I got pulled over in an unobvious school zone. Apparently it's not uncommon to miss it. He comes up to my car and gets my license and chides me for the school zone thing even though the school is not visible from the road. After a few minutes he comes back, hands me my license and says it's my lucky day as he has to now go chase a bear. Saved by a bear. Later, I heard about it on the news but they couldn't catch it. Thanks, bear
Something like that soon after my family moved to my hometown. Dad was going the speed limit but as soon as he went through an intersection a cop appeared out of nowhere and pulled him over. For running a stop sign. That Dad couldn't see because the sign itself was covered by a tree branch and it wasn't even on a normal sign post but a *telephone pole.* Dad complained but the cop said no one else ever ran the sign. Probably because they all lived there long enough to know where it was. (Though, I gotta wonder, if no one ever ran that sign, why was the cop staking it out?)
Unmarked cop cars are easy to spot if you know the signs. They always have black hubcaps. And tend to have special light bars in spots around the car such as by the license plate.
Florida govt cars, 🚔 vehicles are easy to spot. Florida Highway Safety DMV, uses bright yellow tags so any police or state-county-city car/SUV is quick to ID. Few PDs or sheriffs use lights 🚨 but most unmarked units; PPV Tahoe, Chargers, Ford Explorers use LED lights above the visors, on the sides. Private Security by FS493 can only use yellow, green, white. Only sworn LE can use red, blue. Most 🚒 FD use red, yellow(orange).
There's a difference between legitimate unmarked cars and what are referred to as "ghost" cars. Ghost cars are standard slicktop patrol vehicles with little in the way of identifiable markings, an understated color, no spotlights and no push bumper. They're generally used for traffic enforcement duties because they're harder to identify in a moving vehicle. An unmarked car is often a nonstandard vehicle that may even lack things like strobe lights and obvious radio equipment. The only real easy way to identify a true unmarked police vehicle is the suspiciously dark window tint on what is quite possibly an otherwise ordinary off-the-lot minivan or sedan. Vehicles like this are generally used in situations where the officer is not expected to arrest someone, such as surveillance, however that doesn't mean they can't make arrests. They just have to call for assistance to do it.
In Arizona there are unmarked squads that have no visible signs of what they are. LED lights are hidden in the head and tail lights. A dark blue F150 quad cab had a car pulled over. With the strobe lights off you couldn’t tel it was an unmarked squad. DPS has charger hellcats that are unmarked. Illinois state police had a 90’s convertible camero unmarked quad running traffic on the highways.
A Cousin of my wife is a retired cop. He worked in NYC and worked undercover surveillance in an Ice Cream Truck. They had to stop using it at one point, because almost Everytime they took it out someone would try a robb them.
Y'all must have never experienced PMS or pregnancy sugar cravings. I don't condone ice cream truck robbery, but I understand it. If there is a pickle truck nearby, both trucks can kiss their yummy stash goodbye. (joke)
That lady shouldn't have just gotten off with probation and community service what she did was awful and tripled down on it and went to court to testify under oath and falsely accuse someone of grape. She should've gotten a year in jail at least
She should have gotten whatever he would've gotten had it worked. False accusers like her constantly get let off with little to no punishment when their actions could mean ruining someone's entire way of life.
1:09, damn, that was smooth...the cop literally just called his fellow officers after some carjacker tried to get into his ride and he ironically ended up getting a bigger criminal empire taken down than the one that he was trying to take down in the first place. I wonder if he ever caught the guy that he was originally staking out, let alone was involved in the aftermath of that particular situation, though?
reminds me of a story in a book: the cops got a tip that there was going to be a big robbery at a warehouse, so a bunch of them were hiding in the brush around the building... THOSE thieves never showed, BUT a small-time crook known around town as "Bad Luck Brown" tried to steal a lawn mower from in front of the building! just one of many examples of how that guy got that nickname!
I was driving home one dark night at the end of the rush hour. We were moving at the limit, all three lanes were full, and I see a car a ways behind me driving like an idiot. He dives all the way from left to right, cutting people off, then dives all the way to the left again, over and over, slowly moving up one car at a time. Eventually he cuts me off and starts tailgating the guy in front of me. While I am fantasizing about what I could do to his little hatchback with my SUV, I realize that there is another SUV creeping up beside me in the center lane. It is a black, understated Chevrolet Tahoe, with a suspicious bulge here and there on the roof, and really low key wheels. The idiot in front of me dives into the center lane, cutting off the Tahoe, and a spectacular light show immediately starts. It was glorious. I was cheering, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few other folks around me were too.
Bait cars are a really funny concept, just throw a semi-nice car into the middle of a bad area and watch it like a hunter watching a deer feeder, then as soon as somebody takes the bait you have them
They're usually rigged with cameras and remote controls to cut the engine and lock the doors when the cops are ready to spring the trap. I've seen some of the footage from the hidden cameras. It's hilarious!
@@tylerdurden3347 not entrapment, entrapment is legally defined as an officer coercing someone into committing a crime they weren’t going to commit otherwise, someone attempting to steal a bait car isn’t entrapment because they were out to steal a car, the fact that it was a bait operation doesn’t matter, it’s all in the intent
@@tylerdurden3347 the existence of a bait cat doesn’t make anyone commit a crime. If you try to break into a bait car, you’ll do it for any nice car and need to be in prison
@@tylerdurden3347 it’s not entrapment at all. The cops just park a car in a parking spot and watch to see if anyone will try to steal it. They’re not forcing anyone to steal it, not talking anyone into stealing it, nor coming up with some story to trick someone into stealing it, THOSE would all be entrapment. But parking a car and watching it no, that’s no more entrapment than a cop putting a security system in his own personal house and at some point catching a burglar.
14:20 Not just "taking away from the real victims" but also destroying peoples lives. I will always stand by the fact that if in a case like this where it is provably 100% false allegations, the person claiming it should be charged with the same charges one would get for committing said crimes(i.e. false rape accusation = prison time for someone who had raped someone). There are way to many times this has happened and people have gotten hurt socially(shunned by family/friends, loss of career and no longer being hirable), mentally(self-harm/depression and such) and physically where they have been killed over it. It is fucking disgusting.
I honestly think I would rather be raped than falsely accused of rape. It's so scary how people will deem anyone guilty as soon as they've been accused, and then seek to act out vigilante justice. Unfortunately, false allegations being punished harshly will also make it far more difficult to convince the false accuser to admit they made it up -- increasing the risk of the wrongfully accused being convicted. It's a really difficult nut to crack. :( I think admitting you made it up should resolve you of punishment, to encourage false accusers to admit it, thus avoiding some false convictions, while on the other hand, if the accusation is proven false without a doubt before the accuser admits falseness, the punishment should be not only equal but *stronger* than the punishment for what they accused someone of.
@@SelvesteSand My issue with the "Admitting it was false should be resolved" is still problematic since it will still destroy a persons career and life. If you have ever seen the show "The Ranch" an actor was cut by Netflix because of false allegations(assumed false as he wasn't convicted and I think one of them even stated that it was false IIRC) from 15+ years ago. I think that if they come forward they should still face time but we as a society should post the face of the accused all over so we know that the person was wrongfully accused. It is just sad to see people lose jobs and such over wrongful accusations like someone tattooed a swastika on their forehead.
the mere accusation without proof or verdict is enough to destroy a person's career and life. yet female false-accusers are never punished at all and are given complete protection and get to remain anonymous.
@@FractalPrism. one lady falsely accused 15 dudes of rape and didnt get arrested until after all of them were proven innocent. She got a 10 year sentence. But what really irks me is that she is an ugly ass and nobody would want to rape her, yet she got away with 15 false accusations before arrest.
I used to take this back road at about 4am heading to work, it had zero traffic and a 45mph speed limit, and I usually went about 70 on it. One morning I'm doing my usual thing, and come up behind a car doing the speed limit. Just before I hit my blinker to pass, the whole back of the car lights up. I quickly adjusted my speed and rethought the pass, and he turned the lights off. Did 40mph behind the guy for the next ten miles.
"the individual actually approached the unmarked car and attempted to sell the stolen Xbox to the cops on the sidewalk in front of the house he had just robbed." wow. that actually made me laugh out loud! liked AND favorited!
"We don't catch the smart ones." There were 3 guys who stole stuff out of unlocked cars near me, then they were dumb enough to try selling a ring to the local Jeweler... It was his Girlfriend's.
For those wondering, the Pigeon Strategy is the assumption that the first speeder a RADAR Cop sees is the first one pulled over so if you're behind the speeder, you'll see the lights come on and be able to slow down quick enough to let the twit that tripped the Speed-Trap get nailed while you sail on by... One of the big problems with that strategy is often, especially in area with a serious speeding problem, the RADAR Cop is sitting behind a sign or on a bridge scanning cars as they wiz by and radioing a GROUP of Pounce Cars sitting a little farther up so as the Trigger car speeds by, he gets nailed by the first Cop in line while YOU get nailed by the second Cop in line etc. I've seen one of those setups where there were 15 Cop Cars sitting on the side of an On Ramp waiting for the RADAR Cop a mile back on the highway to radio in a speeder to hit and passed 6 more Cops strung out on the highway giving out Tickets for a total of 21 Pounce Cars + who knows how many that already finished giving Tickets and are traveling back to the Pounce Ramp to get back in line...That was on I75 in Ohio just South of Toledo about 13 years ago before I Retired from Trucking...
Texas DPS do that too! And with great sucess. ME, I set my cruise at 3 over and just relax. I know that no matter how fast I drive I'll never be in front, and my wife will need to pee every45 minutes so all I've gained will be blown away at the next gas station anyway.
I'm a former trucker. I was on I-15 in Ca just N of El Cajon. had another semi (US Express) pass me on the hill. speed limit 35 and restricted to 2 right lanes.i tell him to slow down. he proceeded to give double middle fingers and head down the hill. about 15 seconds later I see a CHP slicktop behind me. the officer jumps all the way to the 4th lane, rolls his passenger side window down smile and wave. I look back down the Billy Bigrigger is now in the 3rd lane doing 70+ mph. In a semi. in a 35 zone. in California. the trooper proceeded to light him up. after he stopped, I rolled by at 35 , laid on the air horns and gave the biggest cheesiest smile and Miss America wave I could muster 😆. got 2 thumbs up from the trooper! Found out later that the driver was arrested, got 5 years in jail and $40,000 in fines. he tried to get his company to pay 😆.
former EMT. Took a long distance transfer from Pittsburgh Childrens Hospital to the Childrens in D.C. On the way back home, coming out of DC. Was driving down the beltway and came up to my exit. Traffic was backed up so I got in line. Kept 1 car length in front of me from the next car, going maybe 15mph. Right as I reach the exit, a car comes flying up from the highway on my left and cuts into the small space i left darn near skidding to a halt causing me to lay on the airhorn. Wellll, right where the exit and highway split is less than 90 feet away, and sitting there is a state trooper. Down he comes, stops, turns on his lights. The moron in the car stops to let the cop out. Well the cop just puts up his hand and does a small "come here" motion. Yeah the moron got pulled over.
I used to work for a shop that customized unmarked cars for the state troopers. Watch out for anything. I built some of the most innocent looking grannymobiles into the fastest thing on the road. I once built a 1989 Pontiac Grand Pri that was used to run down a Ferrari F40. It had a supercharged engine under the hood with over 800 hp and a 205 mph top speed.
