Goofy Cop Shit...

[Zeb_Carter]

So, my wife and I are returning home after having dinner out when the blue and red lights come on behind me...

I wasn't speeding, I wasn't switching lanes without signaling, just driving home, in traffic. Pulling over to the side of the road, I was able to get there before the cop...he had to wait for the cars beside him to clear before her could pull up behind me.

Sitting there, I knew he would come on the loud speaker to tell me to pull up to the next street as the one we were stopped on was really busy. I waited and waited and waited. About two minutes after stopping the cop tells me to pull up to the next street and turn right, which I do.

He comes strolling up to the car. I have my license out and my wife is looking in the glovebox for the insurance card. Before giving him my license I politely ask him what I did wrong.

Cop: "The registration on the car comes back with the owner having a suspended license."

Me: "Really? You mean this license?" As I handed him my Georgia drivers license.

Cop: "No your Illinois licenses..."

Me: "I don't have one of those. I haven't had an Illinois license in 15 years. How could anyone suspend something I don't have?"

Cop: "I'll be right back." and walks back to his car with my license and insurance card.

A few seconds later he's back...

Cop: "Have you heard of emission testing?"

Me looking at him stupidly: "Yes, I just had this car tested in August like I was supposed too."

Cop: "No not this car your other car, a '95 Pontiac."

Me: "I don't own a '95 Pontiac."

Cop: "Well you better call the Secretary of State's office and get this fixed."

Me: "What? Me? I didn't...."

Cop: "I'm just telling you...Have a goodnight!" Hands me my license and insurance card and walks away.

Now you may ask, why do I have a Georgia license when I like in Illinois? Good question. You see I spend more than six months of the year in Georgia, so I'm technically a Georgia resident. I do have a car in Illinois and one in Georgia both of which are legal and registered to me in the appropriate state.

The other thing that got me thinking is why did the cop run my plates in the first place? I wasn't speeding, I wasn't driving erratically, so why did he run my plates?

Another thing is he didn't ask me why I have a Georgia license instead of an Illinois license. So was he just fishing trying to make his quota? A quota which they say they don't have.

So, now on Monday I will have to trot on down to the SofS office to get this all straightened out.

WTF?

 

[oggbashan]

It must have been a quiet day for the cop.

Recently my wife had her numberplates stolen from her car. They will probably be put on a similar car that is not registered. She expects to be pulled over by the cops every time she's out in her car.

It is a growing problem in the UK. The cops and authorities are catching up with unregistered vehicles. Stealing the number plates of a legitimate car, or copying them, is now common. Anything the car with false plates does will be attributed to the owner of the legitimate car - unless they can prove otherwise.

When my wife is arrested for a bank raid in Yorkshire I suppose I'll have to bail her out...

Og

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

It must have been a quiet day for the cop.

Recently my wife had her numberplates stolen from her car. They will probably be put on a similar car that is not registered. She expects to be pulled over by the cops every time she's out in her car.

It is a growing problem in the UK. The cops and authorities are catching up with unregistered vehicles. Stealing the number plates of a legitimate car, or copying them, is now common. Anything the car with false plates does will be attributed to the owner of the legitimate car - unless they can prove otherwise.

When my wife is arrested for a bank raid in Yorkshire I suppose I'll have to bail her out...

Og

Seems kinda stupid now to have convicts in prison making license plates doesn't it. It's like we are training them or something

Fortunately, here, they have them making ofice furniture. Somehow, I suspect that will turn out bad too.

 

[Just-Legal]

It must have been a quiet day for the cop.

Recently my wife had her numberplates stolen from her car. They will probably be put on a similar car that is not registered. She expects to be pulled over by the cops every time she's out in her car.

It is a growing problem in the UK. The cops and authorities are catching up with unregistered vehicles. Stealing the number plates of a legitimate car, or copying them, is now common. Anything the car with false plates does will be attributed to the owner of the legitimate car - unless they can prove otherwise.

When my wife is arrested for a bank raid in Yorkshire I suppose I'll have to bail her out...

Og

Actually its quite easily sorted out. My mum used to work at a large hospital's blood department in Leeds, right next to one of the err, "roughest" estates in Yorkshire. A few months before she left, we had a rather nice letter from Newark County Council asking for rather a large amount for speeding fines, parking violations and various other incidents.

I thought my mother was leading a rather hillarious double life (especially at the 3.15am 90mph getaway one), however a quick phonecall to Newark CC found that the car in question was actually two cars, a Corsa and a Rover, and the plates of my mother's car (A Peugot) had been cloned. Well, that and the CCTV footage of my mum's car at work... having the numberplates photographed by one of the estate's residents...

 

[wazhazhe]

Goofy Cop Shit...

