re: What's been your worst police interaction?

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if you don't think small town cops go after people simply because of their name, then you are an idiot.

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This also works in reverse like I talked about earlier. My brother got pulled over driving drunk with a minor in the car. Cops called my parents to pick him up. Mom was pissed and said no he needs to learn a lesson. Cops still never even as much as ticketed him. Just called around until they found someone to pick him up and drive his truck. True story.

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No idea what set her off.

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The badge and gun, and that low pay but good bennies did.

I got pulled over in Brookhaven, Mississippi by a state trooper for speeding. I took my seat belt off before he walked up so I could reach in my glove box to get my insurance and registration. I got 2 tickets one for speeding and one for a seat belt. I explained to him I had it on and why I took it off but he didn’t care. . I paid the speeding and told the courts I wanted to go to court on my seat belt. A week before my court date the judge’s chambers called me and dropped the seat belt ticket.

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 What a dumb bitch

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so you actually know her? Because this is way more accurate than you realize.

But my brother is also currently on probation 20 years later so....

My family is an all around hot mess. I am refraining from telling the stories of the ones that are the cops.

My buddy always tells this story about me, he says you wouldn't believe it unless you were in the front seat with me.

So about 10 years ago I was pulled over in my small little home town. Me and my buddy went to lunch at little local mexican spot and on the way back to work I was sitting at an intersection that ran on traffic lights.

Im trying to turn left at the intersection (there is no turning lane) with my blinker light on. There was a cop that was either playing on his phone, or looking at his computer, or idk what, but I could clearly see he wasn't looking at the road/light. He was just sitting there across from me so I'm waiting on him to drive forward so I can take my left hand turn, but after nearly 15 seconds, I just say frick, I'm going to make the turn.

As soon as I did, he looks up and immediately puts his lights on. So I stop and pull over and he comes up to my window acting like I'm a dumbass that doesn't know traffic laws and that I have to yield in that case and that we are right next to the police station and we should go over and talk to the chief of police about it and blah blah blah.

Well i let him finish his lecture and then I say.. you know what.. that's a great idea, lets go talk to the Chief and I'll let him know you were playing on your phone and were sitting at a green light for nearly 15 seconds not looking at the road and that's exactly why I turned left at the green light.

Ole baw leaves for just a minute or so back to his car and then comes back up to my window and just tells me "have a nice day"

Now you hear it from my friend and he'll tell you I let that cop have it and talked bad to that man, but i don't really remember being that rude, just more irritated that I had to stop because this dumb arse cop was parked at a green light

During college I was outside on the patio of a bar talking to a friend. Suddenly 2 bouncers rush out, put me in a headlock, and drag me out to a waiting cop. Cop then grabs me and pins me down chest/face first on the trunk of his car, cuffs me, while yelling "You thought you could get away with doing stupid shite, didn't you!?" I have no idea what the cop is talking about and tell him as much. Doesn't matter. He shoves me in the back of his car. I'm in the back of the car for over 10 minutes, confused and scared because I had no clue what I had supposedly done.

After filling out a report, the cop gets in to the car and starts asking me questions. I again tell him I have no idea why he arrested me. He tells me the bar owner saw me take a neon light beer sign off the wall outside and throw it over the fence, almost hitting someone, and that they have me on video. I tell the cop it wasn't me and that I would like to see the video. He says "no'", issues me a summons for a court appearance, and tells me I cannot return the bar.

As it turns out, it was a guy near where I was standing who did it. I never saw it. When the bouncers rushed in that guy had left and I was standing in the area of the, now, missing sign. So they grabbed me. Ultimately, I learned I knew the guy who did it and called him on the phone the next day, telling him he better fix this shite because I wasn't taking the fall for him. His mother worked in the court system and ultimately got the charges dismissed. Bouncers are douchebags, but a cop slamming me down for THAT (even if I had did it) was ridiculous.

The sliver lining to the story is that a really hot girl I was friends with happened to see me while I was cuffed in the back of the cop car. When I was released, I saw I had a few missed calls from her (this was the time when texting on cell phones wasn't a feature) wanting to know what happened. I called her back and told her. She asked me to come back to the bar. When I told her I couldn't (for fear of getting arrested again), she said "That sucks. I'll just come over to your apartment." She did, and within about 2 minutes of her arrival she had taken her shirt and bra off, and forced me into the bed.

