Last night, I stayed at the bar right until closing and got a little tanked. I planned ahead and left my car at home, so when I saw the police in the parking lot checking us out, I smiled, waved, and mentioned that I won’t be driving anywhere.
I only have about a 600m walk to get home, this same cop car cruised past me 6 times. He must have been too broke for donuts or something because I was minding my own business and just walking home.
Anyway, on the 5th and 6th drive by, I realized that this is getting to be a little insulting. WTF? Does he think I’m going to go rob or mug someone? It’s 2:30am, there’s no one on the streets but me.
So, on the 7th pass, I ran over to a traffic sign and pretended to be pounding the crap out of it. I figured the cop would get my point and leave me alone.
Pluck you, cop! You picked me up and dragged me down to the drunk tank. I didn’t deserve this! You have an attitude problem, mister. You should have just minded your own business. —Slept on a Lumpy Bed
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
OP, 600m eh? Sober people can walk a little faster than you.
lol…charged with 1 count of public intoxication, 1 count of public mischief and 1 count of failure to obey a posted traffic sign..lmao. I mean, hey OB…STOP means STOP!
You’re a tool OP and got what you deserved.
you’re an idiot. you deserved this ya retard. they were clearly waiting for you to do something and you handed it over ON PURPOSE.
haha moron
Is it possible that the cop was watching your back, OP; that they saw you were drunk and alone (i.e. vulnerable), and knowing that you were walking home at 2:30 in the morning, thought they’d make sure you made it there safely. And perhaps in your tanked up state, you simply misinterpreted the officer’s behavior and went and fucked your own damn self? Regardless, if you had just walked your ass home instead of being an antagonistic dickhead, you’d have sweet fuck all to bitch about.
Are there any other congenital cretins in your family OP, because it could be heriditary. Something to keep in mind if you’re planning any late-in-life kids. Next time follow your own good advice – Mind your own business. And, leave those defenceless signs alone. Fucktard.
You’re an idiot. And they passed you 7 times during a 600m walk? Moron.
Dumbass… Provoking your own arrest, bet you regret that one huh?
totaly valid post about being insulted when a cop repeatedly cruises past you.
We live in a country where the police near just cause to stop and pedestrian and demand ID.
Cruising past someone 6 times is almost as bad as stopping them. It stinks of harassment.
*We live in a country where the police need just cause to stop a pedestrian and demand ID.
sorry. all fixed!
Why did you acknowledge the cop anyhow, if you were just going to walk home then just walk, the cop would likely not have bothered with you anyway. I think the drinking has clouded some of these events and if your going to show public intoxication then you’re going to be in trouble
600 m is like 6 and a half football fields… walking all zig-zaggey… yeah, I can see it taking a little while. 7 passes in say…10 minutes or so… that’s a little obvious.
perhaps they were waiting for you to take a dump on some poor soul’s porch.
I do believe the deceptive defecating douche-bag is still at large.
at the least, the pooping bandit could wait till hallows eve and light it on fire
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
You’re a fucking IDIOT, OB, and an obvious SET.
With all the shit going down around here by drunkards in the middle of the night, it’s no wonder there’s more of a police presence. And getting “tanked” means you’re in their demographic of people to watch out for.
If your head wasn’t firmly planted up your seb-chute, you’d realize this.
You aren’t special, OB. You were ‘tanked’ and walking home and who knows what you would’ve done. Just because you know you’re not a menace, doesn’t mean the cops know this. I’ll betcha 100% of those drunk ass idiot students trashing shit downtown’d say the same thing “I’m a harmless drunk!”
I’m sure you’d take sucking it up and letting the cop ‘insult you’ a little bit over ‘making a point’ and ending up in the drunk tank at this point, wouldn’t cha?
Fact *is* you DID deserve what you got. You were intoxicated in public and then tried to ‘make a point’ when the cop was only doing his job in such a way that it caused a public disturbance. Public intoxication + public disturbance = drunk tank.
And the fact that you can’t wrap your head around this makes you a Self Entitled Twat.