I was LAPD and I lived in Burbank, so on the way home I'd take the 110 North to the 5 North. I was working the 11:00PM to 7:00AM watch and I'd put in a couple of hours of overtime, so it was probably close to 10:00AM when I get on the 5 freeway and start heading towards Burbank. I see a line of cars in front of me and then I notice a second line of cars approaching the first line on their left. As the two lines draw abreast of each other, the occupants of each line of cars begin shooting at each other. I mean, shots are going back and forth, cars are swerving, cars on slamming on their breaks, colliding, its a fucking rolling gunfight... I call 911 and put out a help call to the CHP, Burbank PD and Glendale PD's and get the hell out of there. I hear from Glendale PD detectives later in the day. The first line of cars was a Crip funeral party going to bury a homie at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The 2nd line was another Crip set who killed the homie and were looking to run up their score. That's LA on a fucking Sunday morning for you...
I worked morning watch, too, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in Atlanta. Everyday I drove home in my civilian car, about 3 people would cut me off while driving aggressively and then freak when they saw my uniform.
Gangs are a social disease but I’m assuming they’re gonna evolve into legit corporate entities eventually. Even the taliban will become a proper government in time once they finally have to navigate the trappings of social governance long enough
Was driving on the highway at night when I had my first shitty car. The thing was a junker and the headlights were not really bright and barely illuminated any of the road behind me. Normally I speed but I just didn't feel comfortable in a limited visibility situation. Stuck to the right lane until I reached a semi that was going slow. Move over to the left lane to pass him (this is a dicided highway). In front of the semi are more semis. In between the semis is an unmarked cop also going under the speed limit. Probably waiting for a speeder to pass on the left. I'm going barely above speed limit as the asshole in the lifted truck is right on my ass. I speed up a little more and he is just riding on my bumper. Cop pulled out behind him and I could see the guy who was tailing me get lit up. I was so relieved. I'm no stranger to driving fast but when it's pitch black or the weather isn't great, people need to be more understanding of those who wanna like, stick to the speed limit.
Not a police officer. But 40 years ago I was driving somewhere .( I've forgotten the name of the Town ). At the beginning of the town was a big sign saying " Speed trap ahead." There were a few people that ignored the sign to their shame. As I slowed down and drove through the town. I was looking at the cars pulled over by the police. I assumed it was for speeding. I met a man from that area. He told me that the town police give out a lot of speeding tickets there. Because most people ignore the sign and keep driving.
My little town is a speed trap. Local police, sheriff's office, and troopers based here. I warn people to never speed. Friend came to visit. He got a ticket on the way into town. His wife was mad. She drove home. He called about ten minutes after they left, she got a ticket in the same spot, by the same cop.
Had a buddy who was a cop. He was sitting in one of the empty spaces on the edge a mall parking lot, you know the spaces that only fill up at Christmas or Black Friday. As I said, he was sitting there doing paperwork and a lady who was cutting through the lot hit him, in his marked police car.
that first story reminds me of one i read in a "dumb criminals" book: someone called the non-emergency number and complained about noise from a nearby building. it was a building usually used to store surplus Christmas toys...but it was JUNE! this seemed suspicious, so they sent some police cars over... and found TONS of illegal drugs! arguably the biggest drug bust in the entire history of the USA, thanks to a noise complaint!
"He could not believe we fired him for going twice the speed limit." Yeah, I worked w a guy like this for a few months. One morning he didn't show up for work & we all gave each other a knowing look. Next day, he's still not at work & the boss announces the guy has "gone to Queensland" which was something of a euphemism in WA for death or imprisonment. Edit: Shortly before covid hit, there was a guy here in NSW (Australia) who was speeding & hit a couple of police cars in one go. Outside a police station. While under the influence. While delivering bulk drugs. Like the officers on here are saying, you don't catch the smart ones.
23:00 I live in southern Wisconsin and do this every year when the first good snow falls. I don't just do donuts though. I go to a big empty parking lot and drive around turning randomly, doing fishtails, etc. Although it is definitely fun, I actually do it to refresh my winter driving skills. I get to know my vehicles abilities and limits, as well as my own. I highly recommend doing this to people. I've been here over 30 years and it amazes me how many people still can't handle driving in the snow. I've never had a snow related crash, except a few curbs in my younger years. I always wonder why the 4 wheel drive folks think it's safe to fly down the road as if they can stop on a dime. I see them in ditches every year and as long as no one is hurt, I laugh at their ignorance and arrogance. Regarding the police, I've never once been talked to by them for it but I'm assuming they wouldn't care. It's an empty parking lot and if I explain why I'm doing it, they would probably approve it. Unless they classify it as reckless driving or trespassing, there's no legal thing they can do to me anyway. This is according to a police officer. On private property, there are only 5 things they can charge us with here. Trespassing, reckless driving, DUI, running over a fire hose, and I forgot the other one...
If you set up some cones to simulate obstacles, this might really turn into driving safety training... *thinks* maybe get the owner of the lot and the police involved and turn it into a regular occurrence on weekends when there's snow... Might actually be beneficial for the whole town...
@@richardjones4662 That's crazy... If anything, last enforcement should encourage this, not arrest people for it. But I guess that would be too logical... 🧐🤔
Here’s one. I live in a college town where drugs are rampant to say the least. One of the three roommates I had turned out to be a dealer. For a couple of weeks I noticed this car that wasn’t from the neighborhood was just parked in front of my house. And the only reason why I found out he was an undercover cop was that I saw him get out of the same car to get tacos from accords the street. Few days pass and my house gets raided.
Was doing a Ride Along with a Cop Buddy one night, and we are sitting on the Service Road of a popular Drug Route for Drug Dealers running from Mexico to Colorado. As we are sitting there, a Subaru flys past us doing 83 in a 70. We pull out to check the guy out, and as we get close we see it's a family in the car. We light them up and the guy pulls over. My Buddy goes and get his Iicense and insurance, then walks back to check him in the NCIS in the Computer. My Buddy is a nice guy and will cut people breaks when he can. He says, "Look at this", and turns the computer where I can see it, and points out the guy has had 2 DUI's in his past. But they are like 8 years prior. So long ago in fact, that the State has deemed he's safe enough to issue a CHL license to. My Buddy says, "He's had some tough times, but seems to have cleaned up his act. "I'm going to let him go with a Verbal". And does! The guy actually gets out of his car and shakes my Buddys hand. Then he promises to watch his speed closer from now on.
23:20 exactly the same thing happened to me, I was doing doughnuts in snowy parking lot and cop kinda laughed said I wasn't too bad at it compared to other kids but then told me and friends to get the heck out of there and don't let him catch us again lol
Years ago, a co-worker of mine drove down to Florida with his family. He likes to drive quickly, and hooked up in a little pack with 5 other guys with the same tendency. It was shortly after dawn when they crested a ridge just after crossing the Georgia/Florida state line, and found 5 Florida Highway Patrol Mustangs sitting on the shoulder just waiting. Luckily, he was number 6 in line, and managed to avoid getting caught. However, he didn't learn from that, and came into the office on a regular basis with more stories about driving like an idiot.
14:00 all she had to do was say “oh lol my b he didn’t actually commit that crime that’ll ruin his life rofl” 😐 people like that should be put in prison, she lied under oath come on.
The guy that pulled someone over for the insanely loud music is my hero. It comes to the point where it's dangerous. Really loud bass can do horrible things to focus and ability to react quickly. Please just turn it down because not everyone likes headache fuel.
My ex-roommate had a used crown Vic that was previously a cop car, and he would get pulled over all the time because cops in our area thought his car was their supervisor’s car. Anyway, one time we were on the freeway and the car in front of us threw a little baggy out the window. We both laughed our butts off because obviously the guys in front of us clearly thought we were in an unmarked police car and thought it would be a great idea to get rid of their stash.
The “pigeon” strategy does work. I’ve seen it work multiple times including times where I have been the one behind (cop motioned for me to slow down before pulling over the other person in front of me) They will pull over the person who is putting more people in danger. If your going 85 but the truck in front of you is going 90, they’re getting pulled over not you. It’s not ethical or legal but it works in a pinch.
Can we just talk about how awful that woman was to pretend that she was having a miscarriage to try to get out of trouble? Miscarriages are absolutely terrible, and should never be taken so lightly.
0:40 I heard this story from a friends dad where he was driving near the border in an unmarked truck looking for people a coyote saw him and thought he was their ride so they stopped him and hopped in the back of his truck. Mf radioed in and drove em to the station 😂😂
My dad was a cop for 42 years, his only job ever besides gas station attendant in high school. Anyway he would come home for supper. From his jurisdiction to home was one exit on the interstate (bout 3 miles) he left home to go back to work and as he was getting on the highway a motorcycle zoomed past at well over 100 mph, he said closer to 150. Since it wasn't his jurisdiction or he never thought he would catch the dude, he didn't put his lights on. Plus that could cause the biker to go faster and wreck. He casually gets off his exit and the biker is at the top of the ramp with his hands up. My dad was stunned, he pulled over and walked up, told the guy he wasn't gona chase him and he didn't know exactly how fast he was going so the worst he could do was a wreck less driving ticket or something but he wasn't gona do that since the guy voluntarily pulled over. He did tell him to slow down and he's lucky nobody pulled in front of him or a deer didn't run out or something. He said "off the record how fast were u going" the guy said when he noticed my dad he was doing 157. My Dad told him to slow down and he caught u huge break he could've been going to jail and getting his bike impounded. The guy thanked him, promised to slow down and left.
At the previous job I had, I had a very long highway run where a lot of the left lane isn't accessible by large trucks and semis. I see an undercover car behind me that starts flashing its lights. I'm kind of a leadfoot, so I immediately think I'd been caught speeding, but the cop kept speeding up. I look ahead, let the cop past and realize a truck with a dumper on its bed had wandered into the fast lane. He got out of that awful quick, and the cop left the fast lane, too. I take my eye off the undercover car and I swear it's disappeared. The power of unmarked cars.
DFW, Texas- saw a black out Cadillac coupe cruiser (from Saginaw I think??) Also, Texas drivers love to play “if we all speed they can’t pull us all over” but in Arlington I’ve seen a cop wave all the speeders over while another officer went down the line and wrote several tickets.
I just laughed so hard while reading your comment. I was born and raised in Dallas (love the city, hate the traffic), and the traffic is either trying to move at the speed of sound, or attempting to underpace a turtle, or some hellish combo of the two. Since moving to New Mexico in 2007 I have been back to visit family out there a couple of times, and while the skyline continues to change, the traffic is always the same.
I saw Fort Worth cops pull over the entire left lane of a highway once as a speed trap. 5-6 motorcycle cops doing the tickets, 2-3 cars running the radar guns. They were sitting on the median just over a rise in the highway so obviously everyone caught doing 10 over in the left as you do in DFW.
I worked my entire career on the streets of Tarrant and Denton County and what you say is true. Southlake has an unmarked blacked out Cadillac. They are a dime a dozen in Southlake, so none of the Entitled Bi**hes think it's a Cop Car. They catch a lot of Mercedes and Audi Women Drivers texting with kids in the car and driving like idiots. And Arlington is famous for having 10 motor officers and a few cars staged down the higways. Then one Motorofficer sitting on an overpass clocking speeders and radioing to the first in line. I hate driving in Dallas because even if you are doing 80 in a 70 you can bet there will be 10 cars trying to pass you at 85 to 90 mph. Last Ski Trip to Colorado I noticed that if you pull up behind someone in the hammer lane and you are going faster than they are they will pull over asap and just let you by. No such luck here in Texas!
Not me, but my chef teacher. He used to guard the gate to the inside of a military building and he would dance to music when he did it. The people had cameras setup and saw him dancing, so every month they tested him to see if he was on drugs. He continued dancing and they kept testing him until they gave up because all the tests said he was sober
Imagine being pulled over by an undercover cop that you just honked at, being fully and completely aware that most cops would do a power trip over that... only to pull you over and apologize for cutting it close. The apology is much appreciated but my pants are still soiled.
