I was blowing leaves off of my property this morning (granted 7:30am might have been a bit early) when a police officer confronted me. He told me that I was breaking the law (where I live the noise ordinance is from 10pm-6am). When I let him know the law and asked what law I was breaking by leaf blowing my property, he responded by saying, "This isn't the good old days, freedom doesn't exist anymore." He had a straight face and was dead serious. It is a sad day when not even the police believe in freedom anymore or respect the laws. I just wish I had been recording the interaction as it would have been youtube gold.
You didn't need to record it, you only needed to get this civil servant's name and badge number and report it to us here. Then some of us might have believed your story.
Is this story unbelievable? I didn't think so. I wanted to record it because a clip of a police officer saying freedom doesn't exist would have been gold. Whether or not people believe me never crossed my mind.
I wasn't doing anything illegal or breaking any laws. The police officer was 100% in the wrong. You don't have to believe me though. There will inevitably be those who are ignorant and short sighted who will support a police state. I just wanted to share this story. I guess without a clip of the cop saying it though, this is just the ramblings of an irritated citizen.