AB Farmer Beaten by RCMP

[blackpowder]

35 ish years ago, I outran the cops in my old vette. They caught me, cuffed me, lectured me, and I went to bed in my own house. No bruises, just a ticket. And I never did that again.
20 years ago I blew yellow and they drove my truck home for me.
3 years ago I'm nearly tasered for pulling a header down a highway and not stopping immediately.
Last winter helper got a $500 ticket for not strapping the load in his pickup truck, 2 miles down a gravel road, 730 at night. And he never lipped.
Times have absolutely changed.
If the guy coming to your door is under 45, keep your hands on the wheel where he can see them and DON'T move.
Shutting the hell up and following orders however has always been.

[blackpowder]

People hate photo radar because it's indiscriminate with no grey. Likely very cost effective tho and you learn to slow down in known radar areas
But. I think policing has also become about the money. Justify our budgets, hire more.
And the us and them culture.....
Now they don't understand that they too are civilians and only soldiers are not.
Tough job but they're becoming trained attack dogs.
Let's not forget High River either.

[GDR]

This was in my neck of the woods. I know the family, not well but enough to recognize on the street. Nice people but definitely walk to a different tune. Was a number of posts on Facebook the day it happened by others that were stopped in the line up. Not one of them was critical of the police action, said the tractor was impatient and driver was uncooperative. I have no sympathy for this fellow from what I've heard about the incident. I really doubt there was booze involved more just poor attitude.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks for chiming in GDR, I was hoping you might have some local insight. As always there was more to the story. I know nothing more about this than what has been posted here and FB(my wife brought this to my attention a few days ago), so I won't pass judgement on either party.
However one comment I saw on FB made a claim about the family barely able to put food on the table. Fendt tractors and poverty aren't typically synonymous are they?

One other observation. I read somewhere on here that this occurred at 9:00 PM. Perhaps Didsbury gets drastically different weather than I get an hour and change NW of there, but there isn't much panic to start baling hay at 9:00 PM, typically far too much dew already.

Would be interesting to know about the claims of tractor damage. Do they just assume that because it says do not tow, that it is wrecked, or were there actual consequences. I assume it is like almost any tractor built in the last half century or more that is pressure lubed( or in this case, partially hydrostatic), if you tow it FAR, bad things happen. Tow it a few feet(such as onto a truck), and nothing happens.

As for police, perhaps I am in the minority, but I have had overwhelmingly positive experiences with police of all levels, regardless of which side of the law I have been on. It seems respect and humility go a long way with most.

An example. A couple of springs ago, I was driving back to the field to fix the sprayer on a long weekend evening, met two RCMP cars on a gravel road, I was so surprised that I almost set my phone down, and considered putting my seat belt on, but carried on. They followed, and stopped me a mile later, asked where I was off to. I showed them the O-ring still in my hand and stated I was off to fix the weed sprayer. They asked for license and registration. I don't carry my wallet around the farm so had no license. I offered a couple of different well expired pink cards. They concluded that they had already held me up too long, apologised for wasting too much of my time, and parted ways.

I could give at least half a dozen similar examples just like that. Including once where they contemplated impounding my tractor for highly unorthodox use.

[6V53]

Hey Chuck I see you called in your communist buddy's to take over this website. **** you ,you rotten piece of shit.

PS. LOL you ****ing communist POS!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Hey Chuck I see you called in your communist buddy's to take over this website. **** you ,you rotten piece of shit.

PS. LOL you ****ing communist POS!

Now, don't hold back, go ahead and tell us how you really feel.

[burnt]

*cop taps on window* Do you know why I pulled you over?

*driver* Because you got C's in highschool?

LOL!

That is funny as heck, but not likely something that would I would say in that circumstance.

[burnt]

35 ish years ago, I outran the cops in my old vette. They caught me, cuffed me, lectured me, and I went to bed in my own house. No bruises, just a ticket. And I never did that again.
20 years ago I blew yellow and they drove my truck home for me.
3 years ago I'm nearly tasered for pulling a header down a highway and not stopping immediately.
Last winter helper got a $500 ticket for not strapping the load in his pickup truck, 2 miles down a gravel road, 730 at night. And he never lipped.
Times have absolutely changed.
If the guy coming to your door is under 45, keep your hands on the wheel where he can see them and DON'T move.
Shutting the hell up and following orders however has always been.

There are those who think they exceptional. And become martyrs for their cause.

[sumdumguy]

A little diversion: During harvest last year, a friend ran a part out from the city. Photo radar on outskirts construction zone but the construction takes place way back with a fence between. Anyway the ticket was $1000 , yep three zeroes. Now the zone was unoccupied when he looked, crew gone home so he pinned her.
So ticket comes in mail. So of course not guilty plea. Oh, you say that’s BS? Well not so. There were at least 4 errors on the ticket.

[GALAXIE500]

Guy who makes an honest mistake gets dragged out of his vehicle and slammed on the ground forceably arrested and dragged away by cops.

Guy who hacked a doctor to death is allowed to surrender in a parking lot after attacking the police now in an Edmonton court room claiming amnesia and some mystery illness.

That guy should have been shot on sight . DONE !

[blackpowder]

Not sure what you mean by that.
But I don't blame the police entirely when I think of how their job has changed.
The street drugs over the last 20 years have gotten fairly evil.

[foragefarmer]

My wife was stopped on the highway a couple of months ago by a RCMP officer for having a license plate that had all the letters and numbers pealing off, (production defect and a procrastinating husband who didn't change it).

The officer was very polite when telling her why he pulled her over, introduced himself as the new office in our area, was under the age of 30, was of East Indian decent, and told her to get new license plate from MPI.

Bottom line no ticket and my wife chewed my ass off when I came into the house that night.

Way to much drama on Agriville as usual, and large brush strokes regarding the RCMP.