“you have an attitude mr cop! you can’t take me to jailz because you insulted me by doing your job and you have an attitude! even though i’m drunk in public and i’m causing a public disturbance, i don’t deserve this DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”
haha you asked for that one dude.
Totally valid bitch, this would not have happened if the cop had left him alone. In my books, that is a pretty good definition of baiting and entrapping.
Geezuz, Survivor goes out on a bender and doesn’t get laid again so pounds the shit out of an inanimate object and for what? To spend the night in the drunk tank……hope they offered you a drop to drink!
Totally invalid bitch. If he had kept his head down and ignored the police car he’d have gotten home in time to watch Aqua-Teen Hunger Force. Yank the tail of the tiger, you’d best have a plan for dealing with it’s teeth.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR…
“In my books, that is a pretty good definition of baiting and entrapping.”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breafs hard* AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHFSKWJEFSF:OIHSF
You’re kidding me, right?
The cop was doing his job — making sure some drunk stumbling home didn’t destroy anything or take a dump in a store entrance.
Are you really saying a crime isn’t a crime if a cop doesn’t see it?
A) OB was drunk (the cop didn’t force him to drink)
B) OB caused a public disturbance (because he was drunk and STUPID — sure he might’ve been insulted by the cop but that doesn’t mean he has free range to go and cause a public disturbance ‘just to make a point’). Being insulted by a cop does not make most reasonable people go commit a crime in front of said cop just to think “oh they’ll get my point and fuck off.” No, if you commit a crime in front of a cop, you’ll likely get arrested.
IMO, the cop did OB a favour by just throwing them in the drunk tank and not actually charging them.
And the Darwin Award goes to…..
the boy stole one of those for me zedman, oh dearie me, i’m the leader of a criminal gang
OB, you fucking deserve getting thrown in jail. Acting like such an asshole, and pretending to cause damage to public property. Glad they threw you in there. Pity they didn’t taser the stupid out of you.
LOL I have a pylon story I’ll share at the summit, PG. I don’t wanna expose someone on da interwebz! lolz
oh jeez, am i in trouble? http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.…
Too bad we can’t ask if the bar was charged for serving a drunk patron. I think its a safe guess that they weren’t.
Any bar that serves a customer until they are drunk should have to pay for a taxi to send the guy home.
As a tax payer, I don’t want to be paying police officers to buzz up and down the roads, and I don’t want to be paying them to be baby sitting a cell full of drunkards.
Don’t taunt the police.
Perhaps you would prefer the police not to be around?
Honestly you are a dumbass.
Hopefully you grow out of it.
LOL no, you’re not in trouble.
That cat looks like Felix, and sums his life up PERFECTLY.
sorry for all the cat pictures, i really miss the fur boys
Here’s a little question you can ask yourself while you reflect on whose fault it is.
If the situation came up today, during the day when you were sober, would you have acted the same way?
The answer should prompt a little introspection.
While I have to say…you really fucked up.
Make sure you do not pay the fine.
Go to court.
Make you case to the judge.
99 chances out of 100, he’s still going to find in favour of the cop.
But you still tie up court time.
tie up the officer’s time.
And the end result to you is about the exact same as if you just paid the fine.
After all we all have a right to go before the courts & maybe you might get off.
or
Maybe the judge will get sick & tired of BS cases tieing up his court room & give the cop an earful & you get off.
Either way, just paying a fine (aka pleading guilty) won’t get you a gold badge !
so go the whole court route. Which is what eveyone should always do, its your right use it to your advantage…
I got hauled in for asking why they were following me.
I’m 100% positive they would have done what they were gonna do regardless of anything I did.
I dunno, maybe he was trying to make you feel safe but if he really wanted to do that he could have offered you a lift, or told you as much. Cops know that they don’t make people “feel safe”. I don’t think many of them want to make people feel safe, they’d rather be feared.
This cop may have been a bully OP, but you should have known better. What the hell were you thinking? You would have been better off to politely ask why he was following you.. maybe. That might have ended in a similar result but at least you’d have a valid bitch, and a good story for the judge.
