@@AtomicBuffaloonly 9 days in 2022 where they didn’t kill someone. Made up for it on the other days. Think their total was 1,232 or 1,323 either way it was that number too many.
What I want to know is what was the instigating factor in both stories for the police asking the questions? Otherwise, they just come off as cops looking to F with people, and they are in the wrong.
@A Bison I agree with the OP in that even the good cops can overreact and look foolish in the eyes of the public and the law. But , with the calls to defund the police it is usually based on a small number of cops acting illegally while performing their duties. The vast majority of police interactions that happen daily in the country happen without incident. In this day and age, you can bet that every police interaction is being recorded by one or more sources. So no, the "defund" cry is totally on the part of the woke leftist grifters trying to scam money out of public outrage using out of context and mischaracterized police interactions. Not all interactions are that way but none are sanctioned by any department when officers act illegally.
Finished pumping gas at a convenience store, I put the pump handle away, and started to make my way to the convenience store. An officer then walks up to me to ask me where I was going and I told him inside the store. He proceeded to step-up to me and tell me that the gas pump was not a parking spot and that I had to move my truck "right now". In my life, I have never been in situation where an officer showed up and made things better.
On private property and you conducting a business transaction is none of his business, and the cop should have been told so. And then shared with the cop, he needs to buzz off and go prevent crimes. Real crimes, and not harassing citizens
As a truck driver for over 18 years who has been hassled by law enforcement while in the duties of my job. This story brings me untold amount of joy and warms my heart beyond words. This was a victory for my people. Blowing my air horn right now to celebrate 👍
I was arrested by when I was 16 years old by Los Angeles Sheriff Dept for answering the same question in exactly the same way. The female sheriff told me to “keep walking”. As I walked away per her orders, I voiced back “oh, you’re tough.” Apparently, that really hurt her fragile feelings because she and three other deputies tackled me, cuffed me and hauled me off to jail. Assholes don’t care if they ruin someone’s life and trample their rights.
Clintonville Pennsylvania,Chris Rapp put superglue in all the cop car locks. Way way past statute of limitations now,made the paper back in the day. He was living in the old post office building and working at the water treatment plant back in the 90's. He showed us the article.
Early 1970's. A wealthy neighborhood adjacent to the one I lived in hired a county deputy for security. My friends and I were under 18 and the city had a 11:00Pm curfew. We were in the front yard of my house. Deputy rolls up, asks what we are doing. We laughed - that pissed him off more than his "I am God" attitude that he had already. He open the back door to his patrol car and told us to get in. We laughed again. He turned red faced and started yelling for us to get in the car. My dad comes out and stands on the porch - yells out "What are you doing?" Deputy yells to my dad "I'm going to take these boys home and have a talk with their parents." Dad walks out and says "Ok, talk away." We stayed in the front yard - right at the property line for the sidewalk. Deputy then puts the pieces together and starts stumbling all over himself. Dad told him he better be On-duty, had better have a good reason other than us standing out in front of one of our homes and had better not enter private property. Deputy got a defeated look, said he will be watching us and got in his car and drove away. We got to stay out till like after 2:00Am. Deputy drove by a few times. We flipped him off each time. It was glorious.
What actually is the motivation for these nuts? We got "pulled over" ,on foot and accused and questioned by Peachtree City cops about stealing tractors. Yeah,pre teens stealing tractors. Double digit IQ's most of them.
That would have been my dad’s reaction back in the 70’s too! Parents today don’t stand up to tyrants in the schools or with a badge for their kids. It’s pathetic.
Back in the 70s and 80s everyone knew my dad, and therefor me. Oh, that's Bill kid, either it was a good thing, or a bad thing, depending. I will say though, the worst thing I had with the cops, was telling me my headlights were off once.
Back in the 70's for some reason I needed to go to the police station to get something. The cops said I needed I needed to show them a driver's license in order to a background check or whatever. So I came and filled out a form and the cop says "You live on Wedgemere Rd, do you know Andy Robustelli?" I said yes, we live 3 houses down from him. Cop gives me whatever I needed and never asked for any kind of ID.
As a retired cop, I agree 100% with you. A great many cops today have NO BUSINESS wearing badges. This truck driver's arrest is a glaring case in point!
Yep, if you’re a cop and can’t handle someone using their free speech in telling you what they think of that uniform you’re wearing, you need to find a new career.
@@GunClingingPalin you are so gullible , cops of his era were just as bad as modern cops the difference is modern cops are often videoed and their misdeeds exposed.
I had a similar experience as Steve. I was working at a tax office and was eating lunch in my car behind the building. I was wearing business clothes with a tie and an officer stopped and questioned me why I was there and asked for ID. After I told him he claimed to be concerned because they've had trouble with vandalism there. I asked him if he thought I looked like a vandal and where was the vandalism. I had worked there for 20 years and we had no such problems. He did choose to move along without making a big fuss but it should not have happened to begin with.
