What's been your oddest encounter with the police?
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I was attacked in my doorway in Vauxhall, and to me astonishment, the guy on the phone said "Was he black?".
SuttonSystems@reddit
Many years ago go stopped by the local police in Stoke walking back from town as I “fitted the description” of someone who had been up to mischief. I was polite and compliant and they quickly realised it wasn’t me, so we were still chatting when the squad car with the actual suspect came past and they pointed him out. Apart from being the same race and gender, it’s difficult to see how they mistook us, he was about half my height, shaved head where I had a full head of hair and shirtless when I had a heavy winter coat on. Makes you wonder.
nolinearbanana@reddit
I once got stopped at 3am on the A17, because the office didn't like the line I took across a mini roundabout.
I was heading back to university in an old car, loaded with stuff at the time.
He had a look at the car and then asked me to take a breath test. Didn't work, so he swapped something and got me to try again. Still didn't work, so he went and got another machine and asked me to try a 3rd time. Still didn't work, so he told me to blow in his face.
Middle of nowhere, not another car/person in sight at 3am... Weird as fuck.
Abquine@reddit
I got stopped in an old Mini many years ago. The officer walked round it, asked me to pop the bonnet, had a look under the engine, then in the boot. He came back to the driver side window, shook his head sadly, put his notebook back in his top pocket and said, "OK on you way, just don't drive so fast next time'. I seriously think the magnitude of faults on that car was just too much work at the end of a shift. These days that car would have been confiscated and towed on the spot.
Dunny2k@reddit
I mean they don’t really need a reason to stop you per Section 163 of the Road Traffic Act. Plus driving at 3am often rouses suspicion and you get lots of drunk and drug drivers at that time!
Flapparachi@reddit
I used to take milk samples on dairy farms, so had to be there an hour before morning milking started to get set up. I used to get stopped all the time, and it was so much more frequent around Xmas. It was made worse when they said, “Funny time to be working, eh?” And I said, “Well you are at work, aren’t you?” - cue uncomfortable silence and no comeback.
chartupdate@reddit
I was once driving a bunch of uni mates home from a club at 3am when we got pulled over. Car naturally reeked of alcohol so I was sternly asked to step into out. At which point it became clear I was sober as a judge having been totally on the wagon all night. I was disappointed they didn't even breathalyse me.
Dunny2k@reddit
Guess you got lucky, I got breathalysed at 3am because I swerved a little so he thought I was drunk! I was just tired 😂
chartupdate@reddit
I felt I was lucky. I was suffering from hay fever induced asthma heavily at the time and was tooting on an inhaler at regular intervals just to function. We'll never know if I had enough lung capacity to work the machine in the first place.
nolinearbanana@reddit
Driving at 3am rouses suspicion???
WTF
Dunny2k@reddit
Yes? 2-3am is prime time for criminal activity.
ellemonkeybum@reddit
Whereabouts on the A17?
nolinearbanana@reddit
Somewhere between Newark and KingsLynn. probably shortly after Sleaford heading East.
ellemonkeybum@reddit
I know that area all to well … Suddenly it all makes sense!! 😂😂
Upset-Elderberry3723@reddit
Wasn't even an officer - just a guy who liked people breathing in their face and went to Party Zone to get a costume earlier that day.
LeastFox8059@reddit
My friend was searched, the cop found his (full) baggy of coke, looked at it, then us and said "lucky for you this is empty" before handing it back. Had to fight the urge to disagree with him.
mellonians@reddit
Our house was searched when I was a kid and there was an 8th of dope just under the sofa. The officer just muttered something along the lines of "I won't begrudge you that when we're done" and put it back.
Abquine@reddit
A woman I used to know had a visit from the police and they asked her if she had a pot in the house (yes it was that long ago). As an on the surface respectable professional woman with a decent house she might have got away with her 'of course not' response if her seven year old hadn't then piped up, 'yes you do Mummy, it's in your special tin at the top of the hall cupboard' 😂
v00g@reddit
This is confusing. You had an urge to disagree because there was coke in there, even though he was letting you off? Lucky either way!
LeastFox8059@reddit
I couldn't tell if he just genuinely didnt see it (this was in the evening in the countryside so a bit dark) or if he just didn't think it was worth pursuing or if he was just cool. It was difficult for me not to say "really? It's got coke in it tou know" because when I was younger I used to correct people. Now I know not to. It's never worth it.
Abquine@reddit
tbh fair, a cop once handed a lump of hash back to someone I knew after busting them and said, 'here, you'll probably need this'.
day__raccoon@reddit
I’m not being rude, but are you autistic…
mongolian_monke@reddit
yes let's diagnose people with autism over a single story.
zeviea@reddit
Who's doing that? Asking if someone is autistic isn't diagnosing them.
mongolian_monke@reddit
I read it as "you are" and not "are you"...
zeviea@reddit
Oh right. The lack of question mark didn't help
day__raccoon@reddit
Have you ever heard of this crazy thing called a question?
mongolian_monke@reddit
that was not a question funny enough
day__raccoon@reddit
It’s called an indirect question :)
mongolian_monke@reddit
fuck I realise I read it as "you are" and not "are you" bro 😭😭💔💔💔💔
day__raccoon@reddit
Lmao dude! Good for you for owning it, no worries 🤣🤣🤣
mongolian_monke@reddit
"I’m not being rude, but are you autistic…"
that, is NOT a question, you are literally telling him he's autistic because of a personality quirk that's commonly seen in non autistic people (especially redditors)
stop trying to pretend it is bub
feralhog3050@reddit
I'm autistic & that's exactly the sort of thing I'd do
mongolian_monke@reddit
cool but autistic traits are seen in people with autism quite commonly. why is every damn personality quirk now "oh you're autistic" like just let people be different.
KYchan1021@reddit
I’m also autistic and I always feel the need to correct anyone who’s wrong. In this case it’s obvious and I’d say nothing but the commenter’s saying “I couldn’t tell if he just genuinely didn’t see it” is such an autistic thing to say, it was the first thing I thought!
IssacHunt89@reddit
Not being rude, but you are homo sapien.
day__raccoon@reddit
O… kay
LeastFox8059@reddit
No.
thetobesgeorge@reddit
I’m from Dorset, and I feel like as long as you’re not causing a problem then countryside police tend to much more often turn a blind eye to minor things.
I can absolutely see them turning a blind eye to what would either be a warning or minor possession charge, especially as they’d “warned” you without doing a formal warning/charge and the associated paperwork
MattyFTM@reddit
When I was 17 me & a group of mates were drinking on the local college field, as you do at 17. Someone phoned the police, two coppers show up. After everyone initially runs away, I (the fat one who couldn't run) convince everyone we're not in any real trouble and running would make things worse, we stop and talk to them. They search our bags, take our alcohol (mostly all gone by that point) and ask questions. One asks "Is it just the 6 of you?" I correct him and say "7".
They question "7?" And I'm like, "yeah, can you not count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7” and point to everyone. Now, one of my mates had sat down right next to a bush and was staying very quiet. She wasn't hiding as such, but just out of the way and staying quiet in the dark.
Her bag got searched and the bottle of vodka, the last of the alcohol we had, got taken. My mates never let me forget that I had to be a smart arse and correct the police officer and get our vodka confiscated.
IssacHunt89@reddit
One of them.
jtr99@reddit
If I was one of your friends, I think I could let that go and not keep rehashing the story... after about 40 or 50 years.
LeastFox8059@reddit
See? This is why I said nothing.
BanditKing99@reddit
You sound intellectually challenged
LeastFox8059@reddit
Thanks
zeviea@reddit
I wonder if he was giving your friend a second chance. What happened to your friend after?
xirse@reddit
In the nicest possible way, if you would get yourself in trouble like that just for the sake of being right you must have been really annoying when you were younger.
Medium-Dependent-328@reddit
If you had, your friend would have disowned you.
DownrightDrewski@reddit
Dude.....
dl064@reddit
This is wallet inspector territory.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz74@reddit
I mean, if you’re full of the chico already, you’ll argue about anything.
throwawaygoof9@reddit
Yeah this is how police do it, if it’s the end of a shift, and it’s a really minor offence that isn’t worth the paperwork, it slides.
Hard_Dave@reddit
Meanwhile I get taken away in a van and strip-searched in a portacabin. Locked in a cage for 6 hours. Two tier justice system
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
Two tier in what way?
Hard_Dave@reddit
As in two different levels of enforcement.
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
Well, yeah... but based on what?
Hard_Dave@reddit
Based on the two completely different outcomes of mine and the other guy's situations where the police found drugs on us. What do you think I'm talking about?
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
I don't know - that's what I'm asking!
I thought you were insinuating that it was different based on some characteristic or something. It sounds like you just got two different coppers.
LeastFox8059@reddit
Countryside copper. I think he was just more relaxed
iridescentblip@reddit
For people reading this... if you haven't gotten the message... don't talk to cops. Ever. Never ever give them ANY more information than you have to.
They will seem friendly. Some may BE friendly. But they can take info you innocently give and use it against you with no compunction.
Just keep your mouth shut. It's harder than you think, but keep in mind that you only owe them what they are legally entitled to know. (Your id.)
miowiamagrapegod@reddit
"It may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court."
Staying silent isn't always the best option.
PerkeNdencen@reddit
If you have been told that, you will have been arrested and so you will want to have discussed what you choose to say with a solicitor before running your mouth.
If you're not under suspicion to begin with, better just keep your mouth shut and hope they move on, whether you've done anything or not.
miowiamagrapegod@reddit
So when the person I replied to said "don't talk to cops. Ever" they were wrong. Glad we cleared that up
PerkeNdencen@reddit
Not everything is about you, I'm just clarifying for others.
Remembering why I normally block baduk denizens on sight.
TheLightStalker@reddit
"I'm sorry, I can't help you with that, bye"
Clear_Mode_4199@reddit
You've been watching too much american telly
iridescentblip@reddit
I'm not talking about them framing you... just being assholes. And shit like the comment lower down where the kids kept talking and gave away a friend who hadn't been caught out.
Just keep your mouth shut.
BabaGanoushHabibi@reddit
Had a family member pulled for similar, they told him "I think you should fuck off home now." lol
No-Translator5443@reddit
Maybe you’d used it and were off your head thinking it was full lol
NortonBurns@reddit
Once [in fact several times] I'd fallen asleep on the late night tube from Chiswick to Bounds Green, so I woke at Cockfosters and just started walking, with the intent of getting to Enfield to get a cab the rest of the way. No ubers in those days & no cab office any closer.
Police van pulled over & did the whole 'who are you, where are you going' bit. My explanations & ability to still hold a coherent conversation were apparently sufficient that they & I were about to go on our respective ways…
…when a call came over for them to dash back to the Police station - which I happen to live about 400 yards from.
I asked them for a lift. "If you're going that way…?"
I got a lift, blues & twos hammering into the night, right to my door.
BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit
I got a lift home in a squad car once, when I was very drunk and had fallen asleep on a bench.
Unfortunately I don't remember a whole lot about it other than that I apologised a lot and they wouldn't leave until I actually went inside the house and locked the door.
Nice chaps.
quite_acceptable_man@reddit
Yep, when I was much, much younger I had one too many beers and couldn't be bothered to walk home so I thought it would be a good idea to just sleep on a park bench. Until a couple of police officers interrupted my sleep and asked for my name, which I gave them, and my address, which I also gave them. They suggested to me that as my flat was less than a mile away, it might be a good idea to sleep there instead of a park bench.
To be fair, they were right.
Abquine@reddit
I was always scared that my husband would get hypothermia one night as he sleeps like the dead and the local park is at the bottom of our road on the way home from town. It was like he always made it till the final furlong and then he couldn't resist the pull of a park bench. More than one night when he finally got into bed he was so cold it was hard to believe his blood was still circulating.
Traditional-Tour37@reddit
My friend and I got drunk one night and sat at a bus stop to rest and have a cig. Then she fell asleep with her head on my shoulder but slowly slid down onto the floor, using my feet as a pillow. The police pulled into the bus stop, propped my friend back on the bench next to me, 'so she doesn't catch a chill', then drove off.
I'm pretty sure we were about 15 at the time.
Frivolous_wizard@reddit
I did the same and ended up cuffed, being told I was going to be in court "first thing in the morning." don't know what he was expecting in response but i pointed out the next day was a Sunday and all I was doing was sleeping. Fortunately the other copper with him wasn't as much of a cunt, took the cuffs off and offered me a lift home.
feckinarse@reddit
I love British place names. That's a new one to me.
NortonBurns@reddit
There was an advert for Fosters Lager with Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee… "What's the best way to Cockfosters?" "Drink it warm, mate."
at about 1:55 in this compilation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT40V_42GO0
Round_Engineer8047@reddit
I was just thinking that myself. It shows the power of advertising if the name reminds us of it 40 years later, I can't even stand Fosters! I like Paul Hogan though.
MRTURNIPSVEGANSAUCE@reddit
Ha ha just under 3 mins in.
"Know any told Harris mate"...
Fossilhund@reddit
“Yes, my new address is in Cockfosters. Please forward my mail there.”
Ok_Judge7833@reddit
Chiswick? It means cheese farm. It's a cognate of Keswick in Cumberland.
johnhbnz@reddit
Wots a ‘cognate’?
Ok_Judge7833@reddit
it's a brand of toothpaste
johnhbnz@reddit
So, everyone in Chiswik AND Keswick was continually brushing their teef.
But, had they invented toothbrushes yet?
wheat_bag_@reddit
It's the end of the Piccadilly line so the announcer says it after every stop, I just moved here and it's taken me so long to stop giggling at it
feckinarse@reddit
We have similar weird senses of humour :D
LandofGreenGinger62@reddit
If they were American, it would have to Roosterfosters (assuming that's the one you meant.?) 😊
feckinarse@reddit
As soon as a relied I realised I'd get the piss taken cos I never specified a name but yeah thats the one!
PM_ME_UR_SUMMERDRESS@reddit
It’s pronounced “chisick”. A few comments above was Cockfosters.
Evening-Situation-38@reddit
The dream. I had to do the walk back out to potters bar too often.
h00dman@reddit
I've had a ride in the back of a police car too, except it was them offering me a lift to the station to point someone out in a lineup as I'd witnessed and reported an assault.
It was a real bucket list moment for me, but now I want to experience yours lol!
NortonBurns@reddit
It was so on the fly I probably wouldn't have dared had I been sober.
There was an odd 'good cop, bad cop' vibe about the whole thing. The one in charge was smart & sharp, the other one like a cartoon bad guy. He wanted to put me in the cage in the back. The other one said, 'Just let him get in the fucking back seat. What's wrong with you?'
As we were approaching the destination, I did the usual cab ride, 'anywhere here, mate' & bad cop was 'oooh, are we sure this is convenient for you?' By that time I think the other had had enough of him & just glared across at him.
It was all a very odd experience. One I wouldn't be keen to repeat.
triptip05@reddit
Police officer here. Unfortunately the job like all jobs contains melts.
AlGunner@reddit
Not like all jobs. Far from it. Police attract melts who want power over other people so has more than its fait share. Source, brother was an Inspector for years, I asked him.
PerkeNdencen@reddit
let's be honest though
the melt ratio is skewed
in a way not altogether cromulent with other jobs
Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch@reddit
Up until about 2 weeks ago, I'd never heard the word "cromulent". Seen it 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Doesn't add anything to the conversation, just saying.
Weary_Bat2456@reddit
Melts are people who make life fun - I say that as someone who would have glared across at one myself!
Guilty-Reason6258@reddit
I was once returning someone home, and fortunately for them a call came through the radio for an all hands on deck kind of a job. Made the guys day giving him a blues and twos ride home so I could head straight to the next job 😁 Driving on blues and twos is such a "just part of the job" thing now it's easy to forget how incredibly cool it must be for the general public to experience.
Hefty-Egg3406@reddit
Police wanted to urgently get a witness statement from me. Said they would drive to me and take it in the car. I had been at a one night stand, so I leave his flat and get into a police car. They dropped me home after the statement.
dajay2k@reddit
Bounds green!
sunheadeddeity@reddit
Mornington Crescent!!
Disastrous-Fennel918@reddit
Late one night I was walking a couple of miles home from the pub, my mate disappeared and reappeared with a mountain bike(nicked) Proceeds to give me a seatie, when we were stopped by police for two on a bike they just told us to pack it in,but as soon as they left we continued. They drove past again and gave us a more stern telling off. My mate also had drugs on him but convinced the coppers to give us a lift as they were going our direction. We got in the back of a police land rover with a stolen bike and my mate decides to have a cheeky key as soon as we set off just 2 feet away from the police in the front. They dropped us off and my mate said "same time tomorrow chaps"
Travels_Belly@reddit
I was cycling home and one of the Indian places we get food from had smoke pouring out of the door. Obviously they had a fire break out. Didn't seem too serious. 2 police cars were there.
I took a short video to show my partner the video and show her what had happened there. One of the police officers in the car did his absolute nut. He started shouting at me to stop filming and that people like me made him sick. I lectured me on how this was a oerson who had suffered a tradagy and how dare I put it online. How he came to that conclusion I have no idea. I don't think it would have made much of an interesting video.
He seemed genuinely unhinged. I didn't contradic him though I just ignored him. I figured maybe he's dealt with a lot if awful stuff and he's at the end of his rope. I'm sure it's a difficult and stressful job. Or he could have been a massive dick head on a power trip.
Smooth_News_7027@reddit
They were probably genuinely treating someone, or thought someone was dying inside- when I used to work security you would be surprised by cunts with cameras when people were genuinely dying.
Travels_Belly@reddit
Yeah that's why I didn't take offence. I figured they had probably dealt with a lot of people that really were either just being a ghoul or getting it for attention clicks. Plus the job is super stressful.
Andyetnotsomuch@reddit
About 20 years ago, just after 7/7 attacks in London. I’m driving my ridiculous early-type EV (a G-Wiz) through central London, get pulled over. All quite civilised so I ask why. “We’re checking cars randomly for terrorist equipment sir.” Proceeded to get me to remove everything from inside the car (floor mats, carrier bag - basically, all that there was room in there for, apart from me). Nothing found (!), I was getting back in to drive away, was told “we have to stop every tenth car, it’s orders today”, then a friendly “have a nice day sir”. I was about to ask, but managed to stop myself, how many terror plots they’d busted where the getaway car had a 25mph top speed, 20 mile range, and zero luggage capacity.
Hatanta@reddit
Just Googled them and absolutely pissed myself laughing
Smooth_News_7027@reddit
Looks just like one of those Taliban pickups, doesn’t it?
x-3piecensoda@reddit
Me and some friends 16 at the time use to go round the back of this leisure centre building on a friday night to drink beer , vodka etc as we were underage , I shit you not one time 4 policemen came out of some bushes and just confiscated the lot of us just as we were getting them out the bags
OwnCourse1234@reddit
My dad used to be a policeman, and the local kids had a nickname for him - Snake. He was so proud of it. His colleagues called him Sergeant Slytherin but Snake was the one he loved as it was given to him by the community.
In his final ten years or so before retirement he moved from a large town to a small market town in a really rural area, so not many problems other than underage drinking, speeding, and people 'interfering' with livestock. He had this long old black police coat that were no longer regulation, and he'd lurk in the churchyard and emerge from the shadows, and was so quiet he'd confiscate their cans mid swig, they'd never see him until his arm reached out to take their cans.
Smooth_News_7027@reddit
I really really hope that interfering with livestock means theft.
Pyriel@reddit
Years ago I had a friend who joined the police. (Lost contact over the years)
He was quite open that they used to trawl the local parks for kids drinking, make them pour out the open ones and confiscate the full ones.
Then divvy them up in the back of the van to take home.
He boasted that he hadn't bought any booze for months,
and he really didn't understand why we had a problem with this.
fenney@reddit
Some friends of mine got a hold of a couple of high vis jackets when we were around 20 and went round a fairly big park on a sunny Saturday looking for underage kids drinking. Just walked up and told them to tip the open ones away and confiscated the full ones. They ended up with about 16 assorted cans and a full half bottle of cheap vodka.
"Was it unethical" was the topic as we all got pissed that evening. They never claimed to be from the police or council or anything. They only went for kids who they knew were drinking underage anyway, and if the kids had challenged them they said they would've just walked away but none did. But the teens would definitely have been intimidated by the 2 men and the jackets even though no direct threat was made.
Obviously yes, unethical, but not as reprehensible as it sort of seems.
iridescentblip@reddit
I wouldn't call it reprehensible but it's not cool at all. I would think less of you if I knew you in person.
Buy your own alcohol. If you're worried about kids drinking, the way to help is not stealing it from them.
No_Salamander4095@reddit
But it stop them drinking, at least for a night. :)
HAMforPastry@reddit
It never happened
I_Wanna_Sex_Mr_Cow@reddit
Based
AdvertisingHot2464@reddit
Few years ago I was chilling with my son. Could hear this weird sound coming from outside being played on a speaker. It went on and on so I paused the TV and went to the window. Heard a Millwall chant blaring out, which included a really vulgar racial insult that I won't repeat on here. Anyway I looked around outside and realised it was a neighbours kid blasting it out of his bedroom window. I shouted up to him and said you wanna turn that off now before you get in some serious shit. We lived in a very multicultural area with some nasty folks around and the kids mother was deaf so I could imagine her house getting bricked or something worse happening.
Anyway the kid start blasting the same thing out of the speaker so I called the police and gave them the heads up that they may wanna go round this kids house and give him a good talking to, maybe even to scare him a bit about the consequences.
For the next couple of weeks I constantly got calls from the police asking if I was OK and that "because I was the victim of this crime" I should seek councilling if I need it. I'm a white guy, I wasn't a victim at all, I just don't wanna hear that shit being blasted out and don't want my neighbours house being attacked cos of it. But they kept calling regularly to check i was OK to the point I had to ask them to stop bloody calling me. Was very bizarre considering years ago when I was viciously assaulted they weren't remotely interested and told me "Sorry its 2 people's word against yours so get over it".
GeminiCheese@reddit
I was at a friend's house when I was about 14 and lost track of time. I had to sprint to the bus stop to have any chance of making it there in time for the last bus of the evening. About 100 yards from the stop a police car pulls up and starts interrogating me about what I'm doing acting suspiciously.
I explain the bus situation, and he notices that my trainers are brand new. He starts on about how he thinks I've just stolen them and was running away to escape...
He keeps going on until the bus sails past, grins, and tells me to enjoy my walk home.
5 mile walk home, late at night, through the city, just to give him a bit of fun. Cheers Merseyside Police. What would we do without you...
smoulderstoat@reddit
I got stopped at about three o'clock in the morning by the Police wanting to know where I'd been and where I was going. Fair enough, except I was a train conductor at the time and I was coming home from a late turn so I was in full uniform including a shiny new hi vis vest.
"I've been at work, and I'm going home," I explained.
