Comments on: Police with limited follow-through (luckily!)

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:12:43 +0000

Caitlin – snapping pics of cops here in the UK is now illegal, it makes you a terrorist apparently.

Shannon – Whilst it has never been with a cop, I go through what you experienced almost daily. I’m a cycle courier and when some driver almost kills me it’s always my fault. I’ve been hit by the front of a car on the back of my bike and the driver got out and was going to rip my fkin head off if there was any damage to his paintwork, never mind my bent bike and bleeding knees.
No-one EVER says sorry or holds up their hands to a mistake. Just like the incident you describe they often hypocritically scream at me for committing the crime they did themselves. I try to tell myself that they are just misdirecting their embarrassment and frustration at me.
When it’s my fault I always admit my error and apologise, explain that I was an idiot etc.

I admire the calm way you dealt with it. I have to try SO hard every day and remind myself to take that zen attitude.
Bravo, but watch your not-so-anonymous back in future, we all know what cops can be like…

By: Twwly

Twwly — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:43:39 +0000

What a lunatic.

By: Lacy

Lacy — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:27:40 +0000

I’ve had a cop arrest me when I was 16 for laughing at him, he brought me in and ended up giving me a ticket for curfew violation, when I had a good 15 minutes or so before I had to be in. I was only out past curfew because of him. That was a nice 300 dollars that my mom ended up paying for no good reason. The only reason I laughed to begin with was because I was with a big group of people and two of the girls that I didn’t even know ended up being on some medications that they shouldn’t have been on . . The cops found out and let them go home while the rest of us got yelled at because we’re apparently the scum of the earth. Truth be told, I shouldn’t have been with people like that . . but I was 16, I hadn’t really learned my lesson about lying with dogs. I thought it was absurd that they were just leaving and we had some a-hole cop in our faces, I couldn’t really help but laugh at the situation . . woopz.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:00:33 +0000

In hindsight, I wish I had thought to snap a couple pictures.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:11:38 +0000

I’d like to have seen Caitlin whip out a camera and record the interaction! Wonder what he would’ve done then?!

By: Lane Jensen

Lane Jensen — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:16:29 +0000

It’s really to bad the public doesn’t have an outlet to return the favor and have him put under surveillance to show his superiors what he is like outside of the police station. I’m sure he is a puppy dog when confronted with someone with more authority then him. Probably the block bully when he was a kid and just hates that everyone grew up stronger and bigger than his mouth and now needs to hide behind his badge to continue abusing others to make himself feel like a big shot.

By: Jonathan Piercing

Jonathan Piercing — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:14:58 +0000

Oh dude, I want to beat a cop sooo bad…lol

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:28:58 +0000

I have a close friend who is a police officer and after knowing him for years and also meeting a lot of the guys he works with, I’ve become convinced that cops should have mandatory counseling and psychological exams on a regular basis. A lot of them develop these sorts of anger problems, I think in part because they get used to being ‘in charge’ all the time and partly because they are constantly dealing with what’s basically the worst parts of our society. They start to have this attitude that everyone is a criminal in one way or another. I’d bet that the divorce rate in most police departments is extremely high. And making the whole problem worse is that not only is counseling not required, it’s often actively discouraged as the officers worry that it will get back to their superiors and they’ll be looked on negatively and they are also required to report if they are taking any medications (such as anti-depressants) so they avoid that for the same reasons.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:34:11 +0000

I was in the truck.

What Shannon neglected to mention was that this man had his daughter (who looked about 10 years old) in his vehicle at the time. Imagine having that as a dad? A purple faced, screaming, monster? It’s the stuff of nightmares.

By: Jilary

Jilary — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:23:39 +0000

Wow… sounds like he has a serious case of chihuahua syndrome! Making up for his lack of size by repeatedly barking, all while trembling like crazy. I really don’t understand why he would threaten to beat you to a pulp, since he’d quite obviously lose his job if he chose to carry out that threat.

Recently an off duty Philadelphia cop shot and killed a man because the guy accidently squirted the cop’s girlfriend with a water gun as she walked by the family having a water gun fight. He then shot a woman and an 18 y/o boy in the arm and leg. Makes you wonder how some people get their jobs.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:16:07 +0000

A few years back, a camero pulled up beside my brother at a red light, gunning the engine and lunging up and back as if he wanted to race. My brother was driving a big muscle car at the time, so was used to this sort of thing. When they came out of the light and he blew the other car away, the guy promptly threw a bubble light up on his roof and pulled my brother over. Off duty cop. He called someone up that was on duty and got tickets issued for my brother. My brother took it to court, but lost. Some people are powerstruck, but it’s never good when it’s the police.

By: nikk

nikk — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:39:59 +0000

man thats a crazy cop. You should probably still make a report even if you dont know his name or anything. cops like that are a danger to humanity man.

By: John J

John J — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:05:49 +0000

It’s the cop’s word vs. the citizen if there’s no video recording of the incident. Cops lie all the time as far as I’m concerned.

By: Joshua Bartalomy

Joshua Bartalomy — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:02:03 +0000

Posts like this, where you win intellectually against an obvious troll of a human, make me feel like humanity has a chance against authority. If this ever went to court there’s no way you wouldn’t win.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:53:02 +0000

unfortunately i didn’t

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:26:44 +0000

Did you get his badge number ? If your GF was with you in the truck (and could act as a witness) this out of control cop is the one who could get into trouble…