Times you were fuzzled over by the police.

[maninahat]

I've never had nothing but positive experiences with the police.

For my wife, it was a different story. The police in India serve a different function in the UK; they are basically bureaucrats whom you pay paltry sums of money in exchange to be allowed to break various laws. In her State, all new driving licences, for instance, have to be registered at a police station. Naturally my wife took a large stack of money to "ease" this process along. She was very surprised to find that the policeman obligingly stamped her licence without expecting a single rupee.
"Can't we bribe you just a little bit?"
"No thank you. It won't be necessary."

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Ah, so that's where you've been, sorry to hear that dude. I've never really had a bad police experience, so not much to add here I'm afraid.

 

[Fox12]

1). The time they pulled me over, and randomly searched my car for drugs. I asked why I was pulled over, and they said my brake light was out. It wasn't. Obviously they didn't find anything.

2). The time a cop followed me for about 30 minutes. When he saw that I was about to pull into my college, and he had failed to nail me for anything, he pulled me over anyway and said I was driving too close to the center of the line.

3). The time I was sitting by the lake with my friends, and a cop arrogantly walks up and asks if we've been smoking any weeds.

4). The time I was driving home in awful wheather, and I slowed down for safety. I was seriously scared my car would swerve or hydroplane, so I decided to play it safe. Suddenly a cop light shows up in my rear view, and I pull over. He then speed ahead of me, and turns his lights off.

Fuck the police. Fuck them.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I'm going vet here, snip

You're going to put an animal down?

OT: I got a ticket for getting rammed by the daughter of a police officer :/ Otherwise I just got speeding tickets for speeding. I stopped getting caught for that.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

When I was eighteen I was heading out to Ullswater with a few friends for a fishing trip. We all had our rods, bait boxes, keep nets etc, but halfway to the lake we were stopped by the fuzz, who wanted to search us because "you look up to no good". Upon being searched, my gutting knife - which I had bought from a legal outdoorsman shop on my town high street - was declared to be half an inch over the permitted legal length for a blade and I was done for possession of an offensive weapon. Even though no court proceedings were brought against me, I have a pretty serious blemish on my permanent record.

For going fishing.

You can carry any size knife in the UK with a legitimate purpose. The 3 inch rule only applies if you don't have a reason to be carrying it at that exact time.

I bet you just accepted the caution, you should of gone to court or atleast spoke to a lawyer. The police may be there to enforce the law, but they don't actualy know all the details of it.

This was back in 1999, so the specifics of the law could've been different then, but yeah I got stuck for carrying three and a half instead of three. And I did just accept the caution - I had just moved out on my own and could barely afford to pay the rent, nevermind a lawyer. It's something I still feel pissed about today, no doubt in part because (as you say) I probably should've held my ground.

That having been said a great number of my friends have been screwed over by the fuzz, so it is possible that the Cumbrian force are just dicks. One friend of mine had his house broken into twice in one month, and the police said there was nothing they could do despite multiple neighbours coming forward to identify the robbers by name on both occasions. A lass I work with was verbally and physically threatened on a weekly basis by a stalker for three years but the local constabulary did nothing due to "insufficient evidence". I was brought up to have the utmost respect in authority and law, but it's fair to say that this attitude has waned somewhat in the twenty years I've lived in Cumbria.

 

[WolfThomas]

My fiance went violent and started hitting me.

I'm normally not a big grammar person but this is really relevant in how people read your story. Fiancee is the woman getting married. Fiance is the man. So when I read that I initially assumed it was male on female violence, not just because stereotypes but...grammar. Then when you mentioned that it wasn't male on female, I thought it was male on male violence, until the last part.

 

[WolfThomas]

Fair enough, the french e sneaks up on me. I will add the other e. Is that grammar or spelling? It's a rule of French origin, anyhow, it pretty much only applies to loanwords.

However, I personally see no difference between genders in domestic violence as far as culpability.

Its grammar I think. Correctly spelled word wrong context like there or their.

I'm not disagreeing with the last part, just suggesting a correction to avoid confusing the message.

 

[stroopwafel]

A while back I drove into this police roadblock. Now, I always keep my drivers license in my jacket but since it was hot and didn't have my jacket on(and was only like 3 minutes away from home) I forgot my license. So got pulled over and police asked for license and registration so I said sorry forgot license but please check plate number it's registered to my company. So I gave him address and all the additional details so he could confirm and he said yeah indeed info is correct but I still need to give you a ticket for driving without a license(or rather for driving without being able to show license).

