Hammer, willy, Randle....check this out

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by willy

You are right about that with a lot of kids, but I will tell you this, when I was growing up I had the same kind of parents like you, but when I was in Jr. High and High school friends of ours, brotheres and fathers of friends were going off to die on a regular basis in a foreign jungle, there was never before or since a generation who confronted authority like the people within a few years of me growing up. Students were rioting, holding sit ins things were just crazy.
But I believe as we got older we came to realize that a lot of what was happening we were wrong about, especially old hippies like me and Franco (not Ozzie he was WWII era).
Most young people as they get older and get some life experience change their opinions quite a bit, its life, its growing up. Unless you are a flaming liberal then you never quite get rid of the rose colored glasses.
The point I am making it is life experiences that shape you, just like what happened to Jason in his comments above. Yet I am sure Jason has also witnessed himself or at least heard of amazing things cops do everyday to help others, but that one circumstance gave him an initial response to this thread that was very negative.
That is why that officer in the video was so wrong, because he affected at least three young men for the rest of their lives.

So this is the comment ya got to feelin' guilty about and called me, huh??...ya old coot...yer gonna have to do better than this to get my knickers in a twist...LOL...but as always, it was good to hear from ya!!...

As far as good cops/bad cops...they're just like any other group of people...some good some bad...they're not cookie-cut, they're human beings just like the rest of us...we need to take an individual's actions on the merits of the individual alone and stop blaming all for the stupidity of a few...JMHO...

[willy]

I just called to hear your lovely voice and to remind you we are still here you old geezer

[nipper]

I hear ya, CY. My own kids talk to me in a way I NEVER WOULD HAVE DARED TO TALK TO MY DAD. Dad used corporal punishment in a fair manner, and only when necessary and appropriate. I have not done that with my kids at all out of fear that today's world would label me a child abuser rather than a good parent.

[nipper]

I agree with CY. Very well said, Willy. Now post some W.E.T., would ya! In all seriousness, Willy, the things you said show you to be a very wise man indeed.

[C YENSEN]

Originally Posted by nipper

I agree with CY. Very well said, Willy. Now post some W.E.T., would ya! In all seriousness, Willy, the things you said show you to be a very wise man indeed.

I have had the privelage of meeting willy, and you are right. One wise, sensible and respectful man. Glad we have the privelage of basking in his knowledge and fine taste in women on a day to day basis.


now take care and comb your hair