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Ordinal Malaprop
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Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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03-22-2007 15:46
From: Daisy Rimbaud Furthermore, some of them are legitimate role-playing groups who only interact with other role-players who are participating in the RP game. I dislike the blanket hostility expressed in this thread to anyone with a police-related group tag. It is born of long and tedious experience. If there is one rule I would say has held true universally for me, it is that anyone approaching you in a public area in SL dressed as a police officer with a "police" group tag is up to no good, and you will - at best - be in for a tedious series of stupid questions, and at worst be pushed or orbited or harassed in some way. See a "cop", sit on a cube. If people simply want to dress up as cops and hang around sandboxes, that is up to them of course as long as they don't engage in any of the above behaviour. It is simply that whenever actually approached, I find that harassment occurs.
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Colette Meiji
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Join date: 25 Mar 2005
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03-22-2007 18:45
Im all for lots of cops in SL, everywhere.
Gives me the ability to ignore cops whenever I want. In real life I cant do that.
Cop "Excuse me Miss, do you know how fast you were going?"
Me *steps on the gas and leaves the cop in a cloud of dust*
Would be like "Dukes of Hazard Online". We already have the jean shorts
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Brenda Connolly
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03-22-2007 19:04
From: Colette Meiji Im all for lots of cops in SL, everywhere.
Gives me the ability to ignore cops whenever I want. In real life I cant do that.
Cop "Excuse me Miss, do you know how fast you were going?"
Me *steps on the gas and leaves the cop in a cloud of dust*
Would be like "Dukes of Hazard Online". We already have the jean shorts "I'm Linden Walsh. On Tonight's 'SL's Most Wanted: (Colette's pic apperas on screen). This woman has made Second Life a dangerous place with her total disregard for the Law.She has also subjected the Forums to unwated intelligence and level headedness.If you have seen her,call the number on your screen immediately."
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Colette Meiji
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Join date: 25 Mar 2005
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03-22-2007 19:15
From: Brenda Connolly "I'm Linden Walsh. On Tonight's 'SL's Most Wanted: (Colette's pic apperas on screen).
This woman has made Second Life a dangerous place with her total disregard for the Law.She has also subjected the Forums to unwated intelligence and level headedness.If you have seen her,call the number on your screen immediately." Thats unfair I didnt do any of those things! I want my lawyer! |
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Morwen Bunin
Everybody needs a hero!
Join date: 8 Dec 2005
Posts: 1,743
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03-22-2007 22:09
From: Colette Meiji
I want my lawyer!
Well Miss Meiji... I am willing to defend you in this lawsuit that was dropped on you... It is indeed very unfair. But could you please first transfer 10.000 L$ to my account.... |
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Colette Meiji
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Join date: 25 Mar 2005
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03-23-2007 10:03
From: Morwen Bunin Well Miss Meiji... I am willing to defend you in this lawsuit that was dropped on you... It is indeed very unfair. But could you please first transfer 10.000 L$ to my account.... eeeps fake cops werent bad enough! |
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Kalel Venkman
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Join date: 10 Mar 2006
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It's gotta be the uniforms..
03-23-2007 12:47
Security guards in general are probably the most insecure people I know. Why else would they have to dress up in a uniform complete with whistle, walkie-talkie, flashlight and sidearm so they can get up enough nerve to tell you where to park your car?
Personally, I find the surge in faux police groups disturbing. Most claim to protect all of SL while having no actual jurisdiction, or any backing from the communities within SL they claim to "serve". I call these groups instant militia: "We are bad, we are tough, we protect everyone and may the deity of your choice protect you if you get in our way." Which is pretty much the same sort of mind set that the griefer groups have, except that the griefer groups, if anything, are more straightforward about it.
Some of them mean well, and actually do a pretty good job, but in every case where the group is effective and useful, it is because they have not given themselves the requisite authority - instead, they have drawn their authority from another source, and are at the service of that source.
In Second Life, the only real law is the Terms of Service, the final arbiters of which are the Linden Labs in-world liaisons - and to some extent, the estate managers and lesser landowners, in that order. Anyone who claims jurisdiction without drawing their authority directly from one or more of these sources is lying, or delusional, or both.
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