I Was Pulled Over By Cops for carrying an UMBRELLA!

[New Troll]

Funny story, true, but it's nice hearing cops doing thier job and responding in fashionable time to what could be a serious situation.

Not sure why but this reminds me of a story from high school. A bunch of my friends and I were at one person's house and decided we wanted to go to another's house for whatever reason. So we all piled into two of our vehicles and started racing there. Well, the vehicle I was in just happen to be winning when a cop pulled us over. We were kind of freaking out cause there was a machete on the dash (don't ask me why, wasn't my truck) and also a pair of pellet handguns sitting out in the open which looked real. But as the officer was asking for my friend's license and registration, our friends drove by us pointing and laughing. The cop assumed they were laughing at him so he just told us to slow down and then ran to his car to go pull them over. We not only didn't get in trouble, but also won the race! Our friends luckily didn't get a ticket either, but what a day we all had.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

...soo I'm surrounded by potheads...

Please, do tell me why *ahem* "potheads" would be a bad thing? I was raised, and I kid you not, second hand stoned and my folks are probably the best people in my community. Also, it's super fun going into the kitchen only to make everyone at the kitchen table laugh and get the biggest pot chain cough going. We's good people, mate. The schizoids, on the other hand...

OT: How much did that umbrella cost you so that I can A) See if it's worth getting one myself and B) Ask if that money spent was worth the scare and/or the laugh you got out of the whole ordeal.

 

[JezebelinHell]

All I can think is one of those orange caps they put on toy guns glued to the end of that may save you some trouble in the future. At least then they will see it is a fake assault rifle. WTF?

Nice umbrella but I think I will stick with my Bubbles one from the PPGs. Her piggy tails pop up when you open it. >.<

 

[Palademon]

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA! I loled.

I can understand a cop wanting to check out your umbrella that has a katana handle, but AN ASSAULT RIFLE?
HEHEHEHEHEHEEHEHEEHEHEHEHEEH.

EDIT: I am reminded of this:

 

[standokan]

tsch, tsch, tsch, you should've know better than that, carrying a umbrellam, what where you thinking?

 

[jawakiller]

Haha, thats awesome. Maybe they thought you were the Penguin. Ya know, with the tommy gun umbrella...

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Thinking you had a sword I might be able to understand, but an assault rifle? Were you carrying it in a way that would add to that impression?

 

[Voodoomancer]

Assault umbrella?

...

Hmm... *writes down notes, gets sketchbook*

 

[Emberwake]

Based on the thread title, I figured there was a 95% chance that this was about some neckbeard getting stopped for carrying a toy-sword umbrella and a 5% chance that this was one of the legions of legitimate complaints about ridiculous police force tactics/policies. Occam's Razor ftw I guess.

As someone else pointed out, I don't see what the police did wrong here. They got a report that you were carrying an assault rifle and they sent out reasonable force to investigate. Blame the people who reported it. However, because the simple answer is usually the right one, I can't help but imagine the OP hiding behind his neighbor's hedge pointing the umbrella like a gun at passing cars. We are, after all, talking about a person that thought a toy-sword umbrella was cool.

Here's your new thread title: "Man gets stopped by police for carrying umbrella designed to look like weapon."

 

[4173]

You better be careful that Oswald Cobblepot doesn't come after you for stealing his gimmick.

 

[A Distant Star]

I was filming a video with a few friends when I was in college. We got the cops called on us by several people saying that we were walking around with a shotgun on campus. It was just a boom mic......

cop luld and shook his head.

Yeah... my whole collage campus was put into lock down over that exact scenario.

 

[Woodsey]

"lol, dem cops so stoopid sayin i haz teh gun lololol!!1!"

"That man murdered 5 people and the police did nothing! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!"

Or as I like to call it: fucked if they do, fucked if they don't. I'd rather hear the first one all the time though, as opposed to the second.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

I have a theory...he's actually the greatest assassin whose ever lived, and one of his failed targets noticed the trademark Assault Rifle Umbrella and decided to call the Authorities before he launched a one man war against the local mafia in a bloody battle that'd go down in history!

 

[MetalGenocide]

I don't know if I should laugh, or facepalm.

 

[SIXVI06-M]

wow, police fail. looks SO much like an assault rifle

It wasn't the police's fault. SOMEONE reported him to have been carrying an assault rifle.

As for OT: I still want a secret service umbrella - I seen it on TV, there's one specially made out of some kind of titanium frame, with stab-proof fabric. They had a guy put the umbrella between two tables, and he was JUMPING up and down on the umbrella, and all it did was bend a bit under his weight... Oh and the thing is entirely windproof - like the brolly I have; the weathershield is layered into two sections that allows wind to pass through it so you don't get retarded inside-out umbrella when the wind blows.

THAT is an umbrella you can kill someone with - or at least beat someone half to death with.

 

[Sneeze]

Funny looking assault rifle. Not really the police's fault if they did receive complaints from people though...

Seriously though, be careful with that thing indoors, you could fucking curse someone if you opened it in the wrong place.

 

[PureChaos]

wow, police fail. looks SO much like an assault rifle

It wasn't the police's fault. SOMEONE reported him to have been carrying an assault rifle.

As for OT: I still want a secret service umbrella - I seen saw it on TV, there's one specially made out of some kind of titanium frame, with stab-proof fabric. They had a guy put the umbrella between two tables, and he was JUMPING up and down on the umbrella, and all it did was bend a bit under his weight... Oh and the thing is entirely windproof - like the brolly I have; the weathershield is layered into two sections that allows wind to pass through it so you don't get retarded inside-out umbrella when the wind blows.

THAT is an umbrella you can kill someone with - or at least beat someone half to death with.

the people who reported him fail then

on a side note, grammar corrected...sorry, i'm annoying

 

[SIXVI06-M]

wow, police fail. looks SO much like an assault rifle

It wasn't the police's fault. SOMEONE reported him to have been carrying an assault rifle.

As for OT: I still want a secret service umbrella - I seen saw it on TV, there's one specially made out of some kind of titanium frame, with stab-proof fabric. They had a guy put the umbrella between two tables, and he was JUMPING up and down on the umbrella, and all it did was bend a bit under his weight... Oh and the thing is entirely windproof - like the brolly I have; the weathershield is layered into two sections that allows wind to pass through it so you don't get retarded inside-out umbrella when the wind blows.

THAT is an umbrella you can kill someone with - or at least beat someone half to death with.

the people who reported him fail then

on a side note, grammar corrected...sorry, i'm annoying

Just trying to keep my tone casual (my rule - forum is a place where people mix and get loud, be easygoing, talk like you do in the real world, avoid abbreviations); I'm trying to not offend by using an easygoing tone (it's subtle, but you'd be surprised one out of place word can change the way someone feels about something) but obviously that had the opposite effect on you XD

I wouldn't use that in a more... official document.

 

[Rascarin]

You mean you guys can't see the resemblence?