Cops used to do that in my region bc we have its of people that are into race car (legal and illegal). They aren't allowed to do that anymore unless they have a reason to suspect the person is connected to something illegal. Driving too fast is not a reason cops can use to try and race someone
Got one about doing something stupid in front of cops. Back in about 1983 I had gotten to sleep very late on a Friday night after partying so I of course woke up late. Going up the entrance ramp getting on I-10 in Houston, I noticed a plain full sized white car but didn't really pay attention and blew by it. About a minute later I see the car hauling ass up on me. I'm annoyed , but just wanted to get to work and get some sweet, sweet overtime. So, just as we come up on a sweeping curve doing about 70 mph my rear view mirror reflected a powerful beam of light into my bloodshot eyes. I....um....locked up all 4 of my tires because he pissed me off. I let off immediately and watched him in the mirrors totally losing control of his car as he swerved hard to his right, then caught it and swerved wildly to the left and heading for a wall there. Now, I'm feeling kinda bad. Didn't mean to do all of that to him. He gets control and flies up behind me again and then he turned on the police lights IN HIS GRILL!! I know I am so screwed. The best defense is a good offense, so I pulled over and he pulled up right behind me. I got out of the car and walked back to his car waving my hands and saying loudly that he almost caused me to wreck by blinding me with his lights. Yeah, bad plan, HPD doesn't suffer fools. I had my hands out gesturing and he cracked my knuckles with his baton. I jumped backwards about 5 feet. All of a sudden he's yelling at his partner who was standing outside the passenger door covering me with a gun, but now he's laughing hysterically. The driver cop is yelling at him asking what's so funny. The passenger cop just put his gun back in the holster and sits back in the cop car still laughing. The driver cop is calming down now and said, "Let me guess, you've been out all night drinking and are now limping home?" I explained that I don't drink, I was just running late to work and he had startled me and I apologized. I pointed over at the American General building in the distance and said that's where I'm headed. He told me that if he wasn't transporting a prisoner, he would have taken me in and had my car towed. I look back at his car and there's this young Hispanic guy with his face against the screen in the back seat watching. He had no seat belt on! When that cop had yanked the wheel hard to the right and then hard to the left this guy must have been slammed into the doors. I bet that passenger is still telling that story somewhere.
Not me (obligatory) but a friend of my relatives has told the story of how a woman pulled up next to his clearly marked police car (I think he was on break) and knocked on the driver's side window. He could see the woman was in some distress, sweating and holding her stomach. He thought she was having a medical emergency. Instead, she asked him how much trouble she would in if she just defecated here because she was having an IBS attack and didn't think she could make it to a bathroom. To say this was a AYFKA moment he never thought he have in his career would be an understatement. Thankfully, she made it to a bathroom because I don't think she was willing to pay $250 in fines, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for her since it was clear to him she was in pain, but law, health and safety obligated him to direct her to a bathroom.
9:40, remember, cops, tailgating people is wrong for you to do as well and it is also just as dangerous as other people that do that sort of thing and it could even cost you not just your badges, but also your jobs, your freedom, and possibly even your lives, as well as the lives that occupy the vehicles that are in front of you...please practice what you preach...thank you.
Where I grew up the police would purposefully mess with people by tail gating them trying to get them to speed or make some mistake so they could pull them over. I have a friend who decided to do it back to them one day, he said they weren't watching the road but instead him in the rear view when they hopped the curb. They stopped doing it when they were featured on 60 minutes for doing it to minorities. I remember in high school they broke up a teen party and had a friend of mine handcuffed in the closet where they beat the Hell out of him for smart mouthing them.
Several years ago I had a 73 Monte Carlo with a 350 with a quadrojet carburetor in it, a state trooper was tail gating me, slammed the brakes, he hit me,I nailed it. I got up to 150 MPH,pulled over, popped the hood, he pulled over behind me lights &siren blaring. I told him my throttle stuck wide open after getting rear-ended. He couldn't disprove it and had to let me go as I had my hood open, messing with carb. Scared the crap out of me, he told me he had me clocked at 150, speedo only went to 120.
Undercovers had my apartment building staked out. I talked to them later after the bust happened (armed robbery suspect holed up in the building). They told me while they were sitting there two guys tried to steal an old VW
Not and unmarked car or police officer, but a volunteer fireman. We were working an accident scene on a rural highway when we watched a guy fly through the middle of an accident command scene in a high dollar car at roughly 80+ mph. A sheriff's deputy shouted he was on em, hopped in his car, and flew off. Came back a solid 20 or so minutes later with the largest smile on his face. He ticketed that guy so heavily lol. Also, I don't do drugs, but I can often spot an unmarked car. Usually they have those little lights on their A pillar. Not every car, but all unmarked I've seen have them. That and you can sometimes see the lights in the back window.
I was a town over where the cops are more strict with speeding. I'm on this road and know the two lane turns to one so changed lane early to avoid the dreaded merge (y'know, where they don't WANT to let you in) and then this car speeds ahead of me to make the single lane. I started speeding behind them but remembered about the cops there aren't nice so slowed down to below the limit. Good thing I did because not more then 20 seconds later a cop's lights/sirens go and I see later passed the intersection the speeding car pulling in a parking lot with the cop behind them.
I love these Reddit stories. The question will be something like: "Operating Room Surgeons, what's the hardest surgery you ever had to perform?" And the answers will be like, "Obligatory NOT a surgeon myself, but my nephew's next-door neighbor's mom was a JANITOR in a building just a block from another building that USED to be a hospital where surgeons actually worked, and SHE said..."
In high school play. I was Dracula. Clown white, dental prosthesis, white shirt, long black cape…. Headed to after play party. Small town cop in unmarked decides my plate is expired. (It was correct). As he walks up, shines flashlight in window…. L give my Dracula voice. “GOOOD EVENING OFFFFICCCER,……”. He about dropped his light. The fake blood in teeth might have been almost too much. When I got out, flourished my cape he about got pale again. But agreed my plate was current. Couple years later, I couldn’t resist telling him that was me. “You dang near gave me a heart attack…TWICE”
I did something so incredibly stupid when I was a teenager...I was 18 years old in 1999 and was driving in my 1994 25th Anniversary Trans-Am. A guy pulled up beside me in a Fox Body Mustang wanting a race. I absolutely roasted him with ease. As the race ended we were headed towards a red light. It was a light that was notorious for taking a long time to turn green so I slowed down to around 40-45. That's when I noticed a car get behind me riding my bumper with his high beams. At this point I'm thinking "this is a cop so I better behave." What happened next I still can't explain... The Mustang driver hits the gas hard and burns through the red light and the car behind me does nothing. Now I'm thinking this guy is just a jerk and when the light hits green I'm going to tell him off and blow right past him. The light turns green, I stick two middle fingers up out of my t-tops and screamed "get off of my a** you fu**ing loser!" That's when he hit his lights and I sunk deeply into my seat. He walks up to my car and says "Get off my what, I couldn't hear you there. Oh well...this is going to cost you big." The ticket came out to a whopping $750 as he hit me with everything he could. Then he said "Take this to court I dare you."
A beautiful young woman was driving along and noticed that she was being followed rather closely. She turned down a side road and he still kept following her. Whatever she did to try to lose him he was still stuck behind her. She pulled into a parking lot and rolled down her window. He approached her and as he got within reach, she grabbed his tie and punched him in the face. It was an undercover cop.
You really wonder how this shit happens because most unmarked cop cars just scream “definitely not a cop car”, between them usually being the same car that the department uses for marked units to the steelies and the big ass spot light, and people still somehow don’t realize it
did i just hear that correctly? 14:05 a woman actually got punished for falsely claiming something that could ruin somebody's life? never thought id see the day!
the 50 in a 15 stop-sign runner one was freaking hilarious.. rolling the ambulance for an obviously fake emergency ended up with a rather expensive ticket/lesson!
4:28 In the early 70s, when I was living in Southern California, I was driving around in the Hollywood area. My buddy (and co-worker) was riding with me when he pointed out a 427 Cobra. He told me: "Never race with that guy, he's a cop." To this day, I still wonder how he knew. Either a friend of his got busted or he did.
I swear to God that woman accusing t police of grabbing her breast etc should have faced jail time at least 6 weeks community service and been sued by the cop because If no.dash cam he could have list his job and worse
I was with my dad going to my martial arts class when I was 12, and this car darts in front of my dad and almost hits us. He honked and almost flipped the car.. We got even more pissed when we saw it was an unmarked cop.
I was on my way to work one day, a few years ago, and had a cup of McDonald's coffee in my hand. I'd just stopped at a red light, both my windows were down, and I moved my coffee up to take a sip. My mistake was holding the cup by the rim, and as a result, I dropped the nearly-full, hot coffee onto my lap. Luckily this was after the lawsuit that one lady put on McDonald's, so the coffee wasn't as hot as it could have been, but it still didn't feel great, so I ended up screaming, "SHEEEEIT!!" at the top of my lungs. What I heard next was, "You alright!?" from the car next to me, which was a cop car. Not really injured, but in a significant amount of pain and quite embarrassed, I waved and just said I spilled my coffee, no worries, I'll be fine. I could tell the cop was being polite and trying not to laugh at me, but the light turned green, and we both went on our way, though in my case only until I could pull over and air out my jeans.
On the opposite side of this. I was cruising down a wide residential/suburban road in Lakeville, MN (4 lanes with a grassy median), occasionally enjoying a fresh McNugget I had picked up down the street. I missed a "Stop ahead" sign and saw a stop sign that I thought was pretty oddly angled. For SOME reason, I thought it was for the side street and that I would not have one. By the time I realized my mistake, I braked to a stop in the middle of the intersection. Alone save for a black SUV going up the side street.... that promptly makes a U-turn. Knowing I'm hooped, I drive up and pull over and wait for the cop to pull up behind me. Luckily, the guy was super nice about it. I apologized, and he chalked it up to a "holiday SNAFU" (this was around Christmas).
And then everyone wonders why you can't just take a woman's word on a rape/assault accusation. Like I understand taking it seriously and not blaming the victim, etc. but at the same time an accusation requires evidence in addition to testimony as it's unfortunately way too common for false accusations to be made.
I left Boston and drove straight thru headed to south east GA. Around 2 or 3 am an Expedition passed me about 25 miles from the GA/SC line. He was flying so I fell in behind him and we flew thru the night on I95 running 105mph. About 2 miles from the GA line that Expedition suddenly lit up like a xmas tree with lights everywhere. He didnt get behind me or anything. He just pulled into one of the regular median areas the SC Troopers would sit in to watch traffic. You can bet I finished my last 60 miles to home at the speed limit after that.
I was heading home and had to stop for bridge repair work. This was decades ago and there were flaggers and not portable signals. I was first in line waiting for the high sign to proceed. The line of oncoming traffic was especially long and that flagger picked an arbitrary place to stop and allow me to proceed. The new number 2 in line took exception to having to having to wait and pulled around number one to go through the construction site. Unfortunately for him, the new number 4 was a State Trooper. Instant karma.
Pandemic is in full swing. My dad buys what he thought was a box of starkist tuna salad pouches online. No, he bought a case of those boxes from a bulk sales website. We sold off the excess to family and friends at cost, since we were never going to realistically eat all of that before it went bad. Anywho, we go to my uncles house, uncle comes out, hands over money and we open the trunk. Unmarked white honda civic lights up behind us. HANDS ON YOUR HEAD! The penny finally dropped for me and I couldn't stop laughing and trying to apologize to the guy. The look on that officer's face when all he saw in the trunk was a grocery bag full of tuna was hilarious and I doubled down on my laughing. I had tears going down my face. The cop's partner ended up coming out and became irritated from the look on his partner's face and me laughing. I think it was ten minutes later when a K9 unit showed up that the penny dropped for my uncle. And my dad finally got it when the cop explained what happened. That was a $12 tuna bust. And a lesson learned for handing cash around in the crappy neighborhood my uncle lived in.
