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15 January 2009

True Crime Story [More:]
I met an ex-cop one day and asked him what was the funniest/strangest thing to happen to him on the job (he worked in a small college town). This is what he said.

There was a pharmacy break-in, drugs taken, of course. Looks like two perps, and the cops quickly identified one of them. Cops go to the apartment of the known suspect and find him, shockingly, OD'd.

They don't know the second perp, so they store tissue samples of the first guy on the chance of an eventual capture and trial.

Cut to two years later. Into the police station walks a greenhorn IRS agent. He's looking for help tracking down the OD guy, asks this cop if they know where to find him. Sure they do!

The cop walk back into the evidence room and returns with a grocery bag full of various organs and hands it to the IRS agent, who promptly turns green and flees the station.

This anecdote will make its way into one of my scripts one day.
In Astoria, several of the older barflies have told me stories of the days when several members of a notorious Irish-American gang called the Westies lived in the area. One consistent theme is that if they didn't like something on the bar TV, they shot it.
posted by jonmc 15 January | 16:19
Years ago, I asked a friend of mine about the gun sight painted on his TV screen. He said that a few years before, Brian Mulroney came on TV, which incensed his roommate so much that he shot the damned thing. The gun sight decoration has been a fixture on said friend's TV sets ever since.
posted by elizard 15 January | 17:00
But, er, on topic, I applaud your plan to use that anecdote. Truth is stranger than.
posted by elizard 15 January | 17:02
I... I don't even understand that story, trinity8. I get that there was a pharmacy break in, apparently two guys; and I get that they found one of them dead of an OD... but then they take his organs? In case they find the second guy? Buh?
posted by taz 15 January | 23:51
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