Caught on Tape: AngryCop vs. Hat

Legend has it that Vlad the Impaler (yes, that guy) was once mildly offended when some visiting Turks refused to take off their turbans in his presence, so he had the turbans nailed to their skulls. History is full of things modern judges could learn from.
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Sometimes it -is- an error to totally dismiss the old ways.
Like no city gates.
How is one supposed to denounce his teenager and have him/her stoned at the city gates anymore?
 
If you watch the youtube video to the end, there is a picture of a cop with a skullcap type hat walking around in the same courtroom later. He doesn't get asked to remove the hat and he doesn't get arrested. So apparently only some people can't wear hats in the courtroom.

I also noticed that the judge wasn't present and the court wasn't in session at the time the deputy accosted the spectator.

The judge normally doesn't come into court until all the trash has been removed from his courtroom. So nothing out of the ordinary here.
 
Nice staged video. Regardless, it isn't up to the arresting officer who's guilty or not. The subject will find justice in court one way or another.
 
I recall a philosophical discussion back in junior high. Men took their hats off inside; women did not.

Remember this was born from very old-school sensibilities where men wore hats when they went outside; ergo, to keep it on while visiting someone was rude -- you were getting in-their-face about not staying.


So: If a chick wore a baseball cap inside, as was starting to happen, should she take it off? Or for the national anthem, for that matter?

In general, the consensus was yes, she should, since she's not doing it for high fashion (think: Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady) so much as doing it to cover her hair or something. Or just "being one of the boys".



Conversely, modern young men who wear baseball caps, especially upside-down, backwards, and turned partly to the side, could definitely qualify as attempting fashion. Still, the male hat is the male hat, and the standard social etiquette requires removal when going indoors. Male hats-as-fashion were around all through the period of "removing your hat" through the ages.

Men stopped wearing hats with the coming of personal cars. No room for a hat in 'em. My dad's uncle, who lived to the mid 1980s, and never owned a car, lived in Detroit and wore hats when going out until his death. He'd wear the hat in the car when we picked him up for holidays. Of course, in the car is part of "going out". And he wasn't the tallest guy, about 5'8", so it fit.



As for this video, though I dislike even mild violence, I feel a cathartic joy at a brat getting arrested. Because this is the first generation of young people who disrespect their elders, and they need to be taught a lesson. Get erfin' my lawn! :mad:
 
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I've seen this sort of thing for anyone wearing a head-covering in court. Cops respond to a hat in court like they'd just been stung.
 

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