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30 November 2006

It's nice to see a Police officer with a sense of proportion and a sense of humour. →[More:]
I went out for my evening walk at 11 PM tonight. I was approaching the end of an ally where there sits a donut shop. A small Chrysler made vehicle with all the MoPar after market add on's (hot cams, lifters, ground effects, etc.) screeched to a stop at the drive through order board and placed an order. The driver then cranks up the gangsta' rap and lights up the tires and does a burning drift around the 90 degree turn to the pick up window only to come to a sudden stop behind a cop containing Crown Vic.

I stopped walking and pulled out my camera . Said cop gets his order and leans out the window and begins to chit chat with the girl at the service window. After what I guess to be two minutes I pull out my cell phone to look at the time.

The conversation went on for 11 more minutes until the next order came in.

Nice response by the officer. I am not going to be a prick but be sure I saw your antics kid.

post by: arse_hat at: 00:29 | 12 comments

I read that as "It's nice to see a Polish Police officer..."

posted by mischief 30 November | 04:38

lol

posted by sciurus 30 November | 08:25

Uhm, maybe I'm reading the story wrong, but maybe the cop was too busy/lazy chatting up the clerk to do his job? Cultural issues aside, people purposefully losing control of their vehicles in non-controlled, visibility limited, pedestrian accessible locations is negligent at best. He could have drifted right into that cop, a motorcycle, a bicycle or a lost kid. Yeah, I'm a spoil sport like that.

Cops waste an a-load of time pursuing crime that hurts no one. Vehicular negligence does not fall into that category.

posted by Skwirl 30 November | 21:06

Yes, you are reading it wrong.

posted by mlis 30 November | 22:34

*gives Skwirl a margarita*

Chill. ;- )

posted by Doohickie 30 November | 23:48

"He could have drifted right into that cop..."

If so, I think the story would have had a slightly different ending. No?

posted by mischief 01 December | 01:34

Maybe Skwirl is one of those people who was born old ;-)

While it is certianly true that an incident like that could have turned out badly, so could any number of things and almost all youthful shenanigans come to nothing - something that the nay-sayers screaming in the media conveniently forget. I certainly did an awful lot of things in cars when I was young that, had things gone differently, would have ended very badly indeed, but none of them ended with anything hurt except my ego.

posted by dg 01 December | 01:52

Skwirl, I would venture most of us have done dumb-ass shit that could have killed folks. That is obviously wrong. But I don't want to live in a dour hateful place where every potential deadly thing is treated as though it had already happened. I think the officer involved did the right thing in making it clear that the kid was in the wrong but not going so far as to tazer him and crush his face into the pavement.

Will the kid learn? Maybe not. But I am willing to bet his chance of learning is better than if he had been manhandled, charged and convicted. In that case I would bet he would be back out on the streets with a big chip on his shoulder.

I shared this because I really believe this is an example of the police doing community policing. The right level of response to the situation at hand.

posted by arse_hat 01 December | 02:30

Cops don't have jurisdiction over what cars do on private property, anyway, unless a crime has been committed. Otherwise cops could show up to the local speedway on Saturday night and ticket every driver for speeding.

posted by ikkyu2 01 December | 02:57

ikkyu2, that is true but a cop can confront folks to provoke a reaction that may bring a response that leads to an arrest. I've seen that more that one time in more than one place. Also, here in my town many businesses have a contract to allow the police to act on their behalf on their property. They pay for it. Only city in Canada that allows such a thing.

posted by arse_hat 01 December | 03:04

Don't most cities have a squealing tires law? Hell, disturbing the peace, if nothing else. Still in all, having to sit behind a cop for 15 minutes was probably more humiliating than a ticket.

posted by mischief 01 December | 03:33

I think it's hilarious. I imagine the guy sitting in his car, fuming - but no real options. I mean he can't speed away, tires squealing, to voice his displeasure toughguy fashion. If he just leaves in a lawful manner, he's out six bucks and has appeared to creep away with his tail between his legs. So he's just stuck. It's actually a great deal more humiliating than getting ticketed. Really funny.

posted by taz 01 December | 03:43

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