Well if I had the equipment I’d have had a justice boner this past weekend. I live in a very rural area so it takes a while for police to arrive anywhere. It’s around 11:30 am and the car in front of me is using both lanes and the shoulder to drive. I call the police with a impaired driver report. I’ve done many of these calls but never see anything happen to them. This time while on the phone I tell the dispatcher a deputy just passed us going the other way. He turns around and comes our way. I backed way off the drunk in front, point at him and the deputy pulls in. We don’t get a 1/2 mile until his lights flip on and pull the guy over. I got all tingly down there!
so i use to have an hour drive to work (was a really good job..) and a unmarked car pulled behind me while i was zoning out. luckily i was good at keeping my foot perfectly still so i was keeping at 8-9 over perfectly. nothing to get pulled over for. however the cop behind me, rather than go around. kept flashing his lights for me to move. id see them. look behind me wondering where the lights came from thinking i was being paranoid, then not move because he would quickly flash them then turn them off. hed flash them. turn them off. id check. think im paranoid. keep driving repeat this maybe 4 times. he finally turned his lights on and drove around. i never felt so stupid.
I’ve learned how to tell a unmarked car from regular car here’s some tips: 1. Unmarked cars tend to be clean as police set an example for the public 2. Unmarked cars tend to be black not saying there aren’t other colours 3. Police carry a lot of gear with them so rear of car is visibly squatted unless it’s a suv or pickup 4. Unmarked cars have bulbars usually 5. If you look closely at the grille you can see grey panels these are police lights same for back window look at the top for grey panels 6. Most obvious give away for me you will see a cage through the windshield of the car that’s a cop 7. Cops will sit on the side of the road in unmarked cars if there is a random car sitting near the side of the road be wary about it it may be a cop
I used to drive a big blue Volvo. In my country these used to be often used as surveillance cars and highway patrol. Add my aviator shades and often worn leather jacket and some drivers just slowed down as they saw me as they thought I was a cop. My dad has had similar situations with his light blue BMW K100 motorcycle, one model used often by law enforcement all over Europe. Especially since he usually wears reflective clothing when riding, much like cops.
I'm not a cop myself but I do have a story to tell: So I just so happen to drive a retired Crown Vic police interceptor with a light bar, front push bar, Lights and sirens, full police interior (plastic rear seats, center console, radio, siren controller, laptop, etc that i use for volunteer fire police work with a friend of mine for my local fire department and it by no means looks like an undercover car but i still get some really stupid oblivious people. I've had my fair share of people try to fly past me in the left lane only for them to see me last minute and slam on their brakes but the most "are you kidding me moment" happened while I was on my way to work one morning I was driving through a local residential neighborhood which was my normal route to work and in this residential neighborhood there is a t Junction thats notorious for people running the stop sign as I was turning left onto this T Junction (i had no stop sign) a lady on her phone in a Grand Caravan minivan comes flying through the stop sign and almost hits me a "come to Jesus" moment caused me to brake Right before she hit me and she continued to drive by but I guess the driver of the minivan looked up last minute and saw my car so as soon as she pulled forward and I got behind her she immediately pulled over put her hazards on and started immediately looking for the registration I just parked behind her for 2 or 3 minutes pretending to talk into my cars radio mic just a mess with her because she nearly hit my car then I just pulled around her very slowly and looked at her laughing my ass off before continuing on my way to work lol. Poor lady looked terrified though but i hope she learned her lesson
Not a cop I was doing a estimate for a bathroom remodeling job . In an affordable neighborhood and I was in my Mustang w 450HP so any way this car was on my butt and kept trying to get in front of me so no worries. In front of me there was a Ford Fusion w dark tint and temp tags . So they pull away from the stop sign going super slow and pulls over to the right I go past this car and then pulls behind me and puts lights on . Um no I took off . I don't know who you are you pulled behind me and almost hit me . So for what ever reason they tried to keep up for about a block and of course I smoked them . So I get onto a main street I see a marked car and I flagged them down . And the cop was like Oh I wasn't sure if it was you . I almost crapped my pants of course oh why didn't you stop bla bla bla I said hey sorry you got Temp tags and your in dark tints and a Fusion sorry I thought you were trying to jack me . I get the well you should have known .Long story short his boss rolled up and they let me go . The cop was pissed but I was ready there was no way I would have lost on court.
I have an inverse story. Regarding law enforcement not thinking. It was after I got out of prison probably 10 years ago (was a troubled teen) FSU officers (was a form of probation officers for people who got out of prison early, it’s only a thing in the state of vermont I believe) came to do their random check-up at my residence. Make sure I was home, no alcohol or guns, etc. well before they left, one turned to the other and said “well, should we head out? You wanna head to the islands and check on Rockwell next?” Apparently assuming that people don’t know eachother… we were long-time friends. He lived about 45 minutes away. So I gave him a ring and gave him a heads up they were on their way, about 45 mins out. He said thanks, as he wasn’t home at all (against rules) and was about to get high. Saved him his freedom 😂 were both doing well now btw, for anyone interested. I’m 8 years clean, he’s 5, both haven’t been to prison in about the same amount of time. Doing really well for ourselves now that we’ve grown up. But those cops weren’t the brightest 🤣
driving home after getting my license, I was stopped at a 4 way intersection with three police cars on the adjacent road. they were in the straight/right turn lane behind one car with another in the turn lane so I couldn't see them. when the light turned green I started to go, slowly because it was my first time driving alone, when suddenly I hear a horn to my right and see one car with his lights on running the red light. I just about have a heart attack and slam the brakes (or however hard you can slam them at 5mph), then think I'm good so I start moving. luckily the first one scared me enough to notice the other two following behind, all with lights on. if I was just a few feet ahead, I'd have been t boned by the first cop, and the other two would have rear ended themselves. that was when I decided to buy a dashcam
Not a cop...just a guy who saw the funniest thing. Going north on Rt 107 from Revere, MA to Lynn, MA. Approaching a red light I was sitting right next to a State Trooper in an unmarked car. There was a Dodge Charger and a Porsche 911 in front of us. I knew they were gonna race as soon as the Charger revved his engine. I flashed my headlights and honked to warn them. Nope...they took off and the Statey lit em up and pulled em both over. Funniset trip home EVER
Bait cars are funny. Specially if one law enforcement agency is doing it and another law enforcement agency comes by and sees the car, takes keys, locks it and calls police to report possible abandoned car. LOL
This reminds me of that story of a group of undercover cops posing as drug dealers arrested another group of undercover cops who were posing as drug buyers in order to arrest the drug dealers ... or maybe it was the buyers who arrested the dealers, but anyway, they were all cops. :D
@@SelvesteSand the world we live in. Donuts could mean anything. A sugary sweet. A car maneuver. Aa possible drug. Donuts is gonna be my new favourite word.
I remember being pulled over for doing 30 in a 25 zone...and I was riding a bicycle, and had just come off a hill and turned onto the main drag. didn't get a ticket, just a stern talking to.
Not me or a cop but one of my lecturers was running late was doing 130mph down the motorway he thought the black Volvo behind him was doing well keeping up with him until lights lit up in the grill he missed that day and four months later we had a different lecturer. It was the same stretch where a hearse was pulled over for doing over a 100mph wasn't the only court case that funeral director had at the time as they were caught one night digging up a body. They realised they had realised they had buried the wrong body and tried to fix it without anyone knowing but were caught in the act and charged.
Not a cop but was on my way to work around 6 in the morning. Turned down a road was almost hit by a car pulling out of an appartment parking lot. I honk my horn at them and continue on my way. Make it to the stoplight at the end of the block and as it was yellow before i got to the point of no return i stopped. they however did not. now im the person that sits there and says where is a cop when you need one. well, right then i see the lights and hear the siren from a cop that was on the frontage road next to me. the car was heading to walmart and started to park where the employees park and before they had a chance to put it in park they had a cop at their window. I asked my friend that worked there and found out it was an employee that was running late for work. what would have been 5 min late turned into 30 min late.
Have a similar story to the one at around 9:30. Cop flies up behind me but it's night so I can't see that it's a cop. Sped up to around 65 in a 55 (enough to get a ticket). Didn't pull me over to give me a ticket though, he just turned his lights on and passed when I pulled over. I just about crapped myself however
I'm not a cop but...I was driving down the freeway and suddenly the car in front of me began to slow down, then pulled to the side. I pull up behind it thinking he might be having car trouble and wanted to help. No sooner than I stopped, it flashes it's lights. And that's how I accidently pulled over an undercover cop.
A girl I knew in high school's mom worked for a lawyer. She said in one case a marked car pulled up to a guy rolling a joint out of a big bad of weed on the hood of his car. While the police were right there (no lights yet) he finished rolling and started smoking it.
This isn’t an unmarked cop story, but one time I was driving home from work and on my way home from work there's a spot where cops like to sit sometimes and try to catch people and when I was driving home there was a guy tailgating me. When I drove past that spot, sure enough, there were two cops cars sitting there and one of them flipped on their lights and pulled the guy tailgating me over
I got pulled over in an unobvious school zone. Apparently it's not uncommon to miss it.
He comes up to my car and gets my license and chides me for the school zone thing even though the school is not visible from the road.
After a few minutes he comes back, hands me my license and says it's my lucky day as he has to now go chase a bear.
Saved by a bear.
Later, I heard about it on the news but they couldn't catch it.
Thanks, bear
Something like that soon after my family moved to my hometown. Dad was going the speed limit but as soon as he went through an intersection a cop appeared out of nowhere and pulled him over. For running a stop sign. That Dad couldn't see because the sign itself was covered by a tree branch and it wasn't even on a normal sign post but a *telephone pole.* Dad complained but the cop said no one else ever ran the sign. Probably because they all lived there long enough to know where it was. (Though, I gotta wonder, if no one ever ran that sign, why was the cop staking it out?)
Why am I now thinking of Smokey and the Bandit... ;-)
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Unmarked cop cars are easy to spot if you know the signs. They always have black hubcaps. And tend to have special light bars in spots around the car such as by the license plate.
Florida govt cars, 🚔 vehicles are easy to spot. Florida Highway Safety DMV, uses bright yellow tags so any police or state-county-city car/SUV is quick to ID. Few PDs or sheriffs use lights 🚨 but most unmarked units; PPV Tahoe, Chargers, Ford Explorers use LED lights above the visors, on the sides. Private Security by FS493 can only use yellow, green, white. Only sworn LE can use red, blue. Most 🚒 FD use red, yellow(orange).
@@DavidLLambertmobile that's not true all unmarked police vehicles use Florida State tage and they have solid wheels not hubcaps
There's a difference between legitimate unmarked cars and what are referred to as "ghost" cars. Ghost cars are standard slicktop patrol vehicles with little in the way of identifiable markings, an understated color, no spotlights and no push bumper. They're generally used for traffic enforcement duties because they're harder to identify in a moving vehicle.
An unmarked car is often a nonstandard vehicle that may even lack things like strobe lights and obvious radio equipment. The only real easy way to identify a true unmarked police vehicle is the suspiciously dark window tint on what is quite possibly an otherwise ordinary off-the-lot minivan or sedan. Vehicles like this are generally used in situations where the officer is not expected to arrest someone, such as surveillance, however that doesn't mean they can't make arrests. They just have to call for assistance to do it.
In Arizona there are unmarked squads that have no visible signs of what they are. LED lights are hidden in the head and tail lights. A dark blue F150 quad cab had a car pulled over. With the strobe lights off you couldn’t tel it was an unmarked squad. DPS has charger hellcats that are unmarked. Illinois state police had a 90’s convertible camero unmarked quad running traffic on the highways.
Some cars do use normal wheels, sometimes light ions aren’t where you think, every once and a while there are different cars that you won’t notice
I'm really REALLY good at spotting cops. I don't do illegal drugs. I'm just really nervous around cops.
