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Originally Posted by kane
I'm not trying to discredit you, just trying to find out why. In my life I have found that most people who have trouble with the cops tend to invite that trouble and I was just curious why you have had so many interactions with them.
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Of all my negative interactions with cops only one was something you could blame on me. I've had way more than 10 interactions though, I'll post them in no particular order because this goes back 15 or so years. I'm only going to post the negative interactions of course. I probably had 1 good interaction for every 3 or 4 negative ones but I am white, my best friend was a cop in one town around here, my dad worked code enforcement and new several of the local cops, I know half of the cops in my hometown, one cousin is FBI and the other is an ex police detective so sometimes who I know may have played a part in how I was treated.
1) When I was a teenager my next door neighbor invited his black friend to our hick town. Within 5 minutes of him being there I walked outside to find his friend laid over the hood of a police car being frisked right in the middle of the street in front of my house. "What the fuck are you doing?" was my response.
2) Same street. I was standing in front of my neighbors house looking at his new speaker system that he had in the trunk of his car. State trooper that lived down the road rolled by really slow giving us the stink eye. 5 minutes later the local cops show up for us "playing the stereo so loud the cop down the road (1/4 mile) can hear it". Problem being, none of it was hooked up.
3) I dropped a friend of in the main city at around 2:00 AM. It was labor day or something and we had been swimming all day and at a concert all night. I was wet, barefooted and tired. Car full of drunk teens drive up, pull a gun, try to rob us and only leave when my friends dad comes out with a shotgun. Cops are called, cop grills me on "Where do you live? Why are you here at 2:00 am? You need to get your ass home." I was 21 at the time and FUCK YOU was my response. Same cop screwed me on a wreck a few years before but at least she was nice at the time so no story there.
4) The one that you could blame on me. When I was 18 I had a couple of roommates. The cops decided that they obviously sold drugs from my apartment and sent the jump out boys (8 or 10 cops that knock twice then ram your door, yes I answered) at around midnight. For starters they didn't sell drugs but they did smoke copious amounts of weed so nothing was there. 8 cops, about 5 people in my apartment at the time and the whole time they are searching for all this shit they sell and are finding nothing they still feel the need to berate everyone, threaten them with jail, talk shit about their clothes, accuse me of lying (I don't do illegal drugs of any kind) and just being douchebags in general. I don't remember all of the conversations off hand but I cussed at quite a few of them in the sarcastic "What in the fuck is your problem?" way. They found nothing (stems), made no arrests but did manage to get me kicked out of my apartment.
5) Really fucking stupid but LAST YEAR a cop told me I had to leave the arcade we have at our boardwalk here. I told him he was full of shit and walked off. After one more time of me telling him to leave me the fuck alone he did, around 20 people listened to him and left.
6) I'm tired of this shit so going to be several in one. When I lived in an even smaller town I had 2 or 3 neighbors that hated me for no reason, never even spoke to them. Rumors were I sold drugs (whole town) because I never left for work (webmaster and eBay), drove a nice car and had some toys. In the 4 years I lived there I probably had the cops come by around 10 times for.
a) Dog barking at 4:00 in the afternoon.
b) Fighting with wife in the yard. (We weren't even outside)
c) Dog not having a dog house when it was cold. (Had an entire storage building filled with hay)
d) Having an unruly party at 9:00 at night (No party, no noise)
e) Driving 4 wheelers at high speeds with a baby on board, ramping hills etc. (My cop friend brought his 4-wheeler over and drove my then 1 year old son around the yard at about 1/2 a mile per hour)
f) Several other silly things I can't remember.
g) Trailer parked .5 inches into our very wide dead end road. 5 houses on the entire road. Anyhow, no big deal cop says neighbor wanted it moved. I went to go move it and he said wait until morning, it's raining. OK, thanks. 6:00 the next morning a cop is knocking on my door, someone has called again. He got cussed through?. I basically told him that I wasn't sure which idiot neighbor was calling the cops to harass me but if I saw him drive to their house after he left mine I would go over there and whoop their motherfucking ass so for once his visit would be justified. He apologized, laughed and left.
7) Oh shit, I forgot the most memorable one somehow. Two cops knock on my door, detectives. Seems someone complained that something I sold them on eBay wasn't correct (sold some grab bag type baseball card stuff) and they DROVE 3 hours to the police station to complain.
First of all, I refunded anyone that complained about anything if they sent my shit back. I paid 10 cents on the dollar for what I sold at the time so I definitely didn't want the hassle.
Anyhow, they ask nicely to come in which is fine. They ask me if I sell baseball cards, yep sure do. Then one of these fuckers starts demanding to see all this stuff from the ad, show me this and show me that. Giant fucking asshole for no reason. I walk him to my office and even the greatest of idiots would see that I'm running some sort of mail order business with baseball cards. There are about 50 pieces of mail from that day with the payment amounts written on the envelope and checks stacked up beside them. There are about 100 packages already packaged up with labels to be shipped. There are about 10,000 cards on a table being sorted and there are hundreds of dollars in stamps, shipping supplies etc laying around.
So what does this dumbass decide to do after he sees an obviously large mailing operation?
Cop: "Why the fuck are you ripping people off?"
Me: "What the fuck are you talking about?"
Cop: "You're taking these people's money and not sending them what they ordered."
Me: "Are you kidding me?"
Cop: "No, why are you stealing money from people?"
Me: "Dude, my average order is $25. Why the fuck would I want to steal $25 order, if I were going to rob someone I'd at least sell something worth $1000".
Cop: "Yeah, you're robbing people $25 at a time!"
Me: "You stupid motherfucker, I make more money than you do. Look at the 1099 behind you!" (It was a clickcash 1099, thank you clickcash for all the bucks)
At this point he grabs at his belt like he's reaching for cuffs or a gun and is extremely fucking pissed. I yelled at my wife and threw my wallet that had about $3000 cash in it out of the room we were in so she could come bail me out if I got arrested. I didn't know if he was going to arrest me, hit me or what but he was ready to fucking fight. When he was grabbing at his belt I took a step towards him to throw my wallet and his partner that had remained silent this entire time stepped in between us and told us both to calm down. Nice cop asks me if I will refund the guy, I say yes so he gets a check from me and leaves.
Funniest part but unrelated to cops, they left the cards this guy ordered at my house when they left. I go through them, about $1000 in cards are missing. He took every good card there was then drove 2 hours or so to bitch about me to the police. l o fucking l.
Anyhow, that's off the top of my head. There are others like the asshole cop in New Orleans during Mardi that wouldn't let me carry my nearly unconscious wife past a sawhorse and instead demanded I walk 30 foot around a hot dog stand instead and a few other minor things. Point being, I don't inherently respect cops and when they are fucking up like you see in the video it really pisses me off.