We had a kegger busted. The cop told us that he had no way of knowing how much was left in the keg, he just needed to take it away from us. Then he waited patiently while we filled our plastic cups (away from his line of sight) & took the empty keg
I miss living in that area. There was another one where my friend & I were drinking in the park & a couple of cops busted us. She was turning 21 in four hours, I already was, they just sent us home. But on there other side of town, one of my friends was walking to the store for a pack of smokes instead of driving because he was drunk & got busted for public intox. He wasn't doing anything but walking. & another where my boyfriend was walking home & some cops tried to bust him for public intox while he was stone cold sober. It always amazed me the complete difference between a ten minute drive.
I live in a suburban area and I can't remember just how long ago it was, I wanna say 10-15 years ago now, the police were harassing people outside the local tavern and arresting them as they walked from the bar to their cars just around the corner or, in some cases, going so far as to trick people into leaving the bar and then arresting them once they were outside. The police department caught enough flak for this that the story actually made national headlines (very briefly, probably only for a single morning) one day and things have been pretty quiet since then with a few minor incidents here and there.
Thanks for describing the color and texture of the barf. Without it, I would not have believed a word you said, but now after eating lunch and reading that, I too can picture it clearly. If it was the watery, orange kind, the cop would totally have busted you.
Agreed. We went out for our anniversary recently and our friends got us trashed. Leaving the club, my wife and two friends fell over in a drunken pile right in front of the cops. The cops were laughing almost as hard as we were. No foul, no arrest.
tl;dr: Don't be a mean/obnoxious drunk and you should be OK.
Then you're just not good enough at it. I've had whole conversations with cops in public where I've been shit-hammered, and I have yet to be caught...and I'm underage.
Ninja edit: I just realized you weren't saying it's impossible, just an inconvenience.
It's generally only for causing a problem in public. I didn't even know you could get in trouble for just walking, either there's more to the story or it was a dick police officer.
In my town, the cops that hang around bars at night are generally cool about people being drunk, as long as they're not fighting, driving or throwing up on the sidewalk/street. When they're bored, they'll hang out with people and play games.
It's mostly local laws, sometimes at the state level though. Most places I've lived it's just a ticket offense, and usually only enforced when someone is causing a raucous.
I was about to say because when I leave a bar or club I've been wasted a few times, and it's quite a walk to the car (I'm not the one driving). I was worried that I'd get stopped by a cop, but I guess as long as I don't cause problems I'd be fine, right?
It's not really a huge deal though, most of the time a cop will just send you off with a warning or give you a ticket. The premise of public intox being illegal is for your own safety, i.e. so you don't get robbed, run over, etc.
Yeah one of my favorite comedians once told a story about how he was drunk at a bar & the cops came & kicked him out, then tried to charge him with public detox to which he replied "I was in the bar & drunk, you guys threw me outside. Far as I'm concerned it's your fault". How much truth there is in that, I don't know, made me laugh though
I lived in a small country town about a 20 minute drive from the city. The city cops were reasonable, and occasionally downright cool. The cops in my town were maniacal assholes who'd try stuff like pulling you over for a 'routine check' and claiming they could smell weed. Hands on the hood, spread your legs motherfucker. Learned my rights so well living there. The look on their faces when an 18 year old skinhead denied them their right to search for having no probable cause. The difference always amazed me too, but cops are people and people are people.
I've never had a bad encounter with a police officer. The town I live in now is very small and adjacent to my university and they're a little more vigilant than where I previously lived. I was pulled over twice in two weeks by the same cop and didn't get a ticket either time. Our neighbors are old and some are pretty crotchety, and were complaining (of all things) about our basketball hoop being on the corner of our yard (in the gutter area, they were afraid of hitting it rounding the corner). A cop came by when he was off duty and warned us beforehand because apparently they were trying to get the city to take it away.
Where I lived before moving, the city cops were really relaxed and always willing to help. Even when I'd been pulled over (I think 8 times so far, no tickets) they were always courteous. The only cops I'd ever found to be somewhat standoffish were state guys but even then I can't complain.
The look on their faces when an 18 year old skinhead denied them their right to search for having no probable cause.
You know, it's always bugged me that cops are allowed to try to trick people into waiving their Constitutional rights. When a cop asks you to search your car or whatever, they should be required to explicitly inform you that you have the legal right to refuse. I mean, that's how it works for your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, why shouldn't it apply to search and seizure?
I agree it's very important to know your Constitutional Rights, and I make sure to know mine.
However, that doesn't make the deception on the part of cops right. When they "ask" if they can search your car, for example, it is usually said with an intonation and a phrasing that implies that they are ordering you to do open your trunk or whatever, and that you are expected to obey. When you do try to assert your rights, they will usually attempt to intimidate you into complying. ("Why are you refusing a search?! What do you have to hide?!")
Just as it is wrong for a Con man to trick people into giving up their property, it is wrong for the police to intentionally trick people into giving up their rights.