If you've ever had a couple of cops decide that having $300.00 in your wallet COULD BE for a drug purchase... then take it from you!! Glib would be way down on your list of responses. Don't think Civil Asset Forfeiture couldn't happen to you!
Tell the whole story though, Steve. He was probably eating his muffins in a _suspicious manner._ Maybe he licked them first. You know how those muffin-lickers are.
@@RobDucharme WTF? What kind of perverted monster doesn't eat the muffin top? We're gonna have to beat him into submission until he can explain himself to my satisfaction.
The problem, Steve, is that "Officers" are never held personally responsible = the TAXPAYERS are. ...one way to solve this abuse of badges is to make officers carry personal insurance - they pay out of pocket for their gross misconduct when they get sued.
We'd still end up paying for that insurance though. Better way would be to put it into law that at a certain point they can no longer hold a job in law enforcement. And that goes all the way up the ladder
I have a different thought. Cities pay projected liabilities into the pension fund. But then all liability claims come out of that pension fund, not out of legal funds. There are good cops and bad cops. Problem is the good cops won't cross that thin blue line and stand up for what is right. JUST WATCH when their pension takes a hit due to bad cops. Just watch that blue line break and bad cops weeded out.
The drivers mistake was not offering a muffin to the cops. perhaps he didn't bother because their heads were too far up their @sses to be able to eat one.
They're all human. Some are good, some are bad. Call out the bad ones, praise the good ones. The issue comes when training is inadequate and/or the bad ones aren't booted or charged.
@@kstricl That's very true. But thanks to Qualified Immunity and strong police unions, the bad ones are getting away without being booted or charged more often.
Steve, thank you for this great story ! I have a good one for you. A few Months ago, while driving home from work on route 40 in Silver Springs , Florida. I stopped to get gas, and when done, returned to state road 40. There was a stop sign and I did slow down...but kinda of rolled through the stop sign, albeit at a very slow speed. As soon as I made a right to get back on st road 40, I saw a Marion county Sheriff parked on the side of the road looking directly at me. Needless to say, his red and blue lights got activated immediately. I pulled over, rolled my window down, hands on the wheel and the deputy asked me for my papers. After handing him the paperwork, he asked me the following " Did you see the stop sign? " I replied, " Yes Sir, I did see the stop sign. What I did not see was you !". He started laughing, like he just heard the best joke ever. He gave me back my papers and let me go !. I can still remember seeing him walk away laughing. A deputy with a great sense of humor . They do exist after all. Abe D
I think he appreciated both your HONESTY, and your comedic talent. 😂. I have gotten out of many tickets in my life, just being honest, and copping to what I did, or not actually knowing how fast I was going, and that I could have been going, and most importantly, SHOULD NOT have been going, as fast as they clocked me at. Never did have a good line like that come to me though! 😂
LETS REMEMBER THE MAIL ORDERED BRIDE ON HER BUGGY RIDE TO HER NEW HOME. AFTER THE HORSE STUMBLES A 3RD TIME, WHICH THE FIRST TWO TIMES THE OWNER COUNTS..1-2- ON THE THIRD! SHOOTS THE HORSE DEAD! WHA??? SAYS THE NEW MAIL ORDER BRIDE..WHA????? THE NEW HUSBAND-SHOOTER SAYS; "THAT'S ONCE!"
I met a Texas State Trooper with a sense of humor. It was a cold, drizzling rain day and the trooper pulled me over. He asked me the ridiculous question, "Sir, do you know why I stopped you?" Me: "No sir, I don't. I wasn't speeding and had made no improper lane changes. " Him: "Sir, your inspection sticker is expired." Me, turning to my wife: "This is YOUR car, it ought to be YOUR ticket." Him, laughing out loud: "Just get it taken care of and drive carefully."
@@Idontanswerquestionz Such an asinine and over the top statement. I am sure you'd be the first person to call the police and expect them to protect you or help you, etc. if you needed them.
Yes! that's exactly what i was thinking too! Now I'm wondering about the San Bernardino County supervisors. I wonder what happens to them at election time? If they get reelected then shame on the citizens of San Bernardino County!
They don't like to admit wrongdoing, they Are the "law"! Also if they're convicted it becomes excessively difficult to prove your innocence, so once they do wrong the One way out Scott free is a conviction.
I am a truck driver. This happens frequently. We often make deliveries where the warehouse people have not arrived. The Police see us and ask us what we are doing. We are waiting for the warehouse people to arrive. Some Police Officers do not understand that we are making a delivery and assume we are engaging in some sort of suspicious behavior behavior.
