I think it's high time that we share our favorite cop jokes. Here's one of mine:
A lady calls up 911 and complains that there's a nude police officer walking around her lawn. "Ma'am, if he's nude, how do you know that he's a cop?" "Because his left arm is sunburned and he's eating a doughnut."
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I like the one where Mirk uses his tazer on Bountifulites who tell cop jokes.
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"Take your hands off the car and I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document."
Debate the stop sign
A cop stops a man for running a stop sign and the subject gives the cop a lot of grief explaining that he did stop.
After several minutes, the cop explained to the gentleman that he didn't stop, he just slowed down a little.
The gentleman said 'Stop or slow down, what's the difference?'.
The cop pulled the guy out of the car and hit him with a nightstick for about a minute and then said, 'Would you like for me to stop or just slow down?'
"If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."
"So, you don't know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I want on the ticket, huh?"
"Yes sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?"
"Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket."
"Life's tough, it's tougher if you're stupid."
"No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want."
"In God we trust, all others are suspects."
edited to remove video...forgot how much profanity was in it...
"I need to see your drivers license, registration and insurance.", man hands me his temple recommend. In my head I'm thinking of saying, "do you want me to write void across that?" Instead I asked what that was because it certainly did not look like a driver license. I love thier looks when I say that.
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
This one is edited. What they don't show is the conversation after he gets up. He talks about being shot, stabbed, etc and how nothing has ever hurt like the taser. I have to agree...it hurts.
Love the TR story Mirk. I drill(national guard) with a cop for Bountiful and he has shared many the humorous yet sad stories about the "Mormon 500" that occurs every morning. People somehow get upset when they get pulled over for speeding in order to get to the Temple in time for the early session. And i't never for just a couple miles over the limit either, he says the ones that get the most upset are going substantially over the limit.
We had a guy stopped last summer at about 11 pm. He kept telling us that we had to let him go because he was a temple worker and had to be there early the next morning. The guy I was backing is not a member and a) did not care b) did not understand what he was talking about.
I am soooooo guilty of the Mormon 500... trying to get to the early morning temple session... though I don't think any of the cops here in the Seattle area are mormon... so they just don't care what reason I'm speeding. Got one ticket so far...
--Ray
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When Cat and I lived in Orem a hundred years ago there was this cop who wrote this article in the local newspaper called "Police Beat." Cat and I enjoyed reading them. The guy himself was not a member of the church but he was friendly to the church. He wrote once about how when he first joined the force in that area and pulled a guy over for speeding. The guy handed him his TR and not knowing what it was the cop went over to his partner and asked him what it was and his partner told him and then said, "I have one too. Go give the creep a ticket."
The following week he had a couple of people write back and blast him for even suggesting anyone would do such a thing and how horrible he was for saying so. The week after that there were twice as many people blasting those people for blasting him. We thought it was pretty funny.
He wrote once, that if Happy Valley is 90% mormon, what do you think the percentage of the crime that goes on is committed by?
In Carmel California they have a little weekly called The Pinecone. The Pinecone has a police log in it and some of the things are absolutely hillarious. Last week, one guy called the cops because someone parked in his favorite parking spot. Not in his driveway but a public parking spot that happened to be his favorite.
Well this last summer somebody called the Lehi police to help remove a butterfly from the grill of their car.
Come to think of it I've been getting lax in reading the local police beat, which is a shame because there are often rather interesting reports like the butterfly one.
"Carmel-by-the-Sea: A citizen on 11th Avenue reported her dog was involved in an altercation with a raccoon while outside in the owners front yard at night."
I wonder if the Racoon was charged or let off with a warning? If this happens on the farm we shoot the Racoon. If it happens in town you call the cops? I'm sure this is just the sort of call Mirk likes to get.
This is a true story and I'm probably going to subject myself to some ridicule for sharing it but I'm sure I made a cop's day when it happened.
My driver's license says I'm a female and has since I was 16 and first got it. Even in California it would be hard to mistake me for a woman but here I am with my principle source of identification saying I'm a woman.
I was the first person at the local DMV to get the new fangled driver's license with the hollograms and other goodies which were put into place to make it more difficult to make fake ones. The lady who administered my driving test was struggling a bit with the machine and I believe that is where the mistake was made. I didn't notice the problem on my temporary license until I got home. So I called the DMV and they said to come down and they would take care of it. The DMV is about 30 miles away so already I'm looking at driving an hour just to fix the problem but when you're a 16 year old male jock at the top of your game in highschool, you really don't want a driver's license that says you're a woman.
So I drive back to the DMV and wait in those endless lines that differ only from a Soviet Bread Line in that I will not be leaving with any bread. I get up there and show them the mistake and they tell me there is nothing they can do about it until my actual license comes in the mail. Now I'm livid. I've wasted a couple hours waiting in line and driving after being told to come in when I called. So I decide to do nothing when the actual license comes in the mail.
