Ever Fell Like a Cop?

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martyo said:
Better still, head down a one way street heading the wrong way and watch the reactions.

Or hang your head out of the window and make siren noises like Todd does. You ought to see the reactions he gets.

We are not cops. Well, most of us aren't anyway. So, get over it.
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Get over what? I go WOT up empty onramps because it's the safest place to do it, and it's good for the car. I have a nice long straight onramp connected to a mostly empty 4-lane on my way home from work every day. It's their own dang fault for putting in such a fun place to play.

The steel wheels are part of the snow tire package.

Who's pretending? I just found it funny.

Next you'll be chastising me for the light bar, pillar spotlight, and gold star decals I have on my ride, and that "smokey" hat I wear while driving. Sheesh. :rolleyes:

-A
 
Not often with teh MM, but ALL the time with my 99 Vic, wedgewood blue with the duals exhaust. Had loads of laughs at others expense with that car. Dang punk kids.....:D
 
A little off topic...but:

I encourage you to contact your local law enforcement office and see if they do ride-alongs. No...you won't see any real action. Yes...you will do the boring stuff while out on a ride-along and be kept at a very safe distance from things, but you might get a small glimpse into our world. It might give you a greater appreciation for just exactly what we put up with each day.

Not intended as a flame. This is just constructive criticism:
I recommend that you not "pretend" to be in law enforcement. That type of activity can get you in deep trouble. I realize this topic is about how the MMs resemble PIs and reactions to them, but I do NOT encourage things like "pulling over on the side of the roadway to watch brake lights" or quickly pulling in behind someone driving fast on the freeway to "teach them a lesson" or to "just mess with them". Those sorts of things are just not appropriate. I can't think of a single peer in my department who would encourage or reward that type of behavior. Again...this is not a flame. Just an observation. That sort of behavior could quickly get you a ticket and/or a trip in the back of a cruiser.

If you want to be in law enforcement...by all means...jump in feet first and enroll yourself in an academy. It's never too late and we can always use more "good guys/gals" out there. :)
 
Alan said:
A little off topic...but:

I encourage you to contact your local law enforcement office and see if they do ride-alongs. No...you won't see any real action. Yes...you will do the boring stuff while out on a ride-along and be kept at a very safe distance from things, but you might get a small glimpse into our world. It might give you a greater appreciation for just exactly what we put up with each day.
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Alan, that's a great suggestion. I did just that 8 years ago, attending a ten-week course my local PD offered - Citizens Police Academy. Funding comes from community policing grants.

Besides learning about the law, booking procedures, use of deadly force, defensive tactics, firearms, domestic violence, controlled substances, DARE, juvenile court, use of radar and communications, we were and are encouraged to do ride-alongs (I've done at least two dozen: OUI/DUI stops, breaking up underage drinking parties, big bar brawl, accidents, ATM robbery, domestic violence.......)

The benefits are three-fold. You make many friends in the community, you get to know your local LEOs and also see first-hand the ups and the downs of their daily patrol. I've made many long-lasting friends and am also an advocate for my PD within the community. I'm a founding member of our Alumni group and publish a monthly newsletter.

Take Alan's advice. Make the call. Take a peek at what our LEOs do for us day in and day out. LEOs: I thank you! May St. Michael watch over you and protect you.
 
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Well these were entertaining. I retired from the Police, won't go back, few of the members are the police (LEO's if you prefer). Hey people are STUPID that is why there are police. Yeah when I am cruising down the road people do the same stupid stuff they did when I drove the marked car, now in my Sable I never say anything. Do the police think the MM is another cop, maybe I have blown past a couple at a rather high rate of speed. Thought to myself, well it's too late now maybe they will think I am headed to a call. Interesing thing I am in Nevada with Florida tags, I am sure my time is comming. It's kinda nice to have the confusing look, is that a Fed, Deputy or Trooper in that Marauder, why do they get those and we get Lumina's.
 
NOMARQUIS...Great story...I love hearin stuff like that.

It only happens to me when I'm rollin down the far left lane on the interstate and there are people in front of me who aren't sure exactly sure what I'm drivin. I usually get a quater mile of space at that point. Otherwise, I'm fairly well ignored....all that cladding and chrome gives me away.

One thing made me jump the first 2 or 3 times I saw it was a retired P71 that the airport uses for transporting customers. I figure they left "Interceptor" badging and strobes in the front and back window and behind the grill on to help along with an established presence if ya know what I mean. The only thing that gives it away is the "GSP Airport Transportation Service" logo on the side doors and the old man driving who can't see over the steering wheel. I see it about town several times a week and most everyone around does a nose dive when he's around.
 