I was pulled over once because my car matched the description of one the police were looking for. Maybe that's why he ran your plate.

"Well you better call the Secretary of State's office and get this fixed."

It sounds like when he realized you weren't who he thought you were, he just wanted to get out of there without having to explain a mistake was made. Who knows? The last part of the conversation sounds pretty funny. Of course I hadn't been pulled over by a cop when I heard it.

 

[wazhazhe]

When my wife is arrested for a bank raid in Yorkshire ...

When Henny Youngman said, "Take my wife, please," do you suppose this is what he had in mind?

 

[Liar]

Speaking of goofy cop shit. This is too good for not mentioning...


Clumsy NZ policeman stuns himself

A clumsy New Zealand policeman, who was attending a domestic dispute, accidentally shot himself and a teenager with a stun gun.

The constable was loading his weapon - to stun a man at the centre of the incident - when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts, the New Zealand Herald reports.

Another shot hit the man's 16-year-old son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray. But he succeeded only in hitting the man's 21-year-old daughter - an unintended target.

The wanted man eventually gave himself up.

 

[SeaCat]

Speaking of goofy cop shit. This is too good for not mentioning...


Clumsy NZ policeman stuns himself

A clumsy New Zealand policeman, who was attending a domestic dispute, accidentally shot himself and a teenager with a stun gun.

The constable was loading his weapon - to stun a man at the centre of the incident - when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts, the New Zealand Herald reports.

Another shot hit the man's 16-year-old son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray. But he succeeded only in hitting the man's 21-year-old daughter - an unintended target.

The wanted man eventually gave himself up.

Why? Because he was laughing himself to death?

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Several year ago I was pulled over by a local cop in Massachussetts. Not only was I pulled over but my wife and I were ordered out of the car at gunpoint.

We were moving, we were driving an old Dodge Caravan and towing a trailer. It was cold out and it was raining. My wife and I were forced to kneel in the middle of the road for more than half an hour. During this time we were searched, as was our van and the trailer. Our belongings were stacked alongside the road in the rain. One of the cops found and confiscated my hand gun. After more than an hour one of the cops walked up and told us we were released. They started to climb into their cruisers and I started to make a stink. I demanded an explanation as well as my property back. They started acting stupid so I started taking down badge numbers as my wife pulled out her cell phone.

It took several phone calls and threats of violence and arrest before the duty officer showed up. He explained that we had been pulled over on suspicion because of a home invasion by two men driving a Dodge Pickup. I pointed out that we were driving a Caravan and pulling a trauker. He just shrugged. I pointed out that our belongings were now spread along the roadside and soaked by the rain. He just shrugged. I demanded that my property be returned, namely a handgun. He looked at me with a blank look on his face while informing me the handgun was being confiscated and held as evidence in a crime.

The local Police department and myself went in circles around this. My wife and I spent an extra couple of days in Mass. It finally reached the courts where the judge just shook his head and demanded that the local department locate my handgun and return it. It took two more days and the threat of a lawsuit.

The home invasion had been comitted by two young black males driving a Dodge Dakota. They had been armed with knives. My wife and I are both, shall we say, Mellanin Challenged? (Many of you have seen pictures of us.) we were driving a Dodge Caravan and towing a trailer.

It took a bit but I finally got my handgun back, and we left the state.

The funniest part of this was when two years later I received a letter from the courts informing me that I was being charged with illegal possesion of a firearm in Massachussetts. I had to travel back north to show them proof that I had a permit to own and carry said firearm. The judge looked at my paperwork and just shook his head.

Cat

 

[angelicminx]

I can't share my tale... it ain't over yet.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Sometimes cops just run plates. They do it randomly throughout the day when no one is doing anything particularly wrong because they are bored (just like I would do if I had that information at my fingertips). Yes, sometimes they get stuff wrong (and that Mass eppisode of Cat's shouldn't have gone down like that at all), but for the most part, it's just a random running of your plates, and something popped up that they thought warranted stopping you.

Most plate runs probably end up in them not finiding anything and then running another one until they do find something (or someone flagrantly breaks the law in front of them).

 

[cloudy]

Although I didn't make the fatal mistake of Driving While Black in Alabama, I did, however, make the near-fatal one of Driving With a Black in the Car.

We went through the same shit SeaCat did....ordered out at gunpoint, kneeling in the middle of the road, etc.

It seems that someone had robbed a check cashing place a little bit earlier, and since there was a black guy in my car, it just HAD to be him.

Sometimes this area disgusts me.

 

[cantdog]

Goofy is not the word for most 'cop shit.'

