Any good cop stories?

**JayDee** · 02-26-2008 02:38 AM

I just now got rolled up on by a couple police cruisers. I was skating with some friends in a parking lot and just as I was getting ready to leave a couple cops stopped me. Luckily they weren't buttholes and they let me go after inspecting the trunk of my car.

In any case - Do you guys/gals have any good cop stories to share?

**Rarrazz** · 02-26-2008 02:46 AM

This doesn't really have anything to do with skating, but I'm gonna post it anyway.
I was taking my dog for a walk a few hours ago, and all the sudden a cop came up, parked on the side of a triangular shaped wooded area, second cop parks on the other side, and a 3rd comes just below me.. They're out of the cars, and cornering someone in the woods, right where I'm walking my dog, it was pretty weird, fourth cop came and asked me if I saw anyone run past around where I was, which I hadn't. No idea what was going on, it was right next to a grocery store, so I figure it's possible someone robbed the place and ran out, it's all right across the street from a neighborhood, so I figured someone could have ran out of there, not really sure.. Pretty crazy.

Oh, and here's some cop running stories..
Running from the Cops.

**longboardorific** · 02-26-2008 05:26 AM

uhm once my freinds were hanging out in the starbucks parking lot and were being really loud so the cops came. but they didnt think it was for them so they started singing kumbaya(sp?)

**tork** · 02-26-2008 08:50 AM

I got one to top all yours. I was driving my neighbors car, without their permision, and I dont have a license, there were 7 people in the car, its a 5 seater. I had been taking the car almost every night for over 3 months and I am driving past my high school and I pass an undercover cop without realizing it going a bit over the speed limit. when the cop started following us the people in the car were freaking out at me and they were yelling at me for all whatever reason cause they were all scared and pansy-ish. so I took a left and he followed me, then I took 3 rights and he followed me the entire way and I pulled into an alley going pretty fast and he wouldnt have seen me go into the alley if I had been like half a second faster. so we go down to the end of the alley thinking it goes through, but no, its a dead end, so we all jump out of the car and run from the cop. we spent the next hour or so running from the cops, and the worst of it was that I left my phone in the car! ugh...so we got away because of my amazing skill in avoiding cops, and then I turned myself in because thats teh thing to do.

**smallhillrider** · 02-26-2008 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by tork

I got one to top all yours. I was driving my neighbors car, without their permision, and I dont have a license, there were 7 people in the car, its a 5 seater. I had been taking the car almost every night for over 3 months and I am driving past my high school and I pass an undercover cop without realizing it going a bit over the speed limit. when the cop started following us the people in the car were freaking out at me and they were yelling at me for all whatever reason cause they were all scared and pansy-ish. so I took a left and he followed me, then I took 3 rights and he followed me the entire way and I pulled into an alley going pretty fast and he wouldnt have seen me go into the alley if I had been like half a second faster. so we go down to the end of the alley thinking it goes through, but no, its a dead end, so we all jump out of the car and run from the cop. we spent the next hour or so running from the cops, and the worst of it was that I left my phone in the car! ugh...so we got away because of my amazing skill in avoiding cops, and then I turned myself in because thats teh thing to do.

What did your parents say lol?

**Irie-Rida** · 02-26-2008 10:01 AM

I decided to go skating wilst insanely herbally-inebriated on one warm summer day, about 7pm. I am carrying. We were thrashing this bank/ bank to wallride spot and putting those wall-ridey rainbows of wreckage all over the wall. I was too far in the back seat when I came off a high wallride and I shot out my board. The board comes up the adjacent bank and shoots in front of a previously unseen cop car. The cop comes around the front of his car holding my board. At this point I am thinkin "O SH*T"...but then the cop cracks a smile, puts the board down, and rolls up into a handstand. He hands me the board back and says he rode OJ2s and indy 20 years ago...We had a talk about wheelbase....and....I think I may have had a bro moment(or broment if u will) with a cop.

**Flapper** · 02-26-2008 03:02 PM

Individual's Charge Report

i night of bullsh1t

**JayDee** · 02-26-2008 03:18 PM

^^^ "Unlawful Rollerskating" That sucks. The cops here (San Diego) are failry cool. As long as you're not vandalising or anything they just tell you to go home. Usually.

