Pestering Police & Hovering Helicopters .... I feel so safe!
De day ah went tuh pick up meh car (from de fix it shop) ....... ah get stop in a road block ...... YES ...... lil ole me!!! 
Ah had chain up a friend ...... tuh go wit meh (fuh de car) ....... so comin back home ..... it was he drivin one car ..... and me drivin my car ........
It was about 2:30 in de afternoon ...... and de drive was goin real cool ...... not setta traffic or nuttin ...... until ...... BAM ..... as we pass de traffic lights in Westmoorings ...... traffic???
It was kinda weird (de traffic dat is) ..... but I eh really study it ...... I say is accident or sumtin ...... fren was about 2 cars ahead of me ...... but I couldn't see him ...... however ..... ah coulda see real Police ..... real clear ....... well ah couldn't believe it ...... ROAD BLOCK ....... in WESTMOORINGS!!?? ..... so anyway ..... still in a lil semi-shock ...... at a road block in Westmoorings ..... there I was ..... crawlin along in my bafflement ..... not really diggin no fig ...... cuz I know is only bandit dem Police does be lookin for in road block ...... when screech ..... pull up ..... Mr. Police Man stop meh! ...... he make meh roll down meh window ...... and he babble out de usual garbage ...... bout how dey conducting a routine road block blah, blah, blah ..... and den he tell meh ...... tuh swing tuh de left ..... and get out meh licence and insurance ......
So ah swing tuh left now (as instructed) ..... and one big ass monster of ah Police (lookin like ah Tactical) ..... come up tuh de car ..... and rattle off de same exact story (like dey does learn dat in Police Academy!) ..... and den ask fuh de licence and insurance ......
Now I really doh know what it is dem Police does be tryin tuh find ....... cuz de man tell meh .... tuh roll down all de windows ..... den he proceeded tuh look all inside de car ...... tru de back window only (so why did he make me roll down ALL?!) ..... den he went back tuh inspectin de driver's permit and insurance (like how long does dat take?!) ..... and go ask me ...... if de address on de permit ..... is my current address ..... Grrrrrr ..... what dat had tuh do wit anything ..... like de man wanted tuh come an check meh!! ..... it was almost as if he was jus makin up questions tuh ask tuh sound official or sumtin ..... anyway ...... same time now .... my cell phone ring ...... it was fren ...... who reach by me ...... and callin tuh find out where I is ...... if ah get stick in de road block ...... cuz he know dat I was right behind him!
So I now ...... start tuh get kix wit him on de phone ..... tellin him ..... yeah bwoy ...... dem Police jam meh ..... ah get pull aside in de road block ...... well who tell me say dat!!! ...... de Police jump eeen de conversation ..... and say ....... 'Miss, doh tell nobody it have ah road block!!!' ...... well I wanted tuh buss out laughin ..... cuz duh ..... da'is exactly what yuh does do in a road block in Trini ...... call up EVERYBODY else ..... and tell dem it have road block ...... STAY AWAY .... CHANGE YUH ROUTE! ......
Now mind you ....... fren whole kix .... was dat dey stop ME ...... and dey let HIM go ...... ah rasta man ...... driving ah 'supposedly high end premium gas only' car!! ...... cuz yuh know how de ting does go in Trini ..... it jus have certain stereotypes ...... dat does always get de shitty end of de stick! ..... but yeah ..... dat confused me too!! ..... I muzbe does look real sinister or sumtin ...... cuz I always gettin stop in road blocks ..... ah even get pull aside a couple times abroad too (in de airport) ..... I doh know what it is ..... but ah muzbe does really look like ah bandit!
Anyway ..... after assessing ..... that I was in fact ..... no bandit ....... and just a regular law abiding citizen ..... de Police gimmeh back meh documents ...... and sen meh on meh way ...... even allowing meh an illegal turn ...... cuz is de next direction I had tuh head back eeeen ......
Now it may be my imagination eh ...... but I'm beginnin tuh tink ...... dat someting ...... is going orn in WESTMOORINGS ...... cuz today now ...... bout 20 minutes ago ...... I was sitting in my living room ...... readin papers ..... when I was suddenly disturbed by the sound of a helicopter ...... and tho ..... the sound of a helicopter is ah kinda normal scene these days ..... this sound was ah lil different ...... cuz it went orn fuh about 15 blasted minutes ...... yep ...... as a matter of fact ...... it still hoverin ..... and when I say hovering ....... I mean literally ....... it not moving ..... it just in de sky ....... above WESTMOORINGS ...... fuh de longest while ....... and sometimes it even looking like it goin backwards ....... what dey lookin for ...... or at ...... I doh know ....... but it so damn noisy ..... and annoying ....... you want tuh tell me ...... dat ah big Sunday afternoon ..... is de bess time dem coulda find tuh ...... hover over people house tuh maco??!!!
