Whippersnapper: Who-did-what aside, this illustrates that if you mouth off to a cop, you will be detained, arrested and later released, often without charges, and there's no recourse for the inconvenience of the individual or a way to let the cop know it was a mistake. If you challenge a police officer, you can be arrested (sometimes just to teach you a lesson) and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. And cops know it. It's their trump card for people who are belligerent. Disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest become catch-all charges. That doesn't mean the cop is always wrong. There are a lot of yahoos that cops have to deal with and they need the right to arrest and protection from frivolous prosecution. But some cops are pretty thin-skinned.

Question: Have you had a close encounter with a thin-skinned cop? Tells us about it.