The cop was friendly and all that but I still think he was an ass for giving me a ticket when he could easily see I have pretty much a clean slate when it comes to my driving history. That was 100 euros down the shitter. *sigh*

 

[Jandau]

I've never had a negative experience with the police. For the most part, getting stopped late at night for an ID check, maybe being a witness to an accident or a disturbance, etc. Cops were always courteous, professional and didn't make trouble. Even when they'd show up at my door due to a noise complaint, they never tried to boss me around, threaten me or overstep their authority.

And that includes the time I was a suspect in a kidnapping case...

One year I was vacationing with a bunch of friends by the sea, in a small island town. Since I was something of an early bird, I did most of the grocery shopping. The local shopkeeper decided I matched the description of the suspect in a current kidnapping case (mostly due to my ponytail) and reported it to the cops. This was on the last day of my stay there and I was well on my way back home when I got a call from my friends that a bunch of them were brought in by the police and that they were looking for me (my friends decided to stay a few more days). Inside 24 hours, I had cops at my door, looking for me. I invited them in, made them some tea, explained that I wasn't the man they were after, answered all their questions and they went their merry way. A few weeks later, one guy came by to follow up, also with no incident. They were well within their rights to cuff me, stuff me in the back of a police van and take me down to the station. They did no such thing.

Oh, and I live in a post-communist country in the Balkans...

 

[God'sFist]

Myself I've had good experiences with police in my area. My brother on the other hand has had some. My brother is a type 1 diabetic so when his blood sugar gets low it can affect him much like getting drunk so the police have pulled him over thinking he was drunk. He has also been pulled over because of the vehicle he was driving. I live in Idaho so we have a fairly large Hispanic population and unfortunately some drug dealers among them. So they stopped him because the car he was driving is similar to what what the drug dealers use.

I had my bike stolen from my house recently so I reported it but since I didn't have a suspect there wasn't much they could do. That's probably the worst thing. But I have had a police car stop traffic so I could cross the street that was pretty nice of him.

 

[DanielBrown]

When I was ~14 years old a lot of friends and I were in a public park on Valborg, a holiday where we light bonfires to keep witches away or whatever, so we decided to make a small fire. We were also very drunk.
A few cops showed up and they were kind. Told us we could keep our beer in spite of being under aged, but that we couldn't have a fire going. We thanked them and kept the party going.
A few hours later some skinheads showed up nearby and decided to make a small fire as well. All of sudden we were met with a police van blinding us with high beams. The same cops from before rushed out and dragged me behind the van. They started smashing me against the van while screaming "WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL YOU?" straight into my ear over and over again, while bending my arm so far up I thought it would break. Eventually they threw me and a friend inside the van(he got slapped a few times when he asked what the hell they were doing).

He got pushed off in the middle of the fucking highway and I got thrown out in some town far away. I had no clue where the hell I was. Eventually found a subway and was able to make my way home.
The next day I learned that while we were in the van the cops poured beer inside my stereo and broke all my CDs. They also made those remaining carry the still smoldering logs down to the water, which was probably 200 meters away.
I was a rebellious, cocky shithead as a young teenager, but I think those cops went way beyond their authority...

On a related note; two of those cops actually took me in when I and that very same friend got busted for stealing beer from a supermarket(told you I wasn't an angel). They were among the smuggest fucking assholes I've ever met.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Snip

Um, I was talking to OP, since I didn't quote anyone. Not sure why you responded to me, if it's because I've never had an issue with the police, the climate in New Zealand is very different to the US in regards to how the police treat people.

 

[Ryan Minns]

I'm a tall broad shouldered man with a beard. The 3 years I spent at a service station serving them fuel was the only time I haven't been messed with. Though I now almost never leave my home which helps.

The most famous time though was once I was on my way home from a friends place after spending the night. I was stopped by 2 officers that told me I fit the description of a guy who just hit his girlfriend. I had no ID on me as I forgot my wallet and I was asked the exact same 6 questions again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again for over 30 minutes. As stated above, I am tall, heavy built with a beard and I was... 24 I think at the time. I am also white so when I learned the description was "A 16 year old extremely skinny aboriginal boy" I felt like going off my fucking head.

 

[Joccaren]

Father worked night shifts, slept during the day, a few years back. Had an accident at night, in the pooring rain, on a country road with no signs, no lighting, and in poor condition. Called emergency services to report the accident for legal purposes, and to organise a tow to come pick up the car. Was charged with poor driving for being 'too tired' to drive, rather than paying attention to the rather poor quality of the road, weather and point of time.
Ok police. Next time we just won't notify you of these accidents that we're supposed to [Fairly sure its a legal requirement].

