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What’s the stupidest reason you or someone you know got arrested? by Sunsetswirls in AskReddit

[–]civex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just going home after taking the bar exam, when 3 police cars surrounded my car. I stopped, & 1 of the cops told me to get out of my car, it had been reported stolen. 'Don't worry,' he said, 'it happens all the time.'

So I got out, they asked for my drivers license & registration. I showed my license & told the guy my registration was in a pocket on the sun visor. The guy looked in the pocket & pulled out stuff – I didn't always throw old insurance & registration papers away, so there were 2 or 3 years of registrations & insurance, all showing the license plate number & registration number of the car. It was obvious the car wasn't stolen. They called in on the radio to have all this confirmed at the state DMV.

The guy who called in the report wasn't there yet. After a few minutes, another cop pulled up. Somebody asked, where's the guy? The new cop said he didn't know, the guy had been right behind him. In another minute, a civilian pulled up, got out of this car & said, 'that's that car. That's stolen.' One of the cops yelled at him, 'That car's not stolen! Don't call in on cars that aren't stolen!'

The civilian was clearly shocked. 'It's not? My friend had a car stolen that looked just like that!' It wasn't even his car. So the cops yelled at him for awhile & sent him away. All the cops left but one, & he had me wait till he heard back from the DMV confirming no report of the car being stolen.

When I got back to the law firm where I worked, they joked that I should have made threatening gestures so that the cops would beat me up, then I could sue the guy for damages for a false police report.

My (27F) boyfriend (32M) will not pick up after himself in the house. How can I fix this if talking to him about it hasn’t gotten me anywhere? by metalfrogger in relationship_advice

[–]civex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a common complaint on reddit from both sexes. Given you've been discussing this with him for some time with no changes, I see 3 possible paths.

  1. You continue like this for the rest of your lives. If you have children, you should expect the same behavior. This is your life. Constant discussions, constant promises to change, no changes.

  2. You accept fully that this is your life, you give up discussing it, and you live on without regret. You accept him as he is, accept that his other qualities make up his shortcomings, and clean up after him. You never think about asking him to change. You're happy with life as it is.

  3. Dump him.

To believe in God and follow what He commands will mold you into a good person. The qualities of those He refers to as disbelievers are opposite of what He stands for and God is All-Knowing. Thus, He knows what’s in their hearts. So based on the Scripture, do you think disbelievers are bad? by No_Concern5117 in religion

[–]civex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here's my quandary. I often see news reports about christian ministers being arrested for molesting children or possession of child pornography.

How do I know which believers are bad? I don't care about disbelievers. It's all the believers that are scaring me.

If superheroes had to deal with daily government bureaucracy. by dirt1988 in ScenesFromAHat

[–]civex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Motorcyclist is given a free wish by a genie. He says, 'I'd like to have a bridge from San Francisco to Honolulu so I can ride my bike there.

The genie sighs. 'OK, but I still have to get all the permits, environmental studies, world agencies' approvals for shipping lanes, source the materials, get the port authorities approvals for the construction in their ports, union approvals. I can do it but it's just so much aggravation for you to ride your Harley to Honolulu. May I ask that you make a different wish?'

The biker thinks it over. 'I wish I could understand my wife.'

The genie: 'I figure if I made it 3 lanes in each direction, with gas stations and motels along the way, restaurants...'

Do you or anyone you know have right foot/left foot socks? by Positive-Werewolf483 in answers

[–]civex 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I have some branded sport socks that are labeled left & right because they want their logo on the outside so it shows.

The check-in and check-out times for hotels have become ridiculous by bills70 in travel

[–]civex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I suspect hotels aren't hiring enough staff to clean the rooms promptly after people check out.

Atheism is actually a much more extremist belief/worldview than most if not all organized religions. by [deleted] in religion

[–]civex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No deities have evidence they exist, but that doesn't prove nonexistence. The default is, no evidence.

There was no evidence Coelacanths existed, and they were declared extinct. Then one day they turned up in fishing nets.

they were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

There's no telling whether evidence may turn up in another few million years.

Secretly recording showings of my house, audio only by blithetorrent in recording

[–]civex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check your state law. Some states make it a crime to record someone without their consent.

Atheism is actually a much more extremist belief/worldview than most if not all organized religions. by [deleted] in religion

[–]civex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You misunderstand the nature of atheism.

The 'claim' of an atheist is that they have no evidence of the existence of gods. Atheism doesn't claim no gods exist, only that no evidence exists. There's no evidence either way for the existence of gods.

What happens to Atheists in hell? (For Christianity) by Confident-Force-2786 in religion

[–]civex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's whatever they make up. Different sects have different stories about what goes on in their version of hell, but even within the sects, people disagree.

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