So, I just had a run-in with police...

[saoirse13]

I seem to have quite a few run-in's with the police.
On two occasions, (one when by myself and ther other when with 3 friends) my car was searched. The first time was after a bit of an evening drive with friends we stopped of and got a take out, decided to eat it in the car in the car park of a Forest walk. The police car had seen us parked, drove up behind us, and tapped my window while i was mid-bite a quarter pounder burger. Sot they asked what we were doing in the car park at that time of night (11pm) and decided that we all looked dodgy enough to search the car then proceeded to search my friends. Howevere they had to let me and another friend go without searching us as they had no female cops with them. We went back to eating our food in peace and they went on their merry way.
The second time was a pretty much a similiar story, though i had just finished work, had stopped off to buy a Mcdonalds, Pulled over on another car park to eat it. the next thing i know a cop car pulls in the cop gets out asks me why im there to which i just hold up my burger, he then laugh and replied with great minds think alike" wo which he point over to his partner who is sitting in the cop car diving into a Big Tasty.
^^^^ they are the funniest. Though Iv had some serious ones too.

After being bullied by a group of girls for about 4 years, I pretty much lost it, One of them decided to start a fight, it ended up with 2 of them having to go to hospital with broken noses. A teacher reported it, And in the teachers words to the police " aren't you going to do something, that girl is an animal she broke my nieces nose" Statements were took, I got a warning that violence doesn't solve anything. I was let off mainly because another couple of teachers made statements that basically i had been bullied for years and the school did nothing as certain members of staff were related to the girls.

And then a few run-ins while i have been slightly intoxicated, but mostly in good spirits with them.

 

[DoPo]

Police should only be able to stop people who are committing a crime. "Looking guilty" isn't grounds for harassment. The problem is that even though they have no right to stop you and search you, they will forcibly do so anyway and nobody will do anything about it. I personalty want cops off the streets. I have a phone; if I need them I will call them.

Not everyone has a phone, not everyone has a working phone. What then?

Smoke signals, duh. And you don't even need that - haven't you played Oblivion? We could just have all policemen be psychic. They'll know ALL the crimes. Just make sure you carry money, or you may not live through the fine you get.

 

[Fappy]

One time in college me and my friend were driving back to campus at 8 AM after staying up gaming at his buddy's house all night. We were in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere. We get stopped at a police checkpoint where these two cops were checking for high people. Checking for stoned drivers at 8 in the morning...

Anyway I had been drinking Mountain Dew all night, so my tongue unfortunately had a green residue that the cop mistook for the remnants of marijuana. He ordered us out of the car and I made the mistake of asking him, "Why?"

Apparently you can't ask why your rights are being violated. Cops get mad when you do that.

Anyway we got out of the car, got searched and questioned separately. After about 20 minutes of explaining to the officers we were not high and did not have drugs they finally let us go.

The best part is that when I explained I'd been drinking Mountain Dew all night the officer dismissed it saying that Mountain Dew doesn't do that. I'm sorry office, I think I missed the part where you said you were an expert on Mountain Dew's effects on the human body.

 

[IamQ]

Only once. It was last year in the summer. Me and some friends talked about old school memories of different pranks and things we'd done. So while our spirits were high, we thought we'd relive those moments for the night. We then found ourselves sitting on a bus with 2 shovels, on our way to our old school. We went off the bus, and went to a park nearby where we used to hang when we went at that school.

We find a small carousel and dig around it, or plan was to dig it out of there and move it away. Not far away, just far enough that people would be confused as to why it even happened.

Well, half way through, two officers come. They ask the usual questions "Well, what's happening here?" "Have you been drinking?" etc. Well, we hadn't drunk a drop, and none of us smoke pot, and once that was established to the cops, all they could say was "Well, damn, this is one of the stranger things I've seen at night", and then they left.

So in the end, nothing bad happened, and we felt good with ourselves that we managed to impress a cop.

 

[Baneat]

Wrong thread!

 

[White Lightning]

Me and my friend both own Umbrellas that look like swords (The Umbrella handle is a Sword hilt and it comes with a covering so unless you know what it is it's very convincing) and one day he was going to work and a bunch of Cops pulled up beside him (He was walking on the sidewalk so they kinda cut him off) and tried to arrest him. Luckily he showed them it was an Umbrella so they let him go, apparently someone called the police on him. It was pretty funny.

 

[pirateninj4]

If this was in the States they have no right to search your shit or you without a warrant.

