Pat down

[mac266]

I contacted a known bandit in a known bandit hood the other night. He was named as a suspect in an assault that had occurred about 20 minutes earlier. As soon as I rolled in, I saw him (knew him from mulitple previous contacts). I patted him down, like I always do, and didn't find anything. I know he's a crack dealer but I've never caught him with any weapons before, so apparently I got complacent.

Well, I let go of his hands and he turned around to face me. As he was talking about the assault (which was really a "misunderstanding" you see), he raised his hands up and put them on top of his head, casually. When he did, his shirt raised up and I saw the gun barrel sticking down from his belt line.

I slapped leather so fast he ate gun barrel for a few seconds. I retrieved his gun, handcuffed him, and patted him down again. It turns out he was carrying a Walther PPK look-alike. It was a BB gun, nothing more, but it looked just like the real thing. It even said, "Walther" on the grips. That little ****head almost got shot for his BB gun.

The next day I found out he'd been doing a series of robberies in the area. I don't know if he was using that gun or not, but he got arrested in the act the following day.

Moral of the story: Don't get complacent on your pat-downs, especially if you know the bandit you're patting down.

[10-31Mike]

I had a guy TELL me he had a gun in his waistband once.

I checked and didn't find anything.

I asked him again... He swore he had one.

Tried again.... Nothing.

He says really, It's there.

Then I find it, In the waistbad of his boxers, about a foot above the waistband of his pants, under the standard white t-shirt.

It wasn't a little .25 either, it was a .45



(he was a robber btw, now in jail)

[Frank Booth]

Then I find it, In the waistbad of his boxers, about a foot above the waistband of his pants, under the standard white t-shirt.

I can't picture this.....A .45?? A foot above his pants? His boxers' waistband must have been up around his armpits....And how does the elastic in a pair of boxers hold up a .45???

[Camo Cop]

I missed an ice pick once. One legged dude almost made a shish-kabob outta me later - after he was handcuffed!

It had a round handle and a matching round piece for the pointy part to fit into so it was basically a wooden dowel about 7-8" long & as big around as my index finger. He was a really nasty, stinky dude and the pick was down the crack of his butt. I confess... I didn't go there during my search.

I had arrested him 3-4 times before and he always had a pocket knife of some sort. That day, he didn't have a pocket knife. As a younger man he beat a guy to death with a tennis shoe.

Dude spent numerous stints in the state pen and the state metal facility during his life.

Another day... picked up a dude on a warrant. Watched him get dressed. Only thing in his pockets was a wallet. Later, he gave me soemthing from his wallet. A 4" nail punch that had been sharpened to a very fine point.

[10-31Mike]

I can't picture this.....A .45?? A foot above his pants? His boxers' waistband must have been up around his armpits....And how does the elastic in a pair of boxers hold up a .45???

Actually now that I think about it he also was wearing sweatpants under the jeans, they were pulled up to about mid back.

Around here, a foot above the waistband of someones jeans could fall anywhere from mid thigh to mid back.

[1042 Trooper]

And, don't get complacent just because it's a BB gun.

A BB gun will kill you as dead as a .45.

[Enforcer_CPD]

Yeah, didn't you see "A Christmas Story" ?

And, don't get complacent just because it's a BB gun.

A BB gun will kill you as dead as a .45.

[tin_man]

Yeah, didn't you see "A Christmas Story" ?


"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

[J_Mann]

[QUOTE=Camo Cop]I missed an ice pick once. One legged dude almost made a shish-kabob outta me later - after he was handcuffed!QUOTE]

haha, all you would have had to do was knock him down and he would have been redered defenseless. :)