[JoeCanada76]

I am curious does anybody have any good police stories and experiances to share? Or bad ones?

I think this would make an interesting topic but its all up to you guys now. I will share mine as well.

Joe

[shygrneyzs]

I think you opened a flood gate here, Joe. Lol.

My good experience was about a year ago. I had gone across the river to do some business in the city across from here and was coming back when my car's heat gage went way over to hot. I pulled over to the side of the road to let it cool. Luckily there were two highway patrol cars coming my way and they both stopped. I was not that far from the repair shop and they took them there. One of the patrolemen drove my car while his partner followed and the other patrol car was in front, leading the way. They even called the repair shop for me and said I was coming in. When we got to the shop, the patrolmen waited until they knew the car was in the garage and being worked on. They even asked me if I needed someone to get my son from school or to get home to meet the bus. One of the officers said he would drive me home if needed and then make sure the car got home when fixed. I really felt safe.

Oh, the repair turned out to be a thermostat. Not expensive either.

[NeedKarma]

Well with the proliferation of cell phone cams it seems that people in the U.S. have been recording a record number of bad police stories all documented on video. It's been a big topic at Digg.com lately. Here are a few examples (the accompanying video is the link at the top)

Digg - More Police Butality? This Time a Peaceful and Compliant Town Councilman
Digg - Cop gone wild- Lying and making threats just part of his job
Digg - Cop Shoots Unarmed Air Force Officer For Doing What he Cop Says!! [VIDEO]

[JoeCanada76]

Good experiances, when I was a little boy the taxi cab driver was supposed to bring me home from school. He stopped right downtown toronto. For his own business and left me in the car. I got scared and do not know how long it was but I asked a stranger for help. Turned out there was a cop car behind us and he waited for the taxi driver to get back. I was sitting in the police car and wearing the cops hat. The other officer went up to the taxi cab driver and gave him a lexture and even slapped his face for leaving a young boy in a taxi cab driver alone. They drove me home and told my mom what happened. She went balistic and wanted to kill the taxi cab driver, but the officers said they already dealt with him. It was a good experience and good out come.

Last night, I went out to do some things and ended up making an error, police officer realised that I was out of province and visiting family. Just asked me if I knew what I did wrong and I said yes and he said just do not be in such a hurry next time. Very nice.

Now in Ontario before we had little babes. My wife and I was coming back home from visiting her family this cop car blasts past us. No lights and no sirens. We actually ended up catching up to him. He was weaving in and out of traffic, I thought he was drunk. I was getting Proud to write down the liceance plate number and this guy ended up going into the right lane, let me pass then pulled us over. He came up what the ---- are you following so close for. I said I was not doing anything wrong and that I was actually going below the speed limit. He actually starts banging on the car with his fist and said that that would have been me if he slammed on his breaks. 10 minutes later, he told me I do not think you need a ticket but stay off my --- when I leave here. I was chasing after a drunk driver. Hmmmmm. He spend 10 -15 minutes with me and his excuse for his behaviour was that he was chasing after a drunk driver. Yet, I have my wife as a witness of his behaviour and I told her that since he punched our car and was threatening me that he would have no case in court.

Okay there it goes.

Joe

[shygrneyzs]

I have one other positive experience. Summer of 1973, pregnant, alone, with a car that used more oil than gas. I was driving up State Street and smoke was coming out the back end. Got stopped and a ticket with the notice to correct the problem within 30 days or be faced with the vehicle being impounded and me going to court. I went home and cried. I had no money, worked 40 hrs a week for $1.00/hr and rent was almost two weeks wages. So I wrote a letter to the district highway patrol supervisor, explaining my situation. Was not trying to get out of getting the car repaired but asking for more time so that I could save the money to get the car fixed - I needed $150.00. Sent the letter and two days later, a knock on the door. There was the highway patrol who stopped me and gave me the ticket. Told me that I should have explained myself to him when he gave me the ticket. I told him I was always taught never to complain and that I was not complaining, just asking for more time. He told me that the district supervisor read the letter at their weekly meeting and asked for advice. Everyone agreed to waive the ticket. He told me he had a daughter about my age. Asked about my folks and where was the bio dad, etc. I was honest. He tore the ticket up and gave me a hug.

There is goodness in the world.

Yes, I know there is just as much badness. Some horrid things out there have happened to people I know.

[JoeCanada76]

That is an amazing story. Yes, there is still a lot of good in the world. Thank you for sharing.