I was a retail grocery manager for some years, and I can attest to just how common this exact activity is. Usually, the back doors are locked and alarmed, and the manager is the only one with keys. Drivers will show up with a load, and sometimes you're caught up with a customer or something and can't get to the door right away to let them in. Instead of waiting, they'll walk around, get a bite to eat, use the bathroom, and walk back around and hang out until the trailer is unloaded/reloaded with empty pallets and recycle. I'm glad this man got his dues, and I'm suspect of the authority these deputies even had on private property to enforce those rules. Usually, without a written agreement to enforce them, they can't just roll up on private property and start enforcing stuff like that. Had they bothered to ask the manager on duty, I'm sure they could have cleared it up. But instead, they were on a mission, and now the taxpayers are out half a mill. Not to mention the inconvenience to the business. They now have a truck blocking the dock, and may have had to have another CDL driver shipped to the store to remove it. In my area, the distribution center was in another state 5 hours away. Good job deputies!
I've got a bunch of dealership experience with OHV's. They usually come in crates, or on a trailer that's on the semi trailer. Forklift or a travel crane is used to unload. And then the parts department might get a few pallets showing up that also needed unloaded. More than 2-3 trucks at once, and they have to wait off property. Pretty common in any business that receives actual FREIGHT to have semi's waiting to be loaded or unloaded.
My question exactly! Why were the cops patrolling private property? I had two cops in their car ask me, while I was in my car, why I was in the lot after the grocery store was closed. It was maybe 5 minutes after their posted closing time . I told them I was waiting for my wife. The senior cop (just saying because he looked older than the other cop and he was driving, but I digress) then joked by asking if I was sure that it wasn't the girlfriend I was waiting for. I did not find any amusement on any level from his humor and stonefaced repeated that I was waiting for my wife. He tried to cover up his lack of comedic ability by telling me he was just joking. I said I didn't find it funny and more to the point insulting. He wisely decided to just apologize and move on without arguing about it. I knew why he was there and watched him go car to car that had someone in it and probably ask the same question of why they were there before he got to me. He was just doing his job of making sure the people in the cars had a plausible excuse for being there and if someone was planning some criminal act, they might be deterred from committing said act. I just wanted to answer his question and then be left alone. I didn't want to be his friend or be his fan boy by thanking him for his service, like a cuck. I just wanted him to leave.
Years ago a good friend who doesn't drink alcoholic beverages was stopped on his way home from a party at about 11pm on a Friday night at a roadside sobriety checkpoint. He was asked if he'd been drinking and he answered truthfully, 6 or 7. He failed to ad that the drinks were soda. He was told to get out of the car and was given a sobriety test, which he passed with flying colors. The LEO asked again how many drinks and what were they. He replied 6 or 7 sodas. The LEO got pissed off and asked why he hadn't specified that at first. My friend replied that you (LEO) hadn't specified what drinks. He was told to get back in his car and get out of there. 😂
I got pulled over for stopping at a red light for some roadworks. The officers logic was that it was a quiet road at 1am so most people would just drive through, so stopping was "suspicious". I passed the breathalyzer as I was stone cold sober. I wasn't that surprised to be stopped though as it was new years day.
@@hamishadamson4628 "got stopped for obeying the law, Pulled out of car, forced to blow, for obeying the law, then was released for obeying the law. I would have have fucking sued that entity.
I would be terrified by some random truck driver walking toward a truck carrying a manifest on a clipboard. Who knows what dangerous things he could do with that deadly weapon! 🤔...🙄🙄🙄
I've been trucking for over 40 years, this is classic truck driver. I guarantee that this wasn't this drivers first day. After a while you tend to develop a rather healthy cynicism
I drive a van, not a truck. But my back is sore, my knees are swollen and my feet are absolutely killing me after loading and unloading the back of it three or four times a day. I know how quickly someone can go from having a good day to totally losing their cool. It's usually something mundane and annoying as the last straw. Being asked what you're doing in a place where you are obviously supposed to be is one of those last straws.
@@Xbox360mIRC You can drive a city bus without a CDL?! I'd expect that to need something stronger than a CDL, not less - after all, you're transporting people, not apples.
Even railroaders love this story. Still remember my dad stating. "Giving a badge and gun to some people like giving a fur coat to a monkey. After a while the monkey thinks he's King Kong".
THANK GOD THE COPS WERE HARASSING TRUCK DRIVERS AND NOT BUSTING DRUG DEALERS OR CAR THIEVES OR BUGLERS. IT'S GREAT THAT THE COPS ARE KEEPING CRIME RATES HIGH,
I agree with you West Bay. However, I'd like to remind you that the voters in San Bernardino County elected these county supervisors and the Sheriff who put these numbskulls in office! If these supervisors and that sheriff are still in office next election cycle then I'd say you know a LOT about these tax payers. People who are so lazy and so apathetic that they refuse to be involved in their local government deserve exactly what they get. Agreed?