I do drugs, but I'm bad at spotting cops :(
@Joanna De la torre no freaking way what
@Joanna De la torre I look innocent, so the cops never suspect me
I have a decent idea of what im looking for with vehicles. Less so woth people but you can still get the vibe
You sound like a cop. Are you? You have to tell me if you are!
A Cousin of my wife is a retired cop. He worked in NYC and worked undercover surveillance in an Ice Cream Truck. They had to stop using it at one point, because almost Everytime they took it out someone would try a robb them.
Take it out for no reason to catch robbers lol
I’m just… who the hell would want to rob a d-n ice cream truck? Are people that hungry for ice cream?
Perhaps they see it as a chance for easy money, boy that must have been a mistake for them.
Must’ve been a shock when cops came out lmao
Y'all must have never experienced PMS or pregnancy sugar cravings. I don't condone ice cream truck robbery, but I understand it. If there is a pickle truck nearby, both trucks can kiss their yummy stash goodbye. (joke)
That lady shouldn't have just gotten off with probation and community service what she did was awful and tripled down on it and went to court to testify under oath and falsely accuse someone of grape. She should've gotten a year in jail at least
She should have gotten whatever he would've gotten had it worked. False accusers like her constantly get let off with little to no punishment when their actions could mean ruining someone's entire way of life.
Grape. Lol ;)
@@melinagranger8505 yeah. If you type the actual thing youtube instantly sensors your comment and pushes it away
@@jayceewilliams5250 , that is why you spell it out and tell TH-cam to piss off with its Communist bullshit.
@@paxhumana2015 you wouldn't have seen my comment if i did
1:09, damn, that was smooth...the cop literally just called his fellow officers after some carjacker tried to get into his ride and he ironically ended up getting a bigger criminal empire taken down than the one that he was trying to take down in the first place. I wonder if he ever caught the guy that he was originally staking out, let alone was involved in the aftermath of that particular situation, though?
reminds me of a story in a book:
the cops got a tip that there was going to be a big robbery at a warehouse, so a bunch of them were hiding in the brush around the building...
THOSE thieves never showed, BUT a small-time crook known around town as "Bad Luck Brown" tried to steal a lawn mower from in front of the building!
just one of many examples of how that guy got that nickname!
I was driving home one dark night at the end of the rush hour. We were moving at the limit, all three lanes were full, and I see a car a ways behind me driving like an idiot. He dives all the way from left to right, cutting people off, then dives all the way to the left again, over and over, slowly moving up one car at a time. Eventually he cuts me off and starts tailgating the guy in front of me. While I am fantasizing about what I could do to his little hatchback with my SUV, I realize that there is another SUV creeping up beside me in the center lane. It is a black, understated Chevrolet Tahoe, with a suspicious bulge here and there on the roof, and really low key wheels. The idiot in front of me dives into the center lane, cutting off the Tahoe, and a spectacular light show immediately starts. It was glorious. I was cheering, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few other folks around me were too.
I have only seen that sort of pull-over once. It was glorious.
Bait cars are a really funny concept, just throw a semi-nice car into the middle of a bad area and watch it like a hunter watching a deer feeder, then as soon as somebody takes the bait you have them
They're usually rigged with cameras and remote controls to cut the engine and lock the doors when the cops are ready to spring the trap. I've seen some of the footage from the hidden cameras. It's hilarious!
Bait cars should be entrapment. Whether they are effective or not.
@@tylerdurden3347 not entrapment, entrapment is legally defined as an officer coercing someone into committing a crime they weren’t going to commit otherwise, someone attempting to steal a bait car isn’t entrapment because they were out to steal a car, the fact that it was a bait operation doesn’t matter, it’s all in the intent
@@tylerdurden3347 the existence of a bait cat doesn’t make anyone commit a crime. If you try to break into a bait car, you’ll do it for any nice car and need to be in prison
@@tylerdurden3347 it’s not entrapment at all. The cops just park a car in a parking spot and watch to see if anyone will try to steal it. They’re not forcing anyone to steal it, not talking anyone into stealing it, nor coming up with some story to trick someone into stealing it, THOSE would all be entrapment. But parking a car and watching it no, that’s no more entrapment than a cop putting a security system in his own personal house and at some point catching a burglar.
14:20 Not just "taking away from the real victims" but also destroying peoples lives. I will always stand by the fact that if in a case like this where it is provably 100% false allegations, the person claiming it should be charged with the same charges one would get for committing said crimes(i.e. false rape accusation = prison time for someone who had raped someone). There are way to many times this has happened and people have gotten hurt socially(shunned by family/friends, loss of career and no longer being hirable), mentally(self-harm/depression and such) and physically where they have been killed over it. It is fucking disgusting.
I honestly think I would rather be raped than falsely accused of rape. It's so scary how people will deem anyone guilty as soon as they've been accused, and then seek to act out vigilante justice. Unfortunately, false allegations being punished harshly will also make it far more difficult to convince the false accuser to admit they made it up -- increasing the risk of the wrongfully accused being convicted. It's a really difficult nut to crack. :( I think admitting you made it up should resolve you of punishment, to encourage false accusers to admit it, thus avoiding some false convictions, while on the other hand, if the accusation is proven false without a doubt before the accuser admits falseness, the punishment should be not only equal but *stronger* than the punishment for what they accused someone of.
@@SelvesteSand My issue with the "Admitting it was false should be resolved" is still problematic since it will still destroy a persons career and life. If you have ever seen the show "The Ranch" an actor was cut by Netflix because of false allegations(assumed false as he wasn't convicted and I think one of them even stated that it was false IIRC) from 15+ years ago. I think that if they come forward they should still face time but we as a society should post the face of the accused all over so we know that the person was wrongfully accused. It is just sad to see people lose jobs and such over wrongful accusations like someone tattooed a swastika on their forehead.
the mere accusation without proof or verdict is enough to destroy a person's career and life.
yet female false-accusers are never punished at all and are given complete protection and get to remain anonymous.
@@FractalPrism. one lady falsely accused 15 dudes of rape and didnt get arrested until after all of them were proven innocent. She got a 10 year sentence. But what really irks me is that she is an ugly ass and nobody would want to rape her, yet she got away with 15 false accusations before arrest.
Also pay the difference between the salary of the person the accused has and the job they would be stuck with.
I used to take this back road at about 4am heading to work, it had zero traffic and a 45mph speed limit, and I usually went about 70 on it. One morning I'm doing my usual thing, and come up behind a car doing the speed limit. Just before I hit my blinker to pass, the whole back of the car lights up. I quickly adjusted my speed and rethought the pass, and he turned the lights off. Did 40mph behind the guy for the next ten miles.
"the individual actually approached the unmarked car and attempted to sell the stolen Xbox to the cops on the sidewalk in front of the house he had just robbed."
wow.
that actually made me laugh out loud!
liked AND favorited!
Yep
Lol
"We don't catch the smart ones."
There were 3 guys who stole stuff out of unlocked cars near me, then they were dumb enough to try selling a ring to the local Jeweler... It was his Girlfriend's.
He should get the DARWIN AWARD FOR THAT
@@joebrown1077 Technically, it might be an Honorable Mention but duck yeah.
For those wondering, the Pigeon Strategy is the assumption that the first speeder a RADAR Cop sees is the first one pulled over so if you're behind the speeder, you'll see the lights come on and be able to slow down quick enough to let the twit that tripped the Speed-Trap get nailed while you sail on by...
One of the big problems with that strategy is often, especially in area with a serious speeding problem, the RADAR Cop is sitting behind a sign or on a bridge scanning cars as they wiz by and radioing a GROUP of Pounce Cars sitting a little farther up so as the Trigger car speeds by, he gets nailed by the first Cop in line while YOU get nailed by the second Cop in line etc.
I've seen one of those setups where there were 15 Cop Cars sitting on the side of an On Ramp waiting for the RADAR Cop a mile back on the highway to radio in a speeder to hit and passed 6 more Cops strung out on the highway giving out Tickets for a total of 21 Pounce Cars + who knows how many that already finished giving Tickets and are traveling back to the Pounce Ramp to get back in line...That was on I75 in Ohio just South of Toledo about 13 years ago before I Retired from Trucking...
Texas DPS do that too! And with great sucess. ME, I set my cruise at 3 over and just relax. I know that no matter how fast I drive I'll never be in front, and my wife will need to pee every45 minutes so all I've gained will be blown away at the next gas station anyway.
@@CurtisDrew1 in California, the axiom is "at nine you're fine, at 10 you're mine". I generally set my cruise at +5 and relax.
I'm a former trucker. I was on I-15 in Ca just N of El Cajon. had another semi (US Express) pass me on the hill. speed limit 35 and restricted to 2 right lanes.i tell him to slow down. he proceeded to give double middle fingers and head down the hill. about 15 seconds later I see a CHP slicktop behind me. the officer jumps all the way to the 4th lane, rolls his passenger side window down smile and wave. I look back down the Billy Bigrigger is now in the 3rd lane doing 70+ mph. In a semi. in a 35 zone. in California. the trooper proceeded to light him up. after he stopped, I rolled by at 35 , laid on the air horns and gave the biggest cheesiest smile and Miss America wave I could muster 😆. got 2 thumbs up from the trooper! Found out later that the driver was arrested, got 5 years in jail and $40,000 in fines. he tried to get his company to pay 😆.
I live in San Diego, and I’ve never heard that one before.
former EMT. Took a long distance transfer from Pittsburgh Childrens Hospital to the Childrens in D.C. On the way back home, coming out of DC. Was driving down the beltway and came up to my exit. Traffic was backed up so I got in line. Kept 1 car length in front of me from the next car, going maybe 15mph. Right as I reach the exit, a car comes flying up from the highway on my left and cuts into the small space i left darn near skidding to a halt causing me to lay on the airhorn. Wellll, right where the exit and highway split is less than 90 feet away, and sitting there is a state trooper. Down he comes, stops, turns on his lights. The moron in the car stops to let the cop out. Well the cop just puts up his hand and does a small "come here" motion. Yeah the moron got pulled over.
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I used to work for a shop that customized unmarked cars for the state troopers. Watch out for anything. I built some of the most innocent looking grannymobiles into the fastest thing on the road. I once built a 1989 Pontiac Grand Pri that was used to run down a Ferrari F40. It had a supercharged engine under the hood with over 800 hp and a 205 mph top speed.
I was LAPD and I lived in Burbank, so on the way home I'd take the 110 North to the 5 North.
I was working the 11:00PM to 7:00AM watch and I'd put in a couple of hours of overtime, so it was probably close to 10:00AM when I get on the 5 freeway and start heading towards Burbank.
I see a line of cars in front of me and then I notice a second line of cars approaching the first line on their left. As the two lines draw abreast of each other, the occupants of each line of cars begin shooting at each other. I mean, shots are going back and forth, cars are swerving, cars on slamming on their breaks, colliding, its a fucking rolling gunfight...
I call 911 and put out a help call to the CHP, Burbank PD and Glendale PD's and get the hell out of there.
I hear from Glendale PD detectives later in the day. The first line of cars was a Crip funeral party going to bury a homie at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The 2nd line was another Crip set who killed the homie and were looking to run up their score.
That's LA on a fucking Sunday morning for you...
So many levels of WOW!
I worked morning watch, too, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in Atlanta. Everyday I drove home in my civilian car, about 3 people would cut me off while driving aggressively and then freak when they saw my uniform.
@@jdunnatl I never drove home in my uniform. That's just asking for trouble...
Gangs are a social disease but I’m assuming they’re gonna evolve into legit corporate entities eventually.
Even the taliban will become a proper government in time once they finally have to navigate the trappings of social governance long enough
So uhh how do I get that shift? Sounds like great hours due to my hate of sunlight.
