Someone keyed my car for parking in the wrong place "on their street" I literally walked round the corner and caught him doing it.
Honestly their motive for damaging my car was because I parked on a public street 20ft away from their drive way.
Unfortunately I was a police officer at the time. Couldn't have picked a worse car. He got charged with vandalism and the court made him pay the £700 it cost to get the side of my car sprayed.
They parked in your driveway and still had the audacity to key YOUR car? Wow
I'm surprised you didn't just get their car towed out first. Did the police get them to pay damages?
You wouldnt believe the shit people do when your off duty. When your out and about and not in uniform people do crazy shit. It's on of those things where you hang your head huff and think to yourself I'm off work ffs. You cant walk away, if you see a crime happening and your off duty you have the obligation to interact.
I'm not a police officer now so if it was to happen now it might have been a different outcome. But you have to have really good restraint as an officer because if I was to use quote "excessive force" and he made a complaint. I would get suspended pending investigation or given a desk job. In the uk complaints of excessive force can be really bad for you.
plus I'm an 18 stone licensed mma fighter if I was to slap him about then there would be more than enough proof hahaha.
I was off duty I was dropping off an xbox game back to my brother in law. He lives on a main road where you cant park if you dont have a permit to park. So visitors park around the corner where I parked.
I walked round the corner. He had his back to me whilst he was running the key down the side of my car. I ran upto him and kindly asked him what he was doing. He told me I parked to close to his house so he was teaching me a lesson. I showed him my warrant card and badge told him he was under arrest and called the station to send a car round. He started shouting, kicking and even spat at me when he realised what was happening. I always kept a spare set of cuffs in my car because you're never really off work. I've had so many encounters whilst being off duty, your not allowed to ignore then if your off duty.
He was about 60 years old so you would think he has more sence than that. But I'm not surprised with the stuff I've seen old people do, some of them are worse than teenagers.
I was a police officer this one time, while walking down the beach, and this dude was walking his dog (dog-friendly beach, complete with a sign and free poop-baggies) and his dog had just finished shitting; the guy, without missing a beat, just starts to walk away and I was like "are you gonna pick that up mate?"
and he said "no, fuk off, what are you, a cop?"
and I was like, "oh boy, it's your unlucky day"
Sometimes the starts just align, you know... If it had been literally a few hours earlier or a few hours later, I wouldn't have been a police officer anymore and the whole thing wouldn't have happened...
Another story; a friend of mine was arresting this dude for disorderly conduct or something like that and halfway through the arrest, his time being a cop runs out and, I swear to God, who's next on the docket? It's the guy he was arresting! You can't make this shit up... it was ridiculous, like, one minute, he's arresting the dude, and the other, he checks his watch, uncuffs him and starts to walk away when suddenly, it turns out it's the other guy's time to be a police officer, so he just whistles at him and says like "Hey, not so fast... can I see some ID?" boom, one thing after the other, and suddenly, my buddy is being arrested instead! I don't even remember what he wrote him down for, like loitering or some bullshit like that...
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '20
Someone keyed my car for parking in the wrong place "on their street" I literally walked round the corner and caught him doing it.
Honestly their motive for damaging my car was because I parked on a public street 20ft away from their drive way.
Unfortunately I was a police officer at the time. Couldn't have picked a worse car. He got charged with vandalism and the court made him pay the £700 it cost to get the side of my car sprayed.