@@shawncook7656 sure, and those insurances just raise their fees and those are paided by - drum role please - the tax payer. But the insurance also has admin fees and lawyers. In a clear cut case, you need a lawyer! So the sum of all insurance fees paid excites the more payout out by the insurance - which is only economical for the insurance. So... why not self insure the police office? I mean, if the insurance goes belly up, the city has to pick up the bill "eitherway", so really, cutting out the middle man is beneficial for everyone.
When I was a taxi owner/operator a police officer threatened to charge another driver with vagrancy for parking in the corner of a public parking lot where we waited for calls. Vagrancy means no visible means of support. A taxi is a fairly visible means of support.
A friend of mine was charged with Vagrancy in Seattle because his ID had expired the day before and he didn't have at least $2 in his pocket. He did have a check for over $10000 in his wallet. But, he was charged really for being "a wiseass"
The man's employer should also sue for having their business interrupted and any lost product from sitting in the truck. That would teach cops not to harass employees.
I am an older man. My respect for LEO at the town and county level has been greatly reduced over time. It seems that those bottom law enforcement positions are often little dictators looking for people they can lord over. The facts and law mean nothing to them.
There was a study done on law enforcement officers. It found that not all LEO were bullies, but childhood bullies were attracted to being cops. It found that the cops with the most complaints were bullies in high school and/or Jr high school.
@poolenudel8453 I live in a very rural area. The closest town's population is only 1200 now. When I was a child in the 1950s, it was under 500 people. This had an effect of the local LEOs being of a higher quality for several reasons. 1) Everyone knew each other. That helped on both sides of law enforcement. The LEO was known and the LEO knew who he was dealing with. 2) Also a lot of the LEOs in that time frame where WWII veterans. Many of them had been is some real heavy combat. They did not need to prove themselves to anyone as they had already face death and won, so to speak.
@Poole Nudel it depends on the color of your skin, your parents level of respect for LEO, when you were born, and where you grew up. I grew up white, in a middle class suburb in the 70s, and my dad's only probably with LEO was getting speeding tickets or having to slip Chicago PD officers a $20. I had some respect because I knew most of the cops. There were a few assholes that I could see doing something violent. Now I see it as "there are no good cops if you're protecting bad cops".
But Steve, those deputies obviously thought the truck driver was a member of a gang that's been committing a lot of robberies lately using exactly that ruse. The lookout walks around holding a clipboard to make it look like he's working, and he usually eats a muffin while he's at it. They've become known as the Muffin Men, and they've been a particular problem around the Drury Lane area.
I no longer live in CA, however I have lived in LA County, San Diego, Alameda, Santa Clara and Ventura Counties. I was a disaster service volunteer for 30+ years. These stories warm my heart. Law enforcement officers take on a Duty and Responsibility. They are given limited authorities, not absolute or dictatorial powers.
I had the cops stop and ask me what I was doing once when I was standing in front of a school. It was evening, and I was in a residential area. I pointed at the sign I was standing next to and said, "waiting for the bus". You'd think it would be obvious when you're at a bus stop, wouldn't you? This was in Orange County, CA (I won't name the city). I was then interrogated as to where I was going, what time the bus was coming, etc. Apparently I just looked suspicious. I was on my way to work. I was working a night shift at the time. One of many interactions with police that has made me never trust them.
Police officers get paid to waste your time, it's called "fishing". If they can't find anything they'll try to get you to keep talking long enough for them to arrest you on something. That's why it's a good idea to just never talk to police.
When I was about 10, I was fishing in a small town when one of the two police officers drives up, get's out of the car, and then asks me if I knew I was on private property. I replied that I did because my grandmother is the owner and then informed him he was trespassing. He was not entertained by that answer, but then he let me be. I figured he should know better seeing as my great-grandfather developed the area and I had been fishing there for years.
Why did the police officer at all bother? Had anyone complained about trespassing? Did he really have nothing else better to do just idling around bothering others? I think that it is the property owner, not the police, that should take action in the first place. Then the bear could react. That is at least how it is in Denmark.
Some AH officers confuse a nimble verbal “fighting” stance with a physical threat. Their adrenaline spikes like an AH parent. The cuffs = a belt whippin’.
A guy I used to work with was in a bar with his wife one night. He came back from the restroom to find "Leisure Suit Larry" hitting on his wife, who was very uncomfortable. The guy told the douchebag to back off and leave his wife alone. Next thing he knows, he's on the floor handcuffed. Douchebag was a cop. Don't remember the exact outcome, but he never got an apology and douchebag didn't face any sort of discipline. In my small circle of middle-class friends and acquaintances, I know more people who have had highly unpleasant "run-ins" with bad cops than who have been victims of violent crime.
I've never once had anything but antagonistic encounters with the pigs. Not one of them has ever approached me with politeness. It's all just dick swinging for them. There is no such thing as a good cop. Even the ones who aren't A-holes will still stick up for the ones that are A-holes. If you allow evil to persist when you have the ability to stop it, you are also evil. Period.
