Trouble with the Law

Does anybody have any good stories regarding run-ins with the police? I had my first police encounter last night (not counting traffic stuff of course), and it was an interesting experience.

Myself and 2 buddies were launching waterballoons at McNutt (a dorm at IU) with a 3 person slingshot on a rainy Monday morning at about 2 AM.

After a while, we started getting more and more accurate. Eventually we were hitting peoples' dorm windows, and the water balloons hit them sooooo hard it was amazing. We observed some movement in one of the windows that we hit, and someone walked outside and began to walk in our direction.

My friends and I grabbed our shit (a 3 person slingshot and a Rock Green Light box full of water balloons) and began to head down the road away from McNutt. Not long after, a police car comes rolling up, with his lights off. We had no idea that the cops were involved in what we were doing, so my friend carefully sets down the waterballoon stuff, and continues to walk down the road.

The police car pulled by the side of the road, shined a spotlight on us, and turned on his lights. Two policemen stepped out of the car, asking us to place our hands on the car. We do as ordered, and the policeman begins to ask us questions about what we were doing, often yelling at us if we moved our hands, or took them off the hood of the car.

The policeman then began to read us our rights, at this point I was thinking "Shit, Shit, Shit," in my head. Did they think we did something more serious than we had actually done? Or had we broken something in our water balloon play?

Next comes the badgering questions:
"What were you doing?" - Cop
"We were in a water balloon fight sir." - My friend
"Well... if you were in a water balloon fight, who were you fighting against" - Cop

At this, we all shit.

He knew he was on to something, and his questions became even more malicious:
"So what you were saying is you weren't shooting them at people, but rather property?" - Cop
"Are you telling me that you didn't damage anything?" - Cop

It was rather scary, we didn't have too many answers. And at this point I had decided not to be completely silent, because I'd rather risk self-incrimination if by being honest I could eventually let the whole thing pass (which ended up being the best move in the end). So the cop sees us freeze and gets pissed off. Two more squad cars pull up, turn their lights off, and cuff us. My two friends are left to talk to the cop, but I'm taken to another cop car, to be frisked and put in the backseat of the car.

"You know that you are this (motions) close to going to jail, right?" - Cop
"I know sir, I wish to be as forthcomming as possible" - Me

While sitting in the cop car, I hear one policeman calling in our IDs to the station, the station then adviced back that we be taken in. Luckily enough, however, my friends were able to talk the police out of it by being open and honest (even though I believe all along this whole thing was a show by the police just to scare us).

I'm taken back out of the cop car and uncuffed, as are my friends. The cop then shows us the kid that called us in, he was a bit taller than the three of us. The cop then concluded that since we hadn't damaged anything, we were being let go, but if there was anything damaged, that there would be a warrent out for our arrest. He also felt the need to point out that the kid who called us in was bigger than us and we should be careful about "who we mess with," implying that one bigger kid (who happens to be enough of a pussy to call the cops for kids hitting his girlfriends window with water balloons) could have beat up the three of us.

We got our IDs back, and went on our way... back to Briscoe.

[Mr. Blonde]

Last year near the end of january me and my two friends were in the dorms drinking, it was a saturday night in the snow so as some of you know the parties are pretty dull in the winter. We heard about this party and after having a few beers we decided to hit it up.

For those of you that go to ball state, we were drinking in the honors dorms, and the party was on rex street. So we crossed across behind the arena parking lot in the back, and went through the hole in the fence to get onto rex street. We went to the house, and it was empty. No party. However, my one friend, who we will call "Menny", spotted a street sign in the roof of the porch. He retrieved it quickly and found out it read "Van Dyke". We had to take it.

So we were messing around on this little stretch of dead end road for a while, snowboarding on the sign into bushes, etc. We also found a wooden platform with a cardboard cylinder on it, which we thought was a launcher for a small rocket. So being semi drunk, we decide to go out to kind of the main road, new york st., and put this thing in the middle of the road. We waited for a little while until a car came, and we were for sure he was going to run into it. He eventually saw it and screeched his brakes and slid off the side of the road. We started laughing hilariously and decided to get the fuck outta there.

