• Youth curfew laws in the united states
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;30136131]Well if you're over 18 and they pull that shit you now have the ability to lay the legal smackdown on them.[/QUOTE] Lots of people cower in fear of police, I personally don't. To many cops go on major power trips though and people seem to think cops are above them rather than cops being in place for people.
It isn't like they approach you, slap cuffs on you, and then bring you into custody. [I]Most[/I] cops ask questions before they even consider bringing you in. It's like driving around with expired plates. You can still drive around, just don't do anything stupid and you don't give cops any reason to run your license plates.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;30136140]Lots of people cower in fear of police, I personally don't. To many cops go on major power trips though and people seem to think cops are above them rather than cops being in place for people.[/QUOTE] I'm comforted by the thought that while cops have more immediate power over me, after the fact there is an entire profession of people dedicated to helping me seek restitution for any instance where a cop uses that power wrongly.
Land of the not-so-free
Reminds me of how terrified I'd get walking home at 2AM during Summers and weekends a few years ago. Actually, the only bad thing that happened was almost running into the parents of a friend I was with at Wal-Mart at 1:30 in the morning. As to why they were there, I'll never know.
I feel like I'm due to update this thread, because I've got a little bit of information about my experience that I'd like to share. I showed up at city council last week to deliver a speech on the ineffectiveness and unconstitutionality of curfews and it took the council members by surprise. They didn't really expect anyone to show up out of the blue with a problem pertaining to the ordinance. I doubt one kid giving a speech at a city council meeting really strikes fear into the minds of the council members so I'm currently in the works of planning a march and a protest in and around city hall. Hopefully I'll get a turnout of around fifty people, old or young, and see if I can convey my point to the local government. I'll post some pictures after the protest is done and over with.
Doesn't matter to me, I love being over 18.
[QUOTE='[sluggo];31819593']Doesn't matter to me, I love being over 18.[/QUOTE] INACTION IS CONSPIRACY
Hah, This reminds of something. A long time ago ( about a year and a half ago) I remember i got stopped by a cop when my friends and i were walking to the store out of bordem, and he just fucking goes ballistic and starts cursing whenever he could fit a curse word in. I don't even know what the fuck we did, except being out late..
This thread again...
I get to wake up at 4 each morning to go to work, so when kids are screaming outside at 12 at night I want to commit murder.
Lol USA
They're enacted to reduce things that are actually problems. Unless you get a dick cop you'll be fine. Around my grandparents' house is a mall in which there was a lot of gang meetings. A curfew was enacted and enforced and the gang activity dispersed in the mall (yeah it probably went elsewhere but the point was to keep the citizens away from the gang members, not to destroy the gangs).
I counted they wrote the word 'minor' 15 times in the OP law text
I got stopped for curfew with friends while we were out walking down the street at 3am to take the air. What a hassle. Curfews are bullshit and should be parent-dictated.
[QUOTE='[sluggo];31819593']Doesn't matter to me, I love being over 18.[/QUOTE] 'It doesn't affect me so I don't care' is not a good attitude.
I'm 18 but when I was 17 I'd stay out till 3 in the morning. All the cops really do is warn you and say to get home. I never even got caught though. I live in Georgia, but maybe other states are more strict.
Let's all go out and protest this infraction on our right to stay out late at night, even though we always do and cops don't really give a shit about it. I mean seriously, this is like our right to privacy, we forfeited it the moment we filled out our census and hardly care about it.
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;27118154]When you turn 18 you'll see how silly this thread is.[/QUOTE] 41 10-17 year olds. 22 18 year olds.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;27118150]Instead of fighting it why don't you shut up and obey your laws It's more likely so you don't get raped at 3 in the morning[/QUOTE] Yeah, because people are going to rape 15 year olds outside a shopping mall or movie theater.
Our town has a curfew at 11 pm every night. We don't follow it of course, there was one point where we were walking down main street ( past the station and the court house) around 4 in the morning and a cop passes by. Didn't even bother to stop :v:
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