Jackass was disrespecting the hell out of a woman in a local bar that I frequented when I was fresh out of the service and in my early 20's. This was a pretty big guy and a tiny little woman who looked half his age. I ordered my drink and as I turned to walk away I told him that if he grew a pair meet me out back or was acting like an ass to women his true speed. As I made my way towards the exit door there was two out of state local cops sitting at the table. Both of them knew me well. The older one asked if I realized the rude dude was a State Police officer from their state. I replied nope but he is about to learn which side of the state line he is drinking and making an ass of himself on though. Big boy walked around behind the bar and ended up sleeping it off in our local jail. He wasn't happy with the lump on his head the next morning. But what could he do. my buddy from high school was the deputy that picked his out cold self up from in the alley and drove him to jail. Just because he carried a badge did not make much difference once he crossed the State line. 10 years later that jackass got arrested for molesting a minor. So no I don't feel bad about checking his attitude that night.
Had the same thing happen to my wife. I walked in and told the guy to back off. Got all up in my fa e until his friend pulled him back. Still don't understand the do you know who I am argument.
I came back, after hundreds of more videos, I NEEDED to see this again! To see this refreshed me, so many cops, being so bad! we all need to know sometimes they pay for it
That's a great story. Back in my youth I used to get harassed by the local police for simply walking/jogging/biking at night. Usually from my friend's house to mine. When the cops used to stop me and ask "what are you doing"? I would also reply "walking." Of course, I didn't know better and after they demanded my ID I would hand it over. When biking or jogging and they'd ask the same question, I'd reply "biking" or "jogging" depending on what I was doing. Then they'd follow up with "why"? I'd say "because it's faster than walking" then they'd demand my ID again. The police are the enemy of the people.
@@MagicHamsta They are, obviously, looking for a guilty person exhibiting signs of a guilty person who has done something wrong. The problem is when they THINK they found a/some guilty person/people and don't find any signs or evidence of a crime. That's when they may start fabricating shit and being corrupt assholes. Pulling over and asking what a person is doing? Perfectly fine.
@@contumelious-8440 there’s a list floating around the internet somewhere of every single behavior that police have testified in court constitutes suspicious behavior. Among many others, the list includes looking at police, not looking at police, making eye contact, avoiding eye contact, driving over the speed limit, driving under the speed limit, driving exactly at the speed limit, being agitated when talking to a cop, being calm when talking to a cop, being serious, making jokes, tapping fingers, keeping their fingers still, and living in/working in/just passing through any area that has any crime at all in it. Or put another way, there is no human behavior whatsoever that police don’t find so incredibly suspicious they immediately detain the person doing it.
Regarding your pizza story. I am sadly related to one of the worst cops to ever wear a badge. That said, he once told me that the quickest way to receive unwanted attention from law enforcement is to "look like you're having fun". This has proven to be a very true statement.
I heard the same from many navy veterans. Stay out of sight. The sonar room is good because it is insulated from sound and the doors are locked. Propeller shaft alley is another good place to catch some Z's
@@sd906238 I concur with the above statement. Sometimes being in sight on a ship works even better. Walking around a ship "with purpose" gets you ignored. Rudder room was always nice and warm also.
This is precisely why I grin or smile and shake my head when I deal with or find myself confronted by the thugs in uniform. 1. It irritates the heck out of them 2. what they don't know and what I never divulge is I do this because I pity them. True story - you see... one would have to be a seriously damaged individual enduring such mental agony that you need to dress up in a costume and go accuse, or frame, maim or murder someone who you don't even know for a damn paycheck. !!
@@bruceayers512 In the corporate world, always carry paperwork so you don’t look like you’re just walking around. One job I had, I often carried a clipboard when going from zone to zone so it looked like I was busy instead of just going to visit my coworker. 😂
We had an officer that would kick us off the school playground for playing basketball and other games on weekends. We just did as we were told in the 60s. One day after getting told to go home a neighbor asked us what that officer said to us. The neighbor was good friends with the chief of police. We were never kicked off the playground again.
Back when people stuck up for each other, and any parent in the neighborhood could punish you for your bad behavior. Some things were much better then, unfortunately many people did not change with the times and it has caused a lot of trouble.
Except that every single dollar in the depts and paid to officers is actually tax payers money. There literally is no PD or officer money that didnt come from taxpayers. Fire them and make thrm get real job and then pay!
That's the same pot of money. They might have to cut school lunch and librarians, but cutting PD budget hardly ever happens. Police has a lot of power in every town, and they stick together via the police unions that prevents even very bad cops from ever seeing consequences for actions. I am all for unions, but police unions have been a blight on justice and a guarantor for abuse a very long time now.
