It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
MysterX
reply to post by maintainright
Saw that earlier today as it goes.
Everyone involved was in good humour i felt, but having said that, the police did repeatedly try to trap him with their heavily rehearsed patter...'understand' being the classic one we should all get used to refusing.
'Do you understand me' is legal jargon for 'Do you stand under what i'm saying' or more accurately 'Do you obey and submit to my authority'.
It does NOT mean 'Do you comprehend what i'm saying' as most people think it means.
Best to get in the habbit of saying 'No i do not understand, but i do comprehend the words you are speaking'.