Here Piggy Piggy

unless you are one, most people hate cops. black people hate them because a run in tends to end in a beat down and arrest. hispanics hate them because cops assume all latinos to be illegal and "no speaka da eengleesh." people in maryland hate them because the cops there speed, get caught on camera and refuse to pay the tickets because citations are issued to the owner of the vehicle (in their case, the city), not the individual. people in ohio hate them because troopers there calibrate their radar guns about 6 miles slower than the actual speed, which allows for more tickets and, therefore, more revenue.

i hate them because, well, they're pricks who think they're above the laws they're bound to enforce. even in my little enclave, which spans a whopping 1 square mile in size, cops will do anything to take a shortcut. just this evening on my way home from the gym--a 4 minute drive across our hamlet within a city--3 cops used their lights for evil, not good. in all 3 instances, the offenders, er, officers, flashed their lights as they pulled up to a red stop light. naturally, the magical lights give them super powers to fly through intersections without so much as a glance to see if anyone else is there. and in true cop(out) fashion, as soon as each had safely traversed the intersection, the seeming emergency had miraculously been resolved, thus, flashing lights were no longer required.

1 square mile. it takes literally 6 minutes (including stop lights) to cross from one end of our village to the other. what business, other than an actual crime or emergency, could an officer of the law have that would require he/she save a whole 15 seconds to pass through an intersection unimpeded? none.

i want flashing lights too. then i can break the law and endanger lives while hiding under the guise of protecting and serving (myself).