Anyway ...... like dey gorn (fuh de hour) ...... but ah feel it have more tuh come .... cuz ah still kinda hearin dem in de distance ....... Geeeeez ....... if it eh Police pesterin ..... or de Blimp buzzin ...... is ah blimpin helicopter hoverin!!!
I feel so safe now ...... on this nice and sunny .... previously silent Sunday!!!
Ah had chain up a friend ...... tuh go wit meh (fuh de car) ....... so comin back home ..... it was he drivin one car ..... and me drivin my car ........
It was about 2:30 in de afternoon ...... and de drive was goin real cool ...... not setta traffic or nuttin ...... until ...... BAM ..... as we pass de traffic lights in Westmoorings ...... traffic???
It was kinda weird (de traffic dat is) ..... but I eh really study it ...... I say is accident or sumtin ...... fren was about 2 cars ahead of me ...... but I couldn't see him ...... however ..... ah coulda see real Police ..... real clear ....... well ah couldn't believe it ...... ROAD BLOCK ....... in WESTMOORINGS!!?? ..... so anyway ..... still in a lil semi-shock ...... at a road block in Westmoorings ..... there I was ..... crawlin along in my bafflement ..... not really diggin no fig ...... cuz I know is only bandit dem Police does be lookin for in road block ...... when screech ..... pull up ..... Mr. Police Man stop meh! ...... he make meh roll down meh window ...... and he babble out de usual garbage ...... bout how dey conducting a routine road block blah, blah, blah ..... and den he tell meh ...... tuh swing tuh de left ..... and get out meh licence and insurance ......
So ah swing tuh left now (as instructed) ..... and one big ass monster of ah Police (lookin like ah Tactical) ..... come up tuh de car ..... and rattle off de same exact story (like dey does learn dat in Police Academy!) ..... and den ask fuh de licence and insurance ......
Now I really doh know what it is dem Police does be tryin tuh find ....... cuz de man tell meh .... tuh roll down all de windows ..... den he proceeded tuh look all inside de car ...... tru de back window only (so why did he make me roll down ALL?!) ..... den he went back tuh inspectin de driver's permit and insurance (like how long does dat take?!) ..... and go ask me ...... if de address on de permit ..... is my current address ..... Grrrrrr ..... what dat had tuh do wit anything ..... like de man wanted tuh come an check meh!! ..... it was almost as if he was jus makin up questions tuh ask tuh sound official or sumtin ..... anyway ...... same time now .... my cell phone ring ...... it was fren ...... who reach by me ...... and callin tuh find out where I is ...... if ah get stick in de road block ...... cuz he know dat I was right behind him!
So I now ...... start tuh get kix wit him on de phone ..... tellin him ..... yeah bwoy ...... dem Police jam meh ..... ah get pull aside in de road block ...... well who tell me say dat!!! ...... de Police jump eeen de conversation ..... and say ....... 'Miss, doh tell nobody it have ah road block!!!' ...... well I wanted tuh buss out laughin ..... cuz duh ..... da'is exactly what yuh does do in a road block in Trini ...... call up EVERYBODY else ..... and tell dem it have road block ...... STAY AWAY .... CHANGE YUH ROUTE! ......
Now mind you ....... fren whole kix .... was dat dey stop ME ...... and dey let HIM go ...... ah rasta man ...... driving ah 'supposedly high end premium gas only' car!! ...... cuz yuh know how de ting does go in Trini ..... it jus have certain stereotypes ...... dat does always get de shitty end of de stick! ..... but yeah ..... dat confused me too!! ..... I muzbe does look real sinister or sumtin ...... cuz I always gettin stop in road blocks ..... ah even get pull aside a couple times abroad too (in de airport) ..... I doh know what it is ..... but ah muzbe does really look like ah bandit!
Anyway ..... after assessing ..... that I was in fact ..... no bandit ....... and just a regular law abiding citizen ..... de Police gimmeh back meh documents ...... and sen meh on meh way ...... even allowing meh an illegal turn ...... cuz is de next direction I had tuh head back eeeen ......