Was driving on the highway at night when I had my first shitty car. The thing was a junker and the headlights were not really bright and barely illuminated any of the road behind me. Normally I speed but I just didn't feel comfortable in a limited visibility situation. Stuck to the right lane until I reached a semi that was going slow. Move over to the left lane to pass him (this is a dicided highway). In front of the semi are more semis. In between the semis is an unmarked cop also going under the speed limit. Probably waiting for a speeder to pass on the left. I'm going barely above speed limit as the asshole in the lifted truck is right on my ass. I speed up a little more and he is just riding on my bumper. Cop pulled out behind him and I could see the guy who was tailing me get lit up. I was so relieved. I'm no stranger to driving fast but when it's pitch black or the weather isn't great, people need to be more understanding of those who wanna like, stick to the speed limit.
Not a police officer. But 40 years ago I was driving somewhere .( I've forgotten the name of the Town ). At the beginning of the town was a big sign saying " Speed trap ahead." There were a few people that ignored the sign to their shame. As I slowed down and drove through the town. I was looking at the cars pulled over by the police. I assumed it was for speeding. I met a man from that area. He told me that the town police give out a lot of speeding tickets there. Because most people ignore the sign and keep driving.
My little town is a speed trap. Local police, sheriff's office, and troopers based here. I warn people to never speed. Friend came to visit. He got a ticket on the way into town. His wife was mad. She drove home. He called about ten minutes after they left, she got a ticket in the same spot, by the same cop.
Youre talking about Waldo Florida
I have family near Stanfield, Oregon, which basically runs the town on fines from the brief and abrupt change from 55 mph to 25 mph through town.
It's not a Reddit story without the "not a cop, but..."
Never fails to annoy the shit out of me. You're not ? THEN DONT FUCKING ANSWER.
@@staffsargemobuto Oh, boo-hoo. Some people have interesting stories that they still saw or read about. So stay annoyed. Rules aren't absolute.
Had a buddy who was a cop. He was sitting in one of the empty spaces on the edge a mall parking lot, you know the spaces that only fill up at Christmas or Black Friday. As I said, he was sitting there doing paperwork and a lady who was cutting through the lot hit him, in his marked police car.
I have so many questions for this lady
@@strangecreature3793 So did he.
Some adults shouldn't be allowed to drive. Or do anything really.
that first story reminds me of one i read in a "dumb criminals" book:
someone called the non-emergency number and complained about noise from a nearby building.
it was a building usually used to store surplus Christmas toys...but it was JUNE!
this seemed suspicious, so they sent some police cars over...
and found TONS of illegal drugs!
arguably the biggest drug bust in the entire history of the USA, thanks to a noise complaint!
There's something to be said about being a courteous neighbor. A little consideration can go a long way.....or SEND you a long way if you aren't.
"He could not believe we fired him for going twice the speed limit." Yeah, I worked w a guy like this for a few months. One morning he didn't show up for work & we all gave each other a knowing look. Next day, he's still not at work & the boss announces the guy has "gone to Queensland" which was something of a euphemism in WA for death or imprisonment.
Edit: Shortly before covid hit, there was a guy here in NSW (Australia) who was speeding & hit a couple of police cars in one go. Outside a police station. While under the influence. While delivering bulk drugs. Like the officers on here are saying, you don't catch the smart ones.
23:00 I live in southern Wisconsin and do this every year when the first good snow falls. I don't just do donuts though. I go to a big empty parking lot and drive around turning randomly, doing fishtails, etc. Although it is definitely fun, I actually do it to refresh my winter driving skills. I get to know my vehicles abilities and limits, as well as my own. I highly recommend doing this to people. I've been here over 30 years and it amazes me how many people still can't handle driving in the snow. I've never had a snow related crash, except a few curbs in my younger years. I always wonder why the 4 wheel drive folks think it's safe to fly down the road as if they can stop on a dime. I see them in ditches every year and as long as no one is hurt, I laugh at their ignorance and arrogance.
Regarding the police, I've never once been talked to by them for it but I'm assuming they wouldn't care. It's an empty parking lot and if I explain why I'm doing it, they would probably approve it. Unless they classify it as reckless driving or trespassing, there's no legal thing they can do to me anyway. This is according to a police officer. On private property, there are only 5 things they can charge us with here. Trespassing, reckless driving, DUI, running over a fire hose, and I forgot the other one...
If you set up some cones to simulate obstacles, this might really turn into driving safety training...
*thinks* maybe get the owner of the lot and the police involved and turn it into a regular occurrence on weekends when there's snow... Might actually be beneficial for the whole town...
@@realulli That's actually a brilliant idea! 🤨🙂
I agree, but I've seen people in Indiana arrested for that. For no reason, imo.
@@richardjones4662 That's crazy... If anything, last enforcement should encourage this, not arrest people for it. But I guess that would be too logical... 🧐🤔
Here’s one.
I live in a college town where drugs are rampant to say the least.
One of the three roommates I had turned out to be a dealer.
For a couple of weeks I noticed this car that wasn’t from the neighborhood was just parked in front of my house. And the only reason why I found out he was an undercover cop was that I saw him get out of the same car to get tacos from accords the street.
Few days pass and my house gets raided.
Was doing a Ride Along with a Cop Buddy one night, and we are sitting on the Service Road of a popular Drug Route for Drug Dealers running from Mexico to Colorado. As we are sitting there, a Subaru flys past us doing 83 in a 70. We pull out to check the guy out, and as we get close we see it's a family in the car. We light them up and the guy pulls over. My Buddy goes and get his Iicense and insurance, then walks back to check him in the NCIS in the Computer. My Buddy is a nice guy and will cut people breaks when he can. He says, "Look at this", and turns the computer where I can see it, and points out the guy has had 2 DUI's in his past. But they are like 8 years prior. So long ago in fact, that the State has deemed he's safe enough to issue a CHL license to. My Buddy says, "He's had some tough times, but seems to have cleaned up his act. "I'm going to let him go with a Verbal". And does! The guy actually gets out of his car and shakes my Buddys hand. Then he promises to watch his speed closer from now on.
The Reba story is awesome!
23:20 exactly the same thing happened to me, I was doing doughnuts in snowy parking lot and cop kinda laughed said I wasn't too bad at it compared to other kids but then told me and friends to get the heck out of there and don't let him catch us again lol
The cop probably low key does donuts there off-duty and he also probably uses that parking lot as well.
@@paxhumana2015 “you’re ruining the snow, i was gonna do that later”
Years ago, a co-worker of mine drove down to Florida with his family. He likes to drive quickly, and hooked up in a little pack with 5 other guys with the same tendency. It was shortly after dawn when they crested a ridge just after crossing the Georgia/Florida state line, and found 5 Florida Highway Patrol Mustangs sitting on the shoulder just waiting. Luckily, he was number 6 in line, and managed to avoid getting caught. However, he didn't learn from that, and came into the office on a regular basis with more stories about driving like an idiot.
He became a *FLORIDA MAN.*
14:00 all she had to do was say “oh lol my b he didn’t actually commit that crime that’ll ruin his life rofl”
😐 people like that should be put in prison, she lied under oath come on.
The guy that pulled someone over for the insanely loud music is my hero. It comes to the point where it's dangerous. Really loud bass can do horrible things to focus and ability to react quickly. Please just turn it down because not everyone likes headache fuel.
My ex-roommate had a used crown Vic that was previously a cop car, and he would get pulled over all the time because cops in our area thought his car was their supervisor’s car. Anyway, one time we were on the freeway and the car in front of us threw a little baggy out the window. We both laughed our butts off because obviously the guys in front of us clearly thought we were in an unmarked police car and thought it would be a great idea to get rid of their stash.
The “pigeon” strategy does work. I’ve seen it work multiple times including times where I have been the one behind (cop motioned for me to slow down before pulling over the other person in front of me) They will pull over the person who is putting more people in danger. If your going 85 but the truck in front of you is going 90, they’re getting pulled over not you. It’s not ethical or legal but it works in a pinch.
It is ethical to go for who's the most danger dude what do you think ethical would be
@@jmoney7289 I think he's referring to partaking in the pigeon strategy as opposed to who is more likely to get in trouble.
"Trollimg for a car full of nuns"
now I got that stuck in my head
Can we just talk about how awful that woman was to pretend that she was having a miscarriage to try to get out of trouble? Miscarriages are absolutely terrible, and should never be taken so lightly.
0:40 I heard this story from a friends dad where he was driving near the border in an unmarked truck looking for people a coyote saw him and thought he was their ride so they stopped him and hopped in the back of his truck. Mf radioed in and drove em to the station 😂😂
My dad was a cop for 42 years, his only job ever besides gas station attendant in high school. Anyway he would come home for supper. From his jurisdiction to home was one exit on the interstate (bout 3 miles) he left home to go back to work and as he was getting on the highway a motorcycle zoomed past at well over 100 mph, he said closer to 150. Since it wasn't his jurisdiction or he never thought he would catch the dude, he didn't put his lights on. Plus that could cause the biker to go faster and wreck. He casually gets off his exit and the biker is at the top of the ramp with his hands up. My dad was stunned, he pulled over and walked up, told the guy he wasn't gona chase him and he didn't know exactly how fast he was going so the worst he could do was a wreck less driving ticket or something but he wasn't gona do that since the guy voluntarily pulled over. He did tell him to slow down and he's lucky nobody pulled in front of him or a deer didn't run out or something. He said "off the record how fast were u going" the guy said when he noticed my dad he was doing 157. My Dad told him to slow down and he caught u huge break he could've been going to jail and getting his bike impounded. The guy thanked him, promised to slow down and left.
At the previous job I had, I had a very long highway run where a lot of the left lane isn't accessible by large trucks and semis. I see an undercover car behind me that starts flashing its lights. I'm kind of a leadfoot, so I immediately think I'd been caught speeding, but the cop kept speeding up. I look ahead, let the cop past and realize a truck with a dumper on its bed had wandered into the fast lane. He got out of that awful quick, and the cop left the fast lane, too. I take my eye off the undercover car and I swear it's disappeared.
The power of unmarked cars.
DFW, Texas- saw a black out Cadillac coupe cruiser (from Saginaw I think??)
Also, Texas drivers love to play “if we all speed they can’t pull us all over” but in Arlington I’ve seen a cop wave all the speeders over while another officer went down the line and wrote several tickets.
I just laughed so hard while reading your comment. I was born and raised in Dallas (love the city, hate the traffic), and the traffic is either trying to move at the speed of sound, or attempting to underpace a turtle, or some hellish combo of the two.
Since moving to New Mexico in 2007 I have been back to visit family out there a couple of times, and while the skyline continues to change, the traffic is always the same.
I saw Fort Worth cops pull over the entire left lane of a highway once as a speed trap. 5-6 motorcycle cops doing the tickets, 2-3 cars running the radar guns. They were sitting on the median just over a rise in the highway so obviously everyone caught doing 10 over in the left as you do in DFW.
I worked my entire career on the streets of Tarrant and Denton County and what you say is true. Southlake has an unmarked blacked out Cadillac. They are a dime a dozen in Southlake, so none of the Entitled Bi**hes think it's a Cop Car. They catch a lot of Mercedes and Audi Women Drivers texting with kids in the car and driving like idiots.
And Arlington is famous for having 10 motor officers and a few cars staged down the higways. Then one Motorofficer sitting on an overpass clocking speeders and radioing to the first in line.
I hate driving in Dallas because even if you are doing 80 in a 70 you can bet there will be 10 cars trying to pass you at 85 to 90 mph.
Last Ski Trip to Colorado I noticed that if you pull up behind someone in the hammer lane and you are going faster than they are they will pull over asap and just let you by. No such luck here in Texas!