"Funny time to be working," the first rozzer said.
"Well, you're working," I replied.
"He's got you there, Dave," said the second rozzer, and drove off.
Marsmanic@reddit
"always do my burglary in a high Viz... Hide in plain sight"
jtr99@reddit
Do it in high viz with a clipboard and a ladder, people would probably help you load the stuff into your car themselves.
Traditional-Tour37@reddit
Someone used to do similar to steal fruit machines from pubs
Marsmanic@reddit
This sadly did actually happen to some poor family on our street.
They were having a conservatory built, and 3 lads in high Viz jackets walked on the site on a Sunday when the family were away, and the traddies weren't working.
geeered@reddit
Apparently this is a thing. Including wearing generic wellies say, which will make it really hard to trace any prints usefully.
marsman@reddit
A couple of years ago my neighbours across the way were burgled, police knocked on for CCTV at mine and I played it for them while I was waiting to stick it on a USB stick, of the four lads involved, two were wearing high vis trousers and jackets.. Although they were doing it at about 2am so I'm not sure it would have worked as a 'hide in plain sight' thing if anyone had spotted them at the time.
Uk-reddit-user@reddit
They’ve restricted the hours now but doing mystery shops for a major brand petrol station/retailer, I’d do some up until around midnight. I’d get asked the same, you’re working this time of night? By the till jockey.
Pure-Nose2595@reddit
I've never met a merseyside police officer that wasn't a complete, utter dickhead, so this checks out.
Japhet_Corncrake@reddit
Defo a kopite.
dannydrama@reddit
What a cunt lol at least your trainers were comfortable.
GeminiCheese@reddit
I wish. My mum had bought them for me that day, without me even trying them on.
LuLutink1@reddit
🛎️End.
MaliceTheSwift@reddit
What an absolute prick.
Technical_Front_8046@reddit
Me and three mates were about 15 at the time. The one friend lived above a pub, her parents ran the pub. They had an electric wheelchair/scooter (whatever the correct terminology is for it) like the ones you used to get in Tescos for customers to use.
One night we were bored, so we were just driving this electric wheelchair round outside the pub. Not causing any harm.
A police car turned up with blues and twos and came to a screeching stop. An angry copper got out and started shouting at us: “Where have you got this from” from the pub we said, “no you haven’t, don’t fucking lie to me, your all under arrest for theft”
Thankfully, my friend’s mum came out after seeing the blue lights in the pub. She explained the wheelchair belonged to the pub.
Suddenly the copper was as nice as pie. “Oh right, so sorry. Can’t be too careful these days. Bet you’re all just bored and trying to have a laugh? Ok, have a lovely evening”.
One of the locals told her a few days later that some Karen had rang the old bill (999) and said we had stolen it off a disabled person!
Still can’t get over why they’d make a blatant lie up and the police would respond the way they did. I can only assume she made out we had like mugged a disabled person of their wheelchair. Copper was a knob.
Artistic_Table5293@reddit
Years ago I had a Honda C90 .Only a 90 CC motorbike,coming home from work late at night,I probably was speeding.Getting ready to turn into another road looked over my shoulder,saw a police car blue light on.I got stopped, asked different questions, like where have you come from, where are you going.One of the cops radio's came alive,a more urgent job must have come up.On leaving one cop turned to me and asked, what kind of engine do you have a two litre watch your speed,and they were off.😁
SiteWhole7575@reddit
My mum called the police on me (nothing violent, safeguarding issue), and 2 officers turned up to my mum’s house and asked if they could talk to us separately. I was in the kitchen which looked like an attempted murder scene because there was blood everywhere (not my best moment) and I spoke with the female PC while the male PC spoke to my mum in her lounge.
I was trying to answer questions to the best of my ability whilst also cleaning up the “crime scene” in the kitchen and then the male officer said to his colleague something like “All good, I’ll handle it from here, see you later”, and then said I should get in the police car with him after I got dressed.
He literally let me sit in the passenger seat, not in the back, and dropped me off at a B&B for the night and watched from the car park, and the landlady wouldn’t let me in because she had seen me get out of a police car and “didn’t want no criminals here” and he walked up and said to her “If you were watching that closely, didn’t you see he was sitting in the front passenger seat with me, do you think I would let a criminal do that?”.
It’s very weird but I can’t imagine that happening with city police, as this was a rather rural location.
IntroductionFit5346@reddit
So, did you end up staying there?
Finish the story.
SiteWhole7575@reddit
Yeah I did and ended up outside talking to the chef there outside the back till about 2am, and then the next day realised I didn’t have my phone charger so declined my paid for breakfast and grabbed a coffee and walked 11 miles home across dual carriageways and fields just to be annoying and get my head together. Such is life 😂
IntroductionFit5346@reddit
Bizarre
Ok_Situation6873@reddit
Not me, but witnessed 'covid wardens' in summer 2020 telling a group of late teens/early twenties that there was a 6pm curfew and they had to go home. There were groups of other people sitting about also but they really had it in for this group. They were arguing back that there was no such thing as a curfew so the wardens called the police who turned up and reiterated that there was indeed a curfew and they would deal with everyone else once the group left. They threatened to arrest them, took their details and were quite physical in escorting them from the cathedral grounds. The coppers then left and never came back to speak to anyone else.
DragonfruitItchy4222@reddit
Probably odder for them than me, I got very drunk, got my wallet stolen, followed who I thought stole it and tried to kick his door in, he came out and we had a fight until another man intervened who was walking a big Rottweiler.
I walked away down the road and the next thing I remember is being woken up in a muddy field by a policewoman, I was now also barefoot as well as walletless.
They said CCTV had followed me from the club where I lost my wallet, so presumably they'd seen me kicking someone's door in and throwing haymakers at him when he answered.
They took me to the van, then passed me onto the RMP who dropped me off at the front gates of camp where I stumbled in barefoot and without ID.
Nothing ever came of it.
Super_Matter_6139@reddit
Why's where you astonished it's a significant statistical probability
BornNectarine4450@reddit
Me and my mates were making a short film in an alleyway of a residential area one night. It was a fight sequence, and we had plastic sword props.
As we were filming, a blinding light filled up the alleyway and people started screaming at us to get down. We dropped everything and fell to the floor like bricks. Armed police officers with rifles came up to us. Once they realised the swords were just props and after they realised we were just dumb young boys filming a sequence we had a big laugh.
Was absolutely terrifying
Haggath@reddit
Was having a walk up some hills close to my home when I was a teenager. Saw the police at the bottom of some steps, one of the main paths up to to the top. They stopped me and asked me if I had seen a guy, showed me his picture etc. and asked me to keep an eye out for him.
Took off up the steps, and got about 500 feet away from where they were stood. Found the guy passed out in the bushes off to one side. I whistled for them to come up, had a brief conversation on what to do, and went on my way. The two officers seemed a bit clueless.
notlookingback4eva@reddit
I was going on holiday to Amsterdam with my now ex-wife. We had seen the police downstairs looking for someone. Little did I know she had breached her bail and they had come for her. Arrested her at the gate. I was so embarrassed. I went straight home, and we rebooked the next day. Worst experience of my life for a number of reasons.That was just the start.
Necessary-Fingerer@reddit
Got stopped once and one of the officers was alright, but then the other kept interjecting randomly to posture. I was driving to a forest to go for a dog walk so I had my dog in the car and some poo bags on my lap. He said “What’s in the black bag????” I said well nothing, they’re poo bags. And he immediately said “who needs a poo?” I said well my dog mate. Not extremely weird but was just funny
Saxon2060@reddit
The whole interview for a shotgun certificate was odd because they ask some questions you'd think are pretty unrelated to gun ownership. The firearms officer lady who came to look at my house to see if I had a fun safe also had a proper wander around, heard a noise from my bedroom and went "ooh is that a cat?!" And just opened the door and went in and it was my wife who had been asleep.
I had been telling her how all the decor etc in my house is my wife's doing and how she really liked interior design. My wife then has a confused and somewhat frightened 10 minute conversation about interior design with the police woman standing there in her stab vest and everything who had just appeared in the bedroom.
The officer seemed quite "ditzy" but I think maybe it was a way of informally "inspecting" the whole house and just scoping stuff out in general. The whole thing felt quite "vibes" related. Like she had asked if I lived with anyone and I said "yes my wife, she's asleep" and so I guess wandering in to the bedroom on the pretext of wanting to see a cat was a way of verifying that. I think she did actually like interiors though.
Saxon2060@reddit
They had put a van on a tight bend on a slip road between two dual carriageway. They had put cones behind the van but (I would contest) they were very small and you wouldn't be able to see them until you were very close because of the bend.
When I spotted them I indicated to pull out but I was being overtaken . If I was in a car I would have had to slam on but I was on my motorbike so I went between the cones and pulled up to a stop.
I guess I was wrong to go through the cones but it was just very unexpected and I made that decision. I went to pull back out in to the outside lane but two police officers ran over and told me to stop.
They asked "didn't you see the cones?" And I said well yeah but quite late and I didn't want to grab the brakes. They made me wait about 10 minutes while they asked to see my licence, ran a number plate check on my bike, asked if it was mine, asked if I had insurance.
Then when they eventually let me leave, since we were on a two lane 50mph bend they stopped traffic in the other lane to let me pull out.
As I say I guess I messed up by crossing police cones but the subsequent events all just felt like a strange waste of time. I don't even know what they were doing there. There was no accident or anything.
tinytink05@reddit
My brother was recently assaulted by a taxi driver and they took his phone. Upon arriving they arrested me (who just appeared on the scene) for trying to calm my autistic brother down.
gogginsbulldog1979@reddit
I once got arrested for cocaine possession and they forgot to look in the little pocket of my jeans, which contained another flat wrap of cocaine.
I was put into the cells and instantly started snorting it in the toilets. There was about two grams, so by the time I came to be interviewed a couple of hours later, I was absolutely twatted. And obviously so.
I remember writing my phone number on a piece of paper and handing it to one of the female police offers, offering to take her out for a drink.
I've thought about requesting a copy of that interview as it would be nothing but gibberish.
GreenDolphinGal@reddit
I was coming off a roundabout at an exit that had two lanes, the left lane if you’re going straight or the right lane if you’re turning right at the next turning. I was going straight in the left lane and a car in the right lane was also going straight so was trying to cut in front of me. I kept as close as possible to the car in front of me as to not let the car in because he was in the wrong lane. Turned out it was a police officer in an undercover police car so when we were at the traffic lights further down the road he told me to wind my window down and berated me for not letting him in. I told him he was in the wrong lane and he said “maybe if you weren’t so busy talking on the phone you’d have let me in”. I wasn’t on the phone, was just singing along to my music, and either way, he’d still have been in the wrong lane? I think he just wanted a power trip to try and intimidate a young girl driving alone.
TheHeroYouNeed247@reddit
10 years ago 'there's nothing we can do about threats over Facebook, they don't count'
RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit
I expect I'm remembering this wrong but wasn't the Malicious Communications Act 1988 only relatively recently i.e. during the last 10 years updated to include things like online messages?
IcedWarlock@reddit
2003
BowlerVegetable5402@reddit
Facebook wasn’t invented in 2003
IcedWarlock@reddit
I didn't say that. I was saying the malicious communications act included the use of social media from 2003 I know because my cousin got arrested for above reason
Natural-Feedback8240@reddit
Arrested by police helicopter and 2 armed units 50 yards from my home.
Triordie@reddit
I was giving someone cpr and was hit on the head by a baton
PinkSheeparkour@reddit
huh?? why did they do that??
Triordie@reddit
They were confused as thought I was attacking him
the_anon_girl@reddit
I was walking around in Angel when I noticed two male coppers staring at someone across the street very intently after one of them gestured to the other to look. Seemed serious.
As I got closer I heard one of them ask “do you think her bag is a real Burberry?”
OMF1G@reddit
Attacked by an ex (smaller than me, I'm a man)
I called the police as she slammed my phone to pieces onto the tile floor, while I was shouting for help.
I managed to escape the house, ran outside, police arrive and I was so thankful to see them!
Then they arrested me.. There was a male & female officer, the female officer was extremely sympathetic but the male offer absolutely despised me and treat me like a criminal.
I was just happy to not be attacked anymore, was very polite to the officers, was treat very well in a holding cell and obviously released the next day without charge as they realised it was me that had been attacked.
Didn't enjoy the 5 mile walk back in snow to my house, wearing shorts and a tshirt(had no wallet, no phone and police refused to help me). They did give me prison crocs to walk back in so I'm grateful overall I guess.
JohnWoosDoveGuy@reddit
I have a almost identical story. The big difference is that the police never realised that I was the victim so charged me, leading to a conviction and losing my job. Greater Manchester Police are a travesty.
fussdesigner@reddit
But if you were convicted then that must mean that either you pleaded guilty to it or a court look at all the evidence and decided you were guilty of it. Both of those things are beyond Manchester Police's control.
JohnWoosDoveGuy@reddit
The police are supposed to observe and report the circumstances accurately. GMP have been put on special measures for failing victims repeatedly.
fussdesigner@reddit
I don't get what that's got to do with what I said... the police don't convict you a court convicts you. If you got a conviction then either you pleaded guilty or a court looked at all the evidence and found you guilty. It can only be one of those two things.
DownrightDrewski@reddit
Mate, it's so fucked up how aggressive police can be to males in a domestic violence situation. I saw it with one of my neighbours when I was younger. She tried to stab him, she has bruises on her arm from him stopping her from stabbing him - he was the one that got arrested.(though fortunately not charged).
Sadly I also have first hand experience, though fortunately I didn't get arrested. Just aggressively quizzed whilst I was trying not to break down from the stress of being attacked like that.
OMF1G@reddit
I think it's situational really, it's unfortunate that the male is usually suspect at least initially; but I'm also well aware that statistically it's more more likely to be the man that's the abuser.
Tough situation for the guy, tough situation for the police as it's usually he said, she said. I like to think it's pretty rare in general though!
DifficultConcept9832@reddit
Statistically the relationships with the lowest amount of abuse are gay men, the relationships with the highest amount of abuse, rape, violence, sexual assault and murder are lesbian relationship. Heterosexual relationships sit in between the two extremes. Can't be that woman are actually the abusive ones.
OMF1G@reddit
Do you have the sources for the data?
Not saying you're wrong, just seems like an inter set of statistics!
DifficultConcept9832@reddit
I can't find the articles I read last time I looked into it but this one suggests that the issue is just the LGBT community https://dcvlp.org/domestic-violence-peaks-more-than-ever-for-the-lgbtqia-community/
OMF1G@reddit
Crazy, depending what their data is based on (and if it's legitimate) it seems like for straight couples, percentages are similar for men & women.. Maybe not as rare as I would've liked to think!
UpsetStudent6062@reddit
It ain't rare.
OMF1G@reddit
Hence the "I like to think"!
sjw_7@reddit
Not really however statistically if it is the man its more likely they will be able to do more damage than if it was the other way round.
The treatment you experienced at home and from the police is terrible. I know every cloud has a silver lining but its a very low bar to set to be thankful for being removed that way.
Hopefully you are rid of the abuser and are in a much better place now.
alfienoakes@reddit
Similar happened to a friend of mine. He got completely stitched up by a psycho ex. Done for B&E and released without any charges the next morning. Had to find his way back home with no phone, wallet, etc.
somejaysoon@reddit
I am sorry that this happened to you. However, I did read your comment in the voice of Frank Spencer. I apologise, fellow Redditor.
WeirdBeard94@reddit
I'm getting more of an Alan Bennett vibe, personally.
EpicCurtainRail@reddit
Ooooh Betty, I done a whoopsie
OMF1G@reddit
I missed out the worst part, you can't balance yourself properly handcuffed behind your back (well I couldn't, maybe others of the more coordinated type would) so every corner they took my brain rattled off the interior trim of the police car's door.
2/10 for the trip 1/10 for the walk back 8/10 for the overall experience, stopped me being punched so I can't complain too much
cagesound@reddit
I was at home one afternoon having a long lazy smoke on the Camberwell carrot I'd made earlier, listening to Pink Floyd and watching the pot haze swirl in the sunlight, when the doorbell rang. I plodded lazily to the door and opened. A pall of pot haze whooshed through the open doorway.... straight into the faces of two PCs. I looked at them, they looked at me. Then one of them said 'we are going door to door on your street as there was a break in and we're hoping someone saw or heard something'. I just shook my head and said 'sorry'. 'well if you remember anything or hear of anything can you give us a ring'. Then they gave a card with a phone number. I nodded 'no worries' and off they went and off I went back to my couch.
BowlerVegetable5402@reddit
I am amazed (as a copper) that us doing something so utterly routine can be so …memorable!
ok2888@reddit
I had a similar situation when a flatmate locked himself in his room to "hang himself" (the attention seeking rat actually just went to bed). After me and 3 police officers successfully battered the door down to find he was tucked up in bed pretending to be asleep, I got so annoyed that I went downstairs and started rolling a joint to calm myself down, with the police still upstairs. They came back down just as I had sparked it, told me they were leaving and that my weed was "very fragrant". I've had good and bad experiences with the police but that incident gave me a lot more respect for them.
_FirstOfHerName_@reddit
Pretty much this exact thing happened to me at uni. They asked if I'd been home all day and I said yes, they then said I'd have had a pretty good view of what happened from my window. I had to apologise and say my curtains were drawn so glare didn't ruin my gaming session. They gave me a card and left.
colei_canis@reddit
Also had this happen to me at uni! There was an assault a few streets over but I would have been asleep at the time so no use to them. There was three of us in the house at the time and we were all bricking it a bit, but clearly wasn't worth the coppers' time.
TranslatorCritical11@reddit
I genuinely read that as if you were smoking an actual carrot!
jtr99@reddit
For the uninitiated: the Camberwell carrot is an extremely large joint made by the character Danny from Withnail and I.
somejaysoon@reddit
I imagine you resemble The Dude
beatsshootsandleaves@reddit
I reckon he definitely abides.
RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Helpful-Fennel-7468@reddit
‘A pall of pot haze’
Hazehill@reddit
That just reminded me of the giant carrot somebody spray painted on a wall in Camberwell. Always appreciated that gag.
DoctorNerfarious@reddit
My bike was stolen from outside my gym. I reported it and obviously it went nowhere. 3 months later someone turned up to my gym on my bike. I confronted him and he was more than cooperative. He was foreign with bad English but stuck around for police to turn up and gave me my bike back.
As far as I was concerned that was the end of it.
Then a week or so later they called me saying they were unable to get him charged for purchasing stolen goods or theft himself.
I was like… I didn’t want him charged with anything I just wanted my bike back.
It was painfully obvious to me that someone else had stolen it and sold it to this guy, and that he wouldn’t have known it was stolen. The fact they were trying to charge someone who was friendly and compliant rubbed me the wrong way.
Pircster38@reddit
Many years ago I got stopped with some friends by the police. I was in the back of the car and put my glasses case in my inside pocket. The officer demanded to see what I had put in my pocket. I gave him the case, he inspected it and in disgust just threw it back at me. He must have thought it was a weapon or drugs.
tom_l_92@reddit
Lived in an upstairs flat with a neighbours door (also upstairs flat) about 5 feet from ours facing it. Neighbour was a drug user, generally antisocial and regularly had the police round. She also happened to have one leg, flat had a stairlift and she was generally mobile.
Woke one Sunday to someone hammering on her door so loudly I wasn’t sure if someone was knocking on ours. Went down to find 2 policemen who started asking who lived there, kept it vague as didn’t want to get involved particularly . “Blonde woman with one leg, haven’t seen her for a week or so”. Somehow ended up being threatened with arrest as it was an upstairs flat so was apparently impossible someone disabled could live there.
ripnetuk@reddit
About 14 or 15 I. Woolwich, London and was maybe a little drunk.
Seemed like a good idea to shimmy up a zebra crossing pole and unscrew and steal the big light bulb.
Successfully pulled off the heist, and hid in inside my leather jacket and walked off.
Stopped by some nice officers, who knew exactly what had happened, and asked where I got the bulb from.
My reply was "I found it", to which they responded "but it's still hot".
They were lovely, made me leave in in a flower bed and sent me on my way.
Ok_Fly6106@reddit
When reporting a sexual offence against me, the policewoman asked if I had been wearing revealing clothing.
bambaveli@reddit
A policeman knocked on my door and when I answered he asked me “Can I ask you about your next door neighbours?” I explained to him that I’ve only lived there a couple of months, and that I have agoraphobia, in the time I’ve lived there I’ve not left the house once, I’ve never seen them or heard them so unfortunately I can’t tell him anything. He then spent 20 minutes keeping on asking me over and over the same sort of questions “What are your neighbours like, are they nice?” “I hear they’re a nice couple, do they seem to get along?”. I repeated that I’ve never seen or heard them but he kept persisting. It was a strange encounter and only made me distrust the police even more than I already did.
Evening-Situation-38@reddit
Was followed up the path to my front door by 2 police in a car when I was about 17 and coming home late at night. They reverse away when I turned back from having putting my key in the door to ask what they wanted
TumbleweedMaterial53@reddit
In the early 90s when I was a teenager and drove a clapped out 2CV, I was at a traffic lights in Winchester about 11 o’clock at night when a police woman opened my door and told me she was needing my vehicle to follow someone.
I literally thought she must be mad as to let her in I had to get out pull the seat forward so she could get in the back ! Seriously!
By then the lights had changed and changed again, so we were sitting at a red light . It was more than awkward. I said to her, I think you would’ve been quicker to run and she told me to shut up and mind my business.🥹
We then drove around the corner for no more than 20 yards when she said ‘quick let me out’ . I had to scramble out, pull the seat forward and she was slightly larger than me so she had to heave herself out of the tight backseat and then raced off down an alley.
I promise you this happened and to this day I wonder if she’s now commissioner somewhere !! I had a friend with me in the front passenger seat and I think if she hadn’t been with me, I would’ve thought it was a lucid dream!!
amlarobot64@reddit
We lived near the warehouse where the Brinks Matt gold robbery happened. On a typical council estate. All my friends knew to let themselves in by using the back door. Two officers knocked on the door making enquiries and my dippy sister let them in. Usual questions. Did you see anything. Were you around at the time of the robbery. At this point my mate Andrew burst into the room and said "evening all, know anyone who wants to buy some gold bullion?" Suffice to say the cops weren't happy and left soon after
bopeepsheep@reddit
Beavers estate?
amlarobot64@reddit
Yes, yes it was
bopeepsheep@reddit
My mum went to primary school there and got married at the Good Shepherd. I used to spend a lot of time around there, the Green Lane area, in the 70s and 80s, so Brink's Mat was a huge deal when it happened.
amlarobot64@reddit
Was on the old estate from 7 years old so from 71 until 98. Lived on Chester rd.
bopeepsheep@reddit
My great-grandmother lived on Chester Road in the 50s, and my uncle (by marriage) 50s-70s. My grandparents were in Lichfield Rd 1951-2005.
amlarobot64@reddit
Was in 73 Chester Rd. Right opposite the playing fields and park. Was a decent estate. New a few people on Litchfield Rd.
amboandy@reddit
Got stopped for being on my phone whilst driving. My phone was at home on charge. A quick inspection of the front of my car proved that it wasn't there, a quick inspection of the back seats proved it wasn't there either. Then they asked me to pop my boot, I asked them why they thought my phone was in my boot. Had a 5 minute discussion with them about the fact that I wasn't pulled over as a stop and search, I was pulled over for "using my phone". They were so desperate to get a peek at the mutilated corpse I had in the boot, but alas it was a bunch of flowers for mother's day.
whatisthisinmygarden@reddit
The police can stop you without a reason, so they didn't need to lie about a phone.