 

[elvor0]

I got pulled once by an unmarked police car, he roads around where I live are pitch black so you have to have your full beams on just to be able to see anything. See had I not had a joint on the go, I may not have been so panicky, "No man, I'm going down, I'm going down!", anyway, I stop, the police car stops, officer comes over and asks me where I'm going, where I've been at 2 in the morning, (from work to home)"Well Sir, could you turn your full beams off, they're blinding us." "Oh er sure, I wasn't thinking" *unclenches buttocks"

Can't think of a less rock and roll way to get pulled over.

 

[Milanezi]

Police officers are meant to keep the peace, by PREVENTING disorder, whenever we hear about an investigation and eventual capture of a criminal fact is, they already failed in that particular case, and all that can be done is "lessen the problem"; way easier said than done obviously, since we don't have the Minority Report cogs to read everybody's minds and prevent any crimes lol. Only said that because I agree, and never have complained, about cops pulling me over, searching me/my car etc., way I see it, they must do it, because they MIGHT just get lucky and get someone they should from time to time before this person does any more harm. Obviously, there's a limit in the force applied by the cops, and that means they don't have to be friendly, polite or whatever, they just can't roughen you up or act violently in any manner without reason to do so.

Cops pulled me over about three times before. One time I was driving back home from German class, and it was actually inevitable: São Paulo (Brazil) was suffering heavily from attacks of a "terrorist" group called PCC, they weren't targeting civilians, but every single officer of the law, their bases were being shot, sometimes in a daily basis, so every cop in the street was pretty damn tense, and I don't blame them, they don't get paid enough for the shit they're put through here; I was driving a big car (the way I like it), and it had those blackened windows, now, those criminals had a taste for the very type of auto I was driving, so they stopped, but were extremely polite, they didn't search me, but they searched the car, asked for ID, etc, confirmed the address I said I lived in, asked where I was coming from, if I worked or just studied and sent me on my way. The last time wasn't so friendly... But then again, it was my fucking fault, 100%... I was going to a Pub with a friend and first I went to his house to pick him up, however, instead of going to the Pub right away I decided to try and call another friend of mine, and see if she wanted to tag along, only I didn't want to wait for her to answer the phone while I was driving, since I was already sorta near her home, over 30 mins went buy and I saw a cop car driving by like, twice or three times, but whatever. Problem is the windows got all hazy since it was pretty cold outside and, well, I couldn't see the cop car pulling behind me and flaring those lights of theirs, nor did I hear the sound, because I had some good ol' rock and roll going inside my auto. I DID however hear a very fucking pissed police officer screaming near the window, for me and my buddy to slowly step out of the car... No need to say that by then there was another two cop cars covering the first one, and the cop had his gun pointed at me, however, everything else went as usual, they searched me and my friend (which explained he lived right in front of where my car was parked), then asked me to tag along as they searched the vehicle, asked where I lived, where I was going, what I did for a living, and then told us both to take care and never again do something stupid like that, next time we should get in his house until I managed to contact my other friend, or stop somewhere well-lit and secure, like a gas station.

 

[A.A.K]

uhm... I've had 6 run-in's with the police.
4 times I was let off with cautions.
Once they were just asking all the people in my school with a record of fighting because some dipshit tried mugging someone behind a nearby petrol station and had his skull caved in with the 'victim's' elbow. HA!
and once I fit a description of someone who was seen at a burglary in Mt. Druitt because I had a mohawk.

... Which is nothing compared to half of my mates. haha

What do you want to hear?

 

[DanielBrown]

No simular story, but I've been stopped by cops a few times due to possession of alcohol when I was a young teenager. Usually they'd just pour it out and let you go, but one time they decided to beat me up a bit before they tossed me out in the middle of nowhere.
Exciting stuff!

 

[BOOM headshot65]

I have never had a run in with the cops. I always keep my speed within 5 mph of the limit (cops in Kansas will give you 5 mph), I always am very anal about not doing things that would get me in trouble, and always shape up my driving when there are cops around. It also helps that I know much of the local police+a few Highway Patrol/State Troopers due to my dad being a retired fire chief.

Of course, this attitude extends to my games too. I have self imposed challenges in Saints Row and GTA of going through the game and killing as few cops/civilians as possible (I will absolutly murder any other gangsters I see though). Unlike most who will be like "Oh look, the cops are after me....*pulls out assault rifle and mows them down*" my reaction is "Oh S***! Its the cops! RUNNING, RUNNING, RUNNING, RUNNING!!!"