Gotta make qouta somehow, lol
Not me, but my chef teacher. He used to guard the gate to the inside of a military building and he would dance to music when he did it. The people had cameras setup and saw him dancing, so every month they tested him to see if he was on drugs. He continued dancing and they kept testing him until they gave up because all the tests said he was sober
14:59 Where's a cop when you want one...OH RIGHT!
Imagine being pulled over by an undercover cop that you just honked at, being fully and completely aware that most cops would do a power trip over that... only to pull you over and apologize for cutting it close. The apology is much appreciated but my pants are still soiled.
Funny story: my dad got challenged to a race while he was in his undercover impala, he let the race start then lit him up
Cops used to do that in my region bc we have its of people that are into race car (legal and illegal). They aren't allowed to do that anymore unless they have a reason to suspect the person is connected to something illegal. Driving too fast is not a reason cops can use to try and race someone
Got one about doing something stupid in front of cops. Back in about 1983 I had gotten to sleep very late on a Friday night after partying so I of course woke up late. Going up the entrance ramp getting on I-10 in Houston, I noticed a plain full sized white car but didn't really pay attention and blew by it. About a minute later I see the car hauling ass up on me. I'm annoyed , but just wanted to get to work and get some sweet, sweet overtime. So, just as we come up on a sweeping curve doing about 70 mph my rear view mirror reflected a powerful beam of light into my bloodshot eyes. I....um....locked up all 4 of my tires because he pissed me off. I let off immediately and watched him in the mirrors totally losing control of his car as he swerved hard to his right, then caught it and swerved wildly to the left and heading for a wall there. Now, I'm feeling kinda bad. Didn't mean to do all of that to him. He gets control and flies up behind me again and then he turned on the police lights IN HIS GRILL!! I know I am so screwed. The best defense is a good offense, so I pulled over and he pulled up right behind me. I got out of the car and walked back to his car waving my hands and saying loudly that he almost caused me to wreck by blinding me with his lights. Yeah, bad plan, HPD doesn't suffer fools. I had my hands out gesturing and he cracked my knuckles with his baton. I jumped backwards about 5 feet. All of a sudden he's yelling at his partner who was standing outside the passenger door covering me with a gun, but now he's laughing hysterically. The driver cop is yelling at him asking what's so funny. The passenger cop just put his gun back in the holster and sits back in the cop car still laughing. The driver cop is calming down now and said, "Let me guess, you've been out all night drinking and are now limping home?" I explained that I don't drink, I was just running late to work and he had startled me and I apologized. I pointed over at the American General building in the distance and said that's where I'm headed. He told me that if he wasn't transporting a prisoner, he would have taken me in and had my car towed. I look back at his car and there's this young Hispanic guy with his face against the screen in the back seat watching. He had no seat belt on! When that cop had yanked the wheel hard to the right and then hard to the left this guy must have been slammed into the doors. I bet that passenger is still telling that story somewhere.
Not me (obligatory) but a friend of my relatives has told the story of how a woman pulled up next to his clearly marked police car (I think he was on break) and knocked on the driver's side window. He could see the woman was in some distress, sweating and holding her stomach. He thought she was having a medical emergency. Instead, she asked him how much trouble she would in if she just defecated here because she was having an IBS attack and didn't think she could make it to a bathroom. To say this was a AYFKA moment he never thought he have in his career would be an understatement.
Thankfully, she made it to a bathroom because I don't think she was willing to pay $250 in fines, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for her since it was clear to him she was in pain, but law, health and safety obligated him to direct her to a bathroom.
9:40, remember, cops, tailgating people is wrong for you to do as well and it is also just as dangerous as other people that do that sort of thing and it could even cost you not just your badges, but also your jobs, your freedom, and possibly even your lives, as well as the lives that occupy the vehicles that are in front of you...please practice what you preach...thank you.
Where I grew up the police would purposefully mess with people by tail gating them trying to get them to speed or make some mistake so they could pull them over. I have a friend who decided to do it back to them one day, he said they weren't watching the road but instead him in the rear view when they hopped the curb. They stopped doing it when they were featured on 60 minutes for doing it to minorities.
I remember in high school they broke up a teen party and had a friend of mine handcuffed in the closet where they beat the Hell out of him for smart mouthing them.
@@Slammy555 ayo what the fuck
@@alyssiagibbs8147 Southern Illinois.
I'm not a Police officer but i just like watching the Police Officers Videos and i love Police Officers
Several years ago I had a 73 Monte Carlo with a 350 with a quadrojet carburetor in it, a state trooper was tail gating me, slammed the brakes, he hit me,I nailed it. I got up to 150 MPH,pulled over, popped the hood, he pulled over behind me lights &siren blaring. I told him my throttle stuck wide open after getting rear-ended. He couldn't disprove it and had to let me go as I had my hood open, messing with carb. Scared the crap out of me, he told me he had me clocked at 150, speedo only went to 120.
Undercovers had my apartment building staked out. I talked to them later after the bust happened (armed robbery suspect holed up in the building). They told me while they were sitting there two guys tried to steal an old VW
i'm just trying to imagine a dude tryna sell an xbox to some random people on the street and then just being read his rights
Not and unmarked car or police officer, but a volunteer fireman. We were working an accident scene on a rural highway when we watched a guy fly through the middle of an accident command scene in a high dollar car at roughly 80+ mph. A sheriff's deputy shouted he was on em, hopped in his car, and flew off. Came back a solid 20 or so minutes later with the largest smile on his face. He ticketed that guy so heavily lol.
Also, I don't do drugs, but I can often spot an unmarked car. Usually they have those little lights on their A pillar. Not every car, but all unmarked I've seen have them. That and you can sometimes see the lights in the back window.
Why did she get community service? That judge should have thrown the book at her and jail time is warranted for a false allegation like that!
I was a town over where the cops are more strict with speeding. I'm on this road and know the two lane turns to one so changed lane early to avoid the dreaded merge (y'know, where they don't WANT to let you in) and then this car speeds ahead of me to make the single lane. I started speeding behind them but remembered about the cops there aren't nice so slowed down to below the limit. Good thing I did because not more then 20 seconds later a cop's lights/sirens go and I see later passed the intersection the speeding car pulling in a parking lot with the cop behind them.
I love these Reddit stories. The question will be something like: "Operating Room Surgeons, what's the hardest surgery you ever had to perform?" And the answers will be like, "Obligatory NOT a surgeon myself, but my nephew's next-door neighbor's mom was a JANITOR in a building just a block from another building that USED to be a hospital where surgeons actually worked, and SHE said..."
In high school play. I was Dracula. Clown white, dental prosthesis, white shirt, long black cape…. Headed to after play party. Small town cop in unmarked decides my plate is expired. (It was correct). As he walks up, shines flashlight in window…. L give my Dracula voice. “GOOOD EVENING OFFFFICCCER,……”. He about dropped his light. The fake blood in teeth might have been almost too much. When I got out, flourished my cape he about got pale again. But agreed my plate was current. Couple years later, I couldn’t resist telling him that was me. “You dang near gave me a heart attack…TWICE”
I did something so incredibly stupid when I was a teenager...I was 18 years old in 1999 and was driving in my 1994 25th Anniversary Trans-Am. A guy pulled up beside me in a Fox Body Mustang wanting a race. I absolutely roasted him with ease. As the race ended we were headed towards a red light. It was a light that was notorious for taking a long time to turn green so I slowed down to around 40-45. That's when I noticed a car get behind me riding my bumper with his high beams. At this point I'm thinking "this is a cop so I better behave." What happened next I still can't explain...
The Mustang driver hits the gas hard and burns through the red light and the car behind me does nothing. Now I'm thinking this guy is just a jerk and when the light hits green I'm going to tell him off and blow right past him. The light turns green, I stick two middle fingers up out of my t-tops and screamed "get off of my a** you fu**ing loser!" That's when he hit his lights and I sunk deeply into my seat. He walks up to my car and says "Get off my what, I couldn't hear you there. Oh well...this is going to cost you big." The ticket came out to a whopping $750 as he hit me with everything he could. Then he said "Take this to court I dare you."
My favorite one is the “where’s a cop when you need one” story
A beautiful young woman was driving along and noticed that she was being followed rather closely. She turned down a side road and he still kept following her. Whatever she did to try to lose him he was still stuck behind her. She pulled into a parking lot and rolled down her window. He approached her and as he got within reach, she grabbed his tie and punched him in the face. It was an undercover cop.
You really wonder how this shit happens because most unmarked cop cars just scream “definitely not a cop car”, between them usually being the same car that the department uses for marked units to the steelies and the big ass spot light, and people still somehow don’t realize it
I'm not a Police officer but i like watching Police Officers Videos and i like these stories
did i just hear that correctly? 14:05 a woman actually got punished for falsely claiming something that could ruin somebody's life? never thought id see the day!
3:37
>especially affordable neighborhood< ah yes, those
The one where it said, I think your brother might do some drugs had me screaming😂😂😂😂😂😂
the 50 in a 15 stop-sign runner one was freaking hilarious.. rolling the ambulance for an obviously fake emergency ended up with a rather expensive ticket/lesson!
4:28 In the early 70s, when I was living in Southern California, I was driving around in the Hollywood area. My buddy (and co-worker) was riding with me when he pointed out a 427 Cobra.
He told me: "Never race with that guy, he's a cop."
To this day, I still wonder how he knew. Either a friend of his got busted or he did.
I swear to God that woman accusing t police of grabbing her breast etc should have faced jail time at least 6 weeks community service and been sued by the cop because If no.dash cam he could have list his job and worse
I was with my dad going to my martial arts class when I was 12, and this car darts in front of my dad and almost hits us. He honked and almost flipped the car.. We got even more pissed when we saw it was an unmarked cop.
What never fails to amaze me is that people who get the cops’ attention always have something to hide
That first one was pretty awesome
I was on my way to work one day, a few years ago, and had a cup of McDonald's coffee in my hand. I'd just stopped at a red light, both my windows were down, and I moved my coffee up to take a sip. My mistake was holding the cup by the rim, and as a result, I dropped the nearly-full, hot coffee onto my lap. Luckily this was after the lawsuit that one lady put on McDonald's, so the coffee wasn't as hot as it could have been, but it still didn't feel great, so I ended up screaming, "SHEEEEIT!!" at the top of my lungs. What I heard next was, "You alright!?" from the car next to me, which was a cop car. Not really injured, but in a significant amount of pain and quite embarrassed, I waved and just said I spilled my coffee, no worries, I'll be fine.
I could tell the cop was being polite and trying not to laugh at me, but the light turned green, and we both went on our way, though in my case only until I could pull over and air out my jeans.
14:25 dunno why but this one made me crack up 😂
20:34 LMFAO. I like this one
14:53 “ I WAS the squad car” lmao
14:25 is great. “If only there was a cop around…. Wait!”
Haha cop apologises for cutting it close... Are they gonna pay a massive fine too like they expect us to??
Laws only apply to us peasants, especially if we’re poor
On the opposite side of this. I was cruising down a wide residential/suburban road in Lakeville, MN (4 lanes with a grassy median), occasionally enjoying a fresh McNugget I had picked up down the street. I missed a "Stop ahead" sign and saw a stop sign that I thought was pretty oddly angled. For SOME reason, I thought it was for the side street and that I would not have one. By the time I realized my mistake, I braked to a stop in the middle of the intersection. Alone save for a black SUV going up the side street.... that promptly makes a U-turn. Knowing I'm hooped, I drive up and pull over and wait for the cop to pull up behind me. Luckily, the guy was super nice about it. I apologized, and he chalked it up to a "holiday SNAFU" (this was around Christmas).
And then everyone wonders why you can't just take a woman's word on a rape/assault accusation. Like I understand taking it seriously and not blaming the victim, etc. but at the same time an accusation requires evidence in addition to testimony as it's unfortunately way too common for false accusations to be made.
