Some Cops Where Sangrey Lives SUCK

[Dan Gould]

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa...d.6f8a23c1.html

The site may be crashing from too many hits, but the basic story is this:

Texans football player is rushing to the hospital in Plano TX (hello, Jim!) to see his dying mother-in-law. Runs a stop light or two. Gets to the hospital with his wife and another woman. The women run out of the car and ignore the cop telling them to get back in the car. The player argues with the cop, who acts like an ass, threatens to run him in, and insists on him presenting proof of insurance. It takes 20 minutes, during which the nurses come out twice to try to get him to come inside and another Plano cop comes to tell the cop to let the guy go. Twenty minutes later, Mom is dead, and son-in-law is holding her cold hand.

Now they've dropped the ticket. I saw the cop loses his job.

[Chalupa]

Just read about this on ESPN. Terrible. Don't think it was the act of a racist cop as much as some asshole on a power trip.

[Dan Gould]

Agreed.

[papsrus]

Talk about lack of common sense.

Can't undo what's been done, but the officer should be required to retake the "act like a human being" course.

[Jazzmoose]

At the risk of distracting the thread, it sounds like typical cop behavior to me.

[Dave James]

I heard it wasn't a Plano cop who was the asshole, but one from Dallas.

We also have a bad cop story going on here in Portland. About a week ago, in the dead of night, two officers in an unmarked patrol car followed a woman with the unfortunate name of Freedom Child to her house and, without identifying themselves, rousted her out for not have a light on her bicycle. The shakedown allegedly included some use of force, specifically hair pulling, and resulted in her being charged with resisting arrest. With all the crime problems in cities, is it too much to ask the police make better use of their time? If law enforcement wonders why it has such a marginal reputation in many communities, look no further this incident and the one in Texas.

Up over and out.

[JSngry]

Yeah, a Dallas cop is the pig here. Clearly stated in the linked WFAA story.

Which is not to say that on some other night under some other circumstances that it couldn't have been a Plano cop....

[JSngry]

At the risk of distracting the thread, it sounds like typical cop behavior to me.

Typical bad cop behavior, yeah. And there are too many of them.

Still, a good cop has my highest respects. But a bad cop - as is anybody who is entrusted with tremendous, and momentarily unsupervised, power and then proceeds to use it simply to act out on their own head trips - is indeed a dirty, stinking, cocksucking pig.

[Dan Gould]

My bad; I picked up on Plano and assumed ...

[blind-blake]

I was arrested in Bracketville, Texas (near Del Rio) for possession a long time ago. The cops wouldn't let me make a phone call for three days, and they wouldn't give me any information about when I'd get a hearing or anything. I thought I'd be there for the rest of my life. I was scared out of my wits. Needless to say, I've got a thing about Texas and cops.

[JSngry]

Hey, like I said, on some other night, some other place, some other cop...

In spite of having any # of quality experiences in the past, don't get me going on how there's been something weird going on w/the Plano PD the last few years - speeding tickets out the ass (some of them "officer-less, and what a racket THAT is...), the citizenry being treated like a cash crop, and now all of a sudden the street officers are driving around in bigass SUVS and displaying waaaaaay too much "cop attitude"....

Some other time perhaps. But something ain't right....

[JSngry]

I was arrested in Bracketville, Texas (near Del Rio) for possession a long time ago.

Dude, that's, like, the part of Texas that nobody in Texas goes to unless they have to...

[blind-blake]

I was arrested in Bracketville, Texas (near Del Rio) for possession a long time ago.

Dude, that's, like, the part of Texas that nobody in Texas goes to unless they have to...

So now you tell me!!

[JSngry]

You should've asked!

[Jim Alfredson]

Reminds me of when I got the call that my wife needed to be taken to the ER after a routine doctor check-up (some of you may remember that incident). I had Zora with me and we were having lunch when I got the call. I split as fast as I could and was going 60mph in numerous 25mph zones to get to the hospital.

Cop starts chasing me with his lights on. I keep going and get to the hospital. I start getting Zora out of the car (who's only 6 months old at this point) and he's giving me a bunch of shit. I say, "Look buddy, my wife is in there and there's something horribly wrong with her and I don't know what it is. Here's my license, my insurance and my registration." And I just ran into the hospital.

After I found out that everything was okay, he came looking for me and was totally pissed off. But he didn't write me a ticket.

[Dave James]

My bad; I picked up on Plano and assumed ...

Dan,

There's only one way to authenticate your sincerity. You must become a Yankee fan.

Welcome aboard!

Up over and out.

[Dan Gould]

My bad; I picked up on Plano and assumed ...

Dan,

There's only one way to authenticate your sincerity. You must become a Yankee fan.

Welcome aboard!

Up over and out.

[Jazzmoose]

I heard it wasn't a Plano cop who was the asshole, but one from Dallas.

We also have a bad cop story going on here in Portland. About a week ago, in the dead of night, two officers in an unmarked patrol car followed a woman with the unfortunate name of Freedom Child to her house and, without identifying themselves, rousted her out for not have a light on her bicycle. The shakedown allegedly included some use of force, specifically hair pulling, and resulted in her being charged with resisting arrest. With all the crime problems in cities, is it too much to ask the police make better use of their time? If law enforcement wonders why it has such a marginal reputation in many communities, look no further this incident and the one in Texas.

Up over and out.

Well, I really don't think that one compares. I realize that a move to Portland from Cove would immediately switch me from the "radical left" to the "radical right", but you'd think a grown woman would have enough sense to have a light on her bike while riding at night, and would also have enough life experience to know you don't give shit to a cop who's pointing that out...