Either they were mistaken or they thought you were someone else who had been spotted on their phone.
whatisthisinmygarden@reddit
Why did I get downvoted for just sharing a fact?
Throwaway91847817@reddit
They can stop you for any reason but they cant search you without reason.
Afraid_Ad7997@reddit
Because it doesn't make what they did any less ridiculous
whatisthisinmygarden@reddit
But I didn't say it made it less ridiculous.
I was just adding information.
Afraid_Ad7997@reddit
I guess people thought it was unnecessary extra information. Like I can add so much extra information here:
"The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks). Originally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, this stork is native to the subtropics and tropics of the Americas where it persists in habitats with fluctuating water levels. It is the only stork species that breeds in North America. The head and neck are bare of feathers, and dark grey in colour.[2] The plumage is mostly white, with the exception of the tail and some of the wing feathers, which are black with a greenish-purplish sheen"
HullIsNotThatBad@reddit
Welcome to the way some Redditors 'think'
Own_Art_2465@reddit
They have to justify a search
OMGItsCheezWTF@reddit
They can stop you for any reason (or there are enough trains in the road terrific act that it's essentially the same thing). Their powers of search are far more limited.
imposterindisguis3@reddit
Going back 30+ years, we grew up with a coal fire. You could buy coal or coke. Coke was the smokeless version. My dad worked nights in a taxi office. He drove a right old knacker, and he was a rogue. A copper pulls him up one night. Asks what he has in the boot, he replies, "it's full of coke" My dad was giggling, telling the story. He said the copper looked so excited. He popped the boot.... copper sees it and says to my dad, "Every time I see you, I'm pulling you over" and he left.
stuntedmonk@reddit
You, bastard!
FredB123@reddit
You killed Kenny!
TranslatorCritical11@reddit
Bloomicidal maniac
Sorry_Nectarine_3609@reddit
My friends and I were getting ready for a night out for a friends birthday. At some point, we noticed a man watching us through the window whilst m%sturbating.
We scared him off and called the police to report. Unbeknown to us the police decided to come round but before they arrived the birthday girl came round. We were busy making a fuss of her neglecting to tell her about the incident with the perv.
Then, the police knocked on and came in. The birthday girl got all excited, saying 'i cant believe youve got me strippers'.
We were in hysterics. The police officers were good sports to be fair.
RobertTheSpruce@reddit
At a works Christmas outing when I was new to the job, a woman hit the boss on the back of the head with her handbag. He pretended he was injured and called the police. She was arrested.
Several days late a police officer came to my house to take a witness statement, part of the questioning went as follows:
PO: "Do you know who the woman that attacked Paul (Boss) was?"
Me: "I've never seen her before."
PO: "Are you aware that she is Richards (coworkers) girlfriend?"
Me: "I wasn't at the time, but I was since told that she was."
PO: "You realise that lying to a police officer is an offence, yes?"
Me: "I'm not lying."
PO: "How do you know Richard and do you consider him a friend?"
Me: "My mum knows his mum, and he helped me get this job. Yeah, I would say we're friends."
PO: "Do you expect me to believe that you have never met your friends girlfriend?! Do you want to be arrested?"
It has early 20's me bricking it.
sock_cooker@reddit
I got stopped late at night on the M4, the police officer asked if I'd had anything to drink- no. Then he said my nearside headlight was out, so I went out to look and it was magically working again. I said if he wanted to chat me up, he didn't have to go through all that rigmarole. Then he asked me if I'd been taking drugs, to which I was like "certainly not". He said "well you've got really big eyes" and I said "all the better to see you with, officer". He was like "just go"
Paracosm26@reddit
Imagine if he'd got the cuffs out and you said that's big cuffs you've got there, for him to say all the better to arrest you with. 😏😅
GalliumGoat@reddit
Fucking gottem lmao
skadam1@reddit
last line made me chuckle hahaha
Tsukidaisy@reddit
During covid my mum came to pick me up from work bc she didn't want me walking back late and as she pulled out of the car park a police van was coming up the road. Van then started following us which wasn't abnormal or anything bc we live literally 2 streets in front of a police station. Got to the police station and my mum goes to turn to get to our street and only then does this guy put his lights on. Mum pulled over as soon as she could and this absolutely dickhead comes over and starts ranting about failure to stop, both me and my mum pointed out that we stopped as soon as we were aware we were meant to and hadn't done anything.
He then tried to claim my mum had been driving without her lights on...which she wasn't??? Then said the number 1 sign of a drunk driver is driving without lights on so he just made some shit up and basically called my mum a pisshead. My mum naturally started getting upset bc she legit hadn't done anything but she did a breathalyser and surprise surprise not a drop of alcohol in her system.
The guys face literally just dropped like I have not a clue wtf his problem was. He then zoned in on me and started questioning me about where I lived bc i shouldn't be travelling with someone outside my social bubble. Told me I have an attitude for saying "This is my mum" like tf else do you want me to say???
Guy eventually fucked off and I know my mum made a complaint at the station but no clue what came of that. I just genuinely don't understand what the guys problem was like he literally just made something up to terrorise my mum with.
Civil-Fan-3586@reddit
I was pulled for driving "too perfectly". Was on the way to work early morning about 3am. Noticed police van following me for some time. Eventually blue lights came on. I stopped. Officer came to my window and said: I think you were speeding. I said: no, I was not. Then she said that they don't have equipment on the van to measure, but I was driving suspiciously perfectly. Like 29 in 30 zone and 59 in 60 zone. I asked if that's a crime. She didn't like it and just said: no, have a good day. And left. I still don't know what all that was about 😄
BeKind321@reddit
If you are driving within the speed limit at night they think you may have something to hide as a lot of people go faster at night.
YourLocalMosquito@reddit
So they thought you were speeding but also knew you were driving under the speed limit?? Hmmmmm.
Civil-Fan-3586@reddit
They thought I was speeding before they started to follow me.
MalfunctioningIce@reddit
It looks to the police like the classic case of ‘I’ve got something illegal so I’m going to drive perfectly to not draw attention’ I think? Like when the kid goes suspiciously quiet/well behaved and you just know they’ve done something
PippyHooligan@reddit
"This guy is TOO legal."
"Open fire, boys."
Civil-Fan-3586@reddit
I thought that too. Don't we all drive perfectly when followed by a police 😂?
ComedySquad@reddit
There's nothing that inspires good driving like a police car in your rear view mirror
MalfunctioningIce@reddit
I think most people would still accidentally creep to 31/32, or 61/62, just little errors that comes with having driven for a long time. I personally don’t change how I drive with a copper behind me as I know I drive just fine
Hazehill@reddit
I've also been pulled for driving suspiciously perfectly. Like I was trying to be inconspicuous.
skloop@reddit
That time I was locked in a cell for hours cos I accidentally broke a window in my own house
NoNewspaper9016@reddit
Got detained and given a community resolutions order (“slap on the wrist this time but do it again and it’s an on the spot £90 fine”) cos I was caught smoking on a bench in London on a Friday afternoon. Police offers ask, “why don’t you just smoke in your room?” Made me ask myself the same thing hahaha
hoochieboochie77@reddit
A friend of mine got into a bit of pushing match with another chap. Anyway police turn up. Start asking for witness statements. I tell her my friend did nothing. She asked for my name and address. I gave her an old childhood friend who’s address and dob I can remember
She walked off. Said something on the radio and then came back and explained I have an outstanding warrant out for my arrest.
I then had to hastily and very embarrassingly explain that id given the wrong name and address.
Took some persuading as well 😂
DellaMorte_X@reddit
Haha serves you right for stitching someone else up lol bet that was an awkward backtrack?!
hoochieboochie77@reddit
Just a bit 😂😂😂
Lolra89@reddit
After a fairly exciting day watching international rugby, we'd had a few too many beverages, and my husband fell asleep downstairs. Id made it to bed.
I woke up to find my husband downstairs with the police who had let themselves into our house. We'd must have left the front door a jar.
They had tracked a stolen mobile phone to our house. In my drunken stupor, I thought they'd found my stolen phone.
After a bit of confused embarrassment. They left hurriedly, realising we weren't theives, just drunks.
I had to write it down. Otherwise, I'd have thought I'd dreamt it.
YouJackandDanny@reddit
Driving down the M3 - two marked police cars come down the hard shoulder and straddle the lanes to slow and then stop traffic. There is one car between me and the police car. Then two or three black BMWs come down the hard shoulder and pull across the front of the marked cars into the fast lane. They stop. People jump out the black cars. Then I realise the exact same thing is happening on the other side. People jump over the barrier in both directions then get in the cars and they take off at full pelt. 30 seconds later the marked police start moving off and then floor it after them. To this day I wonder what it was. Some kind of spy prisoner exchange? Maybe just a training exercise? Fuck knows.
Burnsy2023@reddit
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's TPAC training.
Significant_Froyo899@reddit
Training is my guess. But what a marvellous job. My careers advisor slapped me down when I said I wanted to be a spy
WeWatchAnything@reddit
When I was at uni, I managed to score 6/8 of weed for a really great price, one for each housemate. So, that night, we set about making enormous spliffs, including building a Camberwell Carrot around a large cardboard tube. I went to bed in a hazy fug of weed and then was awoken around 10am by a knocking on the door. I was the only one with no morning lectures, so sole keeper of the house. At the door were two police officers, one large male and a female, and they informed me that they were investigating a rape and wanted to come into question me. I sprinted down the hall, saw the ashtray full of spliff and kicked it under the sofa.
Phew!
Only, when I went to sit down and was being questioned by the female officer I realised that the male officer had clocked the table where 6 bags of weed and a cardboard tube, that I had forgotten about, were sat. He very deliberately picked up the weed, sniffed it and said “Is this home grown sir?” “No” I squeaked. “Ha ha, I wouldn’t have known what that was” said the female officer and carried on questioning me.
Next the officer picked up the cardboard tube, “I this for snorting?” “No, have you seen the film Withnail & I? It’s for rolling a big fat spliff called a Camberwell Carrot” cue male office chuckling. My interior monologue was screaming “You just said big fat spliff to a policeman!”.
After that, they concluded the interview and went to the front door to go. As they left, the male officer turned around and said, “We’ll be back to knock you later, we planted some on next door. Ha ha ha.” “But seriously, next time the police come round, hide your gear!”
Justvisitingfriends1@reddit
I once got pulled over after giving the police the finger for pushing past parked vehicles when I had the right of way.
Drove down the road, watched him turn around, and come after me with blues on. Pulled over, a very comedic conversation unfolds. Why am I here? Just finished work. Late, isn't it? Yes, I work late. This continued until. Why did you stop here tonight? I looked at him and looked at his colleague. I couldn't help it and said. Are you taking the piss mate, the blue lights Didn’t give it away for you, and you are driving the car.
Officers gave me my licence back, his colleague was pissing himself laughing, and I got to go home.
NRGISE@reddit
Many years ago me and my group of friends were looking for a rave in the middle of nowhere, when a police car showed up out of the blue and pulled us over.
We stopped, we were all late teens early 20's and buzzing from some recreationals. Except one of my friends who was vomiting out the back door, drank too much alcohol.
They asked where we going, and said just out for a spin in the car, this was like 1AM in the middle of nowhere.
The police officer then said, you all looking for this rave, and said, what rave, no no no.
He then said, well if your are go down this road, take a left after about 2 miles blah blah blah and said have a good evening.
We gingerdly followed the directions the copper had told us, expecting to drive straight into a police stop, but no, it actually took us to the rave where we had a great night.
Fattydog@reddit
Around 40 years ago I had my purse stolen. I went into the police station and reported it to the guy on the desk.
Next day he turned up at my house to ask me out.
And no, I didn’t go.
Electrical-Media5319@reddit
I live next to a filter lane road. I used it correctly, went ahead of the driver waiting to turn right. Police behind me pulled me over and said I'd broken the law, so I asked him to explain how, and when he finished I took the highway code book out of my glove box and showed him the rule I followed. I memorised that book years ago and still remember it. He didn't say a word, just walked away got into the car and drove off. Rude bugger.
GaryGoalz12@reddit
Walking to my friends late at night when I was about 17 and a police pulled along side. The policeman rolled down the window and said 'excuse me, would you mind showing me your socks?'.
stupre1972@reddit
Oh, so many years ago...... before someone being out at stupid o'clock was an automatic cause for suspicion
I had been at a mates one night and was returning home at 0400. I've driven for 25 minutes on main roads and seen 3 other vehicles. I am within a half mile of my home and come to a round about where I enter at 6 o'clock and leave at 4. So, like any right minded late teenager, I decide I have every right to go around the roundabout anti-clockwise.....
On come the lights on the police car that is sitting 200m from the junction in my direction of travel. I pulled up alongside the police car and wind down my window (so long ago that electric windows haven't been invented in the UK yet). PC Copper winds down his window, looks at me, and says, "You Twit, now Bugger off"
He didn't say twit, neither did he say bugger off, but to keep on the right side of the auto censor,....
Thank you, Mr Cooper. I was a silly billy
doctorocelot@reddit
This is reddit there is no auto filter. Fuck cunt spunk etc.
Numerous_Jump_2557@reddit
One rolled me a cigarette after I got found sitting in the back of one of their colleagues cars, that they'd left unlocked, while their colleagues chased my brother and his friend on foot.
Narrow-Dog-7218@reddit
Took a phone call from Devon police (250 miles from where I live) telling me my car was obstructing a driveway and to move it immediately.
“I’m 250 miles away and I can see my car in my drive now”
“Look don’t give me lip, move the car or we’ll tow it”
This went on for 10 minutes. Eventually I told them to tow it.
AdOpposite917@reddit
Shortly after 7/7, me and two friends were in a van heading into London. One of the friends was a DJ, and was playing at a private party in a bar, and we were going along to help him. Can't remember why we took this route but we were driving in from south of the river. As we crossed over, we got pulled over by a police van.
They openly told us "3 Asian lads in a white van, so close to 7/7, we have orders to stop and search you. We can see it's all legit, bit we still need to fill in these statement forms for all of you with your details". We had nothing to hide and just wanted to be on our way so we're not late, so didn't really put up a fight over it.
They were very polite the whole way through, even giving us tips on best way to avoid traffic and reach our destination. But still, nothing like a bit of casual profiling to know the police care about you!
Hard_Dave@reddit
Being stripped searched in a portacabin at Glastonbury. They were also really mean
Charliechaori18@reddit
So I got one, my ex tried to kick me out of his house after breaking up with me within 12 hours, I am not abusive he wasn't in immediate danger. It was a simple relationship breakdown that went sour. Fine whatever. I then said I'll give you 24 hours to change your mind Within that time if you don't change your mind I'll make plans to move. Thought that would be simple. Noooooo he had different plans. (Probably to shag his ex or something) He called a lawyer and the lawyer said they would have to get the police involved so they have records and stuff if I were to claim squatters' rights. That night i came home from work and said Look I'll get us pizza (to sweeten him up to then say I need a month to get a apartment and leave as my family is abusive, and I can't go there which was his intent to make me move in with my abusive family) and said the police are comeing to get me out. This didn't faze me as i knew my rights. And they asked him loads of questions about does he feels safe blah blah blah. Until they got to me and I said Look, officers. "It's been 24 hours I'll be in immediate danger if I were to move in with my abusive family, I just got him pizza to try and sweeten him up and tell him I'll need a month to look for an apartment and move" the officers just laughed and said "that's more than reasonable I wish my ex would buy me pizza and left"
I have a few of these story's.
IcedWarlock@reddit
Keep em coming then.
Charliechaori18@reddit
One time I was drinking with a guy at my apartment. Absolutely rat arsed and the guy had a warrant for something car related idk what it was I can't remember but it was a misdemainer. So we got a call at 3.00 am from an unknown number We were confused but answered it. It was the police saying his boot was open. So he went out to check if his boot was okay it was fine nothing was in his car, nothing was taken so he shut his boot. thought he probably sat on the key and opened his boot that way. Drunk. He started to ask the police stupid questions about his case. I was like Mate shut up, he asked more questions, I was like Mate get in the house it's 3 am let the officers go so their job, he asked the stupidest question... "why didn't you come after me as you have my number how didn't you find me" they then said after 24 hours we can't do anything (he had been at mine longer than 24 hours) but they snapped we could arrest you now. That's when I snapped and said bluntly. "Get in the house! Stop talking! You're not helping yourself get in the house and let the officers do their job it's cold and they wanna get in their warm car!" The officer just said to him You should listen to your friend. That was the end of that as I didn't stick around long to find out what happened to him or his case.
Whicksydoodle2022@reddit
Many years ago during a low point in my life, I very obviously committed a crime
Few months later I received a call from a random mobile number, picked it up and fella said “I’m from the local police and we believe you did this crime and we’d like to have a talk with you”
I accepted he was indeed a police officer due to level of detail he gave and asked what his intentions were if I came in, he replied I’m not gonna lie we intend to arrest you and interview you
Bit taken aback, I said shall I come in now to which he replied they were currently quite busy as it was a Saturday morning (Friday night had obviously been busy) He then suggested I come in at my leisure but later that afternoon - I suggested I’d watch the football scores and head in afterwards.
Very surreal and still bonkers to think back on as I sort of organised my day around being interviewed by the police
(I was very fairly treated by the police AND charged with a crime)
grimm_the_opiner@reddit
Many, many years ago now, and I know the youngsters will struggle to believe it, but: I was the victim of a crime, and when I called the police, one of them came round and took a statement. God's honest truth, it happened.
Even odder, my parents were burgled many moons ago, and officers went to the house and took finger prints! Not a word of a lie, cross my heart.
engineerogthings@reddit
5 people I knew died in the space of 2 years, two in unusual car crashes, one found hanging at work, one found floating face down in a lake (all he had on him was my business card) and one went missing and never found. My name kept cropping up in these deaths. The police don’t believe in coincidence so that was kind of an odd situation to be in.
cornflakegirl658@reddit
My dad was an alcoholic and often had falls or went missing (he always turned up but still it was worrying). One night he didn't return home and my mum ended up calling the police because he was classed as vulnerable - unbeknownst to me, I had taken some shroom truffles in my room and panicked when the police arrived. A police woman came upstairs and started asking me if I knew where my dad could be.
I think I said 'the pub or his caravan maybe' (we owned a caravan) but i was convinced she was onto me. She left and it turns out they didn't even notice i was off my tits.
Dad turned up at his mums house btw
wolfhelp@reddit
I was arrested and they found my bag of ecstacy pills, six in total so intent to supply
In the interview the arresting officer held up the bag (within a larger sealed evidence bag) and said "what are these we found on you?"
There was only one pill in there.
The looks the officers gave each other was a mix of confusion and anger
Suspended the interview and eventually I received a caution for possession
There was probably hole in my bag
alipal01@reddit
No clue on the laws around possession charges but intent to supply for 6 pills seems a bit crazy (not shading you just the law maybe?)? I guess my thoughts is that would be to share with friends/have yourself over a long period of time (like over a festival or smth). I’d assume a dealer would carry a lot more? Lucky escape for you tho lol
CarpeCyprinidae@reddit
intent to share with friends is intent to supply....
IcedWarlock@reddit
I hung around with people that would knock 5 back a night.
wolfhelp@reddit
You can be charged with intent to supply if you're caught with a single pill
If police have evidence that you were buying it for someone else
AlteringEnzics4Fun@reddit
Batchelor party before i was married, these 2 police officers (women) burst in and started grinding on me. I asked to see their identification but was swiftly kicked onto a chair and interrogated using only what I could call black magic but what a night
darcsend_eu@reddit
Burst into police station after chain smoking outside for 10 mins nervous. Went up to the counter and looked the dude in the eyes and said "my dad sexualy abused me and I don't know what to do about it" releasing 25 years of tension in seconds.
The dude then presses the intercom calmly and says "sorry didn't hear that."
I laughed my head off.
Funtimetilbedtime@reddit
I am sorry that happened to you. I hope you’re okay.
hyper-casual@reddit
Either when I got arrested and 6 months later one of the officers sons turned up wearing the same special edition trainers that they took off me and the station 'lost' but they 100% weren't mine, honest....
Or Maybe when a police car weaved in and out of lanes and nearly caused my mate to crash, then pulled us over for dangerous driving, threatened us, and when we took his details to report him the officers at the station 'had no record of him'.
Or maybe when a police officer on his own made me and a friend strip down to our boxers in public when we were 15 and then when our parents reported it they denied it happened.
Funtimetilbedtime@reddit
This is awful. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from the police to children.
As for the prick in your trainers - that’s just embarrassing. ‘My shit bent copper dad nicked my trainers from another child for me…’
Zorolord@reddit
Fucking bastards.
Dennyisthepisslord@reddit
Got a lift to the pub by them once. That was fun.
lawrekat63@reddit
Was on a big night out in Suva (Fiji) and had to walk past the police station on our way home. Some police officers were outside and we stopped to chat to them (they were wondering why three white girls were out at 3am). One said he would call a car for us we were expecting a taxi but a squad car pulled up and drove us at speed with lights and sirens through the city and back to the house we were living in
R2-Scotia@reddit
I had MoD plod roll up on our motorhome and accuse us of being Russians
YourLocalMosquito@reddit
How very dare you!
samjp270@reddit
must have been r/ukpolitics users
Birdy8588@reddit
This is just so random 🤣🤣🤣 did they have any reason in particular for accusing you or did they just stick a pin in a map? Lol
Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit
You need to remember only about 1/20 or get to arrest anyone in a year.
They need to do something to alleviate the boredom.
Travels_Belly@reddit
We are on to you, ivan!
Flapparachi@reddit
Stopping at the side of the road to laugh at two officers trying to herd cows into a field that had escaped.
I was a farm labourer at the time and was on my way to work (so early morning), not only did they not have a clue what they were doing, but they were trying to put them back into the field they had escaped from which had a massive section of collapsed fence. They were clearly scared of the cows.
I gave it a good five minutes before I got out and told them to get out the way. I’ve never seen so much relief on a police officers face.
