http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiaEdgusol8i5RztOQLPQjjsy6IX?qid=1006042007126\nWhat if the two teenagers had ignored my request or had threatened or gotten physical with me?  I am not concerned for my own safety, but would it be right to use force to stop the situation?  I did not have a cell phone and there were no Police or even other pedestrians nearby.
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I think the world is in trouble because too many people "keep out of it" when they could help. It is everyone's responsibility to help if they can, and not just let situations get worse by turning a blind eye.\n\nWhat if the situation had turned violent?\nThen you are justified in defending yourself.\nThe important thing here is you didn't start it.\nBut giving in to bullies is never the answer.\nYou did the right thing and I for one am proud of you.
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Did you just fly in from stupid town?  Why do you think they got so pissy!  I mean think about it.. If some one was banging on your house over and over again, or you for that matter, don't you think you would get pissy to?  I woudln't advise doing that anymore, it might get you killed one day.
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Wow. Tricky situation. I feel for you. \n\nAre you able to find out about previous similar incidents at the school at what happened to the people involved? Or other schools, to work out what the precedent is in these cases.\n\nI wonder if the Citizen's advice bureau might be able to offer\nsome advice? \n\nYour point that you haven't been trained to deal with situations is a good one. At the end of the day, you only swore, no one got hurt. Sounds as if this is the first time you've been involved in anything like this, and, if you've put up with all the knocks and bangs from before you must be pretty devoted to the job. I hope they'll be lenient. \n\nGood luck.
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yes, but risky.  I would have just called the police.  Without evidence or witnesses, you could have been charged with theft...don't know your circumstances.
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With your fingers crossed that the police don't come knocking on your door too soon.\n\nIt's illegal so not recommended.\n\n///
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A scary experience.  I was once assaulted on the street but the guy didn't have a gun.  A gun would have been more frightening.  There's no way to know if your neighbor was in on the theft, but he obviously didn't like you, maybe because you're white and he wasn't, if he was treating it like a joke.  A pity.  I hope you can move out of there.
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Friend - That depends on your age and state laws, but yes, its not unlikely they can legally enforce it if you are under 18.  And just a suggestion...I would go along with it no matter what the situation was cause they are the ones in control at the time and place.  GBU
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wow...scary..I am amazed...this cannot be a security issue can it?  My boy's high school has the same rule and of a crowd of 100 or so during a meet the teachers day (I took off an hour from work and came straight there) the principal singled me out in the back row and said that hats were not allowed...i think he expected me to immediately take it off, but i just looked at him...if he taken the issue any further i would have walked out...this is a small town.\n\nI searched for the Saginaw michigan police department site and sent them an e-mail saying how manly they were for bringing violence to this terrible hat wearer.\n\nI'll agree that the man was tassered for resisting, but the police officer had no right to touch the man in the first place.  If it was a security issue, like hiding a gun or something...he could have hidden a heavy pistol a lot easier in his pocket,,,it cannot be aa security issue...but whatever, it should have at least been explained bvefore the officer grabbed the man's possessions and person
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You did the right thing notifying the woman that she is driving in the wrong direction. It could have caused damage to many people as well as herself. If she didn't appreciate your comment its her fault. Some people are that way and you can't stop it. She was endangering people and she was arising strife but unless she was really making a ruckus and actually physically hurt some one calling the police would not be advisable.
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An officer has the right to clear a path of people that obstruct a crime scene, or pose a potential threat to him and could argue you  failed to comply with his lawful order to remove yourself from his proximity\nwhich is why he would resort to using non lethal force if all else failed.  And depending on the situation, hed probably win his arguement.\nBut this is more an argueable hypothetical, for in real life, people know when they might be a threat to an officers duty.\n\nBest illustration I could use, is when my nephew purchased a  used vehicle from someone.  We drove behind him on the freeway because there was no license plate and w tried to cover the fact.\nWell police stopped him anyways\n\nWe pulled over some way past them, and walked back to try to help explain, while the officer conducted his checks on the vehicle and my nephew.\nWhen the officer saw us walking towards him, his hand reached for his weapon, and he ordered us to keep away -- for his own safety.  which makes sense nowadays, because people are killing police officers in the streets when theyre being pulled over for silly reasons\n\nHad we decided tostay and present a 'potential' threat to him, he would have been justified in tazing us, or drawing his weapon at us.  Not shooting us, because we kept distance and showed no weapons.  But use of non lethal force would be justified, and no one could really argue that.\n\nI hope that illustration helps some.