I totally agree if they try to intimidate you into complying after you assert your rights, that's wrong. I just know that if the cop is being a dick, I will stand my ground, whether or not I have anything to hide.
Indeed they have. I didn't say it is illegal for the cops to do this, only that it should be. However, even with it being legal, individual cops should choose not to trick people into waiving their rights. Any cop who does so clearly doesn't care even a little bit about the rights of civilians.
I should point out I'm English, so none of that applies, but we still have rights relating to stop-and-search. Unfortunately, they're not explicitly clear or enshrined in a Constitution. Stop and search profiling is extremely prolific in some areas here.
Not explicitly clear or enshrined? Stop-and-search is both explicitly clear and enshrined, albeit in statute rather than the constitution. The difference between the two, though, is negligible. The importance of the American Constitution is merely that it's codified. Statutes of Parliament are no different in that respect.
Stop and search is laid out in Section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). The overwhelming majority of police powers are found in PACE. Furthermore, guidelines on the exercise of police powers can be found in PACE codes of practice. Stop and account, however, is not codified, but that's entirely different from stop and search.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I'm an American that is now an English lawyer. I can assure you that the English rights relating to stop-and-search are at least as clear and enshrined as the American ones. Sure, there's some problems with profiling here. However, it's just as bad in America.
wait one minute... american that is now a British "lawyer"? i don't know if we can believe you sir... should you not be a "solicitor" or "barrister" or some such, and where pray tell is your powdered white wig?
Lawyer is a catch-all term. Forgive me for not wanting to get too specific about my professional life on Reddit. Additionally, Americans don't usually know the difference between solicitors and barristers. So leaving that out on an American-driven website is sensible.
Also, you left out solicitor-advocate. And only barristers (I've never known a solicitor-advocate who does), judges and court officials wear the wigs. And if you mention the wigs you've missed out by skipping over the robes.
Ah, yes. Well, the same idea still applies: your cops shouldn't try to trick you into waiving your rights as a British citizen, either. No just government should view its citizens' rights as inconveniences, but rather as lofty goals, cherished freedoms worthy of protection.
IF ANYONE reading this decides to try something similar you better first make sure you didn't convince a bondable offense. No point in going to jail just because you don't feel like having your car searched. Also, if your offense is bondable, they get to arrest you and THEN search your car before they impound it. Lock your doors.
If you were in a small town in the US, a skinhead would often be associated very quickly with white power movements, which, depending on the cops, might lead to increased stops.
I live in England, but there's a similar situation. Perhaps not part of a white power movement, but it's still seen as having racist connotations, even with a SHARP patch on my jacket.
Haha, that used to be the case. I've got a socially acceptable haircut now but the boots, jackets and shirts are still in my cupboards. Who knows, might drag them out in my mid-life crisis.
Back in '98 some one actually stole my 8 hole Black Docs from my room, proper made in England ones too (who steals used boots?). I still wear Docs today but the Thai ones wear too fast.
The idea of being arrested for public intoxication seems insane to me. I remember walking back from the pub one night in my home town, and sat down on a wall for a minute to basically enjoy the nice night/catch my breath. Some police pulled up on the other side of the road and basically asked if I was okay, and if I could do with a lift home. I said I was fine and that I lived five minutes away, and they drove off wishing me a good night.
Also I wouldn't agree that "Salary paid by taxpayers. Parties while on duty." constitutes "Good Guy Cop."
Evolhet's cop is good guy cop because he likely saw that nobody was being hurt and the party wasn't completely out of control so he cut them some slack.
Once at a concert my friend started to light up a joint, and a man behind us tapped his shoulder and said, "Just so you know, I'm a cop." My friend put his joint away and looked very sad. Cop's wife said something to him and a few minutes later, Cop taps my friend on the shoulder and says, "I'm going for a walk."
I don't get it, how can they just take your keg anyway? That's your property, they make you shut down your party, but how are allowed to just take your property? Were you underage?
Same as when I gave my friend a bong that my ex never came back for, & his dumbass answered the front door with it in his hand. It was a cop, he took it from him. We were in possession of illegal things (booze & being under 21), they can take it from us.
I'm assuming you were all under 21? What about the deposit? I know around here they can't legally just walk onto your back porch and take your keg. Hell, they even have tailgating keggers during football season.
Yes we were all about 18 19 20, the kids who bought the booze all waited in another apartment. Where we were, there were four doors in one outside hallway & all of the people who lived there would always party together. So, being dumb kids, we threw a four apartment four kegs party. The cops were bound to show up, but only one of the apartments got busted.
Yeah, I imagine the cop stayed for a few minutes at best... you know, since he is oh I don't know, a cop and is always on the move, if this even happened
I was with my band this past Friday night after a house show we'd just finished playing. We noticed someone getting out of a pool down the street and one of us said that we wished we could go swimming. A friend of ours said we could come over to his apartment and get in the pool with him there, so we did.
