BKB, I want to understand what you're defining as probable cause. If I'm walking alone on High Street and some chick in a skanky outfit offers to blow me for $20, and I say "Yeah, right. Whatever" and keep on walking, can I be arrested a block later?
What if I say, sarcastically, "Sorry, I didn't get paid this week. All I have is a $5." and keep walking, do I get arrested then?
How about, "You're kind of hot for a cop"? Is that a one way ticket to county?
What exactly can you say? "Heavens no! Begone from me you filthy evil woman!" Should I then splash her with a vial of holy water blessed by Mayor Coleman and smack her on the head with a copy of the Ohio Revised Code? :tongue2:
In the hypothetical scenario earlier in this thread, was the probable cause the fact that the driver in the scenario slowed down the car and rolled down the window to talk to a woman who had signaled him? What if he were simply stopped at a light, windows down and perhaps t-tops or convertible top open, and she leaned in to talk to him uninvited? Would you still say that his response constituted probable cause?
I'm just curious. :) Years ago, when I was in high school, some buddies of mine thought it would be funny to stop and talk to a hooker (we were following in the car behind them). We couldn't hear the initial conversation, but at a point apparently they asked her where they could find some white girls (she was black), because all we heard was her cursing and swearing at them and going on about "f you and your f-ing white girls. There ain't no white girls around here". The whole time it was happening, I was telling the guys in my car "watch her turn out to be a cop". It was pretty funny, but I guess they could have all wound up in jail. Maybe we could have too, since we stopped.