**Weeble818** · 02-26-2008 04:50 PM

some cop gave me a 50$ ticket for riding on bike pegs because apparently its a one person vehicle. our bacon here are all asses

**Hamkins** · 02-26-2008 05:04 PM

My pop's a cop and he's a nice bloke, does that count?

**anotherartgeek** · 02-26-2008 05:08 PM

Don't see why not. Good on yer dad.

**AGENT WD-40** · 02-26-2008 06:16 PM

Well one time I was chilling inside my garage skating with one of my buddies and a cop on a motorcycle pulls out of the nearby walking path that we have in our neighborhood. He rides up to my house and begins questioning us about where we got our boards, etc. I had like 4-5 boards sitting in my garage at this time so he kept questioning me why I had so many too. I guess some little kid down the street got pushed off his board and someone stole his skateboard. It was an interesting experience that I'll never forget...

My buddy told me also that the other day he was skating down a hill and got pulled over by a motorcycle cop. The cop tried to feed him some b.s. about how skateboards arent allowed on the streets, yet they are illegal to ride on sidewalks (Which is agian, bull ####). He then tried to write a ticket for him not wearing a helmet, but since he was 19 he couldnt do jack #### about it. Cops are so stupid, like Mike V said in some Youtube video, kids on skateboards are Public Enemy no. 1.

**tork** · 02-26-2008 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by smallhillrider

What did your parents say lol?

they said "..." and then I was f'd for the rest of my life... im still being punished for it

**boxcar182** · 02-26-2008 06:42 PM

Two Of 'em

One night I went to 7-11 for a midnight snack run, as I was walking back I noticed a Chevy Silverado following me slowly in the street. So once I turned the corner I started jogging, eventually turned into a full on sprint trying to get to my house. He pulls up right in front of my house, pulls a gun on me, cocks it and cuffs me. 4 squad cars swarm around me in like 10 seconds and I get thrown in the back of one. I sit there for like 20 minutes listening to their description of who they were looking for. Short, fat mexican wearing a brown shirt. (for those of you who don't know me, I'm 6'4", 155lbs and white as ####) Eventually they let me go, but it was scary as ####.

The other time is much more amusing. Walking home from the ladie's house at 4 in the morning, a cop notices me walking in the middle of the street (state highway, yet no cars) So he pulls me over searches me and asks me what I'm doing. I tell him the truth, that I'm just coming back from my girlfriend's house, and he offers me a ride home. And didn't tell my parents. That made me stoked.

**Astaroth** · 02-26-2008 08:44 PM

He pulls up right in front of my house, pulls a gun on me, cocks it and cuffs me. 4 squad cars swarm around me in like 10 seconds and I get thrown in the back of one. I sit there for like 20 minutes listening to their description of who they were looking for. Short, fat mexican wearing a brown shirt. (for those of you who don't know me, I'm 6'4", 155lbs and white as ####)

Holy #### dude, sue the city... that's crazy right there. Pulled a gun on you?! I'd be claiming the cost of new underwear to replace the pair I crapped in...

The other time is much more amusing. Walking home from the ladie's house at 4 in the morning, a cop notices me walking in the middle of the street (state highway, yet no cars) So he pulls me over searches me and asks me what I'm doing. I tell him the truth, that I'm just coming back from my girlfriend's house, and he offers me a ride home. And didn't tell my parents. That made me stoked.

Some cops are cool like that. I used to race go-karts and we were at a race meeting just outside a small country town when we broke something, Dad had to drive into the town to replace whatever it was we broke (can't remember... I was like 13). Anyways he comes back tailing a cop car, I ask him what's up and he said he'd spoken to the cop in town and told him the story (and that he was in a rush) and the cop escorted him back to the track at a decent speed! The cop ended up sitting on the road into the track for a while and watching a race or two.

But you don't hear about that much.... nobody talks about the cool things cops do, you only ever hear stories about the self-important twats...

**worldridr768** · 02-26-2008 08:52 PM

back in october a bunch of us were skating in New Jersey along a highway. There was a decent group of us, probably at least 9-10 guys. I am out in front in full tuck and full gear (leathers/fullface/gloves) and this State Cop sees us and starts pulling out of this traffic circle we have to go through. He was inching forward and I was afraid he was going to pull out in front of me and completely #### me up. He decides to stop short, and it was especially scary since I was out front. He is blaring on his PA to pull over and throw the boards on the grass. Luckily, Scott (swinging neckbreaker) got out and tried reasoning witht he cops. They were douches who thought we were setting up kickers along the highway to launch off. *sigh*

He said that rollerblading and cycling are legal, and that we should write the government or something.