I find it hilarious that officers will chase down an armed perpetrator with a history of violence without a thought but are absolutely shit scared of a species that are mostly benign and just want a bum-scratch.
BillyBigNuts1934@reddit
Drifting a Vauxhall Calibra round a Square in the snow in the Lancashire (England) coast one winter about 2am … 20 years ago
Police pull up beside me when I park up, ask to see my licence …
Reading Belfast, N.Ireland on it, tell me to have a good evening and drive off
For 20 years I don’t understand why they didnt lock me up for the night and fine me 😂🤷♂️🏎️
Witty-Potential7852@reddit
I was driving my van and a TVP Cop stopped me in accused me of not wearing seatbelt. Then accused me of not having insurance and MOT.
Later proven wrong on the last 2 accusations, proceeded to fine me for the seatbelt. I had a seatbelt and a sure 100%, however I got adviced to complete the £54 course to avoid magistrate court.
I think PC Simpkins (P6874) stopped me was that he wanted some cash, or as a revenge of me turning too close to his car. However I strongly believe he was looking for bribe.
I let the Professional standards know but he knew the game was playing, seems he didn’t turn his camera on and no footage was available to review.
DellaMorte_X@reddit
What a Simpleton he sounds.
GrumpyIAmBgrudgngly2@reddit
There've actually been so many,I'm beginning to wonder whether I am a criminal, or a secret policeman, or an inadvertent Mr Unlucky, or a Mr Fall Guy, or, a Mr Unknown Stuntman, or always in the wrong place at the wrong time or in the right place at the wrong time or in wrong place at the right time.
Here's a few, briefly, (as ever, there's tons and tonnes to do and I'm not doing it at ten to three on a Sunday, or, during tge daytime at this rate.), here goes:- After surviving my second house fire at the age of 6,some
40+years ago, now, I slept on the floor of our Capital town's police station in a grey thick woollen blanket one cold February, I think weekend night. A few people died in that hotel guest house fire including a then friend of mine, it was caused by a drunkard falling asleep with a lit cigarette dropping on to then, non fire regulations tested by existing laws furniture, and a dear relative raiser the alarm. My so called stepfather was in clink at the time, probably for beating up my Mother or burglary or handling stolen goods, and my Mother raised the alarm and helped save a shedload of the rest of the others living and residing in the hotel guest house. I was driving to a garage late one night before it closed at midnight and had to gently swerve around a hedgehog crossing the road. After making my purchases at the garage, driving back along the same road, I noticed a man being breathalysed, and, so, me being me, and wanting to help, I pulled my car over to say to the officer breathalysing the other stopped driver, "Oh, if he was driving and he swerved, it's probably because there was a hedgehog in the road, I just missed one minutes ago.", at which point, it began to get inadvertently quite comical, and the policeman thought the smell from my old car was from illegal drugs misuse whereas I begged to differ saying I had two jobs and the smell was probably from the pizza delivery night time work I was doing as well as my day job. Erm, suffice to say, I was nicked, and breathalysed at the station, and was it highly embarrassing. Cleared, thankfully and really should have given my old car a thoroughly good cleaning much more often as it smelled of cigarette smoke (legal!!), and fast food, mainly pizza odours. I once rang the police because I thought that the psychiatric services were abducting me because I was being admitted to hospital after I'd had a stroke, (TIA), and had had bad experiences with my physical as well as psychiatric health, and I thiiink I stated I had stories to pass on of great importance to help solve incredibly dangerous and serious crimes, locally. The police came, and just helped the psychiatric nurses get me out of possibly, harm's way, psychiatrically speaking. Whilst at hospital, on the ward, a dismal place where seriously ill people, patients are often at their lowest ebb, AND on VEEERY heavy medicines, a police man came to visit me, and because of the heavy medicines, besides the fact that I was very ill, the heavy medication seemed to disrupt my capability to string sentences together and I could just about understand what was said by him to me at the time, although it's a bit like the movie, daftly, Men In Black, in that the one blast, no, not of the memory wand thing the MIB had, but the doses of the medicines meant I can recall veeeeery few of the conversations and chit chat with the staff and the patients and some memories are clearer and some memories much less so. I vaguely seem to recall I was trying tell the police about stuff I know, knew, about quite seriously awful crimes, as I 'imagined', one or two of the staff might have been trying to silence me. Whether that's true or not, who's to say without evidence or proof and without either it's just a hunch, and so there's not much to go on. I also am not the best communicator of whatever I am trying to say and vaguely held notions, aren't fully formed ideas. Obviously. Also, there's the matter, in addition to all the other mistimings of memory recollection of a huge amount of cash no one seems to be bothered about which has seemingly disappeared from an incredibly dear relative's household. I've told police, my psychiatrist (who's since retired and didn't beltway someone tried to suffocate me in my own bed when I was possibly drugged and said it was a 'hypnogogic hallucination',(that I had imagined it. Huh? Really?), and andvalso the notes written about me on my patient records which are sent to me are in no way do they seem to bear, if any, much correlation between what I say and what is reported back to me. Meaning, in a "sort"of essence, 'They have all the keys, I am a paranoid nutter and what I say is all wrong.'. I think that's wrong. A bit like abusing trust and trying to hide crimes and evidence of crimes. The huge amount of cash, in large denomination bills, too, was in a large box in a room, and it seems to have gone missing since the local nhs group of cleaners and helpers came around to help clear our house after another relative was in hospital after a fall. It seems to have gone quiet. They are waiting for the heat to die down, I think. Also, another woman who moved in to our house as a lodger, funnily enough when my relative went in to hospital, well, I can't say. I think the cash, this horrible mysterious disappearance of a dear relative's huge amount of readies has so far, put a number of people in the frame. I am gonna have to search for it, because know who couldn't have it. Have I proof, tho'? It's basically these druggies and drug abusing barstools who are turning our relatives against each other and, as I have noted before, in 'imagined times', a split party is a floundering party and in danger.. Just ramblings now, exhausted. It's not my cash. I'll have to file a report of stolen cash,if I can't tidy up and find it first for our relative. Second, report how a bunch of us, in my teenaged years were nearby a very serious crime one night, and all that lot seemed to have tried to hide the fact of the square blotting night in question, and a few other stories of derring do (or is it, 'daring do'?), and recklessly foolishness of times, also. I am really, really tired now. Darned exhaustion AND long covid19. Not all of this has actually been terribly funny, really, come to think of it. These idiots and their rave era blots, eh? That might rattle them up... GSOGK
Dry_Construction4939@reddit
Upsetting context for this one is my mother is a child abuser.
One day she decides to chuck me out of my car, beat the shit out of me by a water tower and encourage my brother to do the same. The people living by the water tower have enough sense to call the police over this.
I start walking back, get picked up by 2 officers who I explain the situation to them, so they get me in the car and drive me back to her.
Naturally of course, this means, instead of arresting her, they change her flat tyre for her (presumably the reason she was mad), and then leave. No arrest issued.
Weirdest encounter I've had with Humberside police for sure. Unfortunately between my younger sister and myself they've also had 7 other encounters where they've had a chance to put a stop to child abuse. I'm not entirely sure the force isn't just 3 pigs in a uniform.
DellaMorte_X@reddit
Really sorry to hear about your experience and I had something similar with my dad but the opposite response from the police. They did everything they could to help me and try and get me away except my mum would always go back. Years later I was stopped in the street by one that somehow recognised me as a late teen and we spoke for a good while. This doesn’t help you I know but they aren’t all bad.
WelshBen@reddit
That isn't odd, rather, institutional racism is quite normal, sadly.
inide@reddit
It's not necessarily racist, it's just out of context.
For example, "Can you describe the perpetrator? Okay, so he was tall, was he Black? Asian? White?"
Loud_Fisherman_5878@reddit
You cant see that it is racist to immediately suggest black when the most common ethnicity in this country is white?
DellaMorte_X@reddit
Not if there had been a recent similar incident with a suspect having that description. Not excusing anything but there are reasonable scenarios. Context is key here.
WelshBen@reddit
'Can you describe the perpetrator?' or 'What was their ethnicity?' works much better than singling any aesthetic trait out in this regard. Otherwise it probably is racist.
Restlessforinfinity@reddit
Unless you do a job where you talk to the public you will realise we HAVE to have questions and list ethnicities. I’ll give you one example
Officer: “Can you describe the suspect please.”
Victim: “Well he didn’t look British”
Officer: “What was his ethnicity?”
Victim: “He had a French accent I think.”
I kid you not this is how it goes sometimes so we have to list ethnicities and we don’t single out ethnicities either. For evidence gathering purposes we have to be more concise.
ItsUs-YouKnow-Us@reddit
Totally agree. I was minding my own business waiting for my girlfriend to come out of a shop. Two coppers asked why I was hanging around a cash machine. I told them I didn’t even notice the machine and that I was just waiting for my girlfriend to choose herself a new top and we’d be on our way. They both insisted I give them my name which I did. They then asked why I was giving them attitude, asking if I thought I was somehow above the law. I’m sure these two Asian gents gave me a hard time because I’m white.
MelodicAd2213@reddit
My thoughts exactly - MacPherson would agree
Normal_Meat_5500@reddit
I worked with them, too many to mention really but one was walking across the custody suite looking sad so I asked who'd died. Turns out he'd murdered two people.
DellaMorte_X@reddit
You can’t just stop there…
Shot_Lawfulness1541@reddit
I was stopped by the police because I matched the description of someone who had robbed a store. I was carrying three bags full of items, and I asked them, "If I had robbed the store, why would I walk toward you? How could I load up three bags and run away without being stopped by security?"
Substantial-Bear-249@reddit
My twin brother who I shared a bedroom with was once caught in a car which had some weed and cocaine in it.
The driver was an old friend of ours who started dealing drugs. We still hung around with him and as we were about 18 we didn’t mind, almost thought it was cool.
Anyway I was woken up at 6 in the morning in bed by a police officer. 👮♀️ ur room was beyond messy. And he started looking around saying have you got any drugs in this bedroom.
We didn’t and he was home the next day. But yeah was certainly a strange experience for us both.
Rude-Possibility4682@reddit
Strip search at a train station,as an apparently well trained sniffer dog,had picked me out as a possible drug carrier. I was on my way back from work, taken into a room asked to strip, when they found nothing,they kept insisting to show them where I was hiding it..all results of the search found nothing,apart from my rolling tobacco and papers (cardboard intact). After nearly two hours they let me go, a week later I got a nice letter of apology.
LauraPa1mer@reddit
Wow, I can't believe it's legal for police to take a person only suspected of a crime, into a room at a train station and strip search them.
IcedWarlock@reddit
I got strip searches in a tiny toilet cubicle when I was 8 months pregnant. Literally no room to move. Police officer was practically up my ass as I took my clothes off.
This because one of the women I worked with lost her credit card at lunch and decided someone in the shop had stolen it cos she wasn't that careless
merrimoth@reddit
when I was a teenager, was hanging out with 3 others by the river in town; my mate went took a slash in the river, then two plain clothes cops pulled up on bicycles, and started telling him off for pissing in the river. I think he was being a bit defensive, asking for proof they were police and stuff, and then it escalated quickly with the woman grabbing him by the collar and shoving him against the wall yelling at him about showing respect to officers, and threatening to arrest him. Nothing came of it though and they cycled off.
IcedWarlock@reddit
Likely cos they didn't have a spare helmet to give him a bakka to the cop shop
Mountain-Ad6914@reddit
Was the person in Vauxhall black though?
OkWhile8478@reddit (OP)
They were both black.
ComradeBronstein@reddit
I got stopped and searched one night in Swindon. They told me to empty my pockets, i pulled out some wrappers…. and a partially eaten, stale bit of wagon wheel. The officers spent some time smelling and examining it. I think we all felt embarrassed and awkward when they finally asked me what it was.
Any-Conversation7485@reddit
A UK cop in the 80s laughed and said he thought I was too white to have been born in Tanzania. Can you imagine a cop saying that nowadays??!
Brickie78@reddit
Oh my God Derek, you can't just ask people why they're white
miowiamagrapegod@reddit
Yeah. Yeah I can.
Kafkaofsalford@reddit
Sadly, yes
Early_Government198@reddit
Cycling home from my girlfriend’s house about 10pm in the dark without lights on my bike, I dismounted outside my house just as a car approached and I stepped onto the pavement; the car stops and I turn and see it’s the police. Of course, I then get lectured about road safety etc. and where was I going. I told them home and pointed to my house 20 feet away, at which the copper said if I was lying he was going to give me a ticket for breaking the law. Luckily my mum hadn’t gone to bed and the door was still unlocked, because I didn’t have my key.
siliconsandwich@reddit
at work, every time i have to deal with police detectives, it ends up being on a bank holiday.
this is extremely inconvenient, but they will never explain why it happens even when asked directly.
but i already know why.
g0ldcd@reddit
Got approached in the street to take part in an identity parade later that day. That afternoon I went to the station and joined a group of fellow 6ft+ men - and one 5ft guy in sportswear who sat in the corner whispering nervously to a guy in a suit.
I nmght have felt that justice wasn't being optimally executed - but the midget was seemingly pretty sure she'd pick him out, from what he was loudly whispering.
MRK3MP@reddit
When I was a teenager, I was stopped by the police for climbing into my own back garden as I forgot to take my housekey with me.
They thought I was breaking in/a thief. Had to ring my mum who told the policeman that I lived there lol and we had a laugh about it
Regular_Ad3002@reddit
I got arrested in Wymondham, and was taken to Wymondham PIC (Police Investigation Centre). I was then refused bail, taken to King's Lynn PIC by Norfolk Police pending court, and then taken to Norwich Magistrates Court by Serco.
Majestic-Pen-8800@reddit
Why is this an odd encounter with the Police? I don’t understand.
bopeepsheep@reddit
Gave a statement to police at the local station after an incident, and got a call later that day. "We understand [name] was injured, so we will need a statement from them as well." Caller clearly didn't listen to me explaining why that wouldn't be possible, and sent round two PCs, who laughed a lot when I woke the baby for them to meet. (I had mentioned the baby's age and [extremely minor] injury in my original statement, which they'd brought with them but not yet read.)
E_D_K_2@reddit
I was pulled over once for driving too well.
Cop was following me for a while, eventually pulled me over. I'll never forget what he said...
"I saw you earlier parked up on your phone.. that's fine
I saw you go through an amber light but you didn't speed through it... that's fine.
All the while I have been following you, you havn't gone over 30... that's fine.
And that's why I pulled you over"
Officer said I was driving too carefully which raised his suspicions I might be drunk driving. He said he didn't need to breathalyse me from just listening to me talk.
This was 22:50 and I suspect the real reason he pulled me over was because he finished at 23:00 and didn't want to be called anywhere else.
Pitiful-Hearing5279@reddit
In Antwerp I was shouted at for asking a question in the police station.
IntroductionFit5346@reddit
Why were you there?
Pitiful-Hearing5279@reddit
I had mail to from the local police as part of registering in the Belgium. You have to go meet the local cop face to face. Then they come to visit your place to see that you do live there.
Anyway, I went in one evening and, although I speak Dutch as a second language, I spoke in English as Flemish is like a Glaswegian accent to a Londoner. My Dutch is Amsterdamse (innit mate!)
I asked the old chap on the desk (cop shop near Belgielei) if I could see the officer, showing him my letter, to which he replied, “You’re not in fucking England now. Speak Flemish”. Flemish is “Dutch”.
I was about to reply, in Dutch, that my mate has been stabbed outside (really as I was angry) when his younger colleague (Moroccan I might add) shut him down, came to see me and helped me.
I can ho on about jingoism in Belgium until the cows come home.
EldritchCleavage@reddit
They are a funny bunch. I flew Sabena once a long time ago and every Belgian passenger gave the flight attendants hell if they were addressed in the ‘wrong’ language. Frankly, if they did use English with each other their lives would be easier.
AirlineBetter428@reddit
you just reminded me that I need to get round to watching snatch again, thank you
Hancri84@reddit
On a night out, I saw a police officer eating an apple, told him to give us a bite, and he did. I carried on with my night out, he carries on eating his apple.
AstroBearGaming@reddit
I used to work in Retail, in a toy shop, plenty of tea leaves.
It was company policy to always prosecute, so that meant sitting with whichever poor bastard thought nicking some power rangers and cheap headphones was worth the risk until the police turned up.
One time they took a guy away in handcuffs, five minutes later they were back red faced and looking embarrassed.
They told us the guy someone broke out of the car at some traffic lights, had hopped a fence, and evaded them, all while handcuffed.
Tbf that's pretty impressive.
Numerous-Candy-1071@reddit
I was waiting for my friend to come pick me up for a sleepover at his when I was a kid. I had a backpack with clothes and video games in.
Five minutes later and a police officer turns up and asks me to open my bag because she has had a complaint about a drug dealer sat at the bench I was on.
I was like 14 btw.
Some drunk people saw me sat down, assumed I was a druggy, and called the police on me. Not like I was in tackies and a hoodie or anything to stereotype me on. I was in jeans and a t-shirt because it was warm.
She ended up feeling bad for me because I was scared and told the drunks I was just a kid before walking back to her van. She was kind.
Jonny_rhodes@reddit
I was stopped for walking round a park “wearing all black with a phone” I was wearing this with a pair of light grey shorts and a light blue t shirt They questioned why I was trying to not stand out… I seriously wondered if they were joking Apparently not
grmjc@reddit
Police pulled out a baggy of weed and acted like it was mine. Tried to nick me but was arguing with them. Eventually someone came out the van who I'm assuming was the groups superior and told them to move on. Left without saying anything else.
ChaChaRealRough@reddit
I use a manual wheelchair to get about. One night I was drunk heading to McDonalds with a friend at like 1am when a police cruiser pulled up beside us. Two officers get out of the car, stop us and and say: 'Alright fellas, what's with the wheelchair'? Bizarre.
LauraPa1mer@reddit
Oh my god that's so weird!! Like you just decided to use a wheelchair that night for the lols?
ChaChaRealRough@reddit
I got the impression that they thought I'd stolen it from somewhere. When I got off the train to visit said mate that very same day a young smick approaches me and says, and I quote: 'Aww that's class mate, where'd you stroke 'at from'? completely seriously. At a certain stage I need to ask myself what about me makes people think I steal wheelchairs?
_Beautifully-Broken@reddit
I had just arrived back from a concert in London and met my friend for drinks in Liverpool,dragging my case through town there was a girl on her back,alone,choking on her vomit(it was spewing out her mouth) everyone was walking past. I got her in recovery and told my friend to call an ambulance, next minute 2 male police officers jump on me (I’m female) pinned me to the ground with my hands behind my back,ragged me around a bit and said I was arrested for pickpocketing . I was stood in the centre of town handcuffed feeling a complete prick. They de arrested me after 30 mins of explaining what happened and my friend showing proof that she called the ambulance . If I was on my own I and helped I’d probably have been locked up
Pups-and-pigs@reddit
WTF? So they were watching that poor girl as she was about to choke to death and weren’t going to do a damn thing?
This is the first one that’s really pissed me off. I’m sorry that happened to you. And I’m so glad there are people like you out there who will stop to help a stranger.
WackyAndCorny@reddit
This is not my encounter, but one of my best friends growing up. He’s dead, car accident a long time ago. I can tell his story for him.
He did his degree at Bristol University in the mid nineties.
One day, him and a handful of his mates have done some acid. Everything is tickety boo but they’ve all ended up locked on a wall. 5 or 6 of them all just zoned out together on the lovely bricks/pointing. You know how it goes.
(He has this segment from another mate who was idly watching them.)
Plod turns up. Nobody is interested in Plod. Lead copped tries to get them to talk and so on, but nothing
Cultural-Feeling-181@reddit
I live alone, in a bungalow on my parents land. We live rural, both houses are set well off the road (a country lane) and no one can see our houses from the road and you can’t see any other neighbours. I love it but being a full time wheelchair user who is deaf, I feel vulnerable at times when my parents are away.
One time they were off for the weekend, I’m chilling watching tv. Suddenly my ring cameras are triggered and I spot a guy outside. He has an old Range Rover but it doesn’t have any parcels or anything (so like a stand in Evri driver or something) and he is acting shifty. He is peering through my front door and then I follow him doing the same to all my parents windows and doors, like working his way along the wall. At this point I text the police and explain how I’m a vulnerable person and this guy has now gone down the side of their house around to their back gardens.
The call/ text handler was amazing and dispatched a team to come straight away and offered to stay texting with me whilst we waited. I knew due to my location, it would take a while for them to arrive, so I said it was fine and I would text them back if anything worse happened. 2 officers turn up around 15 minutes later (around 5 minutes after the guy drives off) and the woman stays with me to review the footage/ check I’m ok and the male goes to see if any damage was done/ windows broken into etc. He tells me he can’t see anything has happened and then goes “but how could you contact us if you’re deaf?” I explain that you can text 999 and also video call them with a BSL interpreter- lots of ways for deaf people to contact them. They he goes “but how did you watch the cctv? Does the app describe what is on the video?” and I sort of blink at him, assuming I’ve lip read him wrong and the woman goes “she’s deaf not blind…!” and he just replies “oh, right- I forget what each one means and which means your ears don’t work and which means your eyes don’t work” I glance at the woman and had she opened her eyes any wider in shock, they would have fallen out of her head!
Another time I’m on a train and it’s packed. A guy starts shouting abuse at me and threatening me because he is angry that I’m taking up the space in the wheelchair space because more than 1 person could easily stand there and basically sprewing ableist shit at me. I text the BTP. Explaining how I’m deaf and a wheelchair user, alone and the wheelchair alarm in my space doesn’t appear to be working, as I pressed it but it didn’t light up and no one turned up. When we pull into Euston a member of BTP meets me and goes “wow, I didn’t realise a person can be deaf and unable to walk! Like I thought people could only have one disability! That’s so cool” the assistance staff helping me off the train look at him in disbelief and I just reply with “yes, it’s soo cool!”
danmingothemandingo@reddit
When I was around 19 myself (Irish descent) and a friend who was from Algeria, respectful students both, were walking back from the computer lab late at night with hoodies on, we used to like exploring the net at the uni lab back in the day, and cops decided to try and random stop and search, and pulled some bullshit that I matched the description of some suspect, and played some sort of charade where they get on the walkie talkie to get someone else remote to confirm a description that sounds just like me. Was complete bollocks act just to invent a reason to search us. I just let them search, didn't bother causing some scene about my rights etc, but it did feel weird and I never imagined myself being seen as a criminal.