The police have no problem continuing to give Steve Lehto all the content he needs to keep his channel going for decades to come. They are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
My son tried to get into Law Enforcement for several years, but basically was refused because he wasn't aggressive enough. He's now a postal carrier and we are so glad he never made it into the other job.
I know people who switched from city police to county sheriff for the reason that city police start to develop an antagonistic culture against their local citizens. Probably because most of the citizens they encounter tend to have an antagonistic culture against the police. Sheriffs Dept. tend to be a bit more chill, and since the sheriff is an elected position they can be a bit more directly accountable to the public rather than loosely accountable to a city's government that changes every few years.
Steve....not sure if you look at the comments, however, though this might be the best one you feel you have talked about...all your stories have not only been enjoyable but they have helped many people (I personally feel) not only to understand the laws but also their rights. Keep up the exceptional work you are doing.
I just went to my mirror with 2 muffins in my hand and tried my best to do a a fighting stance but I just laughed at myself and said "You're not tough with those damn muffins"
Real men don't fight with throwing stars and brass knuckles, they fight with muffins. Saw off a muffin top and you can zing that thing like a throwing star. Might scratch someone's cornea.
My cousin and I were fishing at a pond when we were kids and an officer pulled up and asked us what we were doing. My cousin, in the most dead pan voice ever, responded, "We're drowning worms." We were on private property, but we had permission. We explained it to the cop and he left, but still, the greatest response ever.
@David Ivey - if I was the coo I would have laughed my ass off. I remember when me and my friends were like 14 or 15, well none of us were old enough to have our license yet anyways, we had the great idea to go for a joyride in his moms car while she was gone. We drove around for hours. Stopped by another friends house, and told him to come with us. His reply “No. you guys are idiots and your gonna get pulled over.” We left his house not 5 blocks later, BAM! Red and blues. Lol. As soon as we pulled over my friend driving said “Shit. I forgot to turn the headlights back on.” The cop comes up asks what we were doing, we said we were just leaving our friends house.Then he asked if we knew why he pulled us over. My friend said yea he forgot to turn the headlights on. Then asks for our license… he said he didn’t have it. Then he asked my other buddy, and he didn’t have it either. He looks back at me and I said nope. So he asks what the hell we were out doing driving around with no license, and we told him we were just wanting to learn to drive. He tells us he is going to follow us back to his moms house. When we went to take off, he stalled the car (it was a manual transmission). Then he started it back up and he stalled it again. Third time was the charm though. Haha. We get back to his house, and thankfully his mom wasn’t home. He lectured us about driving without our license and told us “Here you are out driving without a license and you can’t drive for shit!” He said he was gonna come back in the morning and talk to his mom. He never did though. We told her all about it the next morning thogh. Some cops are really cool. Some are asses. Just like any other population of people. The asses get more attention that the good ones
@@aerofart You have never been fishing before have you? Haha. There is no “attempted” about it. Those worms are toast well before a fish gets them. Either when the hook tears holes all through their body, or when you throw them in the water and drown their ass.
I have to tell a story here! I'm all for police and think we need more of them. However, I knew someone who worked for a university security department who got on the city police force. I ran into him some years later in a bar and he walked up to me and said: "This is a great job. I get to f*ck with people and they pay me for it"! He was not cracking a smile as he said that!
2 stories from my youth. 1st, went to a bowling alley with a group of friends after church one evening. Place was packed, so we turned around and left. Walked out to our cars and were discussing where else we could go. Police/security came out from inside and told us to quit loitering, get in our cars and leave. Didn't want to hear an excuse about looking for somewhere else to go. So we left, and never went back to that bowling alley again. 2nd. Couple years later, I'm a manager at a roller skating rink. Just locked up and me and a couple of friends were standing out on the porch chatting when the local PD pulled up and griped about us loitering (there was a no loitering sign right above us). Showed him when I unlocked the door and we all just walked back inside leaving him standing by his car.
Story 2, this is why community policing is important, Bet that cop never once came in and buy a cold pop, shoot the breeze with the workers and manager. Thank them for the cold pop. Then that Night he comes pulling in acting all high and mighty, instead of lifting his jaw off the ground, (when you unlocked went inside) , he could have said, "Hi Cheeto4493 is going ok?" you could have responded ,, "Everything Fine". or "Need some help here"
I worked at a relatively hippy pizza and craft beer place that gave a ten percent discount to any public safety employees who came in wearing their uniforms, or got takeout, and we would often fully comp deliveries to their police/fire station, hospital etc. The amount of good-will you get back in return is amazing, even the delivery drivers got a little more leeway on the road when the cops got free or discounted food.