Back through the hole in the fence, we were crossing the arena parking lot again. I was the most sober of the group, so i was kind of still in a semi-knowledgable state of mind. My one friend, "Passionfish" who wasnt in a state of good common sense, decided he wanted a sign too, and went up to a stop sign and tried to unscrew it with his hands, to no avail, obviously. While he was doing this, "Menny" went on the other side of the sign and smacked the stop sign with the sign he had, making a large noise and scaring the shit out of "Passionfish". At this point i'm looking around, and in one of the side lots i see a parked cop car. I then proceed to tell them to start walking, fast. While we are walking away i look behind to see that the cop has pulled out and has turned on his lights. RUN!!! I yell out, and we begin running around the circle of the arena to get back to the dorms. At some point i decide that there is no way i'm going to outrun the cop car, and duck into a little alcove that, when unlocked, leads into the arena. I hide behind a trash can, and the other two keep running. After a few seconds i see the cop car speed over the curb and grass to chase them, totally oblivious to me. "Passionfish" ducks into the next alcove, and "Menny" goes for the long haul and crosses the grass field to get back to the honors dorms. At this point there are at least 3 three cop cars in the area, all looking for us. "Menny" runs across McKinley, the main road through campus. and the honors dorms are right on the other side. A cop was chasing him on foot and he decided to give up, although later regrets it and wishes he would have kept running. They arrested him for evading arrest, and also underage drinking and took him downtown. The main reason the cops began chasing us in the first places is because they saw the sign in "Menny's" hand, and though we were trying to steal the stop sign too, and kept asking him "Where is the wrench?" Also, before they took him to jail, they took him back to teh house and made him give back the sign, which was obviously illegally obtained. Cops are such fucking retards.

By this time, i had already decided to get the hell outta dodge, and walk around the other side of the stadium to get back to lafollette, the dorm across from the honors dorms. I didnt know anybody had been caught yet. I get back to my dorm and tried to get ahold of them, and i couldn't. Fearing the worst, i went outside and snuck behind some trees over by the arena again, and saw my friend "Passionfish" walking away from some cop cars towards me. He didnt leave the alcove with the right timing, and eventually the cops found him and breathalized him. He just got a ticket for underage drinking. After this we found out "Menny" got taken to jail, and we were up until about 5 in the morning bailing him out. I was by far the luckiest of the group, and got away without any legal trouble at all.

[ February 25, 2004, 12:53 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

[Saint DH]

FC, you should get your buddies and find the guy that called the cops on you and jump his ass.

[ February 24, 2004, 04:20 PM: Message edited by: Dirty Harry ]

[Mr. Blonde]

me too, DH

[silver and cold]

There was one time, me and Onto had been drinking, and we were going back to her house, and the cop was behind us. So what did she do, oh she lost that pig. And I dont remember all of it, but I know the whole time she was driving, our friend in the back was screaming.

Theres a few others, but that one was short and sweet.

[AcTivE]

We almost got caught by cops one time. Or just one of us (not me). Climbed on top of courthouse coffee in warsaw--then elder beerman at 5:00 in the afternoon, and shot water baloons into parking lot.

While one of us was climbing down, manager came out and caught him. As we were driving away a cop pulled into the back.

[Percipere'Chan]

Once upon a time...

[Edited for aureate yet seemingly magniloquent content]

The End.
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So there seems to be interest in this story afterall. It's a 5 page short story (with all the spaces I put in it for expression). If you're interested in a... Narrative, about an encouter with the police, you know what to do. Otherwise... Well, I'll just point out this post doesn't take up much space.

[ February 25, 2004, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Percipere'Chan ]

[ February 24, 2004, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]

[Lethal]

Nope, I've never had any trouble with the cops. Not even once. Sorry I can't add to this thread.

[AcTivE]

1 point

[Percipere'Chan]

Damnit. That's no fun.

[Mr. Blonde]

Chan, your "story" makes my brain hurt

[Percipere'Chan]

Crappy. I guess I'll just have'ta stick to more normal posts.

[Mandarine]

After reading Chan's..I really don't want to type a whole long story so I will see how short I can make this.

Last fall, sometime in October, 3 friends and I were driving around in my Jeep. Seeing as though we were in Warsaw and this town holds so much excitement *laughs*... the thing to do was cruising I was told. So that we did. Well I had stopped to fill my Jeep up at the Citgo Station on Center St... and one of my friends *anita* picked up a rather large rock. I didnt think much about it considering that she has this obsession with collecting odd things. As we continued on our "cruise", I noticed a cop car sitting at an adjacent light. As we passed him, my other friend *holli*, decided to flash all oncoming traffic. I was for sure that the cop had seen this and that we were going to be pulled over or something. But luckily that didnt happen, about 3 blocks later, a cop does indeed turn on his lights. I am curious as to why, I was not speeding and nothing wrong with my tags or lights. It had to be Holli's nude practices. So I pull over into Owen's gas station, somewhat thinking that maybe he wasnt coming after me and would pass me by. Ha, well not knowing that Anita threw the large rock out my window... the cop proceeded to pull in after me, along with 6 other cop cars. Turns out Anita HIT the cop car on the front right side with the rock. Somehow she got away with lying and said she accidently dropped it. Two of us were frisked and sat in the back of one cop car and my friend holli and I were breathalized. And my registration and license was ran through the system, my uncle responded with a quick "Let the kids go, the one is my niece." We were released with a stern warning. Thank god my uncle has senority, being the oldest cop in town.

