[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Cop vs Kid…….. (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/18/2010 9:15:18 PM EDT
A cop was on his horse waiting to cross the street
when a little girl On her new shiny bike stopped beside him. 
'Nice bike,' the cop said. 'Did Santa bring it to you?' 'Yes Sir,' the little girl said, 'he sure did!' The cop looked the bike over and handed the girl a $5 ticket for a safety violation. The cop said, 'Give this to your Dad, and next year, tell Santa to put a reflector light on the back of it!' The young girl looked up at the cop and said, 'Nice horse you've got there Sir.. Did Santa bring it to you?' Playing along with the girl, he chuckled and answered, 'Yes, he sure did!' The little girl looked up at the cop and said: 'Next year tell Santa; The dick goes underneath the horse, not on top'!!! 
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. Outstanding Sir!!!!   
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. Outstanding Sir!!!! Yup. Way to keep those streets safe. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. 
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! 
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! Local Sherrif told me about warning a wheelie riding 14 year old on a motorcycle twice before he finally took him in the third time and impounded his bike. Sherrif must have been really pissed as I never knew of him writing another ticket in the 8 years he was sherrif. Sherrif was the typical good ol' boy who let all of the small stuff slide for the sake of the bigger picture. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! Local Sherrif told me about warning a wheelie riding 14 year old on a motorcycle twice before he finally took him in the third time and impounded his bike. Sherrif must have been really pissed as I never knew of him writing another ticket in the 8 years he was sherrif. Sherrif was the typical good ol' boy who let all of the small stuff slide for the sake of the bigger picture. 3rd times a charm? Seriously though, if you've been warned twice by the same guy, you've got it coming. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. Did ya'll call him Robocop? 
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. Outstanding Sir!!!!
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. snip . Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. you dick. 
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! Local Sherrif told me about warning a wheelie riding 14 year old on a motorcycle twice before he finally took him in the third time and impounded his bike. Sherrif must have been really pissed as I never knew of him writing another ticket in the 8 years he was sherrif. Sherrif was the typical good ol' boy who let all of the small stuff slide for the sake of the bigger picture. 3rd times a charm? Seriously though, if you've been warned twice by the same guy, you've got it coming. I don't give 'em a second chance. I work security at a college; I caught some kid riding his skateboard (which is specifically forbidden) on campus. Gave him a warning. TEN MINUTES LATER I catch him again. Took his ID and made an IR about it. (He saw the Director of Students the following week.) As I was taking his info he bitched, "Skateboarding isn't illegal!" I told him, "It is on this campus!" He shut up and put on his stupid face. 
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Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! Local Sherrif told me about warning a wheelie riding 14 year old on a motorcycle twice before he finally took him in the third time and impounded his bike. Sherrif must have been really pissed as I never knew of him writing another ticket in the 8 years he was sherrif. Sherrif was the typical good ol' boy who let all of the small stuff slide for the sake of the bigger picture. 3rd times a charm? Seriously though, if you've been warned twice by the same guy, you've got it coming. I don't give 'em a second chance. I work security at a college; I caught some kid riding his skateboard (which is specifically forbidden) on campus. Gave him a warning. TEN MINUTES LATER I catch him again. Took his ID and made an IR about it. (He saw the Director of Students the following week.) As I was taking his info he bitched, "Skateboarding isn't illegal!" I told him, "It is on this campus!" He shut up and put on his stupid face. Damn, that sucks. My campus is about a mile long and mile wide, so we all ride bikes/scooters/skateboards. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. DAMN! I'm pretty sure that he alone is responsible for the advice locals give to out of towners saying "Do NOT speed in <insert name of locale>." No one ever told him to do that, it wasn't pressure from the chief or city council to generate revenue, he just was REEAAAALLLY OCD about doing his job exactly as dictated he do it by the letter of the law. Whether that be from a sense of dedication to the job or sense of integrity or just from an actual OCD complex I don't know. But one thing for sure, you could always count on him to do it by the book. