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Bizarre... nice cops you have there. Surprised they didn't shoot you.

Not sure if any readers are on the Oregon coast, but I was sitting around a
campfire not too long ago with a bunch of middle-aged men of various
backgrounds (including a cop and a Coast Guard officer.)

My mom had been arrested and detained for having a previously-opened bottle
of Nyquil in her truck and I mentioned how uptight she said the police had
been. One guy at the fire laughs and says "I was arrested by the Astoria
police once...they thought I was some other guy." Another person from
Astoria piped up and said the same thing--that the Astoria police had
arrested him as a teenager thinking he was somebody else, and then the Coast
Guard officer said he'd been pepper sprayed for intervening when the Astoria
police were harrassing some kid in his yard. It turns out 100% of the
people I know from Astoria have been arrested including a Coast Guard
officer and a retired police officer.

Just an FYI, if you ever visit the northern Oregon coast between Tillamook
and Astoria.

-c