A few years ago in Suffolk County N.Y. I was called by the S.C.P.D. to the scene of a collision in the left lane of a 6 lane limited access highway Rt 495 Long Island Expressway. I pulled into the left lane 1/8 mile from the wreck. I was stopped at the scene and issued a ticket for being in the left lane with a commercial vehicle and told if I went into the left lane again my truck would be impounded. The Trooper at the wreck did not say a word when I was getting the ticket. So when he than told me to remove the car I told him to block the center and right lane so I could remove it. His question and his Captain question was "why?" You heard the other officers statement to me along with my ticket at the scene. . . A twenty minute tow with a single lane closure turned into a 1 hour tow with 3 lamers closed ans a 3 mile back up.
Road pirates repeatedly use the same methods to turn nothing into something and get off scott free. Even when the victims are cleared, the cops sued, it's the tax payers that pay. This has to change.
I drove tractor trailers for 25 years delivering to Winn Dixie stores. Our drivers had countless encounters with law enforcement officers similar to the facts of this case. More commonly though we encountered cops parked in front of and blocking the delivery docks. One time in Jacksonville the cops refused to move their vehicles that were blocking the delivery docks. They only moved after a lengthy argument with the Store Manager. Then the same cops waited for the driver to leave so they could stop him and issue bogus tickets for running a stop sign and failure to use turn signals.
Remember the stories we heard people tell us and we thought they weren’t telling the story correctly and maybe embellished? I think we can safely say those stories were very likely true.
The only time I had trouble with the cops was in the scales. One guy threatened to shut me down for 8 hours because my dispatcher kept using the "alert" feature on the Nextel. Finally, I had to tell him, "I'm standing here with the radio in my hand, just key the mic, I'll respond." Another one held me up for an hour because his computer told him the company I was driving for, Hughes Pool Supply, hauled fruits and vegetables. A little flippantly I said, "Well, your computer is wrong, you know how they are!" I had my delivery manifest, which showed I had done deliveries to 5 swimming pool supply stores in Kentucky and Ohio. It was literally written on the truck, Hughes Pool Supply.
Was watching an episode of FSC Trucking on YT. Guy hauls oversized loads on a drop flatbed around the country. Hauled a Fire Truck to Jacksonville FL & had to go through the FL Agricultural Inspection Station.
@@jamessimms415 we all do sometimes. I did flatbed for 6 years. I've been stopped with steel coils. There's a slim bit of legitimacy because if invasive species.
@waltstrait5807 You hauled what your dispatcher said you were picking up. We only delivered swimming pool supplies to our customers, retail pool supply stores and installers. We weren't for hire.
Had a cop stop me as I was biking to the store near me. Ask what I was doing. "Minding my own damn business". He was mad. Couldn't do anything because the chief pulled up. I worked at a restaurant at the time. The chief and his wife were regular customers at the restaurant. I chatted with him for a bit. Mentioned in passing that the patrol officer was a bit nasty and needed to deal with actual problems. Chief came down hard on the fool, gave him desk duty.
Strange but true story, several years ago a "detective" on the sheriff's dept. was running for sheriff and came to talk to a group of us. He said that he had been a detective for several years on the dept. and was running for sheriff to help improve our community. He tried to get us to believe that it wasn't about income and said " I don't even know how much the sheriff gets for a salary" ! I told a buddy "He must be some detective that he doesn't know the salary of the office, which is public knowledge!" Makes you wonder why?
I once got surrounded by three cop cars while setting in a mall parking lot. It was after the mall had closed. I was in the parking lot to meet my friend's parents. They were supposed to meet us there so he could finish riding home with them and they were late. The male officer asked me what I was doing. I said I was waiting for my friend's parents to show up. The officer countered with. "Likely story". So a female officer stepped up and asked the same question. I responded with, "I am an alien from another planet, I just go here and was learning to drive in the parking lot." To which nobody laughed. I finished with, "I told you the truth and you didn't believe me so I figured I would tell you a story." I am so lucky that I didn't go to jail that night. Or maybe unlikely. I might be the recipient of 500,000.
As a retired truck driver I enjoyed that as much as you obviously enjoyed the telling . The sad part is the officers will be subject to Zero repercussions for their stupidity ignorance and corrupt behaviour, they’ve probably got away with stuff like this before and some innocent person has been fined / jailed / lost their job over false charges and because there’s no consequences for the officers they’ll likely do it again tomorrow . Thank you anyway for highlighting but maybe add their names ?
Just exactly How many people's lives did you RUIN?, How many reports did you embellish/ lie on?, How many times have you lied to everybody?,10's of thousands?, How many and how much money have you extorted from innocent people?, How many people have you COLD BLOODEDLY MURDERED? You did have Qualified Immunity.