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. lol, not the story I was thinking about. But that's awesome. The other deal involved an 8 year old girl, I think. And IIRC, the guy is or was a police officer on one of the US Territory islands. Thinking of this story has reminded me of a guy we had on our department. He's one of those 100% by the book kind of guys. No warnings, zero discretion, never deviates from policy. He's not a douche, but he's so inflexible that he just kinda annoys you and comes off the wrong way. Well, he got himself a job as director of security at a local university. Very well paid gig, but he stayed on as an unpaid reserve officer to keep his credentials up. Well, he bought himself his own portable dashcam system that he would just load into whatever car he got on shift. Well, this was one of those fancy digital systems that had enough storage to record his entire shift. It was really cool too, it was set up to record radio traffic, would interface with the radar unit and show real-time on tape speed readouts, everything. Well, being that he was so by the book, this would really piss off people when he did traffic stops because he'd write you up for all the minor shit that most cops just don't bother to put on the ticket.. So a lot of them pitched fits and would file complaints against him. Well, whenever he showed up in court, and people were raising hell about him. He'd step up and play the video of the entire incident, including the actual traffic violation(s) on tape, from beginning to end. The judge would ask them to please explain themselves, and they'd get this deer-in-the-headlights look and just kinda mumble and sit down. I imagine that if some day we have autonomous robots that do traffic patrol, that it would be similar to him. 100% by the letter of the law, with a 100% perfect recording of the infraction, and interaction, with meticulously accurate and detailed paperwork filed at the end of shift. Did ya'll call him Robocop? Lol, no. But I will every time I see him from now on. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. no helmet and no reflectors.....you should have shot him on the spot.........He could have killed someone.... That or himself. Riding in traffic at night with no reflectors is a big deal and our city has had people killed by MVAs whether it be swerving to miss a pedestrian or hitting the pedestrian outright. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? Probably poopypants(Johnny_Flashbang), just a guess though. Nice story OP, thanks. Kirkp (I think) Yep, member kirkp. LINK to the story. His name is mentioned in the story, but he has mentioned it a few times himself on the board. |
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Wasn't there an arfcommer who gave some little girl on a bicycle a ticket for not wearing a helmet? I've done that, but I don't think I ever told the story. I was a reserve officer so I did lots of late night or weekend shifts. One week night I was working a grave yard, and at around 2330 I see some kid riding around on his bike. No helmet, no reflectors on his BMX bike. He's about 13, and I approach him. Ask him the usual questions, what he's doing out so late, point out he's got no helmet or reflectors, etc etc. This kid pitches a fit. I mean straight up yelling and cursing and carrying on. Calling me a facist nazi and what have you. So I told him that I was going to cut him a break but now he's going to have face the letter of the law. Wrote him up for no helmet, no reflectors, jaywalking, littering (he had thrown a bunch of candy wrappers in his pocket at me for some reason), curfew violation, impounded his bike, and dropped him off at his parents place (they never answered the door when I knocked). I told him he needed to get his parents to help take care of the tickets or there would be a bench warrant sworn out for him. Well, day of the summons comes, and I show up in court. The parents are there and are just raising hell about this. Typical mah baby didunt do nuffin type stuff. Judge asks me what I have to say. I tell the judge that if it pleases the court I had a video I would like to enter into evidence. I then proceed to play the dashcam of the entire event. I had articulated my reasonable suspicion for the contact in the audio of the dashcam once I had activated the camera prior to initiating the stop (pretty much my standard practice, that way I'm not having to remember exactly why weeks later in court). I then got to see the looks on the parents faces when judge imposed the maximum fines, and added an additional sentence of 40 hours of community service for their precious baby. Plus he gave them a stern warning about responsibility and their obligation to control their child. Very nicely done. |
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Lets travel back in time:
It's 1972, I'm 13 and riding my bike without a helmet. Guess what? nobody gives a flying fuck. Now they do and it's illegal. To the people who enforce these laws I only have this to say: I will never understand your logic to enforce Nanny State Shit on other people. Never 
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