Every time I have to interact with the Law, I am once again moved to recapture my anarchist roots. Cops. They eat shit. They eat shit from tin plates! They eat shit from tin plates with a big rusty fuckin spoon!!!

ahem. Never mind...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Goofy is not the word for most 'cop shit.'

Every time I have to interact with the Law, I am once again moved to recapture my anarchist roots. Cops. They eat shit. They eat shit from tin plates! They eat shit from tin plates with a big rusty fuckin spoon!!!

ahem. Never mind...

In addition to this, they howl at the moon.

 

[Guest]

Goofy is not the word for most 'cop shit.'

Every time I have to interact with the Law, I am once again moved to recapture my anarchist roots. Cops. They eat shit. They eat shit from tin plates! They eat shit from tin plates with a big rusty fuckin spoon!!!

ahem. Never mind...

Having trouble sleeping this evening, cant?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I always giggle when I watch "Cops" and the voiceover says "All suspects are innoncent until found guilty in a court of law" - I strongly suspect that that line has been added just for chuckle value!

You see two policemen in a car, waiting for something to happen that they can show off on TV. They tell the camer about the camaraderie in the police force, and how they love being policemen and "doing something for the community" - then a car drives by, keeping within the speed limits, and they jump into action.

"Doesn't that car look like the one we saw the other day?"
"Yeah, and didn't that guy look like that guy we arrested a few months ago?"

They stop the car and make the driver get out. They don't know what they're lookign for yet, because the person in question hasn't done anything criminal as far as the eye can tell. Nevertheless, they make the driver get out and kneel on the ground, and they even handcuff him, so he won't get away IN CASE they find something in the car that they can nail him on. And whaddayaknow, the guy happens to have narcotics in his car! And a firearm! Ding-ding-ding-JACKPOT! Now HOW did they know that they were going to find these things in the car? Becuase they know the guy and the car, and since this is filmed in Duckburg, where all bad guys are ALWAYS up to something bad, then ofcourse they have reason to suspect that a former criminal who's keeping within the speed limits MUST be doing something worth inspecting.

Isn't it wonderful to see the clever policemen at work? How they ALWAYS manage to guess right and catch the criminals red-handed, with dope in their cars? I just wonder how many scenes the police has forced the photographers to edit away; scenes where the policemen do this to someone who turns out to have nothing more dangerous than a Pepsi in their car? I would LOVE to see a scene where the policemen actually apologize to a driver for wrongfully stopping and handcuffing him and insinuating that he's done something wrong. And I would LOVE to see a scene where the guy-caught-with-dope is a middle-aged white man in a suit and tie.

 

[R. Richard]

Welcome to Scumbagville, the town I lived in as a child.

The citizens take borderline mentally retarded people and give them handguns and almost unlimited power and then wonder why outrages occur.

Let me tell you why outrages occur. When police outrages do occur, the judges, the mayor, the City Council all refuse to take responsibility. If I had been the judge in Seacat's case, I would have had the officers who committed the kidnapping [technically it was a kidnapping,] the supervisor, the Police Chief, the Mayor and the City Council in my courtroom. I would have had a few words about their general incompetence, their unbelievable stupidity and the necessity to generate a new, written plan to see that the same type of outrage never again occurred.

It's your civilization. If you stand by while outrages are committed, don't wonder why when it happens to you.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Welcome to Scumbagville, the town I lived in as a child.

The citizens take borderline mentally retarded people and give them handguns and almost unlimited power and then wonder why outrages occur.

Yeah, but atleast they follow their constitutional rights to keep and bear arms!

 

[slyc_willie]

Speaking of goofy cop shit. This is too good for not mentioning...


Clumsy NZ policeman stuns himself

A clumsy New Zealand policeman, who was attending a domestic dispute, accidentally shot himself and a teenager with a stun gun.

The constable was loading his weapon - to stun a man at the centre of the incident - when he accidentally blasted himself with the Taser's 50,000 volts, the New Zealand Herald reports.

Another shot hit the man's 16-year-old son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray. But he succeeded only in hitting the man's 21-year-old daughter - an unintended target.

The wanted man eventually gave himself up.

"All right! All right! I surrender! Just leave my family alone!"

 

[oggbashan]

Og's revenge

When Og, in this present incarnation, was 18 years old, he used to work for the Ministry of Defence.

After a half hour drive around a deserted dockyard on a Sunday morning he was the proud possessor of a MoD driving licence entitling him to drive any MoD owned road vehicle on the orders of an officer of the MoD. Og at 18 was an officer of the MoD so could order himself to drive any vehicle he could borrow... even ones that as a civilian he couldn't drive until he was 21.