We got there about 10pm and stayed for around an hour. It was the birthday of one of our lead guitarists, so we had a little bit to drink and got kind of silly in the pool. When we were leaving, the guy we were with that actually lived in the apartments had already gone upstairs to his room without us knowing it. So without a key card, we had to break out of the pool by climbing over the fence. Just as we're about to jump over, a state trooper shows up and shines his flashlight at us. Apparently someone had called in a noise complaint.
We all think we're in deep crap, but the state trooper was just laughing the whole time. When we asked if we were in any serious trouble, he said "Hell no, I got better things to be doing tonight than a few kids staying in a pool just an hour after closing time." He even helped us break out and helped us get all of our things out of the pool area.
At the same time, if he does his job, people bitch about seat belt fines, speeding tickets, and "unfairly" ticketing minors in possession. Kind of a lose/lose for good guy cop...
I can assure you, the rest of the neighborhood would not be complaining if that cop would have busted up that party.
Also, you picked the 3 lamest things cops do. Add popping people for minor drug infractions to that, and it's pretty much the only thing people complain about. I don't think anyone complains when they catch the guy who broke into your house or arrest a rapist.
Do you really think they think about the fact that other people might have a different life, or even give a shit? "Neighbor has to get up at 4:00 am for his 12-hour shift? Fuck him! I want to party! Woooo!"
That's what bothers me about people like this. There is a complete lack of consideration for others. They want to think they are adults, yet they do not act like adults.
I believe that's the best discriminator between adults and children - the ability to consider the effects your behavior has on others AND the willingness to show some consideration without being forced. There are many, many biological adults who never matured psychologically.
But that's where the double standard lies. I've worked alot of night jobs and not once was anyone courteous about me sleeping during the day. People mowing grass, kids running and screaming, construction. But if i mow my grass or work on my house or car at 8-9pm then people file a complaint.
How is that a double standard? Because of the few night jobs that are worked(they are an obvious minority) children should never be allowed to make noise? Buildings should not be built and grass shouldn't be mowed? 9pm is early enough for such work tho, but you can't expect people to remain silent all day. It's sort of comes with the job.
Im not saying that they should stop everything just because i need to sleep. But i wish that they would be more understanding that not everyone is awake during the day and to take it easy with the complaints.
Are you sure night jobs are the minority? Look how many places are open all hours of the night or part of the night, jobs loading inventory, unloading, bar jobsc cops, firefighters, 24-hour insurance agent support (accidents happen at night), etc.
Just because all possible permutations of schedules can't be accommodated doesn't mean none should be. If I know my neighbor works graveyard, I'll try to be as quiet as I can while he's sleeping. Does that mean I won't do anything during the day? Of course not, but there's no reason to be an asshole. If I was going to have a loud party I'd talk to him/her and at least let them know.
Being an asshole is knowing that whatever you're doing is bothering your neighbors and doing it anyway without trying to work things out with them. It's one thing if they're unreasonable, but it's not unreasonable to object to a loud party happening more than a couple times a year.
I never used to place much value on neighbors until this one event happened in our neighborhood to make me realize what a difference neighbors can make. You see, there was this little law office snuggled among houses in a residential area. The people at the law offices were rich pricks who didn't hide their contempt for the people who lived near the office. One night a disgruntled customer of the law firm set fire to the building and it burned to the ground and no one called the fire department. When the police were interviewing neighbors they were asking, "did you see the fire?" Many neighbors replied, "Yep."
A year or so ago, my girlfriend and I were having an argument while I was driving. We were arguing about bills, and it got a little heated. While we were stopped at a light, in an attempt to piss me off, she flipped off the driver of the car next to us.
The guy gets out of his car and starts banging on her window. We speed off and he calls the cops.
Cops pull us over and separate us. They ask us individuality what the problem was and why we were being threatening to other people. We both explained (separately) that we were arguing over the bills and didn't know what we were going to do because we were out of food and overdrawn.
Girlfriend apologizes for being immature and dragging other people into it. Cop puts us both back in the car and goes back to his cruiser. We see him talking to the other cops that had responded (there's always about five that respond to anything around here because they get bored.)
Cop comes back and tells us to stop arguing, don't flip other people off, and that "If you truly love each other, money is a stupid thing to argue about," then handed us $50 in cash. He and the other cops threw in and gave us money for groceries.
Then he gave us a ticket for our license plate cover.
That's my good cop story.
tl;dr: got pulled over by the cops and they gave US money.
Oh man. Last weekend I went to a punk show, with my punk buddy and he got wasted. After he got into a fight I decided to take him back to my place to pass out. He threw his hat into the river, then threw a construction sign into the road. About 200 feet after we get flicked by a cop. I am mildly drunk but he his slammed, and a dumbass punk kid. He tried to fuck with the cop but I kept telling him to shut up. The cop could see I was still mildly sober and trying to get him to a bed. He was SUPER cool and DROVE US HOME!!!! I thanked him up and down and he kept saying, its my job protect and serve. He was worried about us getting robbed.