**MillencolinAddict** · 02-26-2008 09:21 PM

I was skating in this one neighborhood that has a really nice long run with my best buddy from HS one afternoon over my winter break. We had driven there and noticed a statey's car in one of the driveways near where we had parked (we were also a tad herbally influenced with stuff in the car). We hit the hill a few times and about the third time walking back up the cop pulls out and flicks his sirens at us. I'm thinking we we're gonna have to deal with #### and got ready to put on my innoccent super friendly and oblivious manuever that has gotten me out of a few pinches in the past. The cop pulls up next to us and says really seriously, "do you guys know how fast you were going?" I said "uhh no, we were just cruising, but we can go elsewhere if its a problem." He replied, "Would you like to know, i've got a radar gun." He proceded to tell us how much fun it looked like and if he was younger he'd love to join us. I've had a few bad cop stories but this one was refreshing. We didnt take him up on the radar gun offer more out of absolutely being shocked at our good fortune than anythign else.

EDIT: spelling

**Astaroth** · 02-26-2008 09:53 PM

^^^ that's cool as.

I remember another time I was luging a hill with some guys who'd been doing it for years, and it was my first ever day of riding. The road is a former national highway over a mountain but has been replaced so it's smooth, wide and quiet. We get to the end of the run and I'm standing there in my gear when a cop pulls up in a 4WD... being my first time out I'm shitting myself about going to jail... the guy ended up talking for a few minutes, checked to make sure we had good safety gear (which we did, everyone had leathers etc) and told us to watch out for the cars and not hurt ourselves before driving off.

This isn't my story but comes from a friend of mine - as the story goes he and some people were riding their luges in a new housing estate with brand spanking new roads but no houses yet, so it was dead quiet. Some cops arrived and asked what they were doing, after a brief explanation one of the cops says .... "So, is that legal?"

**tork** · 02-27-2008 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by boxcar182

The other time is much more amusing. Walking home from the ladie's house at 4 in the morning, a cop notices me walking in the middle of the street (state highway, yet no cars) So he pulls me over searches me and asks me what I'm doing. I tell him the truth, that I'm just coming back from my girlfriend's house, and he offers me a ride home. And didn't tell my parents. That made me stoked.

this one reminds me of a story of my own.

a couple months ago I went to club one3one in seattle with a group of friends all in one car, but the driver forgot his license so when we got there he wasnt let in, but the rest of us were in before we found that out, and he couldnt come in and tell us, so we are just doing our thing until 2 in the morning and we come outside and we cant find him anywhere, his car wasnt parked where we left it, it was intense. then we all checked our phones and we all had like 3 missed calls from him. so we called him up, waking him, and he was like "you f***ers left me alone! you can walk home for all I care"

so thats what we did, we walked home in the express lanes on the freeway cause there were no cars. we didnt get caught by a cop until we were walking up the exit ramp at our exit. good times

**GoGreenLongboarding** · 02-27-2008 06:22 AM

my all time best cop stories aren't skate related... i've been pulled over skating and harassed a couple times but nothing too bad. the only skate related cop incident that really pissed me off is when I got my board temporarily confiscated and kicked out of a park for skating a goddamn bike trail that allows bikes, rollerblades, wheelchairs, freaking rollerskates/skis (seriously, people had rollerskis there), but skateboards are banned throughout the entire park, skate/bike/hike trail and all.

Best cop story, years ago I built a sweet pneumatic air-cannon (spud-gun), and we were launching glow sticks across a golf course at night. This thing was powerful to say the least, we put corn cobs through 3/4 inch wood, but thats another story. The cops show up and a couple of my dumb ass friends start to run. I set down the cannon and just stand there, yelling to my firends to come back. Turns out, the cops just wanted to make sure we weren't drinking, and wanted to see how the thing worked. They told me to demonstrate and i was like "dude, that thing could be considered a serious weapon, you sure you want me to fire it off again?" the cops insisted, so i launched a few more glow sticks across the course and they left smiling.