I left Boston and drove straight thru headed to south east GA. Around 2 or 3 am an Expedition passed me about 25 miles from the GA/SC line. He was flying so I fell in behind him and we flew thru the night on I95 running 105mph. About 2 miles from the GA line that Expedition suddenly lit up like a xmas tree with lights everywhere. He didnt get behind me or anything. He just pulled into one of the regular median areas the SC Troopers would sit in to watch traffic. You can bet I finished my last 60 miles to home at the speed limit after that.
Thanks for the stories
Thanks for listening
14:31 I WISH THERE WAS A COP NEARBY!..... Oh wait, I AM that cop. that killed me
I was heading home and had to stop for bridge repair work. This was decades ago and there were flaggers and not portable signals. I was first in line waiting for the high sign to proceed. The line of oncoming traffic was especially long and that flagger picked an arbitrary place to stop and allow me to proceed. The new number 2 in line took exception to having to having to wait and pulled around number one to go through the construction site. Unfortunately for him, the new number 4 was a State Trooper. Instant karma.
Pandemic is in full swing. My dad buys what he thought was a box of starkist tuna salad pouches online. No, he bought a case of those boxes from a bulk sales website. We sold off the excess to family and friends at cost, since we were never going to realistically eat all of that before it went bad. Anywho, we go to my uncles house, uncle comes out, hands over money and we open the trunk. Unmarked white honda civic lights up behind us. HANDS ON YOUR HEAD! The penny finally dropped for me and I couldn't stop laughing and trying to apologize to the guy. The look on that officer's face when all he saw in the trunk was a grocery bag full of tuna was hilarious and I doubled down on my laughing. I had tears going down my face. The cop's partner ended up coming out and became irritated from the look on his partner's face and me laughing. I think it was ten minutes later when a K9 unit showed up that the penny dropped for my uncle. And my dad finally got it when the cop explained what happened.
That was a $12 tuna bust. And a lesson learned for handing cash around in the crappy neighborhood my uncle lived in.
Well if I had the equipment I’d have had a justice boner this past weekend. I live in a very rural area so it takes a while for police to arrive anywhere. It’s around 11:30 am and the car in front of me is using both lanes and the shoulder to drive. I call the police with a impaired driver report. I’ve done many of these calls but never see anything happen to them. This time while on the phone I tell the dispatcher a deputy just passed us going the other way. He turns around and comes our way. I backed way off the drunk in front, point at him and the deputy pulls in. We don’t get a 1/2 mile until his lights flip on and pull the guy over. I got all tingly down there!
so i use to have an hour drive to work (was a really good job..) and a unmarked car pulled behind me while i was zoning out. luckily i was good at keeping my foot perfectly still so i was keeping at 8-9 over perfectly. nothing to get pulled over for.
however the cop behind me, rather than go around. kept flashing his lights for me to move. id see them. look behind me wondering where the lights came from thinking i was being paranoid, then not move because he would quickly flash them then turn them off.
hed flash them. turn them off.
id check. think im paranoid. keep driving
repeat this maybe 4 times.
he finally turned his lights on and drove around.
i never felt so stupid.
23:56
I imagine this dude in a Texan accent, and as the light turns green OP just hears YEEEEEEEEEEeeeee as he goes off to grab that buick
I’ve learned how to tell a unmarked car from regular car here’s some tips:
1. Unmarked cars tend to be clean as police set an example for the public
2. Unmarked cars tend to be black not saying there aren’t other colours
3. Police carry a lot of gear with them so rear of car is visibly squatted unless it’s a suv or pickup
4. Unmarked cars have bulbars usually
5. If you look closely at the grille you can see grey panels these are police lights same for back window look at the top for grey panels
6. Most obvious give away for me you will see a cage through the windshield of the car that’s a cop
7. Cops will sit on the side of the road in unmarked cars if there is a random car sitting near the side of the road be wary about it it may be a cop
I used to drive a big blue Volvo. In my country these used to be often used as surveillance cars and highway patrol. Add my aviator shades and often worn leather jacket and some drivers just slowed down as they saw me as they thought I was a cop.
My dad has had similar situations with his light blue BMW K100 motorcycle, one model used often by law enforcement all over Europe. Especially since he usually wears reflective clothing when riding, much like cops.
I'm not a cop myself but I do have a story to tell:
So I just so happen to drive a retired Crown Vic police interceptor with a light bar, front push bar, Lights and sirens, full police interior (plastic rear seats, center console, radio, siren controller, laptop, etc that i use for volunteer fire police work with a friend of mine for my local fire department and it by no means looks like an undercover car but i still get some really stupid oblivious people.
I've had my fair share of people try to fly past me in the left lane only for them to see me last minute and slam on their brakes but the most "are you kidding me moment" happened while I was on my way to work one morning I was driving through a local residential neighborhood which was my normal route to work and in this residential neighborhood there is a t Junction thats notorious for people running the stop sign as I was turning left onto this T Junction (i had no stop sign) a lady on her phone in a Grand Caravan minivan comes flying through the stop sign and almost hits me a "come to Jesus" moment caused me to brake Right before she hit me and she continued to drive by but I guess the driver of the minivan looked up last minute and saw my car so as soon as she pulled forward and I got behind her she immediately pulled over put her hazards on and started immediately looking for the registration I just parked behind her for 2 or 3 minutes pretending to talk into my cars radio mic just a mess with her because she nearly hit my car then I just pulled around her very slowly and looked at her laughing my ass off before continuing on my way to work lol.
Poor lady looked terrified though but i hope she learned her lesson
Not a cop I was doing a estimate for a bathroom remodeling job . In an affordable neighborhood and I was in my Mustang w 450HP so any way this car was on my butt and kept trying to get in front of me so no worries. In front of me there was a Ford Fusion w dark tint and temp tags . So they pull away from the stop sign going super slow and pulls over to the right I go past this car and then pulls behind me and puts lights on . Um no I took off . I don't know who you are you pulled behind me and almost hit me . So for what ever reason they tried to keep up for about a block and of course I smoked them . So I get onto a main street I see a marked car and I flagged them down . And the cop was like Oh I wasn't sure if it was you . I almost crapped my pants of course oh why didn't you stop bla bla bla I said hey sorry you got Temp tags and your in dark tints and a Fusion sorry I thought you were trying to jack me . I get the well you should have known .Long story short his boss rolled up and they let me go . The cop was pissed but I was ready there was no way I would have lost on court.
I have an inverse story. Regarding law enforcement not thinking. It was after I got out of prison probably 10 years ago (was a troubled teen) FSU officers (was a form of probation officers for people who got out of prison early, it’s only a thing in the state of vermont I believe) came to do their random check-up at my residence. Make sure I was home, no alcohol or guns, etc. well before they left, one turned to the other and said “well, should we head out? You wanna head to the islands and check on Rockwell next?” Apparently assuming that people don’t know eachother… we were long-time friends. He lived about 45 minutes away. So I gave him a ring and gave him a heads up they were on their way, about 45 mins out. He said thanks, as he wasn’t home at all (against rules) and was about to get high. Saved him his freedom 😂 were both doing well now btw, for anyone interested. I’m 8 years clean, he’s 5, both haven’t been to prison in about the same amount of time. Doing really well for ourselves now that we’ve grown up. But those cops weren’t the brightest 🤣
Maybe they were, knew your friend was on the edge but hoped he would straighten out. Could be either.
@@frankenberry9670 there are times that happens. But I don’t think there’s anyway these guys could have known we knew eachother
In an alternate universe it's probably directed at civilians but mostly cops replying.
driving home after getting my license, I was stopped at a 4 way intersection with three police cars on the adjacent road. they were in the straight/right turn lane behind one car with another in the turn lane so I couldn't see them. when the light turned green I started to go, slowly because it was my first time driving alone, when suddenly I hear a horn to my right and see one car with his lights on running the red light. I just about have a heart attack and slam the brakes (or however hard you can slam them at 5mph), then think I'm good so I start moving. luckily the first one scared me enough to notice the other two following behind, all with lights on. if I was just a few feet ahead, I'd have been t boned by the first cop, and the other two would have rear ended themselves. that was when I decided to buy a dashcam
Not a cop...just a guy who saw the funniest thing.
Going north on Rt 107 from Revere, MA to Lynn, MA.
Approaching a red light I was sitting right next to a State Trooper in an unmarked car. There was a Dodge Charger and a Porsche 911 in front of us.
I knew they were gonna race as soon as the Charger revved his engine. I flashed my headlights and honked to warn them. Nope...they took off and the Statey lit em up and pulled em both over. Funniset trip home EVER
Bait cars are funny. Specially if one law enforcement agency is doing it and another law enforcement agency comes by and sees the car, takes keys, locks it and calls police to report possible abandoned car. LOL
This reminds me of that story of a group of undercover cops posing as drug dealers arrested another group of undercover cops who were posing as drug buyers in order to arrest the drug dealers ... or maybe it was the buyers who arrested the dealers, but anyway, they were all cops. :D
23:23 I have a friend who, if he were a cop, would do this to the T.
That horrid woman! If that police officer hadn't had body cam footage then the woman could have destroyed his life because of the ræpe accusation!
The donuts story.
I thought he was doing donuts as in eating donuts.
Took me a few seconds to understand doing donuts with his car.
I was thinking the same, but in between those two thoughts, considered if donuts (powdered sugar?) were slang for some kind of drugs...
@@SelvesteSand the world we live in. Donuts could mean anything. A sugary sweet. A car maneuver. Aa possible drug.
Donuts is gonna be my new favourite word.
I remember being pulled over for doing 30 in a 25 zone...and I was riding a bicycle, and had just come off a hill and turned onto the main drag. didn't get a ticket, just a stern talking to.
Not me or a cop but one of my lecturers was running late was doing 130mph down the motorway he thought the black Volvo behind him was doing well keeping up with him until lights lit up in the grill he missed that day and four months later we had a different lecturer.
It was the same stretch where a hearse was pulled over for doing over a 100mph wasn't the only court case that funeral director had at the time as they were caught one night digging up a body. They realised they had realised they had buried the wrong body and tried to fix it without anyone knowing but were caught in the act and charged.
Not a cop but was on my way to work around 6 in the morning. Turned down a road was almost hit by a car pulling out of an appartment parking lot. I honk my horn at them and continue on my way. Make it to the stoplight at the end of the block and as it was yellow before i got to the point of no return i stopped. they however did not. now im the person that sits there and says where is a cop when you need one. well, right then i see the lights and hear the siren from a cop that was on the frontage road next to me. the car was heading to walmart and started to park where the employees park and before they had a chance to put it in park they had a cop at their window. I asked my friend that worked there and found out it was an employee that was running late for work. what would have been 5 min late turned into 30 min late.
Have a similar story to the one at around 9:30. Cop flies up behind me but it's night so I can't see that it's a cop. Sped up to around 65 in a 55 (enough to get a ticket). Didn't pull me over to give me a ticket though, he just turned his lights on and passed when I pulled over. I just about crapped myself however
I'm not a cop but...I was driving down the freeway and suddenly the car in front of me began to slow down, then pulled to the side. I pull up behind it thinking he might be having car trouble and wanted to help. No sooner than I stopped, it flashes it's lights. And that's how I accidently pulled over an undercover cop.
A girl I knew in high school's mom worked for a lawyer. She said in one case a marked car pulled up to a guy rolling a joint out of a big bad of weed on the hood of his car. While the police were right there (no lights yet) he finished rolling and started smoking it.
This isn’t an unmarked cop story, but one time I was driving home from work and on my way home from work there's a spot where cops like to sit sometimes and try to catch people and when I was driving home there was a guy tailgating me. When I drove past that spot, sure enough, there were two cops cars sitting there and one of them flipped on their lights and pulled the guy tailgating me over