Now it may be my imagination eh ...... but I'm beginnin tuh tink ...... dat someting ...... is going orn in WESTMOORINGS ...... cuz today now ...... bout 20 minutes ago ...... I was sitting in my living room ...... readin papers ..... when I was suddenly disturbed by the sound of a helicopter ...... and tho ..... the sound of a helicopter is ah kinda normal scene these days ..... this sound was ah lil different ...... cuz it went orn fuh about 15 blasted minutes ...... yep ...... as a matter of fact ...... it still hoverin ..... and when I say hovering ....... I mean literally ....... it not moving ..... it just in de sky ....... above WESTMOORINGS ...... fuh de longest while ....... and sometimes it even looking like it goin backwards ....... what dey lookin for ...... or at ...... I doh know ....... but it so damn noisy ..... and annoying ....... you want tuh tell me ...... dat ah big Sunday afternoon ..... is de bess time dem coulda find tuh ...... hover over people house tuh maco??!!!
Anyway ...... like dey gorn (fuh de hour) ...... but ah feel it have more tuh come .... cuz ah still kinda hearin dem in de distance ....... Geeeeez ....... if it eh Police pesterin ..... or de Blimp buzzin ...... is ah blimpin helicopter hoverin!!!
I feel so safe now ...... on this nice and sunny .... previously silent Sunday!!!
Westmoorings? Ah remembering now de question ah woman in Laventille was asking as to why de police doh lock dong Westmoornings de time dey lock dong Laventille and was looking fuh de fella who tief de police gun after de police car crash dat time. Let we know if ah police car crash in Westmoorings and a fella tief one ah de police gun.
Anyway lil excitement good on ah Sunday afternoon tuh help dat stew chicken and callaloo and macaroni pie digest good. Steups now ah gorn and want stew chicken and callaloo and macaroni pie fuh mihself oui.
I eh go lie nah I like tuh watch de TTPS in action and ting even when dey just grandcharging and wasting people time wid dey roadblocks.
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..... yes ah remember dat scene ...... buh you know how long I eh eat ah good ...... stew chicken an' macaroni pie an' callaloo ...... talk about real Trini Sunday lunch!!! .....
*sigh* ..... yuh have meh cravin it now!
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I had the experience a couple of week ago in South trinidad where vehicles that clearly shoulndt be n the road were allowed to go str8 thru the 'Routing' roadblock...
when I remarked about a vehicle passing thru with heavily tinted windows the officer tried to make a point by asking the driver to lower the rear windows to hav a peek...
if they really had Routine Roadblock we would be accustomed to this... it clearly isn't Routine but I welcome it becoming Routine... we done cross 500 murders and if it means me getting stuck in a roadblock that actually nabs some criminals its fine by me...
and y u wanna profile d Rasta-lookin ppl...
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I doh mind de road blocks either ...... is just dat sometimes .... yuh does really wonder ...... how dey does decide who tuh pull over ......
...... and how effective are road blocks anyway ..... cuz you feel dem bandit and dem ...... doh know when and where it have ah road block ..... dey does have dey ears and eyes tuh de street ...... dem does be de first tuh find out it have road block ...... and change dey route ......
.... an' I eh de one profilin rastas breds .....
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I think (hope) the Police getting smart. Normally they would have roadblocks during the slack traffic periods but on Friday evening between 3:00pm and maybe 5:00 pm there was a roadblock on the North bound lane on the Uriah. The chupid thing is that they pulled aside a man in Rasta hairstyle who was obviously no criminal but old habits and policemen die hard. If all they were doing is looking for easy targets like no permit and insurance then that was a waste of scarce police manpower and people's time. Sometimes the police behave like the man who was looking before the coin under the streetlight because that was where the light was though the coin fell in the bush 20 feet away. I hope these roadblocks are not just PR campaigns.
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tuh me ..... road blocks only make sense ..... at times when yuh least expect one (like dat 2:30 pm time) ..... and in locations where there's NO ESCAPE ...... so dah Westmoorings scene ...... please ..... look at how much side street it have in Westmoorings tuh 'escape' ....... you know how many people woulda turn around!!! ......
I still say ....... dat we (de public) need to see the road blocks stats ...... like how effective are they really ...... like who dey does really ketch ...... cuz if is not de big bandits ..... like murderers and kidnappers and car thieves etc ...... and is only ah setta small timers .... wit dark tint ..... and european number plates ..... and not wearin yuh seat belt ...... and no licence ...... and no insurance ...... and ah lil small weed ...... and no inspection sticker ....... if is ting like dat ...... den yeah ...... waste of already scarce resources ....... and is not dat ah condonin small crimes .... cuz crime is crime ..... but 500 murders fuh de year ...... ENUFF!!!! ...... de Police need tuh re-focus de energies ..... and go look fuh real bandits (cuz dey do know who and where they are) ..... and stop harassin law abiding citizens (like me) ...... all in de name of PR (as you say) ..... cuz everybody know ..... dat part of de reason fuh all dem road blocks ..... is jus tuh create de illusion dat crime being dealt with ......
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