A few years later, my wife and I were dating (prior to our marriage). I pull the 1984 Mercury Cougar (5.0 liter 302 CID engine with electronic fuel injection) out of the KMART parking lot at night and forgot to turn on my lights until I was pulling onto the street. In my defense the lights in that parking lot were so bright that you could have gotten a tan. Well the cop sees me and flips on the lights. As I'm turning onto the road and flipping on my headlights. So I'm waiting there for the cop to walk up wondering what the future Mrs. sitting next to me is thinking about my stupid mistake. The cop walks up and asks for my driver's license and tells me that he pulled my over for the head lights not being on which is something people who are driving drunk often do. I explain to him that the bright lights in the parking lot etc.
So he's looking at my ID and asks if all the information is correct and I get kind of downcast and tell him that, "No, it isn't." You could see his demeaner change slightly as he steadied himself for whatever criminal confession I was going to make. Perhaps he thought he had caught a modern day Bonnie and Clyde for all I know. I proceed to tell him that the DMV decided to give me a sex change. He looked at me slightly confused, looked at my ID, looked at me, looked back at my ID, tried to fight back a smile, handed me my ID, walked away and said, "You folks have a nice night."
I vowed then and there to never change that part of my driver's license unless I had to!! The funny thing is that a couple years ago I had to go in and get my picture retaken. I also had to fill out a form to update my height, weight, etc. I updated those especially since I weighed a buck forty five at 16 and I weigh 200lbs now. Wouldn't you know it but that darn license came in the mail and I still weigh a buck forty five!
He looked at me slightly confused, looked at my ID, looked at me, looked back at my ID, tried to fight back a smile, handed me my ID, walked away and said, "You folks have a nice night."
So now, since you are married, we must assume that you are a lesbian, you know, attracted to women and then you went and married one.
Ah, the possibilities are endless.
M
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Well Jason if it makes you feel any better, according to church records from several years back Cat was never released from his mission. We've been living in sin for 19 years!
Just the same, Cat is going to laugh his head off I think when he finds out you're really a girl! Does this mean you can relate to how Ralphie feels in "A Christmas Story" when he is forced to wear the pink bunny pajamas?
Well Jason if it makes you feel any better, according to church records from several years back Cat was never released from his mission. We've been living in sin for 19 years!
Just the same, Cat is going to laugh his head off I think when he finds out you're really a girl! Does this mean you can relate to how Ralphie feels in "A Christmas Story" when he is forced to wear the pink bunny pajamas?
(Sorry, couldn't resist).
-- Edited by Poncho29 at 07:39, 2007-11-17
That is pretty good, Jason...
It was more than a few years ago, dear. We discovered the Church Records snafu at tithing settlement the first year we lived in Utah (we had been married about 1 1/2 years). And, I knew exactly who the clerk was who hadn't made the update on the records properly (this was all done before the big MIS system). A few years later, after we had moved back to Ohio from Utah, I served with this brother (who was ward clerk again) as an assistant ward clerk in that same ward... and I did tease him about it as he was a friend of the family. What he had forgotten to do was simply to put in the fact on my record that I had finished my mission and had been honorably released. He was quite embarrased. We just figured it explained why we were rich and famous yet... like you said, according to the records, I was still a full-time missionary and married no less!
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
There are always people who think they 'know somebody big' who can get them out of their tickets.
Since we don't live in a Mormon stronghold, the most you could expect from your TR is getting a strange look and a bigger fine.
That and a lecture from the local haters of the month group who get the 411 on "Mormons Gone Wild" from their favorite local constabulary.
Oddly enough, religion of other perps is NEVER newsworthy down here. . .
Best one the BIL told us was the man and woman driving along the highway in the buff WITH THE TOP DOWN and drunk as the buzzards over the JD distillery in Lynchburg.
He's out on patrol one night and comes across a car on the side of the road. He pulls over and walks over to talk to the driver who seems very nervous. The driver states that he's out of gas, but that his friend is on the way to help him, so he's fine and doesn't need any help. The deputy says, "You seem very nervous. Can I see your license and registration?"
The driver hands them over and the deputy says, "I'm gonna go run these. And when I come back we'll talk about what's got you so nervous." So, my friend runs the license and it's clear.
He heads back over to the nervous driver and asks, "Allright, so are you ready to tell me what you are so nervous about?"
The driver dejectedly answers, "This." and hands over a duffle bag full of dope.
Easiest drug bust. Ever.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
If you watch the video, as they do a closeup pan in to the car, that is my car on the left with the pretty lights. I don't think there is any footage of me. I spent 3 hours with the K-9 looking for the suspect. It was rather cold out there last night...
So Mirky, do people ever tell you cop jokes when they pull you over? I would think a person who did that would be the type of person that'd be fun to get to know.
--Ray
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