Confess your stupids....

[jakflak]

Ok, confess your stupids...the stupid thing you did the others in the squad room won't let you live down.

Here are mine:

- On my last day of FTO I get my car stuck in the snow not once but TWICE in 10 minutes. The 2nd time took a front loader to get me out. 7 years later and I'm still hearing about that (and the pictures are still turning up).

- As a rookie I was doing my first 'dynamic entry' and they handed me the battering ram with a smile I would have been suspicious of today. Smash...door in splinters...rest of the squad rushing in over my inert body laying in the mud next to the battering ram. Apparently I put too much umph into it.

- Had a bear reach into the cab of the patrol truck and take a bite out of the steering wheel while I was in the drivers seat. Yes, there's even a picture of THAT floating around.

So confess: what's yours?

[mdrdep]

Put my foot through an inner hollow core door that was locked during a search warrant, wasn't funny at the time (dope pad), but we laugh about it now.

[ArkansasFan24]

Well, I'm sure I can think of more "stupids," but the first three that come to mind are (A) one night I was chosen to go pick up a subject who had been arrested on our warrant about 75 miles away and bring him back to the city. When I arrived there I couldn't quite figure out how to pull into the bay near their booking area so when I left, to go back to my city, I sideswiped a poll leaving a long yellow streak down the side of my car and a nice dent in the rear fender of my Crown Vic. Nothing much was said of it. However, (B) the very next night while trying to find a way to drive around a very large puddle of water I ran off into a two foot deep sink hole. Fortunately, the hole was dry, but it bent a rim and shredded one of the new tires I had just gotten less than a week prior to the incident. To add a third stupid to this story (C) we got my rim fixed and had a new tire put on. Maybe three days later I was sitting at a WiFi hot spot on a flat, cement parking lot, and I heard an audible hiss. I then rolled down the window and looked around trying to find out what nearby building was hissing (blonde moment). I then got out to look around even further and realized that my tire was doing the hissing and that it had gone amost totally flat. To make matters worse the parking lot was in front of a fire department substation so who comes out to help the cop? Firemen! Ugh! The funny part of this story is that it took four cops and three firemen to change my flat. One fireman did the work while one cop provided a spare tire, another cop provided the jack, another cop provided the lug wrench, another cop (me) "supervised," another fireman provided everyone with latex gloves so we wouldn't get our hands dirty (kind of him right?), and the third fireman stood by providing us with much needed sarcasm and wisecracks. I thanked them when it was all said and done and apologized to the firemen for interrupting their nap. Oh, for whatever reason, the valve stem on my tire ruptured while I was sitting still. To this day I don't know why.

[Retired96]

Arrested a guy for dope and placed the baggie on the sunvisor. While driving the suspect to the station, I was on the freeway during rush hour traffic and rolled down the drivers window. At the same instant the visor flipped down and the suspects dope got sucked out the window only to get run over by a million cars.
Was a little embarrasing telling the watch commander how I lost the evidence, but the suspect was kind enough to confirm that it blew out the window on the freeway.

[ZGXtreme]

One Sunday morning I went out to our lake to investigate an assualt with a deadly weapon (80's Corvette) because no lake officers were on duty. Turns out the suspect is the RP and already at a body shop with the car in town. I meet with him, arrest him and am pulling onto the highway which leads into town. I get to about 45mph and hear a loud thunk. I look in the side mirror and see a cloud of papers to include my suspect and witness statements in the air behind me. After getting the suspects statement I had put my "Posse Box" on my lightbar so I could cuff him and well forgot it was there.

I was "lucky" enough to have two Troopers pull behind immediately after I came to a stop so I was safe from traffic lol. I gathered the papers and got back in the car and mentioned to him "of all the times you've been hooked I bet that is a first" and he could only reply with a simple "yeah" over his laughter.

Suprisingly the Posse Box held up like a champ against a 45mph impact with the asphalt so I still use it to this day... and each time I am reminded of that thunk and cloud of papers.

