But at the same time, I can understand why some people hate them.
I was over at a friend's house in Westerville earlier working on my project in his garage. Around 10:45, as we start to drag the axle back underneath it a cop rolls up, stops in front of the driveway and gets out. We're all like wtf? He comes up and says someone called in a complaint about loud music, and asks if we were playing music loud.
Now, the garage has no stereo in it, and the only vehicles parked outside with stereo's were all locked with the windows closed. I had rolled out to DQ with Rick in Marc's El Camino, which is rather loud, but it's not exactly music, and he wasn't exactly revving it, he was just giving it enough gas to get through the neighborhood.
So, we were all nice to the cop since we weren't doing anything wrong. He gives us some shit about having our worklight out, and a bit of the light was shining out of the garage into the neighborhood, so he had us move it so that it wasn't shining on anyone's house.
I feel bad that cops have to respond to BS like that, he came from the other end of the street, and since he made it to where I was at he obviously did not find the cause of the complaint. My friend has had cops called on him for BS in the past, like leaving his trailer parked on the street even though it was sitting legally. I can also see how people dislike cops. My friend claims to have looked up the Westerville law on lights at night, and said that pretty much if you can see a light source from your property, it is illegal, so about half the houses on his street are breaking the law. Yet we get hassled because the cop feels the need to bitch at someone since he didn't find a legit reason for the complaint, and assumes that we had something to do with it.
I blame shitty neighbors though. Mind your own fucking business, if we want to be working in a garage after dark, it's not your damn problem.