Quote: Originally posted by Anklecranker on 28 April 2005
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2005 ... balls.html
This is what I didnt want to happen.............................
The news media has "pinched" a pic from one of us. Its not just us in here...
Actually the whole report seems to be pretty harmless. They even go so far as to say that "gullible motorists with cellular phones" caused the whole sorry business to occur.
The fact is, I'm suprised nobody's mentioned it yet, is that if you look different, or if you look wierd I should say, then you generally provoke three reactions from the majority of people, which is either interest or apprehension.. because they don't know what you're about. And if quite a few wierd looking people are all travelling down the road together, on maxed-up vehicles and that, then of course a few people are going to feel scared enough to call the police. Occupational hazard, I'd have thought. Unfortunate, but understandable from closed-minded, essentially stupid people.
Case in point: I'm tall, I wear black clothes and boots and I have long hair (please, please, please noone say the f*cking 'G' word, I'm not this). Quite simple, isn't it? I'm just an ordinary person, I just look the way I do. Well, some people, it would seem, cannot grasp this. Like airport security for example.. I always get searched top-to-toe, without exception, because I look slightly different and therefore I'm judged to be.. I don't know.. dangerous or something? All the time taken searching me and scores of non-descript people are walking through customs with no problem. It's the same with shop security, police etc etc... So it is with this Roadwar incident, there you all are, looking different and strange and dangerous, so you're arrested, whilst any criminals, looking relatively normal, carrying guns, drugs or whatever, just sail past the cops in their non-descript beige sedan. That's just... life. Be thankful you only look the way you do for one or two days, I have to look like me forever. I'd gladly swap 20 hours in a cell for a lifetime's prejudice. Have some sense of proportion guys!