On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:00:22 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I get scolded for snapping at an alarm company salesman.

I snap at telemarketers all the time, and get scolded, but there's a
big difference between a scolding and an arrest. :-)

I've had to excercise a lot of self restraint with the airport
security folks at times. That's probably about the closest thing to a
police state that I ever hope to encounter.