Posted: 7/4/2004 5:26:23 AM EDT
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Alright, so I was thinking the other night(while watching "Cops") about how when a situation is about to turn bad that people always say "blah blah blah, or I'm gonna call the cops!". So, you guys ever have some crazy person claim they're going to call the police on you? ..ever said it yourself without thinking?  
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One time late at night me a long time ago me and my friends stopped at a K-Mart to use the pay phone. The store was closed and locked and people were inside doing whatever they do at night to close the store down. The payphone was just outside the front glass doors and down about 10 feet or so. Keep in mind all 5 of us are computer nerd kids who don't exactly look like thugs, and this is in Kalispell MT. The manager (a short bald guy) comes to the door, visibly agitated. He starts yelling at us through the locked door, "YOU GUYS NEED TO LEAVE!!". We tell him we're using the phone, and he just keeps yelling. He leaves, then comes back again "YOU BETTER LEAVE, OR I'M CALLING THE COPS!!" We look at each other, and say "Uh, ok dude" and stay there. Then he leaves and comes back again with a phone in his hand "I CALLED THE COPS! I CALLED THE COPS!!" We still didn't leave, and the cops never showed up. |
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I was headed towards a pond with my wife last spring. There were two directions to get to the pond and I had always come one way, but had learned of the other one and was using the new road that day. This is relevant because I didn't know exactly where the pond was and I had passed the turn. It was a rural road and there were no places to turn around except in private drives. So I backed up onto the gravel shoulder to make a quick U-turn. Just then a car that had been travelling in the same direction stops right in front of my car. The front passenger starts yelling that I was on his 'brothers property'. I was polite and acknowledged it. But rather than pull away so I could leave, he keeps yelling and then starts screaming at me to leave.  I deal with a lot of hot-heads in the ER and there was no appeasing this guy. He gets out of his car and runs up to my window which was half-way up and latches onto the window with both hands. He's screaming repeatedly at me to get out of the car so that he can 'beat you up, you skinny white punk'. He then raises his left hand into a fist but with my left arm up for protection, and having to punch through a half-way up window, he saw that he wasn't getting anywhere. I used no profanity, talked in a calm voice, and told him to let go of the window or I will call the police (I did have a cell-phone). He kept yelling for a little while longer and finally got back into his car.I've been screamed at and threatened in the ER plenty of times, but I thought this guys behavior was completely out of line. I did call the police when I got home and they told us to come in to file a complaint. At the first trial, the judge found him guilty of criminal threatening and sentenced him to 60 days suspended and a $500 fine. He appealed it because he is a corrections officer and he would have had problems with his job. He had a jury trial and was found not guilty. I later learned that his property borders a pond that is public and has public access but he routinely threatens to shoot people's dogs if they come onto his property. Ironically, he teaches anger management at the prison he works at. Good did come of the experience: 1) Increased situational awareness. 2) I found better ponds to fish at. 3) My wife joined my dojo. 4) My wife learned to shoot handguns. She also doesn't say I a peep when I'm 'upgrading' my home defense guns.  |
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I was at a friend's townhouse....we kind of spilled out of the house on to the common lawn. They had a miserable neighbor who came out screamiing she was calling the cop's. Well his wife who was under the weather..said....'What cops we are te cops!' We were actually not l;oud and causing aproblem and were from about 10 different departments..... Another time I was at a friends farm, I showed him some new guns I had gotten, he decided we needed to try them out. So we went behind the barn and shot into a safe backstop, his wife came out fired afew rounds and we went back to the house. As we got there a couple of cop cars pulled into the drive way. This rookie came up yelling and screaming it was against the local ordinances to discharge firearms in town. My friends wife said no it wasn't.....the rookie said how would you know? She smiled at him and said.....Because I am the mayor.....the other cops respomded by laughing their asses off. |
| One time my ex wife handed me papers to sign. This happened in a parking lot when we were dropping off the kids. These papers had to do with her moving out of state. I refused to sign telling her I wanted to read them first, I was not prepared to sign any legal document in a fucking grocery store parking lot. She started banging on my drivers side window yelling at me to sign now. I punched in 911 on my cell phone, put my finger on the "send" button and showed it to her. The bitch backed off. |
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