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SkyTripper

When it comes to smokin bud or partyin in public places in general.....a good rule to remember is NEVER get used to going to the same old place too often.
Stay mobile!
Have several different "off-the-beaten trail" spots to do these activities as FAR away from people as possible!
And NEVER plan on stickin around too long at any one of them!

Reminds me of an ancient tune......
Goin mobile.....watch the police and the taxman miss me....I'm mobile!
(The Who)

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John Ashcroft

I agree with this statement 100%. But I would like to make it clear that when I was a security guard I was the get high at work type and not the wanna' be cop type.
Also being a former truck driver having to deal with security guards on a daily basis I know that security people in general are way bigger a$$holes than cops. I have never had any problems with cops but I have had a lot of attitude from security guards (excuse me "security officers") with a god complex. But at least with a security guard you can tell them off with little repercussions; can't say the same for an on duty cop.

Niteshift

The joke about security guards is their "authority" consists of "Halt......or I'll say halt again".

Don't get me wrong, there are some good guys out there in the security industry and some are real pros.

I'll share a story with you about one that was particularly troublesome to me. He worked a job in my area where a lot of teens hung out. He was more than a little on the authoritarian side. One day, while I was present, he started ripping some kid a new one and really trying the whole bad ass routine. Finally I reached over, lifted his badge just a little and said "Funny, yours doesn't feel any heavier than mine".

(Explaination, we call guys with the authoritarian bad ass complex "badge heavy")

The end result: A few months later he was at a 7-11 (not assigned there) and tried to enforce a county ordinance (which he had no authority to do). He tried to make a kid dump a beer out. when the kid gave him lip, he sprayed the kid, cuffed him and sprayed him again while cuffed.

When I got there, he threw the kid on my hood before I could even get out of the car. By the end of the night, the guard was in jail and the kid he sprayed.........his dad was a lawyer.....you can guess the rest.

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Yana Usdi

Nightshift is right in that you can't tell just by the fact they are a security guard. There's good and bad ones.

When I was in my late teens or early 20's I applied for a job as a security guard once, they gave me a 20 question test that made it real clear you aren't a cop, the job is to observe and report. I ended up not taking the job partly because they made such a big deal out of the fact that nobody had ever answered all 20 questions right the first time without retaking it having or past experience, but they'd just *showed* me the answers and didn't take them when I took the test. Didn't seem like a real brain trust with that, so I looked elsewhere for a job. Ended up in construction, the right choice at the time I think.

One reason I had been more friendly toward security guards up till then was a retired marine that worked security at a strip mall about a quarter mile from where I grew up. This was back in the late 70's and things were a little more relaxed. My friends and I would party and drink now and then by the fence near the back of the place, he never hassled us and asked us to just stay out of sight behind the fence so we'd be off the property and not his problem. In return if he had a car full of hell raisers that spooked him to walk up on alone all he had to do was ask us and we'd take the walk with him. It was our place too, we'd look after it. He helped make it that way.

It all depends on who is on the job.

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