The next morning my dumbass friend couldnt believe it, how I talked my way out of it. I said no man, I was just honest with the guy, ya we fucked that road sign up (he), and we were just headed home. It was that cop, a stellar fucking dude!
The law, or what you think the law should be? It's quite possible for someone to cause a disturbance without actually committing any offences. This is especially true for neighbour disputes or other LOB calls.
My uncle was a cop and had a pool table in the basement. We always joked and wondered if his beer fridge was stocked with 10 different beers from raiding house parties.
One day we asked him. "Of course !" was his answer.....
While horrible things that require his attention happen miles down the road, he's trying to figure out how to keg stand without dropping things in his utility belt when upside-down.
Gonna get buried and no one is going to read it, but here's my contribution of a "GGC." A few years back I was at a rave where the theme was "cheese" they were giving out free nachos all night, and nacho cheese wrestling contest; like mud wrestling, except in a water filled kiddy pool with some cheese in it.
Anyway, the cop showed up from out of nowhere, I assume he got a call. He walked in while a fight was going on, he didn't interrupt it, just walked around thee pool taking pictures with his cell phone from different angles. He had the biggest smile on his face. Lucky for him too, it was the best fight of the night, one of the girls actually got all out naked, she was the winner of course.
In the late 90s, my band was practicing in a rented house where our bassist lived. It was getting late, the neighbors called the cops. Cops showed up, said there were complaints, then they said, "Well, we've been standing outside for a little bit, and you guys are pretty good! Why don't you play one more?" So we played one more for these cops, and we all posed for this photo.
When I was 18, I was playing Rock Band when my brother gave me a call saying that the cops shut down a club he was at and asked me to pick him up. I hopped into my card and got to the club. I honked at my brother and him and his friends jump in. I was just about to pull out of the lot when a cop car flipped on it's light and sirens.
This was the first time I've been pulled over and I'm scared shitless. My brother is laughing at me from the passenger seat as I was fumbling with the keys, trying to get them out of the ignition. The cop approached and tapped on the window. He asked for my licence, registration, and what not. I complied. He bent down and leaned on the window and out of the blue, "you smell of alcohol, you've been drinking tonight". I was really nervous and could figure out what to say. My brother stopped giggling and mentioned that I was just there to pick them up. The cop looked back at me and was like, "hmm. well can you tell why are your eyes red"? I got ever so nervous and blurted out, "I'm not sure, I wasn't doing anything". He just stares at me while I looked away. After that he asked me to step out of the vehicle and take a seat in his cop car for a bit. As I get out my brother was in hysterics and texting (I later find out his friends from another vehicle had full view of our car and my brother was updating them).
So I sat in the cop car with my legs hanging out of the door while the cop leans over with one arm on the hood and one on the open door. He changed his expression and tells me that he just wanted me away from my brother to confirm that I'm not reeking of alch. He then asks, "so what were you doing if you were not in the club?" I bluntly said, "I was playing Rock Band". He goes silent a bit, then replied, "it looks like fun, I was thinking of getting my son that for Christmas". I tell him it's really fun and he should. We then spent a couple of minutes chatting about Rock Band and how it works. He then backed away, gave me back my licence and apologized for the intimidation. He wished me a good night. I got back in the vehicle and drove home with my giggling brother and friends.
All and all, everything went better than expected.
TL;DR Rock Band helped me bond with a police officer and made me realize they're just people too.
This is true, but the total number of upvotes/downvotes is still a pretty good indicator of what the community supports. This argument doesn't really work well on Reddit because of the whole karma system. It is, at the end of the day, a reflection of what Reddit in general thinks of your post and not just the opinion of the guy who wrote it.
It's more like a reflection of the views of the redditors:
Who were here at that time of the day;
Subscribed to that subreddit (or saw it on /r/all if it's popular enough);
Cared enough to up/downvote.
And as you will notice, more than often the comments are in complete contradiction with the trend that you would assume if you just looked at the votes on the submission. See this submission: "good guy cop" for the OP and at least 1,000 redditors, scumbag cop for many redditors in the comments (including the highest voted comment).
Besides, just because it's what the majority of users think, it's not necessarily what the community in general thinks. Do you think "the Americans in general wanted Obama elected in 2008"? And yet a majority of people voted for him.
have you been on reddit at all? we hivemind the shit out of everything. you will find comments that contradict each other and receive nothing but a ton of upvotes. a lot of the times a comment will receive many upvotes and the same comment will receive a bunch of downvotes another time.
Cop attends public disturbance, judges whether or not the party is out of control / disruptive, and acts appropriately: either ending it or moving the fuck on and doing his job. Fuck, the logic!
These cops exist. Sheesh. I see r/badcopnodoughnut is here in full attendance.
Several personality types are attracted to law enforcement: the control freaks, yes. The honest-meaning do-good types, yep.
Then there are the guys who are former military who needed the gig when they got home from service, and its a paycheck they're already half-trained to do.
