Have you ever talked back to a cop?
The "do you have problem with authority" thread got me thinking about this. I'm something of a timid guy in person so I would never, though I might argue with them if I thought I was in the right.
I can remember my father telling me a story about my uncle talking back to a cop who had stopped him. Now mind you my uncle is a very strong headed guy, to the point of being a stubborn mule. He's one of the smartest men you will ever meet and has a strong personality. The story goes the cop pulled him over for some minor traffic violation which he was innocent of. The guy was also giving him a bad attitude. What my uncle told him was "listen Mr, you are here to serve me. You work for ME, not the other way around. I'm the citizen, you are the public service official" (paraphrasing a bit). Needless to say the cop was NOT happy. However since he had done nothing wrong the cop couldn't actually do anything and ended up just letting him go.
Have you ever talked back to a cop? How did it go if so?
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Don't ever ask a cop if you can see his gun
and
When a cop tells you that your tire looks low
Don't ever ask him if he can see the air coming out.
also
Don't ask me how I know these things.
was this after some king of happy hour? 
drinking may have been involved ... at some point.
Sorry to be such a cynic. I'm from Chicago where the police are here to preserve disorder.
Anyway, no I've never talked back to a regular cop but I've yelled at an overbearing park district 'cop' and I've had words with some of our campus public safety officers (most of the older ones are retired cops)
she's my older sister.
My younger sister is also a cop, so I can boss her around.
I know that cops have a tough job and I don't mean to cause drama; but when a cop gets up in my face and starts bullying me I get defensive. I'm short (5'5" , so people sometimes think that makes me timid. When I'm in the right I stand my ground so cops think that their intimidation tactics and outright lying will make me back down. I never shout or anything but I won't take any shit from somebody just because they wear a badge.
I'm an American and a veteran. I know my rights and I exercise them with respect. If a cop asks to search my car or my person I tell them to get a warrant or arrest me. And I never answer questions. Respectfully.
I'll just recall the most recent.
I took a date for a walk to the beach along with my dog, in mid-summer a year or so back, and while we were sitting there along with many others, a tandem of cops walked through questioning everyone what they were drinking (gasp!!!! concealed boooooze!).
When they approached us, my dog started growling, bearing her teeth and acting defensive. They apologized and plead that they were just doing doing their job.
I informed them that my dog was just doing her job.
My date laughed her ass off. 
My Dad, a notoriously bad driver, hit a Motorcycle cop when my Dad drove the wrong way down a one way street.
The Cop later bought a nice big house in our neighborhood.
And the guy I got in an accident with was the biggest pain in the ass about it. He would not let me talk to the police - he did all the talking for both parties, despite the fact that my car was way in worse shape than his (his was a Chevrolet Suburban, mine a Nissan Altima). Finally, as fucking frustrated as I was with the whole situation (there was a false injury claim made on the other side's behalf, despite that the first line of the police report said non injury 
), I called the police department myself and talked to the officer who was involved in investigating the accident. I explained my side of the situation and that he grossly fabricated his part of the story and I had pictures to prove that he did. Finally after months of in fighting between insurance companies, both sides settled as double fault - meaning that both parties involved were at fault. It's not the best I could have hoped for but it certainly wasn't the worst either. Glad that's over with. 
I worked in a small town county sheriff's dept as the only cook at the jail and these guys would come into my kitchen and give me shit and I'd give it right back to them 
Does this count?
(which was bogus BTW) but I had just guzzled one beer (yes the proverbially one beer).
I was given a field sobriety test and was mocked for saying the alphabet wrong. I followed a child hood system of
Abcdefghijklmnop....pqrtsuvwxyz (repeating the p) and he ridiculed me for that. He had also said something about me not following orders very well. I responded "as a father of 4, a boss and as a Little League coach I am more used to giving orders than following them". That didn't appear to go over too well. He finally did the little follow the flashlight in the eyes thing and I said "I passed that didn't I". To which he said "yes but you have one more test to take." Which was the breathalyzer. And I passed. I recall he called my name into the office over the radio but mispronounced it and I then ridiculed him for that. He didn't seem to like that either.
One other irritating thing about this pull over was one of the two troopers said something like "Well it's a good thing your buddy wasn't driving" . My buddy was my father in law who hadn't had anything to drink at all.
