However, when a woman who had been arrested inside the club and handcuffed began yelling that she had been hit in the head with abillyclub, only to be abusively tossed into a police wagon, the crowd turned angry.
"The guy has a gun, badge, Billyclub and a ticket book, so be nice to him, " advises Alex Carrol, author of the book Beat the Cops, which offers tips on getting out of tickets.
It even inserted itself as a moral authority: remember club chairman Billy Payne scolding a scandalized Tiger Woods for failing to "live up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children"?