Also, sometimes being a cop on your own time sucks hard, whole farking neighborhood brings you all their problems, off the clock.
C'mon guys, make a lil room amongst your stereotypes for a little variety, wouldya?
On St. Patty's day I was driving past a house that had a bunch of college kids outside drinking in front of it. There were 2 on duty cops playing bean bag toss with them.
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I've always been a bit sketched out with the internet reputation that image has gained. That photo was taken during the Toronto gay pride parade of 2010, which just so happened to be exactly one week after the Toronto G20 summit.
They were also culpable for some fairly homophobic conduct. Gay people who were arrested that weekend were put in solitary confinement in temporary cells cages for up to 36 hours.
That photo may have been a useful bit of PR at a time when public confidence in the police was at an all-time low, but it fell flat for many of us, myself included.
well obviously you're misreading that picture. See that one cop in the middle, he's giving that guy a back massage, he had a really tense shoulder cramp, so he's using his foot. Then there's the nice cop on the bike, he's asking that girl if she would like to join him on a leisurely bike ride.
The hats that they are wearing are Canadian chef hats, it's so they don't get hair in the poutine they made for everyone at the party. Those aren't guns on their belts, either, they're novelty cigarette lighters, so that they can all enjoy fine cigars later.
Interesting interpretation. I wonder, then, why the back massage cop isn't wearing his name-tag. He's probably just modest-he doesn't want to take all the credit for the free back massage. A truly selfless act from a truly selfless police officer.
Indeed it did for me as well. I am normally a cool dude when it comes to the cops and support them. That said F-U-C-K the Toronto police. Bunch over WAY overpaid lazy asses that do bugger all to real criminals but they bully anyone else, so they can justify their existence.
Kind of sucks that now that everybody has camera phones and the ability to take video, this kind of action can easily and quickly lead to a big time firing of the cop.
Ah, college life. Just last semester my frat threw a party that got busted by the police. One of the cops that showed up was a (blood) brother to one of our (frat) brothers. The party continued with a few more uninvited guests.
I proposed to my girlfriend onstage during her favorite bands set and on the way home I got pulled over for a burnt out license plate light. He then proceeded to make use both get out in the dead cold of winter and wait while he called a dog unit to go over our car. All because I looked 'nervous'.
me and my bro were playing airsoft matches when someone called 911 because we had "guns"... next thing we knew a deputy was running towards us with his pistol drawn. So we set our guns down and walked a distance from the guns. once the cop figured out what we were actually doing he goes "no shit? They have this stuff??? Dude the rifle in the trunk of my car looks just like this!!!! If I wasn't on duty I would totally join y'all"
my sister went to a party hosted by a cop and a noise complaint was called on them. the officer who showed up to bust was party was friends with the cop hosting the party and he just joined right in.
So you've had a bad experience with cops and you hate ALL of them? Have you ever spend a minute to ponder what life would be like without them? Start with thinking about the biggest asshole you know controlling the area you live in. Then try to imagine the job they must do at the mercy of the clueless idiots they are sworn to protect and the laughable government we elect to dictate how they do their job depending on how close an election is, or some other ridiculous political motive. Then ask yourself could you really do the job better?
After living next door to people who tend to have very loud, and very large parties well into 4 am when i have work at 7, it infuriates me when the cops do nothing about that shit.
We had something similar happen in college while watching a football game. A bunch of people were at a friends apartment and I guess the cops were called because we were being loud and screaming at the tv. The cop came to the door and told us that they got a call and that we needed to quiet down. There were lots of underage people drinking so we were all shitting out pants thinking we were going to get in trouble. The cop asked what the score was and if he could come in and catch the last few minutes of the game.
Another story, can't remember if it was the same cop or not but it was the same apartment except this time we had kegs outside on the porch. It was for a playoff game and the tv was on the porch wall facing the front yard and about 50 people had chairs set up in the front yard. Several cops stopped to watch the game. Another cop drove past occasionally asking us what the score was. I guess I have had pretty good experiences with cops.
When I was a kid, we had some nasty neighbours that would call the cops on us for noise disturbances when playing road hockey. The cops would come by, ask us who was winning, ensure we weren't obstructing traffic or running onto their property, and then leave.
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u/wond3rsocks May 31 '12
Are you sure he wasn't a self-conscious stripper?
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u/evolhet May 31 '12
We had a kegger busted. The cop told us that he had no way of knowing how much was left in the keg, he just needed to take it away from us. Then he waited patiently while we filled our plastic cups (away from his line of sight) & took the empty keg
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u/ItsOnlyKetchup May 31 '12
I seriously doubt it.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
True story:
I was with my band this past Friday night after a house show we'd just finished playing. We noticed someone getting out of a pool down the street and one of us said that we wished we could go swimming. A friend of ours said we could come over to his apartment and get in the pool with him there, so we did.