[MaineSqueeze]

*Sitting in a chair in the locker room infront of the lockers, i was feeling really lazy. So as I go to get off the chair i grab ahold of a lock to boost myself up. As i grab the locker and pull all my body weight on the lock, the whole set of lockers comes tumbling down on me. I wasnt hurt, but the fact that 5 of your co workers had to lift the lockers off you, is a tough pill to swallow.

*Rolled up on a structure fire, first on scene, on a dirt road, one way in, one way out. Got my cruiser blocked in by 4 fire trucks for, 4 hours. Lots of foot patrol jokes after that.

*Stopped a car for 32 over, started chewing the guy out, come to find out i was in left field, and he was on a stretch of the road that was 50 mph, and not 30. 10-8, no action.

[11Bto5-0]

-Shortly after being released to my own devices from FTO, I was assigned to drive a frequent-offending juvenile to the county JDC. Had transported adults to county before, so I figured, hey, no sweat... Come to find out, JDC is nowhere NEAR the adult jail, and for some insane reason, the entrance looks EXACTLY like a loading dock to a warehouse. So, I drove in circles for about 30 minutes, trying to figure out where they were hiding the freaking JDC, and trying to call my former FTO via cellphone (of course, he was busy and couldn't answer). Finally, I stopped, looked in the mirror at a very smug 16 year old, and had to ask him for directions. Fortunately, he had to use the restroom BAD, and told me exactly how to get there.

-A few months later, during a BAD ice storm, I was gingerly making my way to the PD after a call, and came across a suspicious vehicle stopped at a park. Decided to stop (hey, I was out in the ice already), and wound up arresting the occupant of the vehicle for a warrant. So, I have three blocks to the PD, no problem. Two ways to get there...a big hill, and a BIG hill. BIG hill seemed to be relatively clear, so up I started, much to the protest of the guy in the backseat ("dude, you are going to slide the f*** off this hill!"). My Rookieitis flared up - I'm the Police by God, you hippie(!), so up I went. Then, of course, I slid the f*** off the hill. Sideways. Into a yard. I got out of the yard, though - with the helpful guy in the backseat coaching me the whole way ("now, put it in reverse..ok, back, back..ok, now pull forward...")

[10-31Mike]

Ok, confess your stupids...the stupid thing you did the others in the squad room won't let you live down.

I'd tell you but there's not enough bandwidth. Plus not all of the statutes of limitations have run out.

[JSD73]

Seven to eight years ago, attempting to demonstrate the one legged stand, I lost my balance and began to hop to regain my balance. Instead of putting my foot down, for some unknown reason, I continued to hop on one foot and then realized that I looked like a moron. The suspect stood there watching me, the Sgt who was with me, barely kept a straight face, and I, with as much authority as I could muster told the guy, "That's it, if I can't do this, I won't have you do it, you're taking a taxi home mister, you got money?!"

[Damon K]

I was doing foot patrol in Sydney's CBD main strip (George Street) on a Friday night, which means that the streets are packed with car loads of young men (predominately Middle Eastern), who cruise the strip and act silly.

I was walking with a group of co-workers, and was eyeing off a car of potential customers, who were in turn staring me back. I sorta failed to stop and have a look around me and walked straight into a light pole.

I swear the entire block blew up with laughter and people honking their horns...

[BeansBaxter]

Jakflak...if getting your car stuck in the snow is a stupid...then I deserve some kind of "stupid" trophy!

P.S....you have GOT to send me the pic of the bear and the steering wheel. I think I may have a new background for my desktop.....

[jakflak]

P.S....you have GOT to send me the pic of the bear and the steering wheel. I think I may have a new background for my desktop.....

I don't know how to post pictures here but here is the link to them:



http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v4...202005/091205/

[Tinga]

License, registration and.... Hey, is that jerky?

I woulda been ****in my pants about then LOL Great pic

[KapsFB]

License, registration and.... Hey, is that jerky?