[katieperez]

Shygrney's right about the flood gates I think :D I got my driver license 2 days after my 16th b-day on dec 1st. And at 16, I was a terror teen. I'm talking drugs, sex, and rock n roll. Bad girl. So I was at a girlfriends house on a school night smoking dope. Shame, I know :o Anyhow, this was around 2 weeks after having my license, middle of December in Cleveland, COLD AND SNOWY!! So I was on my way home in my 93 Tempo, it was late and I was high. Oh did I mention I had a dime bag in my purse? So I ran out of gas. Crap. Fortunately, the gas station was within walking distance. A few yards into my walk from my car, a police officer pulled over and offered me a ride since it was so cold and late. I politely declined (being that I was high and had weed in my possession) but he politely insisted. Paranoid, I got in the front seat only to be greeted by a grumpy drug dog behind the wire in the back. This german sheppard was pissed! He could smell me and wanted to tear me up! I cried. We got to the gas station and needless to say, the officer became suspicious of me after sir barks a lot went berserk. He found my stash and called my mom. Thankfully, he didn't bring me in. I think it's because I cried ;) Ouch. I'm glad those days are over.

[peggyhill]

I had a really good experience with the police when my friend got sick when we were out. We were walking back home from a coffee shop, and it was really cold outside. My friend had been feeling bad all day, and she threw up on the way home. I tried to call a friend to come pick us up but no one was home. We were sitting there waiting on a bus because my friend didn't think she could walk home. A police officer happened to be there writing a parking ticket and overheard our conversation. He offered to give us a ride to her apartment. It was really nice that we didn't have to wait on the bus. My friend, unfortunately got sick in his car, but he was really nice about it. He took us home, and even walked us to the door to make sure my friend made it OK. I thought it was cool that he took time out of his busy night to help her out.

[AKaeTrue]

Actually, I have a bad one...
I was a teenager and at a club.
Me and a group of friends were leaving when a fight broke out in the parking lot right outside the doors.
There were cops breaking it up and cops putting people in their cars.

A girl friend of mine was walking with a guy she had just met.
A cop told them to get into the car. The car was full of that guys friends.
Well, like a dumb a$$, she got in the car and was sitting on someone's lap the car was so full.
I reached in the car and tried to pull her out when the cop told me to get in and clear out.
I tried to explain to him that we didn't know those guys and that she needed to get out and come with me, but he wasn't listening and tried to push me in the car.
So I'm resisting to get in the car, all while repeating myself when I feel him hit me with his stupid stick in the leg... well that pissed me off cause the a$$hole wasn't listening to why I wasn't getting into the car.
So I turned around and yelled at the top of my lungs I'm not getting in the F!ng car you F!n a$$hole... then I got arrested.

[magprob]

I have nothing bad to say about any cop. I have always been respectful and they treat me the same.

[startover22]

There I was... heading down the road... as most of you know I have a lead foot...
I hear the sirens... Mind you, my palms are sweaty cause my insurance is sure to go up now! He pulls me over and says Ma'am... did you know you were speeding? Going 53 in a 35? I said well Sir, I am dislexic don'tcha know... He smiled and chuckled, about 5 minutes later, he handed me my ticket... and I was off again... I was nice he was nice... everything went as smooth as ice!

[AKaeTrue]

Oh, I almost forgot... the bad experiences always stick out, but I have a good one too.
I took my dogs and my sisters dog (4 all together) to get shots at a pet Mobil with my children who were 1 and 4 at the time.
It was being held at a store parking lot.

While waiting in the line to get shots,
I was having a difficult time keeping the dogs from tangling me up in the leashes and my children close.

There was an officer who went in the store.
On his way out, he saw the trouble I was having and took the dogs so I could hold my children.
He waited in line with us then helped me put the dogs back in the car after they had their shots.

[startover22]

Awww, what a nice guys AK... that was so sweet...

[excon]

Hello:

Once, I had a puppy. Then I lost it and a nice police man helped me find him.

excon

[ashleysb]