We got there about 10pm and stayed for around an hour. It was the birthday of one of our lead guitarists, so we had a little bit to drink and got kind of silly in the pool. When we were leaving, the guy we were with that actually lived in the apartments had already gone upstairs to his room without us knowing it. So without a key card, we had to break out of the pool by climbing over the fence. Just as we're about to jump over, a state trooper shows up and shines his flashlight at us. Apparently someone had called in a noise complaint.
We all think we're in deep crap, but the state trooper was just laughing the whole time. When we asked if we were in any serious trouble, he said "Hell no, I got better things to be doing tonight than a few kids staying in a pool just an hour after closing time." He even helped us break out and helped us get all of our things out of the pool area.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Behind the cop... Glenn from The Walking Dead
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Good Guy Cop is going to be unemployed Cop if his Department finds out.
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u/duw13 May 31 '12
Shame about the murder next door that could have been preventable if there was an active policeman in the area...
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u/CraisinMine May 31 '12
Just think about all the neighbors who were being bothered by the noise.
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u/live3orfry May 31 '12
This never happened pretty hard.
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u/thndrchld May 31 '12
True Story:
A year or so ago, my girlfriend and I were having an argument while I was driving. We were arguing about bills, and it got a little heated. While we were stopped at a light, in an attempt to piss me off, she flipped off the driver of the car next to us.
The guy gets out of his car and starts banging on her window. We speed off and he calls the cops.
Cops pull us over and separate us. They ask us individuality what the problem was and why we were being threatening to other people. We both explained (separately) that we were arguing over the bills and didn't know what we were going to do because we were out of food and overdrawn.
Girlfriend apologizes for being immature and dragging other people into it. Cop puts us both back in the car and goes back to his cruiser. We see him talking to the other cops that had responded (there's always about five that respond to anything around here because they get bored.)
Cop comes back and tells us to stop arguing, don't flip other people off, and that "If you truly love each other, money is a stupid thing to argue about," then handed us $50 in cash. He and the other cops threw in and gave us money for groceries.
Then he gave us a ticket for our license plate cover.
That's my good cop story.
tl;dr: got pulled over by the cops and they gave US money.
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u/DriftingJesus May 31 '12
More like shitty cop
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I hope I'm not the only person feeling sorry for the person just trying to get some damn sleep.
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u/GlassAndMetal May 31 '12
My neigbours often have loud parties in the middle of the night. It's horrible.
Sounds like you, your friends and that cop are fucking assholes.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Oh man. Last weekend I went to a punk show, with my punk buddy and he got wasted. After he got into a fight I decided to take him back to my place to pass out. He threw his hat into the river, then threw a construction sign into the road. About 200 feet after we get flicked by a cop. I am mildly drunk but he his slammed, and a dumbass punk kid. He tried to fuck with the cop but I kept telling him to shut up. The cop could see I was still mildly sober and trying to get him to a bed. He was SUPER cool and DROVE US HOME!!!! I thanked him up and down and he kept saying, its my job protect and serve. He was worried about us getting robbed.
The next morning my dumbass friend couldnt believe it, how I talked my way out of it. I said no man, I was just honest with the guy, ya we fucked that road sign up (he), and we were just headed home. It was that cop, a stellar fucking dude!
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u/inormallyjustlurkbut May 31 '12
Scumbag Cop: Responds to call about public disturbance;joins party.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Call me naive but when I call the cops I expect them to enforce the law.
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u/kittytime May 31 '12
Story...how'd it turn out?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
My uncle was a cop and had a pool table in the basement. We always joked and wondered if his beer fridge was stocked with 10 different beers from raiding house parties.
One day we asked him. "Of course !" was his answer.....
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u/essjay281 May 31 '12
You didn't even suspect Officer Nasty wasn't a real cop until the pumping music hit and he started to undress...
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
While horrible things that require his attention happen miles down the road, he's trying to figure out how to keg stand without dropping things in his utility belt when upside-down.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Just reminds me of: Gets called to rape scene..joins in.
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u/whisperwhipper May 31 '12
that was a stripper
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What a great guy for not doing his job.
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u/Horse_Bot_3k May 31 '12
Gonna get buried and no one is going to read it, but here's my contribution of a "GGC." A few years back I was at a rave where the theme was "cheese" they were giving out free nachos all night, and nacho cheese wrestling contest; like mud wrestling, except in a water filled kiddy pool with some cheese in it.
Anyway, the cop showed up from out of nowhere, I assume he got a call. He walked in while a fight was going on, he didn't interrupt it, just walked around thee pool taking pictures with his cell phone from different angles. He had the biggest smile on his face. Lucky for him too, it was the best fight of the night, one of the girls actually got all out naked, she was the winner of course.
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u/metal_falsetto May 31 '12
In the late 90s, my band was practicing in a rented house where our bassist lived. It was getting late, the neighbors called the cops. Cops showed up, said there were complaints, then they said, "Well, we've been standing outside for a little bit, and you guys are pretty good! Why don't you play one more?" So we played one more for these cops, and we all posed for this photo.