Og was spending a fortnight learning about the operation of a vehicle repair depot. The depot didn't have a canteen or anywhere to buy food so Og and colleague used to borrow a repaired vehicle to drive to the town centre where there was a canteen frequented by the local telephone operators - many of whom were young and nubile...

On the first day Og returned to the vehicle, an estate car prominently signwritten with MoD insignia, to be greeted by an irate policeman. Og had apparently parked the vehicle in the policeman's unofficial parking place, not a crime but unwise. The policeman tried everything to find something wrong with Og's licence and the car. He wasn't succeeding when his sergeant arrived. The sergeant was equally annoying until he asked Og to prove his identity. Og produced his MoD identity card and was agreeably surprised to learn that he outranked the Police Sergeant by several ranks. Police departed in a hurry but Og was still irritated.

For the rest of the two weeks, Og, with encouragement from the MoD staff, borrowed larger and larger vehicles to park in the town centre on the policeman's spot. By the end of the first week he had parked a 7.5 tonne truck. With judicious coaching from the repair depot's staff he progressed in the second week to semi-trailers and a tank transporter complete with derelict tank. The policeman was getting increasingly annoyed because his superiors were laughing at him. On the last day Og parked his piece-de-resistance - a newly painted aviation spirit tanker prominently signed with hazard warnings forbidding smoking within 50 yards. The Police had to enforce the smoking ban around an empty never-been-used tanker while Og had a leisurely lunch. When Og returned he visited the Police Station, explained WHY he had been annoying the particular policeman, apologised, and bought a round of drinks in the Police station's social club, carefully remaining with non-alcoholic drinks before returning to the repair depot with a police escort.

It was at least a couple of months before MoD vehicles were bothered by that town's policemen. The MoD vehicles also left THAT policeman's parking spot uncluttered.

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

It was at least a couple of months before MoD vehicles were bothered by that town's policemen. The MoD vehicles also left THAT policeman's parking spot uncluttered.

Og

*holds up card with bonuspoints for style*

 

[Boxlicker101]

It must have been a quiet day for the cop.

Recently my wife had her numberplates stolen from her car. They will probably be put on a similar car that is not registered. She expects to be pulled over by the cops every time she's out in her car.

It is a growing problem in the UK. The cops and authorities are catching up with unregistered vehicles. Stealing the number plates of a legitimate car, or copying them, is now common. Anything the car with false plates does will be attributed to the owner of the legitimate car - unless they can prove otherwise.

When my wife is arrested for a bank raid in Yorkshire I suppose I'll have to bail her out...

Og

It has always been my experience that the police and any government agencies ABSOLUTELY HATE to admit they are wrong or to apologize for being wrong. They will make up any kind of crap they can and violate anybody's rights to avoid apologizing or to appear to have been right.

I suspect it is much the same in other places. Politicians and bureaucrats are the same all over.

 

[CopyCarver]

It has always been my experience that the police and any government agencies ABSOLUTELY HATE to admit they are wrong or to apologize for being wrong. They will make up any kind of crap they can and violate anybody's rights to avoid apologizing or to appear to have been right.

I suspect it is much the same in other places. Politicians and bureaucrats are the same all over.

Absolutely true. Nor do most of them mind the total oxymorons they create while being "right."

I once received 25% responsibility for an accident in which a drunk sideswiped my car--which was legally parked in a private lot while I was six stories up in my office.

It gets better, however. My friend was once arrested for resisting arrest--no predicating charge whatsoever. When the charges were dismissed on the obvious grounds that it's impossible to resist arrest unless an arrest has been made, the cop stomped off in a huff, singing his bumper sticker routine about "liberal judges handcuffing the police."

 

[TheeGoatPig]

It has always been my experience that the police and any government agencies ABSOLUTELY HATE to admit they are wrong or to apologize for being wrong. They will make up any kind of crap they can and violate anybody's rights to avoid apologizing or to appear to have been right.

I suspect it is much the same in other places. Politicians and bureaucrats are the same all over.

Police aren't allowed to admit it because it opens them up for lawsuits. It doesn't matter what they did, how small or ridiculous, there are people who will sue for millions of dollars any time someone admits they were wrong.

And from what I have seen on Cops, most stops were made because the vehicle was stolen, unregistered, uninsured, the driver wasn't licensed, was drunk, had someone siting on his lap, someone checked something out the window, or whatnot.

 

[cloudy]

Police aren't allowed to admit it because it opens them up for lawsuits. It doesn't matter what they did, how small or ridiculous, there are people who will sue for millions of dollars any time someone admits they were wrong.

And from what I have seen on Cops, most stops were made because the vehicle was stolen, unregistered, uninsured, the driver wasn't licensed, was drunk, had someone siting on his lap, someone checked something out the window, or whatnot.

...and all cops are honest, riiiiiiight.