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I've had police stop and search me while walking home from work on a few occasions, one even called my work to ask the guy who came on shift after me, if he knew me, and if I was indeed just off shift, asked me what I had in my bag(which was a nearly transparent plastic grocery bag, I said munchies, he had a look, and it was, Munchies snack mix, I don't lie to cops about the chips I carry, I mean I know I'm a big guy who shaves his head, and has a doorknocker style goatee/stache combo, but I gotta get home from work somehow, and I don't have a car, what do they expect me to do, fly?

 

[WOPR]

*snip*

Could have been worse, you could have had a gun pointed at you, been detained, and after a long wait finally let go because it turns out HEY! THE UMBRELLA REALLY IS AN UMBRELLA AND NOT AN ASSAULT RIFLE LIKE THEY THOUGHT!
*grumbles*
Either way that still sucks, sorry it happened.

 

[Treaos Serrare]

Most all of the police officers i have had any dealings with or have observed have been so incompetent as to amaze me they even have a fucking job. I have been Pulled over a total of 3 times in the entire decade i have been driving and the third time is when i actually got a ticket, but was it for speeding? nope. reckless driving? nope. it was for having my high beams on at 10:00 at night in a dark area and no other cars around save for officer dipshit this resulted in a $100 fine and a 2 point hit to my licence

 

[minispike47]

When I was 15/16 I was a bit of a troublemaker. Nothing serious, a little underage drinking and alike. In anycase, one evening I told my parents that I was out at a friends house but instead we went to set off fireworks at the local park (stupid I know). There were about 10 of us and it was about 9pm. As soon as we had started, a CSO (community support officer) turned up and threated to called the proper police if the people responsible (i.e. my friend and I) didn't give him the fireworks. We both turned ourselves over and I ended up getting a yellow card (a warning).

That put an end to the teenage rebellion and I got grounded for weeks after that. Looking back on it, i'm really embarassed. I just wanted to fit in with the "cool" kids. I'm 21 now and its been removed from my record. My dad now sees the funny side of it and teases me about it often.

Anyway, thats my only run in with the law.

 

[Whitbane]

I walk to work every day starting at 5am, when it's still dark. I get this crap all the time. They always say those exact words 'there's been allot of breakins in the area and I match the description of the suspect'. I'm pretty destinct... Big beard and long hair... Look like Ned Stark... I should stop breaking into houses.

Obviously the actor who play Ned Stark rob houses on his free time.

We all know Sean Bean spends his free time inventing new ways to kill himself off in every form of entertainment he's ever been in.

 

[RyuujinZERO]

And they wonder why the younger generation rebel against and distrust the police.

My only direct experience with the police has been poor too; I'd accidentally sat on my train ticket which'd creased it and the machine reader at the end of the train station wouldn't accept it. When I plead my case to the ticket guy he just firmly stated "£50 or my friend here'll deal with you for travelling illegally" .

I pointed out that I need to catch a bus to reach my plane on time - it's right here on my train ticket where and when I bought it and I already paid £50 in the first place. He then took me as "resisting authority" and had the policeman grabbed me and insisted it was now £150 or I'd have to go to the station miss my flight and have to deal with all the legal crap (I'm 17 years old here).

By this point I'm 90% sure it's a shakedown, not legit at all but what am i meant to do? - I'm 17 years old, on my own, 1,500 miles from home surrounded by a bunch've men twice my age and size who all swear that this "hooligan is travelling illegally" they'd probably add resisting arrest and attacking a police officer to the list if I questioned it further.


I don't look forward to returning to England again, it's not just a police state, it's a CORRUPT police state.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Dude that's nothing.