NoResponsibility395@reddit
I was 16 workomg in a local village kit he , my 15 year old brother and his friends sniffed 2cb. During their trip.tjey turned the hob on with the toaster on it. The neighbours called emergency both police and fire engine. I was also called by my neighbour, saying the hiuse was on fire. Walked into the house after kitchen was soaked in water, and my brother's naked mate was being tasered naked because he tried to throw a speaker at the police when they entered the building. My brother and his 3 friends were arrested, I helped the police talk them down into handcuffs and into ambulance. I asked if it was okay to grab my bag to go to a friends house in the village (place was still a crime scene), they searched my bag on the way out. Found less than a joint in a baggy at the bottom. Of the bag and booked me for it. My brother and his frie da had no charges becuase they tasered a minor without reasonable justification. They didnt need to book me after helping then get the vunlerable teenagers into a safe place. They confiscated class as and like 2 oz of crow that didnt go through books
AdamBake13@reddit
When I was at uni we lived in a terraced house, someone was executed at the door of the house opposite ours in some gang related shit. I was out working when it happened, I came back to our road being taped off and the copper let me under the tape carrying my Xbox. When I got to our house a different copper at the other end starting going mad at me shouting that I'd just walked through a crime scene. I had no idea what had happened and just wanted to get home and play fifa.
A few days later we were hotboxing our lounge and had a knock at the door, obviously it was the police and they wanted to come in to take statements. They could obviously tell that we were smoking weed in the house because he said "don't worry about anything lads we're here for way more important things" so we let them in. I think there was even weed out when we were talking to them. For a month or so we had one outside our house most of the time, we'd bring him brews and ask him for updates on the case. They eventually caught the killer.
The weirdest thing is as well the day after it happened I was over at my weed dealer's house picking up and told him about the shooting. He started discussing it with his mate so casually saying the guy's name who did it and why. I just wanted a bag of weed lol. As a disclaimer no we did not tell the police any of this, I couldn't even remember the details I overheard and wanted to stay out of it. I was at work when it happened and that's all I said to the police.
While we lived in that same house actually another funny thing happened, my flatmate's door would never close properly, the frame was damaged or something. One day there was a knock at the door and it was a police detective who showed us his ID and asked if there was an upstairs bedroom with a door that couldn't properly be closed and asked if he could come in to have a look at it, he took some pictures then left. While he was on his way out my mate who's room it was asked him wtf is all this about and he just said "there was an incident in this room a couple of years ago" and didn't give any more details. It freaked the shit out of my friend haha, we used to always hear random banging and sounds in that house. I hated staying there alone it always gave me weird vibes.
monpellierre2805@reddit
Once got pulled over while taking a girl home after a night out. They pulled me into their car for a breathalyser for breaking and driving erratically which I obliged, passed with flying colours.
As he sent me on my way he said “maybe keep your hands on the wheel and leave your girlfriend alone while your driving” just replied with “that’s not my girlfriend it’s my sister, I’m gay” boom mic drop silence good night officer
LauraPa1mer@reddit
Well I was sexually assaulted at a mall in London. Tried to report it to the police multiple times and every time I called, they told me to call back at a different time. Eventually I just gave up after calling over and over. I had to miss work to call, as well. Depressing.
incognito5343@reddit
Got stopped for having my front fog lights on........ The car has no fog lights on the front, once I pointed that out they immediately breathelised me
oleeery@reddit
the police once let me have a piss in someone front garden 🤣
spikewilliams2@reddit
Walking down the street a cop car pulled up and asked if I would take part in an identity parade, no reward other than a cup of tea. Later that day 2 cops knocked on the door asking for me. My landlady (I was a student renting a room) thought I'd robbed a bank. They just came round to say it was called off. So a non event in the end.
Ithfifi@reddit
Age 11, doing absolutely nothing wrong. Just me and a friend waking up the track, she yelled, "Police, run!!".. she was tall and athletic. I was fit but stumpy. In my attempt to keep up with her thinking something was wrong, I fell and rode the gravel on my front for what felt like eternity. It was summer, so shorts and tee. Even got my nip somehow. Scar on the knee I wear with pride.
Never knew why we had to run though..
Additional-Spite-706@reddit
Got a knock at my door mid-morning on a weekday. Open up, and there is a police officer asking me if that was my car parked opposite my house.I said yes? She said, "Can you accompany me to your car, please? An off duty officer has reported something suspicious." I'm like ok no problem. Walk towards my car, and then I see it. Hair is sticking out from my boot. As soon as I see it, I know what is going on. They think I have a body in my boot. I open it up, and guess what? It's a wig. My son and his dad thought it would be a hilarious prank to put this wig in my boot, half hanging out! Thankfully, the officer found it funny. I got to say I chuckled, too, but I was a little bit annoyed at the same time! 🤣
AfraidOstrich9539@reddit
I once was walking down to an all night garage for cigarettes one night (circa 2002) during a bout of insomnia.
It was about 2am, dark, just before Holloway Road in London.
Police drove up to me and both got out. Told me there had been a robbery and they wanted to search me.
I kinda just went with it and as I was asked to empty my pockets onto the car bonnet I thought to ask "what was the description? "
They told me the description was " he was 5' 10" and black"
I just started to take my things back and say they were having a laugh.
I was 23 year old 6'5" white guy 🤷♂️
Hatanta@reddit
What height, age and race are you now?
AfraidOstrich9539@reddit
Same height, same race and your device probably has a calculator so I'll let you do the maths 👍
Hatanta@reddit
Just ran the calculations. I’m on the lookout for a 19-year-old 5’5” Asian woman 🫡
Legitimate_Finger_69@reddit
Got pulled over by the police for speeding (30mph dual carriageway at midnight through an industrial estate, doing 40mph, fair cop but slightly pointless place for a speed trap).
Normal thing, licence please, plod came back and said licence isn't valid and they're seizing the car. Pointed out I'd provided them with a valid licence, but computer says no, we're calling for recovery, make your own way home.
Cue 45 minutes of arguing that I couldn't call the DVLA at midnight to prove that the licence I has was valid until eventually I went on the DVLA "check your licence" website to show them the licence was valid. They let me drive away with very bad grace as if I was getting off on a technicality.
On the plus side they were so disappointed they couldn't focus their small dick energy into organising a tow truck with exciting flashing lights whilst catching master criminals exceeding the speed limit in the middle of sodding nowhere they forgot to issue a speeding ticket so I avoided three points in exchange for 45 minutes of talking to mental subnormals.
bearvswoman@reddit
I was with some mates playing around our local town when a police officer stopped me and accused us of beating up a lad outside a video game store.
It wasn't us. They asked for my address. I gave my address and the female police officer said "no you don't live there. I know who lives there."
I still shocked and simply repeated. Yes, I do live there. This went back and forth for like 10 minutes before she just walked off.
OMGItsCheezWTF@reddit
I was a developer consultant in like 2007 and once when walking from a client's office back to the hotel I was randomly jumped by someone. I'm walking down the pavement next thing I know I'm on the floor being helped by people. Apparently I walked past this guy he just lashed out and walloped me.
Police and an ambulance arrived, the guy was being tracked on CCTV or something and the cop wanted a statement. I had no intention of giving one as I didn't want to be dragged to a magistrates court half way across the country to watch some guy get a slap on the wrist.
The cop was absolutely fuming at me for refusing to give a statement. Told me if I didn't I'd be forced to come and give evidence and if I didn't do that I'd be arrested. I refused to even give him my name at that point so he just walked off bitching and moaning about me "letting him get away with it" very weird to be the one who got jumped but I was the one indirectly threatened with arrest.
I wouldn't give the ambulance crew my address either in case officer sour patch got my details from there, which they were not exactly happy about either. Went back to my hotel room and drowned my headache in take away pizza.
Never heard anything after that and now I can't even remember what town it was in. The client had offices all over the country and I ended up at several of them over the engagement.
guildazoid@reddit
Was a uni student employed by a security agency to help with various high profile events, one being the new year's day parade. My job was to stop people from walking out in front of performers. And to hold them back from potentially dangerous situations
In comes police, start walking in front of other police horses, part of the show. I put my arm out (5ft something female) to try and stop female and male police officer getting trampled, get absolutely berated by the female officer along the lines of step down, were in the line of duty, you are only security etc etc.
Absolutely. I have literally no jurisdiction. I'm here to try and help people stay safe. If people ignore me, I have very very limited ways I can help.
Police horse does a bit of a nudge type thing, clearly unhappy officer is in it's way. Officer jumps back. Swears.
I know it's tiny, but I wasn't being a cunt, I was trying to keep everyone safe
HanzoKurosawa@reddit
One time when I was a kid my house got raided by the police. I didn't know really how to react, as a kid. So I just went back to my PC and started playing an MMO whilst they went about their business.
So they assigned a woman police officer to keep an eye on me and she was watching me play this game and she goes to me: "Yknow, my son plays something really similar to this. Oh what's it called again. I think....runescape?"
And I've never forgotten it. There's something so hilarious about a police officer who was raiding my house talking to me about runescape.
ImABrickwallAMA@reddit
Quite a normal thing to be honest when kids are involved, from a welfare perspective.
Had a couple of jobs where my colleague(s) would be giving the parents a talking to about something they’d been gripped for, and I’d sometimes just have to go and have a chat with the kids about what they like/what they’re up to etc. as sometimes they could be distressed. So, it’s just a little nice thing to do!
sp4m41l@reddit
Trying to get them to tell where mummy and daddy keep their stash 😆
chartupdate@reddit
A comic book cartoon I read once featured a hard nosed detective buying a child a replacement football to replace one destroyed..
When questioned if he was going soft he replied: "Little kids turn into big kids, and when they do I like them to be on our side".
Ok-Switch242@reddit
Same here. Spoke to a kid about Roblox the other day while his mum was stood on the roof ready to jump.
Colossal_Squids@reddit
A little while ago my mum was asked to give evidence about a historic event for an ongoing investigation and, when she was in the station waiting for the ABE suite to free up, she and the lady officer with her ended up discussing their mutual affection for the Mongolian metal band The Hu.
Hi_Doctor_Nick_@reddit
Love the Hu! I’ve seen them live once in Dublin. Amazing performance.
Scottyrubix@reddit
Moment you mentioned MMO I knew it was going to be RuneScape!
KingofCalais@reddit
What was his total level?
Heathenry2@reddit
You maxed yet?
day__raccoon@reddit
What the fuck?! That’s awful and should be reported.
My weird encounter happened when when I was about 19. I was at home with my then-girlfriend and my mum was out, staying with her partner. It was about 11 at night, my girlfriend was asleep and there was a knock at the door. I looked outside and saw police lights flashing, which was very unusual in our very posh SW London enclave. I went to the door, really scared (I was terrified that I’d finally been caught for smoking weed and the police were coming to arrest me 🤣).
I opened the door, and 2 policemen were standing on my doorstep, shocked to see an anxious teenage girl. They asked, “does Michael O’Hara live here?” I was nonplussed. I’d never heard of this man and told them as such. “Well, he’s given this as his address.” I told them it was just me, my mum and my girlfriend. They asked me more questions about him, but I clearly had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. I never heard anything else but it was really weird and creepy this man we didn’t know had given my house as his address.
Important-Light627@reddit
Me and my mates were riding our bikes in a car park and a policeman turned up in a patrol car. We chatted for a bit, and then he asked if he could have a go on one of our bikes, proceeded to sit on the handle bars and start riding round the car park backwards for a couple of mins, then got in patrol car and left.
Ali_gem_1@reddit
Reported someone dealing drugs all the time in the alley behind our house. Policeman just started listing off the addresses of all the local dealers and said they don't care about the individual dealers. even tho literally opposite a primary school. Was v v odd lol
Wiggidy-Wiggidy-bike@reddit
similar to OP, i reported a drunk driver and the lass on the phone said "so i assume he is white?". it was 3 in the morning
then 3 times ive been talked to by police and had the same set of interactions, bloke cop asks what happened, gets the jist and says "aye that seems right, cya round", followed by the young lass cop jumping in to threaten and get agressive and seeming to ignore 100% of the previous conversation... once someone hit me and ran off, threatened to clear of or be arrested by the lass after the bloke asked if i was ok... once i got pulled over and accused of drink driving because i was sweating from work???, explained it to the guy and the lass started having a go saying i looked odd and smelled of drink (literally no drink in 3 years)... then we were walking home as a group of 3 and they pulled up and asked what we were doing. guy knew the area and understood where we were going to get home, lass jumped down our throats about being mildly drunk on a weekend and questioned us about what we had on us.
no idea what it was in the 2 years these happened*
dl064@reddit
I've an alright one.
I used to be VP of our uni music society with my pals.
After gigs we would drive for hours talking shit. We went from Glasgow to St Andrews and back at 1am. It was very pleasant.
Anyway one night in Fife, the cops stopped us as they'd been on the lookout for dealers. I innocently and genuinely said oh well, sorry, not us. Bye though!
My pal: yeah I've like a kilo of cannabis on me literally right now. It just never came up in conversation.
The_Sown_Rose@reddit
There was a repeat offender thief that was stealing enough for the police to be actively looking for them, and I apparently bore a striking resemblance to them because for a while I was repeatedly stopped by police whenever I went out. Luckily the thief had extensive arm tattoos and I have none so it was generally easy to prove I wasn’t who they were looking for, although I took to carrying wet wipes around with me so I could vigorously rub my arms with them and show that no tattoos appeared.
drjimbillybob@reddit
My friend and I had gotten into a routine of night time cycling after work. We got stopped one night by the police over a report that 2 guys had stolen a fridge in the area. Safe to say it was strapped to our bikes.
saltygardengirly@reddit
Two police women in a van took me (23F at the time) and my male friend, from the gay village after a works night out (he’d stepped off a kerb badly and had a fractured dislocation) to A&E, stayed with us the whole time while it was pulled and set in resus, and then gave me a lift home afterwards.
CryptographerRich277@reddit
Fire arms officers supposedly shouldn't give lifts but we loved near an mod base and they didn't like people walking past it, unfortunately we worked at a pub up the hill just past it and they always helped us out
nfoote@reddit
Two days ago, was in my garden with the kids. I heard a police siren in the street behind ours, ie the one our rear neighbours front onto, but given we live pretty central to town and that road is a reasonable cut through it's not uncommon hear such noise so didn't think anything of it.
Few minutes later I hear this disembodied voice going "Hello, excuse me. Excuse me it's the police. Did anyone run that way?"
Figuring it must be that the cops stopped at my rear neighbour's and are looking for someone they think might have skipped the fence I just shout back (honestly) "what this way? No" and the voice, who I still can't see exactly where they are" just says "oh" really disappointedly.
Thing is, I was thinking later, if I was the one running away from the cops and they asked if I'd seen anyone run past.... I probably would say "no" too...
DefinitelyBiscuit@reddit
Being arrested on suspicion of murder.
Feelincheekyson@reddit
I feel like you can’t just stop there, we need more info.
DefinitelyBiscuit@reddit
Thats pretty much what CID said.
PinkSheeparkour@reddit
did you do it though??
DefinitelyBiscuit@reddit
silence
arnie580@reddit
Did you do it?
DefinitelyBiscuit@reddit
Nice try.
Ok_Introduction_1882@reddit
This is years ago when I was a teenager. I got stopped by the police and breathalysed. I passed but then they drove off with my car keys leaving me stranded on a country road.
gogoluke@reddit
How were they returned?
PacketOfCrisps69@reddit
Was in a chippy and a woman was steaming drunk, sitting on a seat and smoking. The staff were trying to get her out and she wasn’t moving. My partner and I said to her she should leave and it was disgusting she was smoking inside and to get out etc and she started shouting abuse at us. Was a bunch of others in the shop too, and it was late on a weekend in the high street.
Think the shop staff had called the police, but before they came the woman came up to me and my partner who had stopped saying anything to her at this point and hit us both. We both walked away but were fuming, there was loads of witnesses to this. As we walk outside to remove ourselves from this woman the police are there, we tell them what’s just happened and that she had hit us and a few other folk came out and also told their side of the situation.
Amongst all this the woman walks out the shop and toddles down the road, pissed out her mind. We pointed her out to the police, and a shop worker was now also outside pointing to her and confirming her as the person, and the police did FUCK all. Didn’t even go after her or try to talk to her. They took out details and then the next day came and took a further statement from me and my partner at our house. Said they’d try get cctv from the shop. We again said they had every chance to arrest her or at least speak with her the previous night and it was just glossed over.
They then called us like six months later to confirm they couldn’t find the woman and would no longer be looking into the situation hahahaa. Complete and utter joke.
LostInLondon689908@reddit
There was a police officer at school. She pulled me out of class to take me to an empty corridor with a desk and and chair. She just stood over my shoulder and watched me do my work. No questions, no interrogation, no search. Just watched me do my work.
Winneratinternet@reddit
On a night out, had a few, summer time probably 2010 - me and my mates walked past a police van parked up in the street full of coppers with the window down.
We was laughing as we walked by, and one copper shouted to me and my mates, 'don't get clever' (not sure why because we wasn't laughing at them) and I shouted back 'oh sorry officer is being clever a crime?....lad's hes going to arrest me for being too clever'...everyone laughed at the copper in question, including the van full of coppers
geth1962@reddit
I used to work odd hours. I was also a fitness freak. I'd ride my bike the 4 miles to work, sometimes do a 16-hour shift, and run home. The next day I'd either run in or catch the bus, and cycle home, depending on the start time. When I ran home, I would have my rucksack on my back with my clothes in. I was stopped a few times and asked why I was running and what was in the bag.
Sweaty pants and socks please look
gogoluke@reddit
I'm 13 and my brother pulls me out of bed as there's two coppers to see me. They ask where I was on certain dates. Make a few notes then say they will return. That evening they return to ask if I've been pretending to be the next door neighbour/doctors "assistant" and hanging about on the estate I used to live on getting pensioners to undress. I mean I'm a horny 13 year old at the time but I'm not after 80 year old fanny...
lickmybrains@reddit
My mum called the police on me as a kid for screaming and shouting, id have been about 11. Police officer turns up and i was sat on my bed refusing to speak to him and all of a sudden he toe punted me in the shin in his size 12 boots. Wasnt ideal.
Cal_PCGW@reddit
One of my interests is riding rollercoasters and I was on a club trip (there are indeed clubs for us nutters) to Germany to visit some fairs and amusement parks there. Unfortunately our coach hit an old guy on a bike somewhere in Stuttgart. The wheel didn't go over him, thankfully, but he was under the coach so they had to call emergency services which were all there within a couple of minutes.
We all got taken to a police station and spent much of the day there (coach company had to send a new driver as obviously the one we had couldn't continue). They offered us counselling in case any of us were shaken up (I was fine so I didn't go for it), as well as arranging meals for us all in their canteen. I don't know if British police would have done anything like that but they really did look after us.
The cyclist had a fractured pelvis but was otherwise OK.
Snaggl3t00t4@reddit
I was accused, by them, of a crime. It cost me a marriage, a house and drove me me to the point of suicide.
It took a Judge less than 1 minute to call bullshit and throw the case out. But the damage was done.
So BTW...FUCK the police.
FingazMC@reddit
One time on a visit back to where I grew up, I belled an old mate for her and her friend (never met her friend before) to meet me and my brother and to put it mildly I chatted up the lass who was driving (not my mate), so we decided to go to to who's house was closest to... Well ya know...
But half way on the drive she started showing off and driving like a nutter, now I'm a really nervous passenger (been in 16 car crashes including this one, and I can't drive) and I looked at my younger brother (who I'd not long met for the first time) and just said put your F-ing seat belt on, I knew the time for tryna act cool & impress we're over.
Anyway we went over a canal bridge at about 60-70 mph and the car turned slightly when it got air and when we landed we went head on into a brand new parked up beamer.
Both me and my brother in the back and my mate in the front passenger seat were completely sparko, randomly and thankfully an old school mate, who I hadn't seen since he joined the army, was walking past at the same time as the police arrived.
He proceeded to drag us all out separately, proper fireman's carry and all that and lay us on the pavement, old bill are there in the car remember (this is what he told me anyway) and I was woke up by the cuffs being slapped on, got arrested for TWOK and spent the night in the cells..
More randomness to add to it is that the fella who arrested us went to my school as well and proper hated me, plus I'd been to prison a couple of times (not for nicking anything though) so let's just say I didn't exactly get treated like most people would lol...
I didn't realise that my brother and mate had gone into their interviews and told them who was driving straight away, I was tryna be all street and not grassing on her saying I didn't know her name etc, until (more randomness) one of the officers I spoke to the next day was my old neighbour. First thing she said to me was "Still causing trouble then eh my name " I'd already given my interview, so thought F--K it and told her the truth (yes I know I was still under caution, but at that point I didn't care and no, me holding out wasn't why we had to stay over night it was because we were overly aggressive etc... But who wouldn't be when this has happened though)
Only then for her to tell me that the girl who had been driving (only one with an airbag) had jumped out as soon as the crash happened and rang the police saying her car had been stolen. What an utter - - - -!
The whole thing is still on our city's newspaper website, I won't link though I don't wanna dox the girl.
Clothes_Chair_Ghost@reddit
I used to work at a bus garage as a shutter this ment I had to wait for the last bus to come in to clean refuel and park it.
Okay back story done. This particular day I had cycled into work he front light fell off the holder and broke. Bummer.
So I was cycling home at like 1:30 am. Because my light was broken I was cycling on the pavement cause it was 1:30 in the morning and a country road and safer.
A little bit on the mile and a half trip a cop car pulled up next to me and the guy asked me why I was on the pavement. I told him my light was broken and cause no one is on that pavement at this time of night. He said I’m on a bike so I should be on the road. So on the road I went.
Shortly after that a second cop car pulled up and asked me why my I was on the road without lights. I told him I was on the pavement till I was told by a police officer to get on the road. He told me to get on the pavement for safety.
A little later a third cop car pulled up beside me and asked why I was on the pavement on a bike.
At this point I’m not happy I told him I’m almost home from a long day at work I have been stopped three times now on the road off the road on the road… it’s after half one in the bloody morning there’s like 6 houses on the way to my house and I am already passed them not a single person is going to be on the fucking pavement can I please just go home to bed.
They told me to be quick about it and left.
Cantdecide1207@reddit
I once got stopped for doing 38mph in a 40. The officer was convinced it was a 30. He eventually accepted he was wrong and apologised
vinylrain@reddit
THIS comes to mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKJprZqU_oU
Cantdecide1207@reddit
Haha I'd not seen that before but yes spot on.
SpaceWomble64@reddit
Oh that’s a classic, you must have enjoyed it in the end when the officer accepted that they were wrong. 🙂
Cantdecide1207@reddit
It took a while, I was like if you pop back down the road as you come under the railway bridge it goes from 30 to 40 and it is signposted. He didn't believe me and made me wait while he got back in his car and radioed someone to check.... and it's not even far, like 100 meters or something from where we were .
quite_acceptable_man@reddit
Probably the time when I had a phone call to say that a police car had crashed into my car. My car was parked a few miles from my house as I'd been out for a few impromptu beers and left my car parked on the side of the road with the intention of collecting it the next day.
What had actually happened was that a police officer had pulled in behind my car, and on pulling out again, thought she'd scraped it.
