Reading the other thread about the officer that ran over the girl, I thought it'd be interesting to hear everyone's cop stories. Two years ago, I was at a party in Bacliff and my dumbass decided to go streaking with some people. A little later after I had gotten dressed again the cops showed up and I decided to go talk to them. The cop started yelling at me saying he had gotten reports of people naked on bicycles. I told him that a few of us were in our boxers. He said that was still illegal and went into the girls garage and grabbed a camera sitting on a beerpong table and told me that once he found a picture of somebody doing something illegal my ass was going to jail. Being stupid I smarted off and asked him if he could just look through the camera... And he said he would show me what he could do and well... I spent the night in county and he had my truck towed that was legally parked. Luckily I only received a PI, I was 20 at the time, plus I got to experience being locked up ha.
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You're not very good at telling stories, are you? One time, a cop pulled me over while I was on the freeway. He asked if I knew that my rear taillight was out and I replied "no, actually I didn't". The cop then said, to get that fixed soon and told me to have a good night. true story
One time, I was on my lunch break at work taking a nap in the park in my friend's truck that I'd borrowed for work that day. It's really hot outside, so I left the truck running to get some AC. Cop comes up and wakes me up from my nap telling me that he smells pot, and that he thinks there might be trace amounts on my dashboard, and asks me to step out of the vehicle. Cop determines that the trace amount on the dashboard is indeed pot, and I'm arrested for DUI (because the engine was running, even though I wasn't under the influence) and possession of mar1juana. This occured on a Thursday leading into a 4 day weekend, so I sat in jail in Waller County until the following Tuesday. Truck was impounded. Ended up paying near $6,000 in costs pertenent to the charges, and was placed on probation for a year.
I've been to juvi. If I was arrested a couple months later, I probably would have been locked up for a while. Turning point of my life.
I don't mean to pick on your story but why were you given probation if you didn't have pot or were not under the influence? Also, how did the cop come to the determination there were trace amounts of pot on your dash? And if he did find trace amounts isn't it a pretty big coincidence that he randomly smells pot and then he finds it? He wouldn't be able to smell trace amounts of it either. The car would have to have been smoked out immediately prior to the incident.
When I first started driving, I got a speeding ticket. I was scared, so I didn't tell my parents and I didn't have the cash to pay it, so I just ignored it. Fast forward to college. I'm driving to an Econ final and get pulled over by a campus cop. My tag had expired and Mom had forgotten to mail me the new one. He says no big deal, I'll be on my way in a minute with a warning. Well, he calls in my DL and what do you know, there's a warrant for an unpaid speeding ticket. Off to jail I go. Get to jail, call my roommate, who calls my Mom. According to him, Mom panics and starts the 3.5 hour drive right away. Meanwhile, they take my belt, shoelaces, and glasses (so I won't commit suicide) and toss me into the pokey. Thankfully, I'm the only one in my cell, but as soon as the Screw leaves, all these guys start yelling at me. Well, none of them enunciate very well, and since I don't have my glasses, I can't even read lips to figure out what they are saying. Add to that the acoustics of the place are not great and finally, I give up and go sit down on the bunk. After a bit, I get a cellmate. There's an awkward silence for a few minutes before I realize I am not abiding by the jailhouse etiquette I've seen in the movies. So, I ask, "What are you in for?" "They say I raped and beat up a girl." "Oh" "How about you?" "Uh, unpaid speeding ticket." At that point, I sat down on my side of the cell and we did not speak again. Now, I typically had shoulder length hair back then, but summer was coming on and I was tired of it, so I had just received a haircut. When the jailer who sells candy and cigs comes by with his cart, he gives me a free Snickers and says. "It's so nice to have a clean-cut young man in here." After he leaves, there is more yelling from the other cells. By the tone, I take it to mean they are upset with me getting a free Snickers, but I can't really tell, so I just sit down and enjoy the sweet treat. Finally, Mom gets there, pays the speeding ticket, pays the license plate ticket (jerk campus cop wrote me a ticket for that after he saw I was a wanted man), and is so flustered that, amazingly, I am not in trouble. We go out to eat and have a remarkably good time. I was fortunate in that the 4 hours I spent behind bars did not warp my social skills much and I needed very little rehabilitation to rejoin society. When I explained (honestly) what had happened to my Econ Prof, he let me take the final with no penalty and I ended up with an A.
My best cop story? During my senior year at UT, I used to sell weed. My partner was a sergeant in the Austin Police Department. End of cop story.....
Knew someone back in high school that got heavy into selling drugs and was actually busted on the "Cops" show trying to make a deal around Clear Lake. Never saw the episode, though.
I was on vacation in a little town in South Jersey, the town is deserted from January to May but gets a lot of people in the summer, so they rent college kids to play police man and direct traffic, give tickets stuff like that. I saw a kid, probably thirteen, smoking a joint and skateboarding. The rent a cop asks him what he's doing, then the kid and his buddies start crowding around the guy, asking what he's going to do about it. It was kind of sickening, seeing that people trusted my safety with this guy, and he's here getting bullied by a bunch of kids. I almost wish there was like a Singapore cop there or something, just so the kid could get what he deserved, but instead the kids walked away with no harm done.
TRUTH: "I was on probation, taking a nap in the park in my friend's truck that I stole from him and was using it to smoke up in. I had the windows rolled down and was heckling a cop that walked by. He came over and saw the huge tray of pot in my car and the massive clouds of smoke exiting my windows. I was arrested for DUI, theft, making a terrorist threat, attempted murder and arson. Ended up owing $150,000 in fine, but since I do not have a job, have paid none.