Spoiler: spoilered for space

OK, this happened on Dec 23rd of 2001. I'll never forget that date.
First thing to know, I had actually been hit by a car earlier in the evening. (Long and different story)
(I was badly bruised & shaken up from the accident, but otherwise fine.)
But this was at about 7:30 in the evening, and the weather was very mild for late December, so I was just
wearing a light grey sweat shirt over my scrubs (I worked at a blood center at the time).
I'm walking past the parking lot of a church a little less than a block from my apartment, when a spotlight
hits me. I looked around and saw a police car had it's spotlight trained on me. I shrugged and turned to
walk towards the police car, but the officers inside used the car's loudspeaker to say "Stay where you are."
So I shrugged again, kept my hands in clear view and waited. After about 20 seconds, the officers used the
loudspeaker again, this time to tell me to put my hands in the air, which I did. At this point, one of the
officers stepped out of the car and trained his gun on me. Yeah. Pointed his *gun* at me. The officer who
had stepped out of the car then instructed me to turn around and face the church, kneel, and put my hands
on my head with my fingers interlaced. Of course I did as instructed. Then the second officer got out of
the car, came over to me and took my hands off my head and put them behind my back and handcuffed me. Yup.
At this point I informed the officer that I had been hit by a car earlier that evening and my arm was very
sore. He undid the handcuffs and re-did them using two pairs linked together, so that my arms were not
twisted behind my back. He then raised me to my feet and marched me over to the car, and put me in the
back. Read me my rights. Asked if I understood my rights. I said that I did. I asked if he could tell me
what this was all about. He told me that a convenience store about 2 blocks away had been robbed at gunpoint
and they were looking for the perpetrator, and that I "roughly matched the description". They then informed
me that I was not actually under arrest, but 'being detained', and that they were going to bring the witness
to the robbery over to see if they could make a better identification. So I waited in the back of the police
car thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit....." for a while until a second police car
arrived. I was taken out of the first car and put in front of the second car, I think that they meant for
the car's headlights to keep me from being able to see the witness, but I could see her pretty well.
The witness was a young hispanic woman. I was instructed to turn to the side, then turn to the other
side then turn facing front again. The witness looked incredulous, and even in the poor visibility
and with little lip-reading skill I could tell she was saying "That's not the guy" to the officer in the
car with her. He asked her to if she was absolutely sure. Had her look at me again. Had me go through the
turning this way and that again. She was absolutely positive that I wasn't the guy. The car with the witness
drove off and the officers who had detained me took the handcuffs off of me and apologized. I told them not
to worry about it, I understood they were doing their job & trying to keep everyone safe, wished them a
good evening & merry christmas, They drove off and I finished walking home.
But here's the kicker.
A few days later I was drawing the blood of an officer who was a regular donor at the center I worked at,
and I asked if they had apprehended the guy they were looking for in the armed robbery. He told me that
yes, they had apprehended the perpetrator, but he wondered how I knew about it. I told him what had happened.
And he became *furious*. I asked why he was so upset and he told me. The guy they were looking for was:
Over six feet tall.
(I'm five-foot-nine on a tall day.)
Had short blond hair.
(I have hair most people call black but is actually dark brown, well past my shoulders.)
Had blue eyes.
(My eyes are dark brown, almost black.)
Had no facial hair.
(I have an awesome Clark Gable mustache.
So yeah, I went through all that because I "roughly matched the description".

tldr: I was cuffed, read my rights & put in front of a witness when the police were looking
for a guy who looked nothing like me.

And while that is probably my most impressive run-in-with-police story, it is in my
opinion, far from the worst.

lol, I'd say the description they were working with at the time must have been "male".

I later found out from an officer that I know that the description they had been working from
was "Male with white shirt and blue pants."
Which is part of what makes me mad. The whole thing could have been cleared up in *seconds* if
anyone from the PD who was involved had the wits to ask the witness some simple questions like
"What color of hair, what color eyes, how long of hair, did he have facial hair, how tall?"
Topping it off, as I mentioned in the long post I was wearing a *grey* sweatshirt, not white.
There's a freaking children's game (Guess Who) that teaches kids to use those kinds of identifiers
and the police can't save themselves hundreds of man-hours by asking a few simple questions?
I look back on it and laugh myself, but it also makes me worry about our safety, and how much we
are spending needlessly.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Alright, I was really high one night and decided it would be a fantastic idea to walk through the neighborhood in my underwear playing Front Bottoms' songs on guitar.

So I'm walking, and I see a car- unmistakably a police SUV- coming at me and start panicking about what to do. I don't miss a note, by the way. Anyway, I came up with the plan of singing and playing louder and with more emotion so that if he heard he would not doubt that I was doing exactly what I looked like I was doing, and not that maybe me playing guitar in my underwear was to cover something else up (I was really high)

So my heart's pounding but he just drives by and I sigh with relief and then SQUUEAAK he slams on the brakes and puts it in reverse and pulls up next to me and rolls down his window. I can't tell if my balls retracted into my body because of the cold or because of fright.

Me: "Hello"
Him: "We've heard there's kids havin a party makin' trouble in the neighborhood. You seen any?"
Me: "Nope"
Him: "Alright then."

And he drove away.

Oh, man---has anyone out there seen my ass? I think I just laughed it clean off.....