So I had to go out and meet them, by which time a senior officer had arrived, had breathalysed her, drug tested her, taken a full statement, and relieved her of her duties for the day.
It was a fifteen year old car, and was covered in small scratches and dings. I had to tell them that I had no idea if there was a fresh scratch on the car, that I couldn't give a shit if there was, and that if they hadn't said anything, I would never have noticed.
I still had to sign a statement saying I wouldn't pursue it any further. I guess they have their procedures, but it did seem a little over the top.
Zavodskoy@reddit
10 or so years ago I was a supervisor at Co-op.
Caught a guy shop lifting, asked him to take the stuff out of his pockets, he reached into his coat and pulls out a knife, I decide I'm not getting stabbed for £1 more than minimum wage and go out the back to call the police.
Police arrive about an hour later because I'd told 999 that he had a knife. First question the officer asked me was "Did you say anything to make him angry" ????????
sarahsazzles@reddit
When I was a teenager I used to run away a lot. I was reported missing one time, and as I was walking down the road a police car stopped and the pc asked if I was Sarah. I said no and he just said okay and drove off. Very odd.. although he did come back five minutes later lol and this time he knew it was me
BarryBigSpuds81@reddit
I got strip searched when I was 14 I had a fairly large amount of Persian rugs that I managed to back heel under a table…
Still can’t figure out if it was skill or they just kept them for themselves
Badlydressedgirl@reddit
I got arrested for a public disturbance in my own flat, while having a mental breakdown.
Was then ‘unarrested’ after pointing out that I couldn’t be committing a public order offence in my own flat.
potatoking1991@reddit
I was arrested by Irish police (guardai) for having a wee in the vip toilets at a gig. He arrested me for trespass and got such a bollocking from his superior they released be back into the gig. Proper bastard
shredditorburnit@reddit
Had a bunch of submachine guns suddenly pointed at me and a few friends by a squad of armed police who bundled out of the car that screeched up next to us.
We were stuck in London overnight, all late teens, screwed up the transport after letting the flakiest one in the group organise it.
Bags were quite uneven weight wise, and some of the group were struggling, so we stopped to switch some bits around and make it easier.
Turned out we were outside an ancillary building to Buckingham Palace.
Very startling but nobody got shot or shit themselves.
gogoluke@reddit
Just after 7/7 bombings I was in a cab back from work. The mental Adison Lee driver decides this is the time to get out the car and punch a cement mixer driver in Piccadilly Circus. The volume of coppers that emerged was epic. Literally like ants had found a Worthers Original and just swarmed the place.
winch25@reddit
You can't park up on horseguards at night without the police having a chat. I've had it a few times.
shredditorburnit@reddit
A few times?!
Once was enough for me lol.
winch25@reddit
Least theres plenty of parking!
Jlaw118@reddit
My grandma is in late stage dementia and me and my partner live with her to care for her.
Long story but my uncle (grandma’s son) wasn’t around for 20 odd years, came crawling back when my grandad died eight years ago, decided to move in with my grandma in 2021 and when things started going missing from the house, we had him removed by police and didn’t want anything more to do with him from there onwards.
It was about a year or two ago about 10/11pm, my grandma’s landline rang and it was a police officer asking if we knew the whereabouts of my uncle but wouldn’t specify why. I briefly told him the tale and that we weren’t in touch with him.
My uncle some time after was in touch with us and told us he was at work and had dialled the emergency SOS by accident. But we never believed him. It was just an odd encounter and we never truly knew what had happened
screwfusdufusrufus@reddit
Aged 17 on the way to the pub with two mates, we get scooped up by the rozzers and squeezed into the back of a police car.
Hello lads where have you been tonight?
At James’s
Not smashing up a phone box outside B&Q?
No
Right we are going to have to take you to the station get in the car.
Were there witnesses?
Yeah
Ok take us to B&Q
The police drive us to B&Q where the manager reminds them that he witnessed a pregnant woman smash up the phone box…not 3 teenagers
So the police apologise and offer to drive us to wherever we were going.
We three underage lads name a pub.
The police oblige and drive us to the pub where we get pissed.
IndividualCurious322@reddit
I got molested at gunpoint. Police made me gather the CCTV of my own assault, subjected me to more than 10 interviews (with one being a recorded interview because I said I would not be able to face them in court) only to not bother making an arrest which led to him abusing two other women. Somehow, these three assaults, and him having access to a firearm wasn't enough for him to be recalled to jail due to breaching his parole.
I got put into witness protection because of how dangerous this person was. The police kindly passed on my new name and location to him which resulted in my house getting ransacked by multiple people (luckily I was undergoing therapy at the time so wasn't present).
I found it pretty odd how blatantly corrupt that one force was.
Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit
Coming off a roundabout into a NSL stretch of dual carriageway, aware of a police car that had pulled onto the roundabout behind me so gently accelerated towards the speed limit, got to about 55 and they lit me up.
Pulled into a layby / bus stop and went to speak to them...
Me: "Can I ask what you've pulled me over for?"
Police: "Have a guess..."
Me: "I've genuinely no idea? But I know I wasn't speeding so..."
Police: "Well you were starting to speed up a bit, coming off the roundabout..."
Me: "🤨"
Police: "Exactly"
Me: "Am I missing something here? I was doing 55 before you stopped me"
Police: "...and what's the speed limit on this road?"
Me: "70"
Police: "Well it's National Speed Limit"
Me: "so 70 then"
Police: "You tell me, seeing as you know so much..."
That was the general gist of it until he told me to be on my way and don't let him catch me speeding again 🤷🏻♂️
bibbiddybobbidyboo@reddit
I was once in an ambulance (working) and we were dispatched to an incident in another county and were really far away. After 40 mins, we were probably half way and a police car waved us over seeing we were not the service they expected to see and asked if we were lost.
We explained we were not familiar but following directions and basically, I got a ride in a police car, and my colleague got the other officer with him incase we got separated as they went FAST. So they literally breezed us through the rush hour traffic in 20 mins.
wheat_bag_@reddit
19 years old, making out with a guy on the couch at about 1am on a weekend night, my flatmate staggers in off her face and says "I have someone with me" and then a cop saunters in. She had lost her friends on the high street, no money for a taxi and had walked up to the cop asking him to drive her home. He told her he'd do it if she let him come in and wash his hands, said something about having had to pick up glass earlier in the night. I find it incredibly dodgy because it was a small town, he would have been about a 5 minute drive from the station and could easily have gone back to wash up. He wasn't with a partner, and our house was set far back off the road, up a small badly lit path. I would have understood if he walked her to the door, but given how isolated it was it really freaked me out that he walked into a dark house with her alone. As an adult looking back on it I wish we'd reported him, but technically nothing happened, he left right after, it just feels very off and I'm very glad me and my date were there. Killed the fucking mood tho.
happycamper2010@reddit
My friend helped a deaf woman after she was raped. He wasn't to happy about it, they wouldn't send an ambulance so he had to call a taxi and take her to the hospital. Obviously it was a shit show as she was deaf, he can't sign, the taxi driver was bemused and the hospital staff were confounded.
The police then bang at my door at 5 am, I'd just got to sleep needing questions answered. My mum was very confused as I hadn't been out that night at all. The needed me to take them to my friends house to ask him questions. Because they couldn't find it. A normal house, on a normal street. Number 10, blah blah Street. The police in my town couldn't find a street 5 minutes walk from the police station
I showed them, but they had to talk to my mate, so asked for another unit to take me home. They did not know I was being a good samaratan, so proceeded to drive In such a way that whilst I was in their plastic seats in the back with no seat belts (full handbrake drift around a corner) that I broke my nose on their window, then kicked me out of the car back home and wheel spin off.
The police came to get me because my friend was on pay as you go. They knew he knew me because I was arrested ested not long before because someone I was with had half an ounce of weed on them. This meant they took my phone and accessed my data so they could track down the terrible drugs ring we were obviously running, one weeks smoke at a time.
When my friend went in to give his statement he mentioned this, and the custody Sargent said they couldn't possibly do that because its illegal. Then why the fuck did I get picked up, taken to a street around the corner from the police station, to find someone, who they told me they know I knew because their number was in my phone. Odd experience.
Norman_debris@reddit
I don't think that question is that odd. You're expected to give a description of the attacker.
jdandy1@reddit
Got stopped driving by the police because they said they could smell drugs, this is after passing me at 40mph in the opposite direction. All he did was stick his head in my car for 2 seconds then said I could go!
liluniqueme@reddit
My oddest encounter. Police escort to hospital.
We were on holiday in France and I'd slipped and fallen. Turned out I'd broken my wrist.
Mum and Dad took me to hospital (this was pre satnav). Dad got lost so pulled over and asked 2 policemen on their motorbikes. He spoke with them and asked for directions. Must have been a slow night because the lights and sirens went on and told my Dad to follow.
Walked back in from the hospital the following morning to news broadcasts of Princess Diana dying.
EitherChannel4874@reddit
Walked out of my flats one day and saw something out of the corner of my eye and looked round just in time to see a pretty large man running full steam at me. He rugby tackled me to the floor and I struggled with him to get up before I saw another few people round me and someone said "we're the police" so I instantly stopped struggling and tried to ask what the fuck was going on.
They showed me ID while I was still laying face down on the floor being cuffed then they got me to my feet and put me in the back of an unmarked alpha romeo.
Once in the car I asked what the hell was going on and the man who rugby tackled me said they were arresting me for rape. FUCKIN RAPE.
I've never done anything that could even remotely be considered rape so when he said it I kinda let out an unexpected surprised laugh which he didn't like at all and he grabbed my clothing near my chest and pushed me back into the seat and into my arms which were behind my back cuffed which hurt and said "it's not fucking funny".
They got me to the station and put me straight into a cell where I sat still handcuffed for over an hour before someone came in and asked me my name and address. When I told him his face dropped and he told someone to get me out right now and uncuff me.
After some talking and me telling them I will literally take them to my flat now to get my ID it turns out they were looking for a guy in the same block as me who had violently raped his girlfriend and locked her in a room. His general description is the same as mine. Similar height and hair colour living in the same block.
The desk Sargent apologised and made all the arresting officers apologise and said he'd be happy to run through the complaints procedure with me and I thought about it but decided I was just happy they knew I wasn't a dirty rapist and I hope they treated the guy the same when they caught him.
I had a big graze up my thigh from the rugby tackle and the cuffs had marked my wrists so I know I would likely have had a case for compensation but I was 19, freaked out and just wanted to get the fuck out of there.
The sort of happy ending is they caught the rapist a day later and he got 8 years (should have been more imo).
Useful_Result_4550@reddit
It was about 9.30 at night and we were sat on some swings having a smoke.
My friend and I, both female and over 25 at the time, were questioned by police for shoplifting from an off-licence and we matched the description.
The suspects were teenage boys.
I think we confused him more because he asked what we had in the bag and truthfully it was full of cobs of corn we just picked up from her mum's house.
lelypie@reddit
I got TPAC’d in my work van at 3am on the A19 because apparently a plain white van at night is suspicious. I can sort of see what they were getting at but 6 X5’s and a few Volvos forcing me off the road was a bit excessive 😂
E5evo@reddit
I once shouted out of my car window to a police car, 'USE YOUR FUCKING INDICATORS!'. Obviously I got pulled over & was accused of telling him to fuck off. Anyway he asked where I was from etc and it turned out he knew a guy who rented a garage off my Dad, so cue 'blah blah blah' about people we knew. After that, every time I saw him he gave me a blue light flash.
BanditKing99@reddit
Was about 14 smoking cigarettes behind a petrol station. We were completely searched and they threw all our belongings on the ground with force. They questioned me repeatedly on where the cigarettes had come from and were just massively over the top like we had done something really bad. I think they were bored, the whole thing lasted about 45 mins
HmNotToday1308@reddit
I think he was trying to flirt using his dog ... But it was so awkward even the dog looked uncomfortable
smoulderstoat@reddit
Walking through the railway station I used to work at, the Police had a trainee sniffer dog. One of the handlers asked me to put a piece of cloth in my pocket that had been impregnated with the aroma of explosives, and walk past the dog to see if it would react. The bloody thing completely ignored me, but the rest of the time I had that suit I was terrified I was going to be mistaken for a terrorist, or possibly shot.
rndocnt83@reddit
I was on my way to catch a bus to get to a college friend's birthday. Another friend of mine was in town, asked me if I fancied a joint before I went out. Always. We sat down to skin up (phrasing might show my age) round the corner from the bus station. Didn't spot the cctvt camera. Got up to spark and spotted 2 police officers walking round the corner looking right at us. Damn busted. Gotnoff with a caution but kicker was the arresting officer, he was in the year above us at college, not a close friend but overlapping social circles while we were there. Embarrassing and awkward the whole ride to the police station. Got off with a caution, there was even a joints worth of solid they missed left behind in my tin when we finally got released. Uk based, I think late 2001.
Healthy_Yak7872@reddit
Also, I found a bone on the beach that I thought looked like a femur, then half an hour later ran into two cops with plastic bags combing the beach. I sent Them looking for the femur.
Cheezelover99@reddit
About 13 years ago. Was taking a bag of empty bottles to the recycling bank. Coppers saw me -was dressed in black running gear- asked me to sit in their car for a bit. Eventually, they let me go. Apparently, they thought I'd held up the local coop.Understandable given their prices.
SuperEgg1988@reddit
Got a knock on the door at 3am. Answered the door, no one to be seen. I'm looking up and down the road and see some headlights for a car that's just turned around, police pull up and ask if I'd called them. Pretty sure my face said wtf? But I replied with a simple no. With no other context or an apology they just drove off. Cheers mate. I've always wondered if they were passing time playing knock down ginger aka knocky g's/ding dong ditch
EeveeTheFuture@reddit
A few years ago I was briefly stopped by the police who said I matched the description of someone that was missing. They asked me "is your name bla bla" I obviously said no. They thanked me and went on their way. The whole interaction was less than a minute. What was odd about the whole thing was a few hours later the police posted on their Facebook page asking if anyone had seen bla bla but the person missing was 16 tall slim and had long dark brown hair. I on the other hand was in my 30s short, medium build and at the time had short bright red hair. Either the police had a poor description of the missing person at the time or they just wanted to stop any random person to see if It was them to look like they were actively doing something. (It was reported the next day that bla bla had been found safe)
Healthy_Yak7872@reddit
Had a drain key taken off me, they claimed I was brandishing it as an offensive weapon. They said I could come and collect it from the station, I went and the told me it was lost. I bet reported the copper and hassled her in the street in front of her colleagues when I saw her, and eventually they “found” it several months later (ide go in and put in vegal complaints every month).
Had a copper in plain clothes start grappling nhs a teenager I was skating with, I pulled him off and him and his friend put me on the ground and one of them kneeled on my head, before three more turned up and helped restrain me (I was having a panic attack cos I couldn’t breath) , they were shouting that I ‘had assaulted a police officer’. They took me to the station, I told the other police what the plain clothes one had done, they let me go.
When I was 14 I was smoking at a skatepark and police pulled up and started walking toward me. I ran into T he nearby woods and hid. One followed me in saying, ‘we’ve got your mate, he’s gonna get in trouble if you don’t come out’ I was lying on the higher ground behind a retaining wall, I said ‘im up here’ he grabbed my wrist and yanked me onto my face on the floor, knelt on my back twisting my arms and shouting ‘WHY WERE YOY RUNNUNG AWAY FROM MY MATE’
I was sleeping in my car aftet a night out, cops rolled past and saw me, they knocked on the window. I rolled it down and one of them said, what are you doing. I was sleeping. He said, yoy look like you’re on BISCO DISCUITS. I said, excuse me? He repeated the line two more times before he realised h is mistake. The female copper with him was smirking, they made me get out the car and they sent me walking 8 miles through the rain home at 4 in the morning.
Necrospire@reddit
Pulled over coming back from work at 04:30 doing 28MPH on a bicycle in a 40MPH zone, bellend clocked me with a speed gun.
alipal01@reddit
Tbf at that time at that speed I reckon I’d have been suspicious of dui or smth, hope you don’t mean he acc clocked you over the head lol
Necrospire@reddit
No he was just bored and thought I was on a moped without a lid, I remember being pulled a few times for exactly the same reason, speed in excess of 25+ on a low geared postal bike, when I was a postie but TBF that was on dedicated cycle paths in one of the five new towns.
alipal01@reddit
Ohhh makes more sense, annoying though
BabaGanoushHabibi@reddit
When I was 15/16 I had my details taken by one for slowly cycling down a wide alleyway.
Why was this odd? The copper happened to be cycling the other way like a maniac.
Zorolord@reddit
Do as I say, not as I do.
PaintingJams@reddit
I used to do night shifts at B&Q, was walking home from one such shift \~3am. Police car came to a crawl alongside me and kept pace with me for a good 5 minutes before driving off without saying anything
Nev-cat@reddit
My ex and I were smoking a spliff in a busy park when some undercovers emerged out the bushes, she said she was smoking tea not weed and they proceeded to search her, found a grinder and said ‘it does smell like tea’ and left us with the rest of the half smoked spliff which we then finished
Spare-grylls@reddit
Had a knock on the door one evening, police officer just pointed at the cctv camera on the front of our house and asked if I kept the footage, told her it hasn’t worked since we moved in and she just said “hmm interesting” in a really sarcastic manner and walked off.
smoulderstoat@reddit
Police knocked on our door and asked if we had a Ring doorbell. Mate, you can tell we haven't, because if we had you'd have fucking rung it.
gggggenegenie@reddit
I went round a roundabout with a police car behind me. As soon as I did he put his lights on and pulled me over. He told me to get out of the car.
"You went round that a bit fast didn't you?" he said. As he spoke, I saw a camera crew get out of the car. Said copper continued to raise his voice, even though I remained calm and answered his questions.
I then asked him why he had a camera crew with him. "Because we're filming for Police Interceptors," was his reply.
I told him I didn't want to be a part of it and asked him what I had done wrong. He eventually told me I could go but to be "bloody careful" next time.
A couple of years later a colleague from work told me he'd seen my car and a blurred out me on that ruddy show. To this day I wish I'd done something about it because I did nothing wrong, he was definitely performing to the cameras, and I would never agree to go on that ruddy show.
Skysurfer69@reddit
Driving up to the Lake District from London. Just joined the M6 from the M1. In the car is my wife, BiL and newborn son. See a marked car joining the carriageway so I move to lane 2. Cop car gets right up on my tail, so I move to lane 3 to overtake the car in front and get some space. Must've gone up to 75 max by my speedo. Blues go on, I pull over and get asked to go sit in the cop car.
Cop1: "We pulled you because you were speeding"
Me: "okay, fair enough"
Bit of the usual back and forth, I'm being totally compliant. Some radio chatter happening while they check my reg.
Cop2: "Do you have any tattoos?"
Me: "yes"
Next thing I've got my shirt and fucking jumper off in the back of their Range Rover freezing my tits off in the middle of Decembrr while they verify that these are not the tats they are looking for.
Got given a caution and told to "watch my speed"
Never found out what that was all about.
Pricks
sonja000@reddit
got arrested for a fb comment
alipal01@reddit
Mind sharing the comment/context out of curiosity?
Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit
I got stopped by the police in the UK years ago and they were in a foul mood. Nothing I did would placate them and eventually I just said despite liking your music I'm never going to buy another release from you.
RhubarbSalty3588@reddit
May of been a Sting?
Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit
Coincidentally a friend of mine has been impersonating Sting for years and got arrested today after he turned himself into the police
Far-Adhesiveness3763@reddit
👏👏👏😂
spaceshipcommander@reddit
I got pulled up for overtaking a police car on a motorway that was going well below the speed limit. Everyone else just sat behind him like lemons. I went past him at 70 and he pulled me up and accused me of doing 85. He started the conversation by loudly shouting at me, "Are you taking the piss! Why are you the only person who has passed me and everyone else stayed behind if you weren't speeding?" I told him because he was driving like a bellend. He then started negotiating with himself by saying I was "doing 85, no 80, well at least 75... is this your vehicle?" What a strange encounter with someone who clearly doesn't have the personality to be a police officer and is a danger to the public.
Zorolord@reddit
Had this same issue on a 30 road, a couple of blonde bimbos masquerading as police officers crawling along at 20. I overtook them keeping to 30. They give me so much shit for overtaking them. They said why did you overtake us, I said because you're doing 20mph in a 30 mph zone. I was stood there with my hands in my hoody, so one of the officers said can you keep your hands out of pockets, as I am making her uncomfortable. So I put my hands on my head, they said that's unnecessary. So I put them by my side, they said relax. They said do I have something to hide. They said they were going to search me too, they were banging on about my driving skills when both of them looked like their barely left school. Really pissed off, but I had to stand there go yes officers, sorry officers, when I really wanted to tell them to piss off and find some real criminals.
BusinessDry4786@reddit
You sure it wasn’t Jasper Carrott? I remember he did a bit in his stand up show about driving as slowly as possible in a police car.
KinnyWater@reddit
90% of them are like that
sock_cooker@reddit
Sounds like he has exactly the right personality to be a police officer
Maester_Bates@reddit
A friend of mine had just moved house and invited me over for the inaugural smoke session. His girlfriend left just as I arrived and we sat down. I rolled the joint while he made coffee. I finished rolling up and gave it to him saying that he should be the one to light the first joint in the house.
At the exact second he lit the joint the door was smashed in and about a dozen police burst into the tiny living room.
The two at the front have their guns drawn and scream at us to tell them where the girls are.
We just sit there dumbfounded for a few seconds until a voice from outside shouts Next door, it's next door! and all the police run back out.
We smoked the joint in shock and silence just staring at the broken front door when suddenly someone knocks in the door and, because it's so broken, it swings open.
One of the police officers comes in full of apologies and says there is someone on the way to fix the door.
He sits down and explains to us that the house next door was a brothel with trafficked underage girls inside and that they had fucked up.
He stands up to leave, sticks his hand in his pocket and pulls out a bag of weed, tosses it onto the table, says sorry again and leaves.
phetea@reddit
Picking up my friends little brothers from school, they ran ahead. We got literally grabbed and yanked into a car by three unidentified people, one chava looking guy in a tracksuit, one metalhead and one normalish asos shopping sort. They dragged me and my friend into a car, after explaining who we were and they drove us to his parents house where a very angry mother wasnt best pleased at them grabbing random kids off the street to try fix us for a serious crime, nor that her three primary aged kids had ran back alone. I learnt a few swear words that day and also to never trust the police. That guy was my best friend up until recently, gutted.
Birdy8588@reddit
What's happened to your best friend? I hope he's ok ❤️
phetea@reddit
Oh he's great, just sad, we drifted apart. Got that in there for my own sentimental value lol.