I have one other time for being pulled over by speeding ( 65 in a 35) but let off with a warning.

[Mr. Blonde]

That'll happen when your relatives are cops.

[Mandarine]

Yes, it will.. and Im definately not complaining.

[VOL]

I know buckeye had a run in with police in Columbus that involved drawn guns.

[Jewbie]

Well....here is my first run in with the Law...its pretty wussy...but its all i got. My girlfrined and I were walking in the park after work around 12:00a.m. We see a police officer in the parking lot across the way. He shines his light over near us and so we start walking back toward my car. Then he droveoff and went around the block. We got in my car and started to leave. He pulled into the parking lot and blocked my way out. So i stopped the car and rolled down my window. He walked over and I asked the normal question, "Is there a problem officer?" He informed me that there had been vandalism in the park and took my liscense and ran itr through the system. He then left us and I was a little pissed off to say the least...he also told me that the park closes at 10. Well i worked for the parks dept. so i know that the particular park we were in doesnt close...it really isnt even a park.....then the week after my girlfriend and i are out again...we park the car near some woods a little out of the way. We are sitting there "talking". She has the seat down and is laying back in it. A police car pulls up next to mine. I look over and see that it is the same cop from the previous week. I roll down my window and he does the same . He takes out his flashlight and shines it in my car. He asks me what we are doing...I tell him we are just talking. He then tells my girlfriend to sit up. He asks her if she is in my car by her own will. She starts to laugh..which I think pissed him off..and answers,"yes, of course". He then rolls up his window and leaves...we laughed about it and we the continued our discussion. I am just happy she did not say no.

[BarryJive]

There was one time me and a couple of my buddies were on our way home from an A.F.I. (or Tenacious D I can't remember) show in Grand Rapids. We were going through this little podunk town at like 90mph, and sure enough we got our asses pulled over, and I guess rightfully so. Well the cop comes over and asks to see my friend chris's liscense and goes through the normal routine of checking it and everything. He then comes back and writes chris a ticket and as he hands it to him he informs chris that he is going to hold onto his liscense as a "road bond" (us being out of state and all)and after he sends the the money for the ticket they will send him his liscense. To which Chris replied..."Well what am I going to use as a liscence while I'm waiting for mine to come in the mail?" to which the cop replied "..." (apperently he's never been asked this) So we all start laughing at the good point my friend made and the stupid reaction to cop had. To which he replied "alright...everyone out of the car...we're gonna do a search for illegal drugs"
Alright 3 things to never say while you and your car are being seached. 1) it's a good thing we dumped the dead hooker. 2)A little lower and to the left and 3) wooooooo (in response to the cop seaching the groinal area)
So we all ended up in handcuffs while the cops checked everyones I.D.s in the computer. It was awesome.

[Percipere'Chan]

BarryJive. That was a fucking Awesome story. I busted up laughing when I realized you actually said those things.

*tips hat

[BarryJive]

I think it was the cops mustache that pissed us off the most and the whole thing probably would have been avoided had it not been for the cheesy ass hilljack 'stache the fucker was sportin'.


Much like this guys.

[Mr. Blonde]

Yeah, I agree with Chan, thats fucking hilarious that you guys said that stuff, I had a similar situation at a movie theatre once when a cop was at the theatre of a new movie checking stubs, when he asked for mine and i gave it to him as i was walking away I said quite loudly "whew, i'm glad the bag wasnt in THAT pocket". It was pretty funny

[StabMaster Arson]

My old roommate got pulled over with me in the car... it was coming from fort wayne down 30

Cop: do you know how fast you were going?
Stiv: yeah, 75
Cop: you're right...
Stiv: do I win a cookie?
Cop: a smart guy, huh?
Stiv: either you're gonna write me a ticket or you're gonna let us go, but could we get moving, I've got places to be

the cop then wrote the ticket, very slowly.

[Percipere'Chan]

Damn. BarryJive and StabMaster Arson *both* get bonus points.