Quote Originally Posted by Yossarian View Post
It's not a matter of understanding, just agreement. I saw a waiter drop food and put it back on the plate and serve it to people. I've heard about waiters putting unsavory things in food to get back at customers (don't ask what's in the cream of mushroom soup). But I am still capable of giving each waiter I work with the benefit of the doubt, am not traumatized to the point of neurosis by the sight of them, and don't run around like chicken little saying everyone should video record every interaction with a waiter to be sure they don't **** up your order and make equivocal statements that maybe just maybe there could be a decent person who works as a waiter somewhere. You really need to seek help.
Waiters can't arrest you, haul you in to jail, shoot you and kill you and possibly get away with it. Waiters tend not to carry guns (at least in the workplace) are constantly and continuously vulnerable to any perception or issue a guest has, whether it's true or not. Dealing with a cop, the cop is in charge and expects to be in charge of the situation - a waiter truly is at the public's mercy. You can complain about your waiter to a manager and get the waiter in trouble - a cop is going to be shielded from public complaints more often than not. There are huge differences between dealing with a waiter and a cop, seriously.

Though to be fair, litigation when a cop goes too far will tend to yield you much more money and publicity then litigating against a waiter or a restaurant chain. So there's one plus.

About needing help.....As I keep saying, I'm not the only one out there who thinks this way. Perhaps in your life my beliefs are out there - where I live it's pretty much expected that you think this way - the police have a reputation of corruption and illegal behavior that precedes them to this level of distrust from those they "protect and serve" - sarcasm very much intended.

I find it amazing that some of the posters here seem to be fine accepting brutally illegal behavior on the part of the police but when someone like myself sees it completely differently after seeing first hand what the police are capable of - I'm the one who's wrong, or off, or my beliefs are not valid. Pretty scary stuff in a time when officers are even starting to be arrested and charged for going too far - yet the tendency to believe the police are right continues.....I'm glad I don't think that way is all I can say. Seeing the police brutally and illegally attack my neighbors ruined the ability to ever trust the police for life. This to me seems very logical given what I have seen and experienced. I'm only responding to the reality of police misbehavior that I have witnessed. To let it go would be to condone it, and no way am I going to live with that. I care about people far too much to ever condone brutal and illegal police behavior. Rob