It’s best to treat police like you would a sketchy looking criminal type character, or a street gang. You walk past them, you keep your head down, don’t even do the smile and wave or whatever. If they say hi, you say hi back and keep it moving. Basically try not to let them notice you. Better luck next time.
a lumpy bed in the drunk tank, i think not dude. they are all fucking cement and shit. i have been there, and unless they changed them, very lately, i call bukkshit on this. beds indeed, all they are, are just fucking cement ledges. tell him bro tim.
i hope this is a joke. Because if not, here’s a reality check for you.
It’s not all about you. The cops are patrolling the streets looking for any trouble that may arise. You happened to be the only person walking, yes. But that doesn’t mean you would CONTINUE to be. Look retard, the cops on duty that night got assigned that beat WAY before you even conceived going out. They were doing their job. I know this is hard for you to get your head around but it didn’t have anything to do with you… until you decided to commit a random act of vandalism.
You got what you deserved. Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. There are people who have important issues to address around here.
lol quite recently LS? At your age?
no tommy, i was just saying that if they were changed, it would only be lately. i haven’t had the pleasure to be there for quite a while. and yes, i was pissed faced loaded. and yes, it took 5 to get me in car.
still have crack in skull from that night, but know what, i fucking deserved it, i will own up to my shit, not like this asshole.
“If the situation came up today, during the day when you were sober, would you have acted the same way?”
I’d like to answer that. If it happened to me during the day, I think I might have thought the sarcasm of pretending to beat on a stop sign would be an apropriate response. And, I suspect that my words to the police officer would be sharper and less tolerant than I imagine OP’s words.
does that help put this in perspective?
/my2centsworth
Here’s the thing: Cops have no sense of humor with public drunkenness, any more than limo drivers think it’s funny to to a drive thru McD’s. The sooner you realize what situations are devoid of humor, the better.
And, I have no sense of humor with cops that want to violate the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms.
end of story. you can all go home now. 🙂
I am not saying that we should tolerate fascism, Jeeves, and I’m sorry I gave that impression.
I have just been watching the video of the NYC cop who peppersprayed women who were handcuffed and barricaded already, and have been following the story of that yahoo border guard near BC with appalled interest. My point is that, if you want to make a point to a cop, do it in the light of day when you are sober, or at least have someone with a camera to bear witness. And learn from the experience of those who have been there: Don’t provoke a cop when you have been drinking.
Your idiot ass got just what it deserved for being a drunken fool in public.
Next time, stay home if you can’t behave yourself in public and around the police.
“HRM Police beat me up, kidnapped me, held me hostage for 18.5 hours and used every psychological torture technique known to man on me.”
…let me guess, they also turned you into a newt.
But, you got better.
Ever fired a rocket launcher, outside of HALO 4 that is? The only thing more pathetic than internet tough guys, are internet urban guerrillas.
“Operation Shadow Project-
mailing address:
Mom’s Basement”
“Mom! Can I have some more Hot Pockets!?”
I was so hoping he was gone…
Or urban Ding Dongs Col.
Heh heh… hot pockets… heh
xeno, that is a very good point that you make. I agree with you from a ‘don’t rock the boat’ point of view, but if I’m allowed to think a but altruistically, I dont like the idea of police officers randomly stopping me. and I don’t like the idea that they might buzz around me like a fucking yellow jacket.
But, yeah. 2:30am walking home from the bar is not an opportune time to tell them what you think of them. Its a good thing, its only Canada, mind you, because a trip to the drunk tank is a relative small deal compared to what could happen if we truly allow the police to go Gestapo on us.
I know that I’m adding myself another 5000 years in Purgatory every time I wind him up, Rosie, but Jeeeeesussss!
This must have been what it was like to visit “Bedlam” Hospital in Regency London.
No doubt Col.!
Some people just beg to be taunted… especially the know it all children– carry on!
i still say tht if yu act like an idiot, expect to get treated like an idiot. sounds to me, what happened is exactly that.
i still say tht if yu act like an idiot, expect to get treated like an idiot. sounds to me, what happened is exactly that.
So it’s after the bars close, you’re drunk, and you’re reaction to the Law is to attack a street sign like a drunken yobbo.