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Honestly, where do you some of you people get the ideas you get?\n\nTo the asker:  assuming everything you said here is 100% factual, and assuming you didn't leave anything out, and assuming you have *all* the facts in the first place, then no, it doesn't sound like there was any probable cause to pull you over.  \n\nHowever, here's what I suspect, because I have done this very thing:\n\nI'm the cop you and your friend drove past when he/she yelled whatever they yelled.  Evidently, your friend wanted to come to the attention of the police, so I'm generally happy to oblige.  You don't say (and probably don't know) if it was the same cop who pulled you over, but it doesn't matter...we've got radios, ya' know?  \n\nSo anyway, back to your friend who wants to be a policeman's project:\n\nWhether I take off after you or I radio to one of my partners, one of us catches up to you.  You don't signal where you should, you have a taillight out, your registration is expired, etc., etc., and that provides me probable cause to stop you.  It's quite possible, especially if you developed an attitude problem, that I will tell you the only reason you're being stopped is because of your friend, the loudmouth.\n\nThe liberal among us will not like this, I know.  However, probable cause in this state is probable cause, and the motivation behind my use of probable cause is irrelevant to your guilt or innocence.  \n\nSo if you're right, the cop was wrong and you certainly do want to talk to an attorney.\n\nIf I'm right, you got pulled over because your idiot friend brought your car to the attention of the police, and it sounds like you paid a price for that.  Choose your friends better next time you're drinking and driving.\n\nAnd no, yelling out of your car is not disorderly conduct in California.  It's a rude and stupid exercise of your right to free speech.\n\nShouting something at the police is not an indication that you're not a reasonable person, and being an unreasonable person does not provide the police with reasonable cause to pull you over.  Holy cow, if this were true I could pull people over a hundred times a day.  \n\nBeing disrespectful to the police does not qualify as disorderly conduct.  It qualifies as stupid, but stupid does not equate to probable cause to effect a detention or make an arrest.  Don't I wish.\n\nYeah, we're always making things up just to pull you over.  I routinely risk being convicted of perjury and jailed for civil rights violations just to see if you've got big hooters, are drunk, or have a little weed in your car.  Please.\n\nYou're welcome to have just about any bumper sticker you want on your car and not have to worry about getting a ticket.  First of all, like I said, we do live in the land of free speech so you can have anything you want on your bumper.  If it says "I'm plotting to kill the President," you might end up with a visit from the Secret Service, but you can't get a ticket for displaying even an obscene bumper sticker.  \n\nHanging out the window is a good indication that you're not wearing your seat belt, but I'm not sure I'm familiar with a crime called "reckless endangerment."  \n\nI'm glad showing poor judgement doesn't really qualify as cause for the police to investigate.  If it did, I would literally spend my entire day talking to people with extraordinarily poor judgement who weren't committing a crime.  I do enough of that now.\n\nAnyway, I hope the cops had a really wonderful reason for pulling you over, once your friend decided you needed to stopped.  I hope their reason is enough to get you into court and convicted, if you really were driving in violation of the drunk driving laws in this state.  Your decision to do so put a huge number of people at risk...all of whom, except yourself, would have been innocent victims of your profoundly poor
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I'd love to have someone like you around, if I were to get attacked. It's scary to think of how apathetic people can be. There is more than one way of getting involved or to help. As long as one can help out, instead of walking away, ignoring it. If it were me, I wouldn't physically get in the middle of the bashing, because I know my limits and weakness. But I would get help, distract, get a large object to swing, etc. There are ways of helping out and getting involved to help our fellow people. Even to give assistance to the victim after the fact. But to walk away, that is uncool... But then again, I can't say that is wise 100% of the time, for there are different social conventions and rules or lack of rules in different cultures, sub-cultures, and countries.
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You really shouldn't have been getting out of your car until you talked to him.  \n\nHe felt like you were threatening him or not listining to his directions.
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you are restricted on a certain area close to the person asking for the restrainning order.\n\n:> peace\n.
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it would be a restraining order against you.  you would need papers served on you first.  i think they are just blowing smoke.  to be sure, call your police dept.
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I'd pay for what the boy took. I would then try and take him home to clean him up then to the police so they can help him. No good deed goes unpunished and as much as I would love to help him find his family, God only knows what the situation is. I would most definately be involved in making sure the child is in a safe place. Even if it meant having him stay in my home. I have two little boys and it hurts me to think that there are so many children roaming the streets with no place to call home.
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Call the cops. Let them get it on record. You swear out a complaint and let the police handle it. Get a restraining order also. If the person violates that order, they will be arrested. If you are being threatened, that is technically assault and you do NOT have to take threats.