When I was 18, two girlfriends and I drove to the next town to go see some local bands play at a church. I'm from a small town in the Midwest, so the next town meant a thirty mile drive on a two lane highway through farmland and backwoods. We arrived at the church at about 9pm. About an hour later one of my friends I am with, gets a call from her mother saying she needs her to come home right now, some sort of family emergency. So not knowing exactly what had happened, we all jump in my car and head back home. The speed limit was 55 and I was going 71 when the officer clocked me. He pulled me over and came up to the driver's side and asked to see my license and insurance card, which I gave him. Then he proceeds to ask if I know why I was pulled over and I tell him that I was speeding. He then asks if he can use my cell phone to call my mother. I ask why and he says because he wants to tell her himself what I was doing. I tell him that I do not have a cell phone and that in this state being 18 makes me a legal adult and there is no reason to call my mother. He then tells me to go back and sit in his car while he talks to my friends. (Mind you, we were three girls between the ages of 17-19 on an empty highway at 10 o'clock at night.) So he stands up there and asks them questions for about 10 minutes. Then he comes back and gets in the driver side of the police car and starts filling out the ticket. He asks if I have been drinking, which I hadn't. Then proceeds to ask me all of these trivial questions. What we had been doing, why I was driving so fast, etc. Then he states how he wishes I was going 4 mph faster, so he could arrest me right now for involuntary-manslaughter. (This was my first time ever being pulled over or being in trouble with the police.) He keeps filling out the ticket and asks me if my parents are going to angry with me for getting a ticket, asks me over and over if there is anything illegal in the car, and then asks me why I'm not crying because all the "little girls" like me that he pulls over always cry. I look him right in the face and say, "Well, sir, I see you have almost completed filling out the ticket, so crying isn't going to do me much good now, is it?" He hands me the ticket and tells me he is going to follow me all the way into town. I get back in my car to hear that he had been asking my two friends if I am on any sort of psychiatric drugs and if I am sexually promiscuous. So I drive 30 mph all the way home. That was the first and last time I have ever had a personal encounter with a police officer.

[curlybenswife]

Not really had that many encounters with the police localy or back at home to be honest, the kids I used to look after there dad was a police man he was a fabulas man although he did pick me up one night for being utterly smashed on the street lol he took me home and boy did I get stick when I saw him next lol I was 19 then old enough to drink and to know better tee hee.

[inthebox]

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This was back in the 70s, my dad is driving , > 10 mph, as usual in one of those conversion vans. Cop pulls us over and my parents tell my younger sister, 8 at the time, to start crying and grabbing her belly. My father explains he was going fast because my sister was 'sick.' Cop does not give us a ticket, but an escort to the emergency room.
My sister was seen and 'cured.'

[startover22]

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This was back in the 70s, my dad is driving , > 10 mph, as usual in one of those conversion vans. Cop pulls us over and my parents tell my younger sister, 8 at the time, to start crying and grabbing her belly. My father explains he was going fast because my sister was 'sick.' Cop does not give us a ticket, but an escort to the emergency room.
My sister was seen and 'cured.'

LMAO! Oh his excuse was way better than mine... I will use that one next time! I am sure there will be one, so if anyone else has a good excuse to get out of a ticket? Please post it! :D

[bushg]

I was in my early 20's just got off work at 11p.m. as did a lot of other factories in that area so it was really busy. Was on my way to see my b.f. I came flying down the street going about 50 in a 25 and saw a cop car stick out from behind a building of course he was going to get me, I floored it went to the left down a few sid estreets on to the expressway and to my city about 11 miles away waited a little while, doubled back and went to see the b.f... home free Whew! I can't believe that I did that I was so afraid of getting a ticket. Lol I am so dumb he would have probably have taken me to jail.

A few days later at the b.f's house just stopped for a second was parked on the wrong side of the street and guess who shows up... I tried to talk him out of it. His reply was I would but a car just like this got away from me the other night... lol Karma I got a ticket.

[JoeCanada76]

I carpool. Well I did not drive today. They had extra workers so they started giving people the option to go home. So I got picked to go home. Everybody was saying how stupid I was and laughing at me saying I have no way home.
Well I had my thumb up. Police officer saw me and actually gave me a lift part of the way, he said hitchhiking is not illegal unless it is in a major highway and dropped me off in an area that had good amount of traffic. Lets just say it did not take long to get home. Down east, you do not even have to hitch and people are so friendly that they ask you if you need a ride even if your not looking for one. I was very lucky to get a ride by the officer and a very nice driver. It was very cold and wintry. Hey though I got a fair amount of fresh air, and got a sense that there is still a lot of friendly people out there.

Oh, Start.

Excuse to get out of the ticket. This is out of George Carlin joke.

Officer pulls you over. He comes up and gives you a ticket. Crumple it up and throw it at his feet. Tell him that you have so many f----- tickets already and that you do not need anymore papers polluting your car. Then say hey, don't I pay your salary. Arnt you a public servant. Well get me a glass of f------- water now and I will be on my way. Then speed off. I am sure the cop will be so dumb founded that he will leave you be. Ha Ha