original design. That alone may be enough to push it over from "looking like" to outright impersonation, if the laws in his state specifically ban such markings on normal vehicles.
Though if you really think about, his intent was more about impersonating a robot impersonating the police.  It's a funny case.
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Ronin2081
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If having "police" on the side of the car was enough to qualify as "impersonating an officer" then I may as well be arrested, at least when I was a kid with a fake badge that said "police" on it.
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enurtsol
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Did ya have anything else to seem like police besides the badge? It's the sum of things, not just one thing or another, that's to be determined here. |
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Ronin2081
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Does that really matter?
The person in the story wasn't doing anything to impersonate an officer, as far as we know, other then evidently having "police" on his vehicle. You can say it's also because his vehicle was painted "similar" to a police car but that doesn't hold up too well when toy consider the fact that every year there are police stations selling old patrol cars that often never get repainted and only have the light bars and decals poorly scraped off. So anyone with something that says "Police" on it should be treated the same way. Of course that is a stupid notion since obviously little kids playing cops/robbers or using toys that might say "police" doesn't mean those kids are impersonating a Law Enforcement officer any more then someone with a shirt that has FBI and then in small print underneath "Female Body/Booty Inspector". |
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enurtsol
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The sum of things matters in the court of law that will determine the case. They're not arguing this case in front of us - they're arguing it there. (Just a reminder to anyone ever pulled over by police for a ticket: you're not arguing the case on the street full of pedestrians - save your arguments for later in court.)
Nobody would believe a kid to be a police officer or a simple FBI shirt. It's the sum of things, not just one thing or another. |
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