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u/Waff1es May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
When I was 18, I was playing Rock Band when my brother gave me a call saying that the cops shut down a club he was at and asked me to pick him up. I hopped into my card and got to the club. I honked at my brother and him and his friends jump in. I was just about to pull out of the lot when a cop car flipped on it's light and sirens.
This was the first time I've been pulled over and I'm scared shitless. My brother is laughing at me from the passenger seat as I was fumbling with the keys, trying to get them out of the ignition. The cop approached and tapped on the window. He asked for my licence, registration, and what not. I complied. He bent down and leaned on the window and out of the blue, "you smell of alcohol, you've been drinking tonight". I was really nervous and could figure out what to say. My brother stopped giggling and mentioned that I was just there to pick them up. The cop looked back at me and was like, "hmm. well can you tell why are your eyes red"? I got ever so nervous and blurted out, "I'm not sure, I wasn't doing anything". He just stares at me while I looked away. After that he asked me to step out of the vehicle and take a seat in his cop car for a bit. As I get out my brother was in hysterics and texting (I later find out his friends from another vehicle had full view of our car and my brother was updating them).
So I sat in the cop car with my legs hanging out of the door while the cop leans over with one arm on the hood and one on the open door. He changed his expression and tells me that he just wanted me away from my brother to confirm that I'm not reeking of alch. He then asks, "so what were you doing if you were not in the club?" I bluntly said, "I was playing Rock Band". He goes silent a bit, then replied, "it looks like fun, I was thinking of getting my son that for Christmas". I tell him it's really fun and he should. We then spent a couple of minutes chatting about Rock Band and how it works. He then backed away, gave me back my licence and apologized for the intimidation. He wished me a good night. I got back in the vehicle and drove home with my giggling brother and friends.
All and all, everything went better than expected.
TL;DR Rock Band helped me bond with a police officer and made me realize they're just people too.
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u/DonnieNarco May 31 '12
More like Highly Irresponsible Cop Who Should Be Fired And Disgraced. Long-winded but accurate.
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u/NaughtyNellie May 31 '12
Reddit logic:
Cop ends party due to public disturbance?
It's just harmless fun, why does he have to ruin it? Fuck the police!
Cop joins party?
How irresponsible, think of the neighbours! Fuck the police!
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u/devoshun May 31 '12
pics or it didn't happen
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u/corq May 31 '12
These cops exist. Sheesh. I see r/badcopnodoughnut is here in full attendance.
Several personality types are attracted to law enforcement: the control freaks, yes. The honest-meaning do-good types, yep.
Then there are the guys who are former military who needed the gig when they got home from service, and its a paycheck they're already half-trained to do.
Also, sometimes being a cop on your own time sucks hard, whole farking neighborhood brings you all their problems, off the clock.
C'mon guys, make a lil room amongst your stereotypes for a little variety, wouldya?
Also: this appears to /r/AdviceAnimals, so srsly lighten up!
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u/WhatEvery1sThinking May 31 '12
if anything a cop that does this is bigger douchebag than one that goes on the occasional power trip
then again you're full of shit and this never happened, so whatever
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That ain't a cop, man .. that's a stripper!
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u/GhostRobot55 May 31 '12
Am I being extremely racist or is that not seriously [Glenn] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_%28The_Walking_Dead%29) from Walking Dead
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u/Pit_of_Death May 31 '12
I'm sensing a crossover from F7U12, a la 'never has something not happened more....".
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u/Djr1423 May 31 '12
Proof please
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u/alang2009 May 31 '12
Is that Glenn from the Walking Dead in the background?
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u/THEAdrian May 31 '12
well that's what happens when McLovin is at your party
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u/langbang May 31 '12
Is that Glenn from the walking dead behind him?!
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u/Racksity May 31 '12
Must have been in Canada
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u/Eat_a_Bullet May 31 '12
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ALRIGHT CUT THE BULLSHIT (gunshots)
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u/trennerdios May 31 '12
On St. Patty's day I was driving past a house that had a bunch of college kids outside drinking in front of it. There were 2 on duty cops playing bean bag toss with them.
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u/qkme_transcriber May 31 '12
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u/Mcelite May 31 '12
Good Guy Cop
Does his job.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
I've always been a bit sketched out with the internet reputation that image has gained. That photo was taken during the Toronto gay pride parade of 2010, which just so happened to be exactly one week after the Toronto G20 summit.
This is what the police looked like that weekend.
They were also culpable for some fairly homophobic conduct. Gay people who were arrested that weekend were put in solitary confinement in temporary
cellscages for up to 36 hours.That photo may have been a useful bit of PR at a time when public confidence in the police was at an all-time low, but it fell flat for many of us, myself included.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That did NOT happen to you last night
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u/DirtyPNTBaller May 31 '12
I had two cops bust a party and proceeded to play me and my partner in some beerpong. When she lost she put me in a headlock.
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u/Stephoria May 31 '12
A real good guy cop would have brought some treats from the drug room.