Exotic-Hour677@reddit
I returned home to Scotland after spending years overseas, I was stood in Glasgow and noticed police cars also had Gaelic on them. I asked a copper when did they start doing that. He said, 'whit the fuck has it dae with you'.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz74@reddit
Glasgow polis are bangers right enough.
lalajia@reddit
And that's when you knew you were really home :)
PersonalitySafe1810@reddit
This made me laugh 🤣
Economy-Role-8410@reddit
Arrested at 17/18 in work on suspicion of armed robbery. Wasn’t me, but I fitted the description from a burglary earlier in the day of a bookies round the corner.
barriedalenick@reddit
There was an empty house 2 doors down from me and the alarm went off. The owner had died but there was a ton of stuff in there so I walked down to go and see Dave to get a key to see what was going on while my wife called the old bill. Dave being 80 years plus and not giving a fuck just let us both in and there was no one there so we had a quick look about. Then the fecking flying squad burst in and try to convince us we were the burglars. That's 80-year-old Dave in a nice woolly cardie and me still wearing my slippers, holding a beer. I had to get them all to wander round to my house and get my wife to tell them I was on the up. They were so pissed off and so fucking grumpy that they started to have a go at Dave and me for letting ourselves in, so Dave just left and went home.
Birdy8588@reddit
🤣🤣🤣 this is FABULOUS! Honestly I can just see it all in my head and frightened my poor boyfriend to death by bursting out laughing! I'm so sorry that happened to you but I really needed that laugh, thank you 🙂
frog_sweat@reddit
Heading home from a gig, I was maybe 15, quite drunk, warm night, shirt off, buzzing from a good night of moshing.
The police stop me and my friends saying they’re looking for a missing kid, they take one look at me and go “Peter it’s ok, you can come with us, your parents are worried.”
But I’m not Peter, I tried telling them this but they insisted I was Peter. My friends were saying “he’s not Peter!” I’m saying “I’m not Peter!” The police are saying “Of course you’re Peter, now you need to come with us, your parents are worried.”
It wasn’t until I showed them my ID that they kinda believed I wasn’t Peter. My dad was in the police, these officers knew my dad, they saw my name on my ID, same surname as my dad who they work with but they still weren’t sure.
I often think about Peter, I hope he turned up.
lodav22@reddit
I live near a small town but out in the countryside, I got home a few weeks ago to find two local coppers and the funeral director walking around outside my garden. I instantly panicked thinking they were looking to pick up a body (my neighbour up the road has been really ill for the last six months so my thoughts went there tbh) I quickly pulled into my driveway and ran around to ask what was happening.
Turns out, the local carnival organisers had hidden a clue by my house for a treasure hunt and the guys were on the same team!
Goatbrush@reddit
during the height of the pandemic my neighbours seemed to be having a party and I guess someone reported them with the wrong address, had a bang on the door and it was 5? police officers in a row along my garden path spread a few feet apart.
One said they'd had reports that I was having a party, I said I was alone apart from my cat (who I was desperately trying to discourage getting outside because he 100% would have tried to chase them off, he's like a guard dog.) One of them a few officers back loudly asked if there were 'any females on the property' (??) and I again said I was alone but they were welcome to check but the guy in front just said it was ok and they all marched off single file. It felt surreal.
RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit
During uni, my best mate and I were walking back from the pub and we found a traffic cone. Bit pissed, I suggested we take it back to our flat for reasons. Got a bit further down our street when a police car pulls up alongside us and one of the officers asks what the hell we're doing.
Now, I was pissed but still quick enough to think I could explain it away that I was being helpful by returning the cone to the road works that had been taking place for weeks at the bus stop nearest our building.
I say "had been" because as I said that and gestured to the bus stop, I looked up and lo and behold the works had been finished – and all the cones and pedestrian barriers removed.
"I mean, they're not there now."
"Sir, I'm going to need you to put the cone down."
SomniaStellae@reddit
We came across a guy with a dog and he was clearly in distress. Dementia or something. Call the police/ambulance as he kept knocking on various doors and getting upset.
When the police arrived, they managed to find out who he was and contact the family and by this point an ambulance had also turned up.
In the meantime I was looking after the dog and the police said they would take the dog to this guy's house whilst he was with the ambulance crew/hospital.
The dog point blank refused to get in the car, so the officer asked if I would go in the back with him. I said yes, the dog happily came in the back with me. After we dropped the dog off the officer took me back.
So I met a new doggy friend and got a ride in a police car!
Zorolord@reddit
I was walking home when I was 17 (looked about 12), I think it was around 9pm. Got pulled up by two coppers. They asked me where I was going I said home. They asked where have you came from. I said a mate's, they asked the address. I said I dont know but I can show them. They claimed that someone with my description dressed all in black, was burgling homes or something like that (I was wearing a black coat and black pants both with white stripes as they were Adidas) I said well I ain't burgling anywhere, and they let me go on my way. Not sure if they were bored and lying or for real.
annoianoid@reddit
Got my head kicked in by a bunch of scallies, I had a mohawk at the time and the copper who turned up said to me "I used to be a punk". Not really what I needed to hear in that situation.
Xp4t_uk@reddit
Years ago I was walking home, bit drunk and merry, just said goodbye to my mate who lived nearby. We MIGHT have been a bit loud and it was like.. 2am?
Anyway, I can hear the car speeding down the road, it stops next to me and 2 guys in police uniforms jump out and start shouting at me, shove me towards the car and want me to take everything out of my pockets and put it on the hood. They check my Id and ask a lot of questions, what am I doing here, where I was walking from and who I was with. They are unarmed barring one holding a baton. I'm surprised but then I am quite pissed, I talk back a bit but generally do what they tell me, don't want to get beaten up. They get more and more aggressive and I try not to aggravate the situation. All of a sudden, they stop, listen to their earpieces. One says 'received'. They both visibly relax. They tell me to pack my things and keep walking.
I keep asking what was this all about and they just tell me to go home. One pauses before he gets in and goes: Someone reported 2 men cracking windows and stealing stuff from cars in the car park (gives location not far from my mates house), a neighbour saw us nearby and gave our description. In the meantime another patrol caught the perpetrators with all the gear on them. He mutters 'sorry about that...' and they just leave.
The whole situation lasts maybe 2 minutes. They disappear around the corner and I am just standing there. There's literally no one around and everything gets quiet, like it never happened. I am sober, like by some magic, all the booze just evaporated. I see my hands shaking and my heart is pounding. 'What the fuck' I shout loudly to an empty street, then have a bit of a laugh... And keep walking home.
Super-Surround-4347@reddit
Camped in the park once as a teenager with a few friends.
Next day park ranger called the police.. they came, were actually really polite and nice. They searched us and found about £30 of weed leftover quite evidently in a bag.
He put it back and just said something like 'Thanks for cooperation chaps, we'll be on our way'.
opitypang@reddit
I got stopped by the police for driving too slowly. I don't like driving on motorways and if I start feeling anxious I slow down for a short time. I think I was doing about 30mph, which I admit is a bit odd.
Cop was very nice about it and just asked if I was OK. I said I thought the car had briefly been acting up but assured him it was all right now. I did feel an idiot.
Miserable_Future6694@reddit
Early teens my group of friends went to the usual spot to smoke the illegal stuff only to see the community police officer sitting melting our bottles.
He was a good guy who would do his best to keep us right
newdanny3636@reddit
Was about to take a piss in a back alley whilst wearing a toga. They "whooped" the siren and I stopped. I put my toga down and was escorted to the back seat of the car. The officer explained I could be fined if he found any piss in said alley. I explained "you won't find a puddle" he checked came back and told me he could get me indecent exposure because of my toga. I laughed and went home
bluewal67@reddit
I had returned home after a hard day at work. My daughters (10 & 8 at the time) were playing out the front with some local kids. I sat down and started eating my dinner. Suddenly, there were three police cars pulled up outside my house, police officers running to my front door, police officers running down the entry to the back of my house. Now, there were about 5/6 police officers now in my lounge, two of which were armed. They had reports that my wife and I were fighting and 'stabbing each other to death'. They obviously realised that this wasn't the case at all as I continued to eat my liver and onions. It turns out that one of the kids who was playing outside with my daughters fell out with them. He went to the phone box and dialled 999.
AnonymousTimewaster@reddit
Mate thought he hit a cat once. We both saw it run in front of the car and thought we heard something hit underneath.
We went out looking for it (in the middle of a village), thinking the worst had happened. Couldn't find it anywhere.
The police found us mid-search (as teenagers), and said "you don't have to report dead cats you know, that's only for dogs".
As a cat owner, I knew this already, but thought it was just a decent thing to do to let any neighbours/the potential owner know what had happened. The police seemed utterly confounded.
Inner_Farmer_4554@reddit
I was dragged to a test match at Headingley by my ex. It was the last day and apparently all done and dusted by 11.30am (I was browsing the 2nd hand book stall 😊). We were regulars at Headingley for the rugby so decamped to the rugby club for cheap beer. There were 8 of us in the lounge. The games room was given over to the police as their hub for the test match.
At 12.30 one of the ground vendors walked in with 2 massive trays of pies. He'd cooked them for the lunch crowd, but everyone had gone. He didn't want them to go to waste.
8 people cannot eat that many pies and pasties!
So I marched my way in to a police operation centre(!) and announced that there were free pies in the other room... They were most appreciative - though some did think it was me that provided the pies.
I spent the afternoon learning how to extend a police baton and safely apply fixed handcuffs. Very surreal!
Ancient_Space_6624@reddit
I was walking home around 1am after a night out at the pub. Not entirely sober. Police dog car pulled up next to me and asked if I was walking to the top of the hill. I said yes. Police officer then handed me a ball and asked me to throw it in the bushes near the top so she could let her dog out. Odd encounter.
dragonb2992@reddit
When I worked in a petrol station I reported a bilking. A police officer came and he was there for 3 hours, he wrote almost 3 full pages of a statement, and he kept stopping every few minutes to tell me an anecdote.
Also another time a police officer came out for another theft told me that my colleague was known to them. I told my colleague and he looked like he shit himself.
brickbaterang@reddit
Went out for a bit of a wander with friends one snowy new years eve after the ball dropped and some asshole accused us of knocking over a sand barrel that was on a stand made of 2×4s and clearly collapsed under it's own weight and there were no footprints going anywhere near it. Cops made us clean it up.
HiddenIdentity2@reddit
During Covid. My partner some how went from decent mental health to full OCD. I mean serious OCD.
We were stopped by police when driving. Her number plate was dirty. But they wanted her to wind down the window. But because she was so scared of getting sick. She refused so they were threating to arrest her. I was trying to explain to them. But they wouldn’t let me get out the car and kept saying she could sort it out whilst clearly having a panic attack.
Awkward_Stranger407@reddit
Got pulled over driving a ford Orion, copper jumps out, rips my door open and grabs the keys, I got out and he says do you know why we've pulled you over? Anyway had a rear light out, they search the car and I'm holding the boot lid open for them, shouty copper screams at me to move away from him, I tried explaining the boot will slam if I let it go but he's adamant, so I let go, it holds up for just enough time for him to get his head back in the boot, then it slams, the other one who's been quiet grabs me, throws me to the floor and cuffs me, they ended up arresting me for going equipped and having a Stanley knife (both in the passenger side door).
Shoddy-Paramedic1197@reddit
That's awful of him to say
Icy-Explorer-269@reddit
Tbh a passing encounter I had you will just be chilling on any average bench beside a church courtyard/public garden/space and some copper driving by in a 4x4 type giving me full force evils and then some Disrupting my peace and wasting my time - very odd
_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit
I was assaulted and the police said I was faking my crying. I could barely breathe.
froggit0@reddit
Hong Kong customs. ‘Stand on that box.’ They got a wand out…
hummus_sapiens@reddit
Back in the days when policemen were wearing hats, not helmets, I attended a demonstration and stole a policeman's hat. Just fooling around, you know?
He did not like it. Took the hat back and said I was undermining his authority. I told him to get over it but he was still pissed at supper that night.
Brothers holding grudges are the worst, right?
NeilDeWheel@reddit
I used to work as a butcher in a supermarket. I had my own knives and would take them home with me so they wouldn’t get nicked.
One morning, 05:30, I cut through an alley to be met by a copper. He asked what I was doing in this alley, at this time and what was in my bag. The look on his face as I pulled out a 7” boning knife, 12” steak knife and a meat cleaver. He must have thought he’d apprehended a serial killer.
I explained they were tools of my trade and I was on my way to work. I gave the supermarket name and address and after he had my story checked he let me on my way with “Be careful of these back alleys, you never know who you’ll meet.” I patted my bag and said “Don’t worry. I think I’ll be all right.”
Colossal_Squids@reddit
House sitting for my mum while she’s away visiting friends, I’m summoned from my bed at 9:30am on a Sunday. Two officers, one plainclothes (detective) and one uniformed.
— “Morning. Don’t worry, nobody’s died. D’you know anything about the two stolen cars on your driveway?” — “No. What cars?”
Then my partner comes downstairs and they ask him the same. He goes and checks, returns, and says “yeah, there are two cars on the driveway!”
Well, yeah. Because they probably wouldn’t have knocked if there hadn’t been. That’s not what’s in dispute.
So they come with a low loader, drag the things on (while the alarms go off, which meant the thieves must have had the keys), haul them away, explain to me that whoever put them there clearly knew the area well enough to know that my drive was always empty, give me the detective’s card, and leave, while I stand there wondering what happens if whoever left them there comes back and finds them gone.
A couple of years after that, there is a full-scale armed raid on one of the houses opposite; tactical baseball caps, dog units, and all. It takes place during a birthday party. They let the guests sing Happy Birthday before they arrest whoever they’ve come for.
SparklePenguin24@reddit
We were slightly aware that we moved into our first flat that the prior tenant had been a bit of a local wong'n..
We worked out that he was into interesting substances when we found a bit of a cannabis plant in the wardrobe.
One night the police came to our door asking for Mark. My partner explained that we didn't know where Mark was. They asked who my partner was. He told them. They asked again where Mark was. My partner explained again that Mark didn't live there anymore. We don't know Mark. They asked if we knew where Mark was? We still don't know. Eventually they gave up and left. As it turned out Mark wasn't a bad guy. Over the years he fell into loveable rouge category. He did less drugs but died before his time.
Figgzyvan@reddit
A cop pulled my dad and his mate driving the worst mini in the world. ‘Your headlight is held in with tape!’ ‘It’s ok officer, it’s electrical tape’ Cop, pointing: ‘just fuck off, quickly’.
GrantandPhil@reddit
Was walking home alone on a lonely street on a cold winter night at about 3.30 am aged 20 in Fallowfield Manchester. There had been a lot of muggings and stories of students being beaten up and I wanted to get home. Suddenly a Vauxhall cavalier with four blokes in it drove past me at speed. I saw them staring at me. The car turned round and to my horror kerb crawled me for about 5 seconds then two plain clothes guys got out and I literally thought my number was up. Suddenly one pulled his badge out and said Greater Manchester Police can I see some ID please whats your name what are you doing here. I showed him my student card and said I'd just been to a nightclub. He spoke in his cb radio briefly then said sorry mate and off they went. Was the scariest 2 minutes of my life tbh.
sean_off@reddit
Was 18 and my friend broke down and we towed him home about 30 mins with some rope at about 12pm. About five houses away from his house and police drove past.
My ignition barrel had broke a few days before, and I was using a screwdriver to start my car.
They parked up, one is at my car and one is at my friends. The officer is winding telling my friend up saying he is going to loose his license and will personally make sure his car is scrapped.
Mine asked why I was using a screwdriver and half arsed listened to my reply. Next minute he shouts over saying “stop playing games with him and lets go”. They wheel spin off, pull a handbrake turn at the top of the road and just race off.
It was my first time really talking to the police. It was an odd experience.
Midgar918@reddit
Me and my gf were chilling out in the middle of nowhere smoking some weed. When a cop car pulled up.
I was clearly high and technically driving as I tried to pull away. I stopped the car once I realised it was a cop care (couldn't tell in the dark with their headlights in my face.
And they confiscated about an ounce of Cannabis out of my car.
We weren't arrested or anything. They wouldn't let me drive my car. Drove us back to civilisation and I had to go get my keys from the station the next day. And then go get my car which was left where it was.
No-Drink-8544@reddit
Was sat in my car and asked the police to help me because of a mental health issue. I was parked with the engine off and had no intention of going anywhere and when a sole policeman arrived he asked for my car keys because he thought I didn't know how to drive, despite having a license and passing first time on my driving test.
jennyhof@reddit
Probably when I was extremely drunk in my bikini and they arrested me on the beach because I was so drunk that I just didn’t know what I was doing I barely remember it but I still giggle about it
junglistsoldier99@reddit
I was In Essex for the weekend seeing mates , and my neighbour rang me and said police have been to your house a few times , so I rang the police and they told me I was wanted in connection with a serious offence but wouldn't tell me what, but this was when you could listen on a scanner and one of my friends was always listening to his scanner and he rang to say he'd heard a chase then they caught him he gave my name but somehow got away, he knew my dob my previous and how to spell my name which is very hard even my teachers would spell it wrong it was strange and worrying but I'd been in a club in Chelmsford on cctv all night , then I started to get calls from the officer in charge telling me I needed to hand myself in , I said I'm I Essex mate and last night I went to a club think it was called Charlie's near a bridge loads of cctv , he wasn't having any of it he wanted me to go back to Kent police in Chatham, he said I have to hand myself in so he could either charge me or let me go , surely they knew from my phone were I was , I'd driven to Essex in my car registered to me , I stayed in Essex but the officer would not stop calling me and in the end I told him 2 fuck off. . Then when back in Kent I phoned to complain of harassment but they said they had no record of anything, very strange considering multiple house visits and a lot of calls, surely they got to log when they go to a house , there was some serious cock up there .
cari-strat@reddit
My dad was in the police. I had a very lengthy journey to school via two public buses. One day it snowed heavily and the buses were off. Walking would have been 3+ hours. I rang my dad, who was at work, in a panic as I didn't do skiving off, and he said 'I'm tied up at the minute but hold on and I'll send Johnny.'
Johnny was a top level police pursuit driver, basically the chap of choice when they needed to catch some nutter doing a runner in a performance car. Johnny did indeed deliver me to school in what was surely record time - however it was possibly the closest I'd ever come to legitimately shitting myself from terror.
Acrobatic-Film3400@reddit
Got pulled over for doing 90 on the motorway. Had been cruising at that speed behind the police car for about 15 miles. He asked me why I was doing that speed, noticed my dash cam and realised I had him recorded at that speed for a long time. He gave me a very brief "don't do it again" and went about his way.
Kafkaofsalford@reddit
Not with UK Police but I went to Thailand about ten years ago, had a guided walk around parts of Kaho Sol national park. Just me, my partner at the time and the guide.
On the way back to the van we arrived in there were two police officers, we're in pretty much middle of no where at this point, or at least it seemed it to me. Started speaking in Thai to the guide, the guide clearly looked nervous as anything so I asked him if everything was ok and he kept repeating yes yes everything is fine, we just need to stay calm, and not make any "hasty moves" and they need to see your passports.
They check the passports, radio into someone then speak to the guide again. Guide says they want to have their pictures taken with you, and again looks really nervous I ask why, and he says it's so they can send It to their boss and let him know they are working.
Have their pictures took with us and go on their way, we get in the car and the guide properly breathed a big sigh of relief
sunheadeddeity@reddit
Blagged a lift back home with the local Irish Garda sergeant, my dad had the poitín still set up in the kitchen. We had to pretend the door lock was broken and give him the runaround. Didn't fool him for a minute of course.
SmokyBarnable01@reddit
Was smoking a cigarette at a bus stop late one evening. Nobody else around. Cop car pulls up, window goes down.
'You can't smoke there. Put it out.'
I'm also the only person I've ever seen to have alcohol confiscated on the tube. Was having a quiet can on my way home after work on a quiet Tuesday night around 9. Opened it at Turnham Green, BTP got on at Hammersmith, at exactly the right carriage and door and pinched my can. Must have been grassed up by the eagle eyed driver.
BusyBeeBridgette@reddit
I got approached and asked to provide ID once because some one of my description was looking in the back windows of homes. It wasn't me, I was just out to buy some ciggies. Funnily enough they did catch the person and they were in the local paper a couple of days later. Turns out they did look like me! Weird.
gogoluke@reddit
"Do you know where your car is? "Yes it's outside" "Are you sure?” "Yes it's outside" "Have you driven off without paying for fuel?" "No" "Do you know why someone might think you have?” "Yes. I reported my licence plates stolen two days ago" "Ah right. Do you want them back then?” "Go on then"
LuLutink1@reddit
😁
DoNotGoGentle27@reddit
The only one that really comes to mind is when they drove me to the hospital a few years ago after attempting to un-alive myself (Apparantly they were already out looking for me). It was an OD so I was pretty out of it, so their voices sounded like robots……and I would tell them this.
I know police get a bad rap but I must admit, they did return to the hospital at the end of their shift to make sure I was okay which made me feel a little better. And they no longer sounded like robots. 😅
BRIStoneman@reddit
You can say kill on the Internet.
DoNotGoGentle27@reddit
Honestly, I'm having a hard time keeping track of which subs will remove comments like that 🤷🏻♀️
Racing_Fox@reddit
I haven’t had many
But I thought it was odd that when I was pulled over in my car registered in my name and insured in my name, they asked me if I was my step father.
haven700@reddit
Once helped a guy out who was getting dragged into an alley. Sorted it out and called the police. They turned up took details and statements and we said our goodbyes. Cut to three days later. I'm sat on my sofa playing games in my Spiderman onesie. I get a knock on the door. Two Policemen stood there, note pads in hand. Pulled a super hero pose "Good Afternoon Gentlemen, how can I help this time?" They took some more details and booked me in to give a full statement at the station and be a witness in court if it came to it. Turns out the attacker ended up pleading guilty to a run of sexual assaults on old men that night, so probably wasn't the time to be making jokes.
D0wnb0at@reddit
Knock on the door, policeman and policewoman, said “hi are you Name Surname” I said “yeah, why”, “do you know a WomanName?”, “not that I can think of”, “it’s WomanName YourSurname, are you related to her?” “No, I have never heard of her”
Then they start laughing and said “well that makes it a much easier interaction, she died and as you have an uncommon surname and live in the area I thought it might be a family member”
There was really no need to laugh, some poor woman died.
DuckPicMaster@reddit
That’s fair. They thought they were going to have to tell someone terrible news and were relieved they didn’t have to. A laugh seems understandable.
EELightning@reddit
Just thought of another. Our side of the street and a few others had been flooded by a burst water main. Properly flooded, doors bashed on half the houses by the torrent, downstairs completely wrecked.
So my wife and our small kids went to stay at our in-laws across the country. But a few days later I needed to meet the insurance rep. So I stayed in back home in the undamaged upstairs for a night.