I woulda been ****in my pants about then LOL Great pic

ROFLMAO! G1

Many years ago I was working an overnight detail at a local high school. Some fair going on so we were watching the stuff....easy money. Anyway, I was bored and decided to drive around the football field. This is a private school so the field was/is pretty nice. Had a paved what I thought was a driveway going around it. I think it was the concession area meant only for foot traffic. I was able to get in but once in, couldn't get out. Don't ask! Hard to articulate. Basically, the configuration was such that there was no way to turn around and backing out was EXTREMELY difficult. I'm talking millimeters (maybe without the s) of clearance on either side. I thought I was stuck for sure. Took me about an hour and a half of REAL slow manuvering to get the car out in one piece. I'm real glad there was nobody else around at the time but was scared to death I was going to need to call for help.

To show you how long ago this was.....my cruiser was a Dodge K-Car!!!!

[sixpanel]

Ok, confess your stupids...the stupid thing you did the others in the squad room won't let you live down.

Here are mine:

- On my last day of FTO I get my car stuck in the snow not once but TWICE in 10 minutes. The 2nd time took a front loader to get me out. 7 years later and I'm still hearing about that (and the pictures are still turning up).

- As a rookie I was doing my first 'dynamic entry' and they handed me the battering ram with a smile I would have been suspicious of today. Smash...door in splinters...rest of the squad rushing in over my inert body laying in the mud next to the battering ram. Apparently I put too much umph into it.

- Had a bear reach into the cab of the patrol truck and take a bite out of the steering wheel while I was in the drivers seat. Yes, there's even a picture of THAT floating around.

So confess: what's yours?

Post the pic of the bear!

[mtxpro752]

Jak, that's friggin nutz, No way in hell I would have rolled down the window with a bear outside! I like the one of the bear sitting down looking up at the camera, like you tamed it.

[jakflak]

Post the pic of the bear!

That's it above.

[jakflak]

Jak, that's friggin nutz, No way in hell I would have rolled down the window with a bear outside! I like the one of the bear sitting down looking up at the camera, like you tamed it.

I didn't roll it down with the bear there. It was rolled down when I pulled up to watch the bears (there was about 30 more than that one, and all of them were a good 50 feet away from me) and it came up to me and reached into the cab before I had a chance to roll it up. After it pulled out I rolled up the window.

Fact: an adult polar bear can run 35 mph on open ground.

[WKT]

About 15 years ago I was a city officer. A bad storm with a tornado blew through town, causing quite a bit of damage to some businesses. I had stopped in at our dispatch office to use the bathroom and the dispatchers were going crazy, the phones were ringing constantly.

Trying to be helpful, I took one of the incoming calls. The metal overhang had blown off a business across town, and was in the street. I told them I was on my way, hung up, and headed out to the car. I took off down the street in a big hurry (HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY!!!) and ran straight through a flooded section of the street. Water came up over the hood of my car, and my Chevrolet sucked in a load of water and died.

Nothing I could do but open the door, let the water roll in, and step out into knee-deep water. I walked the 100 yards back to the dispatch center and got one of the dispatchers who had a four-wheel-drive truck to pull me out. I spent the rest of the shift squishing around the PD in my soaking wet boots and writing up a report on what I did.

I was told later that the mechanic pulled the plugs on my motor and drained about two gallons of water.

[TheInlandEmpire]

Although I was there when this happened, this was not me!! (I swear), it was another officer who eventually left the department.

We had an offiicer involved shooting (in the early morning hours) of a stolen car where, at the end of the pursuit, the driver rapidly backed up towards officers, several of which fired a bunch of gunshots. The driver was shot one time and ended up surviving.

After the officers initially broadcasted "Shots fired", and being the true action seeking police officers everyone wants to be,,,the radio was 'buzzing' with "Show me enroute!", "Show me enroute!" The incident was over within several minutes, and at the conclusion, one of our Sgts on-scene broadcasted "10-22 anymore units (cancel anyone else), we're Code-4, suspect is in-custody, go 10-34" (normal radio traffic). By this time, there were at least TEN cars on-scene, and the ambulance had already arrived. This pursuit ended right near the 91 Freeway exit/on-ramp at Tyler St.