Why is it exactly you’re surprised you were picked up?
Dumazz.
Officer’s testimony in court:
” The suspect, a known driver and local resident, left the bar on foot. he proceeded to walk towards his residence. He used the sidewalk. He was alone. He was not doing anything illegal.”
I decided to drive by him to investigate further. I did not find anything suspicious about the suspect.
“So, I drove by him, again…..”
“….then again…….”
“….then again…….”
“….then again…….”
“….then again…….”
“….on the seventh pass, suspect seemed agitated, and aware of my presence. And, in the absense of audable communications, the suspect attempted to communicate with me with hand gestures”
“I pulled over to investigate further, and too my surprise I could smell alcohol on the suspect’s breath.”
” The suspect impolitely expressed that he was minding his own business and didn’t appreciate being stalked. I interpreted this as clearly a drug induced reaction to my 7 drive by investigations.”
S’right, Jeeves, and who will the judge believe?
I just got done explaining to a friend why I will not join him in NYC for the Wall Street protest. I have been to a number of protests in DC. DC cops, even with the post 9/11 sidewalk barriers, know what the constitution is and respect the right of assembly. There have been times that DC cops have protected me from counter-demonstrators.
NYC cops are a whole nother story. I have heard stories about protesters being locked up for 10 hours and not allowed to urinate. “try to protest in eye-rack!” was a statement an acquaintance of mine heard-just before he was clocked with a nightstick. The recent pepper spray incident is classic. Four women, handcuffed and barricaded (harmless and helpless) subjected to pepper spray at close contact.
The incidents I am describing happened during Bush Wars 1 and 2. Years ago, yet their power goes unchecked.
The cop baited you and you fell for it. From your description, you only pretended to pound on the sign, so it was obvious that the cop was looking for an excuse to to have you thrown in the drunk tank. You should have just kept walking and ignored the cop.
If you were charged with anything, fight it in court. You didn’t do anything illegal, and as GV stated, get the officer to describe the situation. What will come out in court is that they drove by you 6 times!! Why did they have to do that? You weren’t far away, so they could have just pull over and observed you from a distance. There was no need to drive by you that many times.
Don’t even get me started on the NYPD. Did anyone watch 60 Minutes to hear the NYPD Police Chief state that they’re bigger than the FBI, that they don’t trust he Federal Government to fight terrorism, and that they have the means to take down planes if deemed a terrorist threat?? They even send investigators world wide, to investigate and follow leads which they believe are terrorism related. With the increase in powers they were given, they even worked with the CIA to spy on domestic Americans. Clearly in violation of laws that were passed in the 1970’s:
By law, the CIA is specifically prohibited from collecting foreign intelligence concerning the domestic activities of US citizens. Its mission is to collect information related to foreign intelligence and foreign counterintelligence. By direction of the president in Executive Order 12333 of 1981 and in accordance with procedures approved by the Attorney General, the CIA is restricted in the collection of intelligence information directed against US citizens.
People need to step up and stop these entities from stripping people of their Constitutional and Charter Rights. Ever since 9/11, these abuses have increased and none of these new powers have been revoked. Be careful what you do/say and always make sure it’s being recorded. The police cannot order you to stop recording as you are in public and they are public servants, hence they cannot have expectation of privacy. They cannot order you to show your videos or pictures, nor can they take your equipment, or delete or order you to delete your pictures/videos. But since 9/11, they believe that they can and use the “war on terrorism” excuse to claim that they can.
Here are some clear violations and abuses that will open your eyes to what is happening and how your freedoms are slowly being taken from you.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/m…
http://www.pixiq.com/article/trial-begins-…
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/news-p…
https://www.propublica.org/nola/case/topic…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/v…
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-out…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/i…
https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypol…
Great Value: “As a tax payer, I don’t want to be paying police officers to buzz up and down the roads, and I don’t want to be paying them to be baby sitting a cell full of drunkards.”
But as soon as your window gets smashed out by “drunkards” you’ll be the one posting a bitch about how there aren’t enough cops “buzzing up and down the roads”.