They(7/11's) are all owned/operated by foreigners here. In fact very little owned by Americans. Well, they don't speak English anyway. That's here. Maybe better other places.
Around here, they all still speak English with little or no accent. The Mr. C's is the place the Mid Eastern employees work. There's one a half block from my shop, the owner brings his car to me, but so does the Manager of the closest 7/11. I'm an equal opportunity capitalist. If they got money and they want their car fixed, here I am.
You should move to a State mostly occupied by Americans.
I stopped at a Shell station in Tulsa last week. The guy didn't speak English at all, he was from India I am guessing. I don't remember seeing a name on the place, and all the receipt has is an address. Gas was $297 for ethanol, but the 93 octane was $3.65. That I could understand.
You know what's funny, if you travel abroad 7-11's are everywhere. And they're clean an have lots more food options then ours do here. It's like an upscale bodega.
Something i think people have not mentioned is how much the police forces have gone out of their way to get people with only a specific personality type.
I had a friend of mine who was 52, he had retired from having his own chiropractor practice and became a police officer. After 4 months of the job he was asked to leave because he was too nice.
Let me say that again, he was asked to leave because he was too nice. Apparantly he would ask people what was going on in a situation and listen to them and the local P.D. decided because of this he was not controlling the situation and was at risk of getting hurt and getting a fellow officer hurt because..... he asked questions first. The hiring practices of the police force look for someone who has never been caught for a crime, and lets face it, that at the very least we have all committed crimes such as speeding or the like. This creates a group of people who think that they are better than everyone else and fails to understand the motivation of those who do and how to best handle the situation.
I don't know any police agency that disqualifies applicants for having speeding tickets or other traffic offenses in their history. They'll even forgive having had a suspended license as long as you currently have a valid one.
Washington State Patrol permanently disqualifies you if you have, what they call a major moving violation, such as reckless or negligent driving twice on your record. You have to wait 7 years on the first offense.
I kind of agree wit Eye on this one. I have no love loss for cops, but I have had run-ins with a some that were fairly decent guys, and had a pleasant attitude.
I just don't think there are a lot of people that are cut out for that kind of work.
Was an assistant manager at a retail store and a customer came in throwing a temper tantrum because he got ticketed for doing 50 in a 35. His mentality was, unfortunately, the same as yours wadenelson. He mentioned the officer had to speed to catch him which meant the officer "broke the law".
This is what I said to him, and of course, he didn't understand.
"Sir, it's the same as me being in this uniform, going behind the counter, using the register and taking your money. If you were to do the same thing, it would be stealing." Point is, there are certain things employees need to do, that YOU are not allowed to do, to accomplish that task at hand. People fail to understand that somehow.
If your familiar with state laws, cops are exempt when they are responding to any crime. Besides, just because you drive 70 miles round trip to and from work, does not make you a good driver. Law Enforcement are trained to be able to handle high speed.
Then why did two cops die in a single vehicle accident because the cop that was driving lost control of his car?
The California highway patrol puts their cadets through a vigorous training course, on perfect surfaces and few distractions, it isn't the real world.
Because they drove too fast for the conditions. Each state has a different requirements for training. Can't use CHP as a nation wide law enforcement training example. I know Washington State Patrol does this vigorous training, but keep in mind, it rains 9+ months a year here. Im sure they can handle certain situations better than the Arizona Patrol.
I am very familiar with WSP's training procedure. I have been on their driving course, been in a vehicle with a trooper as a civilian. It is not something the average or even experienced person can successfully accomplish. Taking a 110 degree turn going 135 MPH, lose control on 1/4" of water going 40 mph and regain control. These are not things that us experienced drivers are trained to do.
With all do respect, that is not really "logic". Racecar drivers crashes are not uncommon, and stuntmen are trained to drive, and crash, in predicted scenarios.
Car stalled in intersection. Cop car ahead of us --- we figure he'll do a U-turn, help the guy out, or at least turn on his lights and direct traffic around the stalled vehicle.
Nope. Ignores him, gets on the on-ramp and takes off. No lights, no siren, no apparent code.
So WE go on tot he next intersection, U-turn, circle back, hook the guy up with our tow strap and tow him to the gas station 300 yards ahead.
"Protect and Serve?" Pffffft.
I'm lying there on the ground hooking up the tow strap, at risk of some guy rear-ending this guy and getting rolled over, wondering if I will ever view cops as "good guys" again in my lifetime. He could have at LEAST blocked traffic protecting me or a tow truck drievr from harm.
Like you said No apparent code. Do you realize that we don't use our lights for the majority of calls? Unless it's a true "oh ****" emergency lights are not used.
Of course he could have been just lazy, but if you don't have all the facts how can you form an opinion?
You can't earn any revenue for the state helping out citizens with broken vehicles....unless you want to cite them for a few things while you're at it.
Yes it is very difficult for everyone involved and even more so when the loss is due to some scum that should have been executed or at the very least never released from prison or by a drunk/druggie. The circumstances makes a huge difference in the whole healing process. These two factors makes that process very rough.
Trooper doing 120mph on way to a crash scene kills 3
"Because of the nature of the crash, the roof of the car was ripped off and my kids were unrecognizable," Schlau said. Police officers were able to identify Jessica by her license. Kelli was too young to be carrying ID, Schlau said, but they could tell she was a child by the braces in her mouth.
In the following days, weeks and months, details began to emerge about the circumstances of the deadly accident. The trooper was driving at over 120 mph when the crash occurred. He'd reportedly been responding to another crash scene.
The trooper ... later said he did not hear a dispatcher say that the initial crash had already been secured.
In the following days, weeks and months, details began to emerge about the circumstances of the deadly accident. The trooper was driving at over 120 mph when the crash occurred. He'd reportedly been responding to another crash scene.
Not all of the public celebrates it gcbengal. If you go on Facebook and check out the site We Are Darren Wilson you will see that lots of Americans support our LEO. By the way, thank you for your service in that position.
The heck they do! Or maybe they do where you are. Americans don't! Most cops are great. Now we do get ticked when it comes to the bad ones. Are you suggesting you are one of the bad ones? I didn't think so. I tried so hard not to be racial here.
Bad cops just make my job harder. A lot of police departments/sheriffs offices have pretty low hiring standards and they usually are the ones that hire the ones that shouldn't be officers. You get what you pay for and with some departments only starting out at less than 20K a year you can imagine what they get for candidates.
I wonder if he is going to lead protesters in New York yelling "What do we want? -- Dead Criminals, When do we want them? -- Now."
Obama had a press meeting for Trayvon, Michael and Eric. But he's too busy on vacation in Hawaii to do more than release a statement for the officers.
This whole mess is really sad! But I still say it's about criminals. It wasn't about race until Sharpton, Obama and a few others got involved.
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