MM03MOK said:
Alan, that's a great suggestion...(edited to save space)...
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Bunny,

Great post! I really hope people don't take my post the wrong way. I do strongly encourage people to do ride-alongs. You have put it more eloquently than I about the benefits of it all. Thank you!!!
 
MM03MOK said:
Take a peek at what our LEOs do for us day in and day out.
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Ut oh!!! Here I go again.....

I think you could word that a little more accurately. As in......

"Take a peek at what 98% of our LEOs do for us day in and day out."

You don't want to see what the other 2% do day in and day out.

One of the worst examples in recent history, and for the life of me I can't remember where it was.... a lady calls the police and reports a "breaking & entering". The cop shows up and takes a report. The lady explains what was stolen, and how the burglar was such a dumbass, as in what he overlooked of value.

When the cop got off later in the evening he himself went back, murdered the woman, and stole the rest of her valuables she had pointed out to him. :mad2:

The point is...... don't ever assume you can trust a person just because they are wearing a badge and gun!!!!


edited to add - in the county which totally surrounds the city I live in..... the 2nd in command (Captain) of the police department was arrested, charged and convicted of soliciting gay torture and sex with juveniles on the Internet. Wasn't this person suppose to be protecting our youth????? :mad2:
 
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Another point I might add....... I hate for anybody to think I am a cop when they are following me in any of my cars. It's too hard to throw beer cans out the window when you have people slowing down and staying behind you. :)
 
The point is...... don't ever assume you can trust a person just because they are wearing a badge and gun!!!!
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I have been accused of being a raving paranoid and to have a dosage increase on more then one occasion, but it’s statements like that one that get me twitching. :lol: Even I feel the need to trust those that chose to were the badge. Yes, there are bad ones in every organization. But we CAN’T, as a society, stop trusting them. That road leads to chaos and anarchy, and would disrupt my plans for world domination.
 
That's pretty awful (to kill that woman)....I was leaving my sisters house once and I had my hand resting on the door nob when someone tried to break in...I locked the door quickly and yelled at my sister. He walked off casually but walked around several more times. My sister called 911 and it took the cop 20 minute to get there. If I wouldn't have yelled, that idiot would have broken and would have done who knows what. The cop said "Sorry, I was on foot, that's why it took me so long." Of course when he leaves he jumps in a cruiser and drives off! It was awful, I do believe my sister filed a complaint but some good that does. My sis has a friend that's a cop who was 30 minutes (driving normally) away at the time, and he could have gotten there quicker!
 
MAD-3R said:
Yes, there are bad ones in every organization. But we CAN?T, as a society, stop trusting them.
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OK............ but explain to me one thing please. How do we distinguish the 98% good from the 2% bad? Hard question, huh? :)

Your suggestion is exactly what got the lady killed in the first example I cited.

And....... who would have ever thought the person on the other end of an Internet connection soliciting juvenile boys for torture and sex was a COP? A Captain at that?

Getting off the subject of cops in general, I will never forget the TV reports of mechanics and refrigerator repairmen cheating people on hidden cameras. So, yes, every profession has the rotten apples. True.
 
Originally posted by woaface My sister called 911 and it took the cop 20 minute to get there.
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And you feel this is unusual?? :confused:


Originally posted by woaface The cop said "Sorry, I was on foot, that's why it took me so long." Of course when he leaves he jumps in a cruiser and drives off!
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I am sure what he meant was he was out on foot when he received the dispatch to head to your sister's house. He had to get back to his car before he could start responding. :)
 
I have a "friend of police" sticker on my rear left side of my back glass. On several occasions people have started to pass me and then thought better of it when they see the "badge" in the window. :D
 
SHERIFF said:
And you feel this is unusual?? :confused:

I am sure what he meant was he was out on foot when he received the dispatch to head to your sister's house. He had to get back to his car before he could start responding. :)
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Well 20 minutes when you say someone is breaking into your house during a 911 call. It's a fairly well populated area of town and any state trooper just down the road on I-85 could have been notified if they were closest. When he said he was on foot, he said he had to walk there. No worries now though...
 
woaface said:
When he said he was on foot, he said he had to walk there.
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Ohhhhh! You met what we call a "lazy cop" then! He considered the walk from the police car to the front door to be quite long and unusual. :)
 
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