Also been fined ~$200 for taking one step to cross the road before the green man changed over, and I literally mean one step. You get similar fines amd equivalent demerit points for being 2km/h over the speed limit as you would were you 10-15km/h over the speed limit [Thankfully never been hit with that], and various other things that really don't even count as misdemeanours. Its well known that the police in the area are just glorified tax collectors. Half of them even know it but can't do much about it, though in cases like my boss's where he and his sons were caught doing 100 in an 80 zone, running red lights, in illegally modified cars, since the police officer was a customer of work they just got let off.

Defs not as bad as some have it, but people like the police here as much as they like parking inspectors, as they're essentially the same shit.

Oh, and then there's the police officer down the street who, illegally mind, stuck traffic cones into the ground around the nature strip out the front of his house as he didn't want anyone parking there - a perfectly legal thing to do. Everyone in the street hates him because he's an a**hole, so the council was quickly notified and a couple of days later the cones were removed. He still harasses and threatens anyone who even sits in their car on the nature strip waiting for someone though. There are some nice police officers around here, but this guy, like many others, is not an example of one.

 

[Amir Kondori]

I bought a souvenir in Paris when I was younger. Apparently, a cop did not like the transaction, and came at me and the seller with a truncheon of some sort. Swung and hit my hand, scared and chased off the souvenir merchant.
Luckily the crystal Eiffel Tower I bought wasn't damaged, but I had to find the guy I bought it from to get the LED base.
And then there was the time the police knocked on the door because they were after my asshole house-mate. They were... unkind in the manner they asked me about him. Apparently they were joking, but they certainly didn't act like it at the time.
So, I haven't really had the best experience with police, even if I want to respect them for what they do.

I have zero respect for police except that they have a gun and the authority to use it. I assume any cop I'm interacting with is corrupt and/or incompetent and have a polite and professional manner in my interaction to minimize the amount of time I have to be in contact with them. I've never had a truly bad experience but more than once interacted with cops were assholes and had attitudes like they were big shits instead of little dicks.

That probably comes off as harsh, and there are some great cops out there, but the ones that suck ruin it for everyone.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Snip

Um, I was talking to OP, since I didn't quote anyone. Not sure why you responded to me, if it's because I've never had an issue with the police, the climate in New Zealand is very different to the US in regards to how the police treat people.

By the placement of your non-quoted response I could not tell if you were responding to the last poster (in that case me) or the op. didn't think it was a big deal to keep the conversation going.

I will say the US justice system is the single largest source of actual REAL institutional racism in our country. Justice system reforms would solve a lot of the contentious issues our country has. Too bad its not in the interests of those that profit from what is essentially exploitation of slave labor to stop it. Private prisons are an ethically horrid concept.

No worries, I was just confused is all. Sorry

From what I see in our news and such, the police seem way more rough in the US.

 

[Potjeslatinist]

I was falsely accused for the murder of my wife, so I had to go on the run. This cop corners me and I tell him that I didn't do it. Know what this asshole says? "I don't care." So I had to jump down a goddamn waterfall.

 

[stroopwafel]

I was falsely accused for the murder of my wife, so I had to go on the run. This cop corners me and I tell him that I didn't do it. Know what this asshole says? "I don't care." So I had to jump down a goddamn waterfall.

You're...Harrison Ford??

 

[sageoftruth]

Nothing serious for me. Being white and growing up in one of the wealthier parts of the bluest state in the US was a pretty ironclad defense against that, as long as I didn't do anything really dumb.

The best I've got is getting stuck in super slow traffic for hours on the highway, only to find out that the cause of this whole mess was caused by one officer who couldn't be bothered to park his car all the way into the breakdown lane when he pulled someone over.

 

[born4fun]

Just a few months ago, I was at a red light in my car. The windows were all up, except for a tiny crack in the driver's window. I was puffing away on my Kanger DripBox 160, which produces massive clouds, and this cop pulls up next to me. He waits until the light turns green, then pulls up behind me and pulls me over. He was positive that my vape was weed oil. I showed him how huge the thing is. I let him smell the e-juice. I even took him to the site I bought it from so that he could read the description:

http://www.vaporauthority.com/products/kanger-dripbox-160-starter-kit

He simply wouldn't believe me. After nearly an hour, he gets a freakin K9 unit there to check my whole car. The entire ordeal lasted nearly two hours. Finally, when the cop let me go, he said something like "ok get out of here." No sorry; no please--nothing. I'm upset about this incident to this day!