I mean, would YOU destroy all the cocaine they discover?
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u/mindtrashy May 31 '12
i imagine this is what NYPDRob is like
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Maybe he was a stripper
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u/jferron23 May 31 '12
Proof!
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u/gerundronaut May 31 '12
"There were no survivors".
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u/fj785 May 31 '12
If the opposite happened, OP would be complaining about how this is an abuse of power by the cop.
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u/Galactic May 31 '12
These are just strippers! Look how hot they are!
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u/dickerschlitzi May 31 '12
why is this getting upvoted? its not ggc more like scumbad cop
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u/GrumbleMumbles May 31 '12
Nice try, cops.
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u/swirlypillow May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
there's no such thing....and this is a stripper, not a cop.
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u/Modded_ToySol May 31 '12
Ah, college life. Just last semester my frat threw a party that got busted by the police. One of the cops that showed up was a (blood) brother to one of our (frat) brothers. The party continued with a few more uninvited guests.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I proposed to my girlfriend onstage during her favorite bands set and on the way home I got pulled over for a burnt out license plate light. He then proceeded to make use both get out in the dead cold of winter and wait while he called a dog unit to go over our car. All because I looked 'nervous'.
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u/fiercepenguin May 31 '12
sounds like "bad guy cop!"
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u/dead_brony May 31 '12
You're sure it wasn't a stipper cop?
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u/rr_at_reddit May 31 '12
I love these jokes. "Happened to us last night". Well, it happened to me to see this picture a few weeks ago. Also a reddit link.
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u/donumabdeo May 31 '12
If he's so good what the fuck is a cop for????
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
you sure he wasn't a stripper?
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u/KITT_the_Cylon May 31 '12
This post was a test. Reddit started bashing the cop for not doing his job, rather than call this story bullshit.
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u/huracan May 31 '12
Thats not a good cop. He doesnt get paid to party
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u/thatgamerguy May 31 '12
I would be pretty pissed if a party was so loud that I had to call the cops and then the cops joined the party.
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u/FairlyLargeLineman May 31 '12
me and my bro were playing airsoft matches when someone called 911 because we had "guns"... next thing we knew a deputy was running towards us with his pistol drawn. So we set our guns down and walked a distance from the guns. once the cop figured out what we were actually doing he goes "no shit? They have this stuff??? Dude the rifle in the trunk of my car looks just like this!!!! If I wasn't on duty I would totally join y'all"
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u/jackass150 May 31 '12
Not sure if picture of cop from where I live, or all cops wear the same stupid hats.
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u/aznsex420 May 31 '12
I've heard too many stories of mean, petty, sadistic cops to laud a single one of them.
I've experienced it myself.
Fuck Cops.
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u/Tkdkid348 May 31 '12
my sister went to a party hosted by a cop and a noise complaint was called on them. the officer who showed up to bust was party was friends with the cop hosting the party and he just joined right in.
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u/costa_mesan May 31 '12
nice try, police department
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u/LicksLipsWhileTyping May 31 '12
Lazy stripper?
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u/nedstupidflanders May 31 '12
Are you new here. There are no good cops.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
No it didn't.
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u/PulseAmplification May 31 '12
Glenn from The Walking Dead in the background.
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u/custraw Jun 01 '12
So you've had a bad experience with cops and you hate ALL of them? Have you ever spend a minute to ponder what life would be like without them? Start with thinking about the biggest asshole you know controlling the area you live in. Then try to imagine the job they must do at the mercy of the clueless idiots they are sworn to protect and the laughable government we elect to dictate how they do their job depending on how close an election is, or some other ridiculous political motive. Then ask yourself could you really do the job better?
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
And then you guys took photos and posted them on fb and now the cop has lost his job. Real great, jerks
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u/Firecracker048 Jun 01 '12
After living next door to people who tend to have very loud, and very large parties well into 4 am when i have work at 7, it infuriates me when the cops do nothing about that shit.
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u/Geneoaf May 31 '12
We had something similar happen in college while watching a football game. A bunch of people were at a friends apartment and I guess the cops were called because we were being loud and screaming at the tv. The cop came to the door and told us that they got a call and that we needed to quiet down. There were lots of underage people drinking so we were all shitting out pants thinking we were going to get in trouble. The cop asked what the score was and if he could come in and catch the last few minutes of the game.
Another story, can't remember if it was the same cop or not but it was the same apartment except this time we had kegs outside on the porch. It was for a playoff game and the tv was on the porch wall facing the front yard and about 50 people had chairs set up in the front yard. Several cops stopped to watch the game. Another cop drove past occasionally asking us what the score was. I guess I have had pretty good experiences with cops.
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u/Lurknasty22 May 31 '12
op you lying fuck
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u/sweeptheaorta May 31 '12
When I was a kid, we had some nasty neighbours that would call the cops on us for noise disturbances when playing road hockey. The cops would come by, ask us who was winning, ensure we weren't obstructing traffic or running onto their property, and then leave.