About 3am massive hammering on the front door. I go to the landing window which looked out on the street. I see three squad cars, lights flashing, many torches shining at me. And a megaphone "get fucking down here now".
I opened the door with the chain on. Too tired and bleary eyed to be scared. I was barely awake. Wearing my PJs.
There was a gang of angry looking coppers ready for a dunt. They saw me and my PJs. One said "er... Do you happen to live here sir?"
I nodded.
"Oh. Well then goodnight sir."
And off they fucked.
Surprised they had such a big response for a suspected burglary in West London. Perhaps they thought there might have been a group of looters targeting the damaged houses.
MillyMcMophead@reddit
Many years ago (early 80s) I got stopped for driving at the speed limit. The coppers told me it was suspicious because everyone speeds along that road. I told them that I was hardly likely to speed with a police car in sight. They laughed and said that was fair enough and so off I toddled.
Unlikely-Car846@reddit
This wasn't me, it was my future husband. He'd been on his stag do and got stripped and thrown out of the minibus several miles from home. He got picked up by the police who very kindly brought him home - which we'd only just moved into so we were trying to show we were nice neighbours. However when they arrived home the police parked over the road, turfed him out and as he was making his way home naked, switched on their lights and sirens, waking up all the new neighbours.
Heathenry2@reddit
Got two police officers telling me and my mates off at 3am in the local park for being too loud on the swing set.
Ecstatic_Effective42@reddit
Got jolted out of a PC gaming session years back by the police banging on my door. Turned out to be my neighbour Paul (a copper) wanting to know if I'd seen him arrest a blood soaked criminal *right outside the house*. Apparently he rugby tackled the burglar right at the end of my drive and was proudly showing off the blood patch in the road.
(apparently someone had been disturbed in a house and had actually jumped through a patio door to escape. Seen jumping in a white van and heading off south. Paul was with the dog handler in staff canteen at the nick and thought "sod it, we're bored - let's go help"
Couldn't find the van, doubled back thinking he might have ditched it, found it 'round the corner from ours (inside was covered in blood) and followed the footprints to a house. Guy ran out, jumped over a fence and Paul gave chase.)
arcoftheswing@reddit
I went grocery shopping in the middle of the night on the other side of town. I noticed that a black audi was behind me from about half way of the 30 minute journey back home. Here I am freaking out and not wanting to stop outside my flat. I drove about for what seemed like ages until I was eventually blue lighted by said car on one of the darkest streets in town.
When the policeman walked over he began to ask me a load of questions. A policewoman then came over and I lit on her asking why the fuck would they be following me and stopping me on this road of all places? He muttered something about thinking I was a male and my car was registered to a female. Why did I not stop at home etc etc? The long blonde mermaid hair was the giveaway and you're driving an unmarked car She swiftly apologised and they sent me on my way with my thawing Ben & Jerry's.
I still reel thinking about this and how scared I felt. I was about 24 years old.
EducationNorth5626@reddit
Having them pull up at my doorstep at 3am probably
EELightning@reddit
I was stopped on my way to work about 20 years ago. I commuted a long way back then, so I was out of my hometown.
I wasn't speeding or doing anything wrong. At first I didn't realise the blues and twos were for me.
It was an aggressive little young twat of a copper clearly desperate to nick someone. He desperately looked around my car trying to find something wrong with it, finding nothing despite it being 20 years old.
He got a bit nervous when he asked what I did and I answered "I'm a journalist". He spent ages on the radio trying to find out if there was anything he could do me for. Finally he found something so pathetically minor and gave me a ticket to produce documents within seven days.
When I got home I fixed the minor thing in a minute and my local garage happily signed it. When I took proof to my local cop shop the older experienced sergeant on the desk lamented about jumped little pricks from other forces wasting their time.
vipros42@reddit
My most recent encounter with the police was them failing to play bass all that well on a song I'm writing and then thrashing them at darts.
That may just be the one I hang out with though...
KingofCalais@reddit
Me and my mates were building a shed in the woods by my house, stealing wood from a local construction yard. We had nailed all our old weed baggies to the floor and were playing a game where we threw knives into the ceiling and sat under them waiting for them to drop. One day this policeman shows up and said some of the neighbours had complained about the hammering sounds. He asked if we had been smoking weed (we had) to which we said no, then he looked at the floor of baggies, looked at us, saw my mate glance at the ceiling, looked at the 4 knives above his head and said “alright lads, have a good time” and left.
Millylock@reddit
Went to take part in a lineup (good way to earn a tenner at the time in college), as we were sat there waiting the policeman took an interest in me. Eventually asked where he knew me from... I asked if he were the copper I had seen get into a car accident a year before!
StopTheTrickle@reddit
I had a similar experience to OP, saw a group of lads jumping one guy on his own in Hyde Park. Immediately after describing the incident, the operators first question was "What colour where they?"
I get that it's a way of identifying people, but the fact the first question out of the operators mouth was about their colour, was unsettling
The whole conversation I felt a vibe of "why are you even making this call" I remember losing my patience and snapping at the operator "isn't this what the police are for? I'm just letting you know someone's in danger and if you've got a car in the area send one round or something"
Too be fair, there was a car passed me at the bus stop 5-10 minutes later, but I lost a lot of faith in our police that day
seeyoujim@reddit
I was stopped while walking home by the police . I walked because I was drunk.
I’d walked about 10km and was a few hundred metres from home when I was stopped. The cop in question said that I matched the description of someone who had just stolen a car. I replied “ cropped hair, jeans and a t-shirt? no one else like that out tonight ,I’m sure.
The cop then said he knew it was me that stole the car.
My reply? yes, I’m in it now” and then I honked my imaginary horn.
I spent the night in a cell, when released in the morning I was told that my accomplices had not given my name yet, but when they did they come to arrest me.
I told the arresting asshole that would wouldn’t have the kettle on for him and then asked for a lift back to my car. He said no, So I laughed in his face and told him that he already had, as I had left my car the previous night about 20m away as the pub I met my friends in was near the station.
DropDeadDigsy@reddit
Got arrested with 3 of my mates for a robbery at a McDonalds in Bradford. Needless to say it wasn’t us we just happened to be in a group of 4 in a place new to us for a football match.
winch25@reddit
Young people can't even go to the football these days without robbing a McDonalds, what had the world come to.
KayC720@reddit
Games gone
KayC720@reddit
I got pulled over at 3am after driving back nearly 2 house from a video shoot. They told me I was speeding (I wasn’t), they told me I didn’t have a license and insurance (I do) then confiscated my car and kept it in impound for a week because I brake light was out. (This was true) I got a £100 fine and a court date and my car back for free. Pretty odd.
There’s also the time they beat the shit out of me but that had less of a happy ending
tradandtea123@reddit
I was once stopped at 4am coming back into leeds from working a night shift in Altrincham (asbestos removal in a shop). She said I was hurtling past a primary school way too fast (I suppose I could have been at least a bit) and berated me about what if a young kid came out of school (it was still 4 am).
She then said where have you been?
I said Altrincham near Manchester.
She said 'an auction in Manchester? Did you buy anything'.
I said no, I was working in Altrincham
Oh, you were running the auction, ok then, just drive slower next time. No idea what auctions she thought happened in Manchester in the middle of the night.
winch25@reddit
The Altrincham Asbestos Auction?
StuartHunt@reddit
I was shopping in Wrexham town centre years ago with an ex wife (only had two but can remember which one I was with).
Anyway I spotted a police sergeant in the old Woolies shop doorway giving me the evil eye as I approached.
He moved to intercept me and my ex was muttering WTF did you do now.
The copper then proceeded to shake my hand and ask how tf I'd been, as he'd not seen me for 15 years. We had played Rugby together at school and were good mates for a while.
My ex was so disappointed that he didn't arrest me.
NoMind5964@reddit
I had a pick up stolen from outside the police station in Edenbridge. When I went inside I was told I had come to the wrong place and needed to use a hotline instead. Not sure why they called it a hotline as they did bugger all with the info I gave them. Anyway, that was the end of the interaction with the officer behind the desk. He showed absolutely zero professional curiosity whatsoever. Wasn't interested in the slightest. How far disengaged from a job do you need to be to still turn up for work?!
luckeratron@reddit
I walked up to a policeman in a rural town with a smashed nose bleeding profusely, I've just been assaulted the guy who did it is over there laughing with his mates. Can you arrest him. No come report the crime at the station tomorrow, he then turned back to his mates and started chatting away completely ignoring me.
HeHadSomeGoodIdeas@reddit
I was eating chips in primark when I was like 5 and the copper said no eating in the store or I’ll go to jail.
I believed that until I was like 14
CommunicationDry4133@reddit
Im 28 when I was 14 police took my cousins bike and posted it online and being that age and unsupervised I @‘d a police officer on twitter and called him a pedo the next day they turned up in an unmarked police car at my house with my display picture and cover photo in a piece of A4 paper they come in and told me that the police officer I called a pedo was a sergeant and he was very upset, I was quick on my feet apologised as I thought the page was a parody account and that was the end of it Ive been a good boy since though especially in this day and age.
Kurukuruchan@reddit
Not UK police.
Was visiting San Francisco with my girlfriend at the time, she lived there as a kid so we were seeing her childhood friends. At the time I was 18, she was 17.
Took as a gift a bunch of booze with us. Her friends were too scared to drink anywhere near where they lived, so off we drove to find a motel an hour or so away to have a party. 6 of us in a 5 person car; 2 lads upfront, me and 2 girls in the back with a 3rd lying across us.
First motel refused us, so we were going to drive to another. The 3rd girl decided she would hop in the boot as it was just round the corner. Someone must have seen us and called the police as when we parked up, the police appeared out of nowhere about 5 minutes after (whilst we were still discussing our plan before heading in).
At this point, we have a boot full of booze and bags of weed (pre legalisation). I'm the only one 18+, but still not legal to drink. The cops are coming in hot and heavy, "everyone on the curb, IDs out! Don't move!". They get to me, and I hand over my provisional driving licence. They look at it in disgust and throw it back at me, asking if it's some kind of joke? I open my mouth, and suddenly their demeanour changes. "Oh! UK, huh? Ha, your cops don't even have guns, right?"
Seeing an opportunity, I play up to it, laughing about it too. Cue them spending the next 15 minutes letting me sit in the front of their car, opening up the boot and showing me the shotgun they have strapped inside it, and various other bits of UK trivia they know.
Next thing you know everyone's told they can go home, but the lads will have to drive back, the girls will have to have an adult come get them, and I can do whatever the hell I want. Being stuck in the middle of nowhere at 11pm, we ended up waiting for one of their dads to come get us, and a very quiet tense drive back to the city where not much was said.
It's also the day Syd Barrett died, and I found out on that car drive via the radio whilst driving across the bridge back into San Francisco.
Good times!
winch25@reddit
Got the door knocked at 3am for a welfare check, because the couple in the flat below had had a break up and were crying and shouting. A few days before our flat had been raided so there was a boarded up door and they were convinced they were at the right flat, until they heard them start up again.
newtonbase@reddit
In my late teens I woke up to 2 policemen at my bedroom door. We'd had a car stolen a couple of years before and I think it had been cloned as there were a few police reports about it. They'd come to investigate one of the reports and found their way in through the garage when I didn't answer the door.
Also, recently I opened the blinds as I was leaving on the school run and there were half a dozen armed police outside about to raid next door. My son was upset as he thought he was going to be late for school.
orsonhodged@reddit
Reported some man following me for hours to the police. Officer met me and was like he was just staring, that’s not a crime and ended it there.
Next morning the police phoned me and said the guy has previous for sexual assault and went on to attack someone that night after I reported him, can I give a character statement to help them prosecute him.
It was just odd to go from “you’re overreacting” to “we need your help” in the space of 12 hours.
OverlyAdorable@reddit
I woke up one morning after a night out drinking with friends. I found a bunch of lollipops scattered here there and everywhere. I mentioned to my friends about it and they said I asked for them, what did I expect? I said I didn't remember asking anyone and who has that many to give out. They asked if I remembered the discussion we had with the police. Turns out I asked a policeman officer for some lollipops for something, I don't know what. I can't even have lollipops
Another_Random_Chap@reddit
I was living in a top floor flat, and the police knocked on the door asking if they could sit in my lounge all night to watch the back of a house the next street over.
And walking into a police station to report a man with a gun sitting in a car outside a bank office that had an ATM. The response was 'With a what sir?'.
winch25@reddit
Outside of Berlin, we were seen going into a derelict building, a former government facility. The police turned up, found us, demanded we give them our names and addresses and passports, then told us to leave Berlin. They also got distracted by a wasp that kept buzzing round them, making them dance.
Valuable-Wallaby-167@reddit
I was stopped because they were looking for a red headed teenager and I "matched the description". I was in my 30s with dyed pink hair at the time. They realised straight away I wasn't them and still insisted on seeing ID. Not sure what they'd have done if I hadn't had any.
snakeoildriller@reddit
Taking photos of the Grand Hotel in Brighton on the day before the Labour Conference started in town (not at the Grand). I put my large film camera on my tripod and got the film pack out of my box of gear which was, unfortunately an army-surplus ammo box (painted red). Two local coppers very quickly descended and did a stop-n-search with full pat-down, with one of them sniffing my film pack (for explosives). Nothing found obviously, so we had a friendly chat followed by an S&S receipt and a polite but firm request to "leave Brighton now". I did, and a squad car followed me out!
DPaignall@reddit
Working as a barman when four uniformed officers burst in. One of them asked me if I'd seen so and so, I said I didn't know the name - what did they look like? 'Dunno' replies the cop. I ask how you going to catch them then?
Low-Echidna90@reddit
Every single one
Sanguine_Rosey@reddit
Driving home from work, about 9:30 at night, it had lightly rained during the day, the road was a fast dual carriage way approaching a sweeping roundabout. (Hoole roundabout Chester) I slowed down to check my right of way no one was coming (in fact, the roads were very quiet), so I took the round about onto the small stretch of road before the slip road to notice a police car approaching from behind initially thought as on blues that he was taking over so I slowed in case he needed the lane for the motorway, but realised he was asking me to pull over, I did
Got asked where have you been? Work Where was i going? Home Was I in a rush? (I wasn't speeding or going particularly fast) No, I'm just wanting to go home after a long shift
In my head, I'm like, what have I actually done? My lights are fine. I wasn't speeding. Didn't think I'd done anything daft on the roundabout
So after his questions, he said just be careful in the future if road conditions are damp it can make driving slippery, oh ok thanks will do was my reply he said have a nice rest of my evening
Musashi1596@reddit
There were officers stationed outside my old flat building after someone had been stabbed, and I opted to go out and collect pizza. Upon my return one of them jokingly thanked me for bringing them pizza. I did then offer to share it but he politely declined.
cheandbis@reddit
When I was 17, I'd been out drinking. I didn't have the money for a taxi home so walked the 4 or 5 miles.
Close to home, I was stopped by a police car and was questioned in regards to a burglary. They put me in the car and drove me to where they were questioning some youths. I fit the description of one of them apparently and after walking for a fair old distance, I was a little out of breath and sweaty so they took it to mean I'd run away from the scene.
After a little while, they stopped questioning me and just left me in the middle of nowhere. No suggestion that I was free to go or anything. After about 5 minutes I just walked off.
The buggers had driven me about a mile in the wrong direction though.
ToiletPaperSlingshot@reddit
Well was he?
NotSmarterThanA8YO@reddit
Went round a corner a little bit quick on my bike, the passenger in the police car coming the other way stuck his middle finger up at me out of the window and carried on. Message received!
cinamorollulu@reddit
i got a message from my dad profusely if i was okay, apparently the police were on their way to my new address as someone in the south had called and said i planned to end my life. i don’t know anyone in the south and i was completely fine, yet they knew my name and my prior address. i was escorted out after proving i had no messages saying that at all, they took me to my sisters house so i wasn’t on my own but on the way there i was fully convinced i was being kidnapped
Timely_Egg_6827@reddit
Having my car alerted on so I needed to open the boot so the police dogs could steal my pets' liver jerky.
Embarrassed-Whole989@reddit
I got stopped for drinking in public at uni they just said to down it and put it in bin lol.
Sulvano@reddit
My only real encounter with the police was when I was 16. Went out with my pals around the ‘town’ and managed to get into the club where you pay £10 to get in and then have free drinks all night.
My parents didn’t mind me going out and ‘attempting’ to get in places thinking it’d never happen and we were just really hanging about. Well, when I got in and it was past 11 o clock, I rejected their calls and texts telling me to go home. I was in and would certainly be making the most of the free drinks.
I remember attempting to stumble home at what I think would be about 5am. I was incapable so decided to prop myself up against the local civic centre that faced a large field / park area. I sat on the low window ledge with my back up against the window. And fell asleep.
I was woken up at about 7 am by two policemen. They’d had a report from the person whose office I’d ’camped’ in front of. As I turned I could see the glare of her angry face through the blinds.
I was terrified and hungover, stinking of Absinth. All of a sudden I’m in the back of the car being taken back home to my disappointment angry parents who ‘grounded’ me for the first time in my life.
My first ever hangover too.
PandaPrimary3421@reddit
I got stopped for walking suspiciously with a bag, the bag had my work clothes in as the fella who dropped me off liked his car to stay clean, we'd been pulling mains cables in trenches so the clothes were caked in shit.
The constable smugly took the bag off me, thinking he had uncovered his first big drug bust, then the look on his face when all he found was a dirty pair of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, was magnificent.
Delicious-Many6057@reddit
Overtook someone doing 20 in a 30, police where behind me in a van they overtook too got right up my ass followed me into my work car park. I got out as one of the officers jumped out and asked me “what do you think you are doing?” I told him overtaking someone legally there was clearly no traffic at all on the opposite side, nothing I did was unsafe. He then said “well it’s winter and there could be ice so take it easy and then walked off”
He must have thought I was some boy racer because I overtook someone and he probably said to his colleague in the passenger seat, let’s teach him a lesson only to make an absolute twerp of himself haha
BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit
Knock on the door at 4am. I went to answer it and there is a big squad of police with a dog.
They said "Hi, we are looking for X".
I said "never heard of him but you are welcome to ask the flat downstairs".
And the sergeant just said "No worries mate, it is probably a false address we got given. Don't worry about it". And they turned around and left.
Seemed like a lot of effort to go away that easily....
LieLevel7361@reddit
I had one from court. Not police but Ms judge. I was answering questions as I was witness of a crime , took sip of water and got reprimanded for it. Let's just say my memory wasn't this same after.
sam_p_23@reddit
Got arrested and placed in walking home from work with a bottle of champagne at 1am (worked in a casino at the time and it was my last shift before my birthday week off).
Apparently someone matching my description had assaulted a poor gent and stolen his phone outside of a club about half an hour previously.
It was only when one of the arresting officers went to where I work, saw CCTV of me working on the floor, spoke to management and staff AND saw the book in which we clock in and out did they have enough proof.
Had no money on me and my phone was dead so it took me almost two hours to walk home and an awkward conversation with my wife the next morning.
Never gave me my champagne back either. Bastards.
Air_Fryer_666@reddit
I never had much money when going out and used to have to walk home from the City Centre after a night out, good hour walk or so. Many a times I got stopped and questioned because there were burglaries in the area. Oddest one was being followed by one of those police vans and when I put a can of coke into a bin they sped up and stopped me right there and searched the bin, looking for drugs….had to identify my van and all sorts. Bit odd trying to hold a conversation with police when your half pissed and just want your bed.
Top-Maximum-5230@reddit
Was he?
KazuyaM1sh1ma@reddit
100%
LieLevel7361@reddit
I had one from court. No police but Ms judge. I was answer questions as I was witness of a crime , took sip of water and got reprimanded for it. Let's just say my memory wasn't this same after.
h00dman@reddit
Many many years ago I was filming a video project for uni which involved me walking through town recording my journey, and as I walked past the council building I heard someone shout behind me asking someone to come to the police station with them.
I turned around and realised it was a police officer and he was talking to me, and as we walked over he explained that I was in breach of the anti terrorism laws.
We got to the station, sat down in what I assume was an interview room, and then he started asking me questions about what I was doing and told me they'd been following me on CCTV for the past 45 minutes.
Once I explained who I was, what I'd been doing, and showed them all the footage on my camera, the officer seemed satisfied I wasn't doing anything wrong and let me go.
Top-Lawfulness6711@reddit
I was driving down to the kids school to pick them up. My side of the road was clear, cars on the opposite side, police car obvs didn’t want to wait on me passing so they pulled out, took up the majority of the road which prompted me to break and throw my hand up in “wtf are you doing” manner. Anyway, I squeezed past and carried on to the school. To my absolute shock the police car that I had just had this encounter with had followed me down and the policeman demanded to know what “the hand” was all about. I just laughed at the guy and collected my kids. Absolutely bizarre.
Otherwise_Fly_2263@reddit
Not making excuses, but possibly they’d already had reports in the area of a black man assaulting people and wanted to cut to the chase?
Historical-Car5553@reddit
Back when I was a student a friend and I had just come out of their terraced house and were walking to the car. Police car drove past and before we got in the car came back at high speed. I was wearing a light grey zip jacket (similar to tracksuit top) and the police asked if it was reversible (it wasn’t ). Then they drove off
Apparently my build etc was similar to someone who had recently done an armed robbery.
AdministrativeLaugh2@reddit
Walking home from an estate where my friend lived, across my town to my home. Stopped about two minutes into my journey to ask where I was going.
I assume they were on the lookout for someone who looked like me (I’m very typical in many features), but I still found it odd
TranslatorCritical11@reddit
Picked my drunk friend up on New Years Day in Cardiff, stopped on an empty road, pulled to the side and a policeman went to me “Why are you blocking the road, there’s no need for it.”
There was literally no need to come over and I was breaking no known traffic law.
UniquePotato@reddit
I used to work in a nightclub and finished about 4 in the morning. I often stopped on the way home at a 24hour garage to buy some beers. I was stopped several times as they wondered why I was buying beer that early in the morning, think I was already drunk or something. Was never breathalysed, eventually they recognised me and didn’t stop me any more.
Thisoneissfwihope@reddit
We were diving in Loch Long, which is close, but not that close; to Faslane Naval Base.
We had a bunch of police some flying up to us to question us about our intentions. We were just doing some training. Apparently some group were planning on trying to break into the naval base.
Not us, guv. We’re just teaching some people how to remove & replace their masks.
OwineeniwO@reddit
A female detective smirked when I was talking about a man's death.
Pi3piper@reddit
Context?
OwineeniwO@reddit
Not really important.
Pristine-Coffee-9324@reddit
All of them
No-Complaint296@reddit
Had a plain clothes officer chap my door asking about one of my neighbours who apparently was a known drug dealer. During the course of our conversation said neighbour returned home and the officer hid inside my hall, peering through the peep hole and asking to watch my ring doorbell live to see what the neighbour was up to.
listentome44@reddit
Seeing one do their job
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