Had I not been detained by the cop she would not have seen me in the car and that interaction likely would not have happened. But I can only assume her seeing me, cuffed, in the back of a cop car piqued her interest and turned a shitty situation into a really good night.

I have had several but the worst was in Athens, Georgia. I had a crew of 10 men installing a traffic signal in a multi lane intersection. Had authorization from state and county DOT which required the ACC Police Department authorization, which we had. We did not set up barricades ourselves due to risk exposure but instead paid a nationally recognized company which does road closures worldwide.

I pull up to the intersection and my whole crew is sitting on the curd with an ACC cop reading them the riot act. I thought they had done something seriously wrong and asked them what was up. The cop initially told me to leave the area, he was investigating a crime. I asked him what crime and he told me it was none of my business. I told him it might be since he had stopped about $600 an hour of labor for some reason. He was PISSED off....finally realized that I owned the company and started in on me about shutting the road down. I explained to him that we did not simply shut the road down, that we had authorization to work in the work zone established by another contractor. He was having none of this. I asked him to contact his supervisor as he was aware of our having authorization to work there. He was having none of that. What he wanted was for us to remove the barricade and stop work. I told him we would gladly do so but my contract had a clause in it which entitled me to $7500 a day for any work stoppage initiated by the state or county without 24 hours notice and it also allowed us to return to work on our schedule, at $7500 a day. The crazy bastard actually gave me verbal authorization to proceed. I should have done it but we did a LOT of similar work in the surrounding area and maintaining customer relations was more important than pocketing $20K over this stupid bastards ego. I called the county DOT and they contacted the police department. His supervisor came on the scene and explained that we had to remove the barricade and stop work. I asked if he was authorizing our doing so at $7500 a day, and this crazy son of a bitch also gave me a verbal OK. I called the DOT again and they had their project manager show up. He and the cops got into it and they started in with the arrest threats, to which I of course replied "if you take us to jail who is going to get all this shite out of the street"? That really set both of them into a rage. The chief of police finally showed up and asked nary a question...told them to leave the scene and asked if I intended to collect on their interfering with our work. I told him only if they paid out of pocket, I would not put it on the department or the taxpayer. He laughed, said neither one of them had enough money to make a dent in it, and left.

They left us alone on that project BUT the initial cop did frick with us constantly for a couple of years until he was finally fired. Not for fricking with us, for some other reason. From time to time we would hire a cop to do traffic control and I offered to hire him exclusively, thinking it might heal his hurt feelings. He agreed but would never show up on time, Most of the cops we worked with hated him. I have no idea what became of him but I would bet he went to work as a cop somewhere else.

Had a number of them. Worst was July 2023 when I got stopped by a Montana state trooper about 100 miles east of Billings just outside Forsythe on 90 eastbound for driving in the left lane , even though I'd just passed another car.

Idiot pos insisted I was transporting dope of some kind. A local sheriff cop pulled up with a dog. Told him there was nothing but weed in the car. He goes, "my dog doesn't hit on weed".

The dog sniffs and hits. They tear the car apart looking for something. Didn't find a damn thing. State boy gets a camera on a cord and proceeds to cut the carpet and seats on my 3 month old car so he could stick the camera in.

Didn't find a fricking thing

Scumbags, like most cops.

Had two in Clinton at different times write false police reports because they were friends with the people that hit me.

Had the piece of shite that was the chief of police in Central, but who was a EBR sheriff lieutenant in 94, threaten to cuff me, beat me, and throw me in a ditch in Pride because he found a credit card that didn't belong to my passenger in my passengers wallet.

I'm sure I can think of some more.

FTP

17 years old.

After riding around in the woods with this girl and doing other things was driving back home through this small town talking BFE kinda town.

The cop whom I was later told by others was known as Rambo pulled me over because I was swerving. I had not been drinking or doing any other stuff.

The cop had me do field sobriety and when I passed all those, he said I looked like I was “checking out his town” . So he searches my vehicle.

He searched it in a way I have never seen before. After going through the inside, talking every floor mat was taken out. Any thing he could take loose with a screw driver was opened. The engine was looked at for like 20 minutes.he crawled under the car and looked for another 20 minutes. He put some kinda rod in my gas tank and checked that.

Finally after not having anything on me he starts going crazy yelling at me about the time of night it is and why I was out there.

He let me go after 3 hours. The dumbest cop I have ever encountered.