At least TEN MINUTES AFTER the supervisor cancelled any additional units, it was somewhat quite, and officers already on-scene were standing around chatting about what happened.

We suddenly heard this police siren from a distance. A police car was going at least 85 MPH west on the 91 Freeway, and attemtped to exit Tyler St., to seemingly "assist" units who were already on-scene. The police car exited the freeway, lights and siren blaring, skidded into a fishtail, almost to a stop, then excellerated back onto the 91 freeway on-ramp and continued west at a high rate of speed. Apparently,,he (slash) she tried to get there from the other end of the city, obviously not listening to his (slash) her radio.

It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. All fifteen cops were standing there watching this in near shock, wondering, "Who (slash) What the hell was that??" It was literally a scene straight out of the Blues Brothers, and I'm not exaggerating!!

After about one minute, the supervisor (Good dude by the way), got on the air and asked, "Sam-24 to the unit at 91 and La Sierra" (one mile further down the 91 Fwy).................................no answer. Again, "Sam-24 to the unit that just exited the 91 at Tyler and got back on the freeway"....................................no answer. Officers were laughing so hard, even the supervisor started chuckling. Well,,being the great supervisor he was (Lt. now), and no doubt learning later through rumors who the person was, he knew there was a valuable lesson learned. There was never a formal inquire as to the officer or his actions. I miss the old days!

[unc25]

- About 0330 hours Another unit and I rolled up on what we thought was a suspect vehicle at a construction site, He went head on with the vehicle, and I decided to take the "tacticool" approach and ended up bottoming out my vehicle on a hill. "Suspect" vehicle was actually the security guard and I had to call out over main channel for a tow truck. Sgt. arrives on scene and can't keep a straight face. Next day an Accident Diagram complete with narrative was posted on the bulletin board.

-Not to mention the stupid things Ive said over Channel 1....."Hey you better turn this Mother F&*$er off!"

[pulicords]

My partner and I responded to a silent burglary alarm at a medical office, that turned out to be a good "in progress." We covered the (locked) front door, while another officer covered the point of entry. While waiting for additional backup and a key to the location, the suspect opened the front door to leave and froze at the sight of my partner and I shouting at him to raise his hands. Of course when he put his hands up, he let go of the door and it had one of those springs that slooooowly closed it right in front of us!

Now we were just pointing our guns at the locked door and feeling like idiots. About 30 minutes later, the manager of the building showed up with the key and we arrested the guy.

[-918-]

I enjoy a good tune on the radio now and then. I was driving in the small town I used to work in and just enjoying a cool Fall Saturday afternoon in the midwest. People were out, the air was brisk, and the (police) radio was quiet. I had the tunes on in the background.

We were dispatched by the city to our north. I wore a shoulder mic on my portable radio. The radio itself was in a holster on my back left side. A county unit called out on a traffic stop about 3 miles west of my city so I called up to back him. I switched my portable on and tuned to our dispatch while I tuned my car radio to the county side to talk to the deputy. Rolling over, I heard a familiar song on the radio. I sang along. I arrived at the stop and ended up having to help transport a few people to jail. After dropping the customers off at jail, I ran over to the PD to pickup paperwork for our city (10-28 hardcopies, Subpeonas, etc). When I walked into dispatch. They were all crying with laughter as they played back a beautiful rendition of F-83 singing "All my ex's live in Texas". I don't work there anymore but I can't seem to outrun the hilarity.

[10-31Mike]

- Had a bear reach into the cab of the patrol truck and take a bite out of the steering wheel while I was in the drivers seat. Yes, there's even a picture of THAT floating around.

Did you at least get a bear skin rug out of the deal?

(Pit bulls make lousy rugs by the way, thats the worst wildlife we deal with around here.)

[jakflak]

Did you at least get a bear skin rug out of the deal?

(Pit bulls make lousy rugs by the way, thats the worst wildlife we deal with around here.)

Naw...it was just a baby.