One of OSA's wanna-be cop cars was parked on McAllister (SF) yesterday afternoon. Some scrawny guy wearing the standard Org/OSA gear (minus the fake military bars & decorations), hanging around outside, walking up and down the block between the Org and Hastings Law School. Not a damn person visible inside or out... A rarity, since every single person I've ever seen at the McAllister Org smokes heavily. Hmmmm.....

Regarding the 'wanna-be cop cars': I've seen them outside the big Hollywood org, too, parked on the west side at the loading dock.

RULE OF THUMB: The OSA vehicles all seem to be identical: The 'Lard-Ass' model Chevrolet Caprice, the last model GM built before discontinuing the B-body frame about three years ago. Police jurisdictions hated them, since they weighed a ton, steered like a cow, and not even the souped-up 'Police Special' models stood a chance of catching any dingbat in a stock Acura. The 'Interceptor' police model Ford Crown Victoria is now the standard fare with REAL law enforcement.

All are white, with tinted back and side glass, what appear to be early-model Motorola two-way cellular radios (like a NexTel, only it takes up half the dashboard), wing-mounted spotlights, and --- heads up! --- emergency lights fore and aft.

The lights are, by law, amber-colored. If you wanna get jacked up by your local PD sometime, go ahead and put a red or blue emergency light in your front window. Only REAL emergency vehicles can display red or blue emergency lights, and OSA isn't quite stupid enough to use 'em. Long and short: if you're driving home from a picket and something that looks like a cop car flashes their lights at you, but they ain't red or blue, give 'em the finger and start looking for a real cop... better yet, a police station. If the OSA are dumb enough to still be behind you when you find either one, explain that there is a private vehicle (OSA doesn't even register the damn things commercially) which has been following you, signaling you with an emergency beacon. (You might also want to point out that the vehicle is (odds are) missing its front plates, a big no-no, at least in California.) If OSA tries to jabber about how they're 'private security', point out that they have no greater powers of arrest or detention than you do... The operative word is "PRIVATE". As in "private citizen." And, if you've broken a law which they want to detain you for, why have they not notified the police? Any attempts by OSA to glad-hand or bully the cops will probably not be successful: Most cops I've met have little patience with wanna-bes. Just in case, though, get on the phone and get friends to the scene, but quick. Even if nothing happens,having witnesses never hurts.

(And how was all this information gathered? YOU try walking through a suburban shopping mall with a mohawk & boots, like I did when I was younger.

I actually had a mall rent-a-cop chase me down in my car with his golf cart!

The City PD made him apologize for wasting my time... 8^) )

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