As a truck driver, I had a similar thing happen to me in GA. Except in my case it was a lieutenant... my truck broke down on a 2 lane rd and I moved it over as far as I could with my hazards on. After about 3 hours the Lt. walked up to me and proceeded to yell at me that I couldn't park there because it was a safety hazard... I then looked directly at said Lt and said " gee officer, if I had the ability to pick and choose WHERE my truck was gonna break down, do you REALLY think I would WILLINGLY CHOOSE to break down on a 2 lane rd, in GA, with no cell phone service?🤷♂️ The cop looked at me, thought about it for a second, and said " well, probably not." Then he proceeded to call me a wrecker to tow me ASAP, and since it was cold, let me warm up in the front seat of his car... to this day, it's the ONLY time I spent time in the FRONT seat of a cop car😏
They arrested him, spent the night in jail. Another driver had to be sent to recover the truck that was blocking the dock at the store. The driver, being arrested probably got fired. Now this happened in 2019 so he was potentially not able to be a truck driver for almost 4 years! $500,000 was WAY to small of a settlement. He also now has an arrest record.
He could have petitioned the court at the lawsuit to find him “factually innocent” and have arrest record expunged. And if he got fired, he could easily have won that suit as well. Hopefully his employers were in the suit as co-plaintiffs, as they certainly would have had monetary losses as well.
As a LEO I used to make contact by stating why I was approaching a citizen. "Good evening, I'm officer xxx. I've been called here because xxx. Why are you here?"
I used to work for the AZAFIS section (fingerprint section) at Arizona's Dept of Public Safety (DPS, state police) and I learned something interesting. My job took me into most of the jails in the state maintaining the fingerprint scanner equipment and I learned that most if not all the agencies give IQ tests before hiring officers. The surprising part is that they were not being tested to make sure that their IQ was HIGH enough! Supposedly people with higher IQ don't make good officers because they tend to not follow orders to the letter and they get bored doing stakeouts, guard or traffic duty, and foot canvasing. Quite literally, officers are only hired if they have a LOW enough IQ, at least in AZ. This is appalling but it makes sense.
That's pretty common in alot of places. The powers that be don't want an intelligent highly educated workforce either.there afraid of bring overthrown.
As a Marine stationed in Yuma (for 9 total years) and working with the Sheriff's office plus local police, I can Agree with the Above statement from Mike. Some of the Deputies where Retired Marines and should have stayed Retired.
The unfortunate part of this story is that the settlement will come out of taxpayers' pockets. The officers in question might be reprimanded, but they won't be held personally liable.
This needs to change! When cops violate your rights they should be held personally responsible for damages. This would weed out the assholes cops pretty quick.
I’m told by my state trooper friend that many deputy types are basically mall cops as far as their training, but are virtually untouchable as far as their authority. 🤷♂️
I'm a truck driver and I live near apple valley i'm not surprised to hear this .... I'm actually surprised they didn't beat him down. The police pretty corrupt out here.
Never ceases to amaze me how so many poorly informed officers don't understand how businesses operate. They literally NEED CUSTOMERS, and if they are selling a product, there WILL BE deliveries. AND ~95% of the time, businesses operate on PRIVATE property.
As an Apple Valley resident I can confirm this is normal behavior for our local police I was recently questioned for cleaning a garage. Same story as here minus the arrest. Police: what are you doing Me: do you have eyes
Meanwhile the guy cleaning the garage on the next block was actually cleaning it out because he’s a burglar. Try not taking everything so personal. If it had been a burglar rather than you, would you have wanted the cop to just ignore him?
"I'm baking a meringue." "I'm skinning an aardvark." "I'm teaching a class in advanced robotics." One you likely shouldn't use: "I'm talking to an idiot."
I used to be an owner operator and specialized in time sensitive and temperature controlled transport to and from Alaska. When crossing into Canada from Alaska the Canadian Border agent asked me if I was loaded or empty. I replied empty. The next question from the border agent was: What you mean by empty? I asked him if that was a trick question. He looked pissed and his coworker busted out laughing.
LIKE ANY COUNTRY! THE NEED TO RE-FILL TAXPAYING SQUIRRELS AS A METHODOLOGY FOR MILITARY AGRESSION'S TO CITIZEN FEARS OF OTHERS, NEEDS EMPLOYENT FUNDING. HE ( THE PISSED GOT THE PROMOTION ). COULDA SAID? IN THE VERNACULAR? OR PHONIC? mt?
I come from a law enforcement family. Two of my sons are law enforcement officers. Never law enforcement myself, i was trained as a SWAT medic in an all hazards fire and rescue department. I worked with, trained and/or was trained by various local, state, Federal, military and foreign law enforcement officers and agents for decades. I have lost all respect and all trust in today's law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies. These deputies need hard and long prison time. I'm serious. Sic Semper Tyranus
"Is it hard to breath with your head that far up your ass" will be the new anthem repeated by everyone involved in a wrongful arrest from this point forward. Thanks Steve!
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No one does a better job of making law enforcement look bad than law-enforcement
No one has done more to defund the police than the police.
@@AtomicBuffaloonly 9 days in 2022 where they didn’t kill someone. Made up for it on the other days. Think their total was 1,232 or 1,323 either way it was that number too many.
RIGHT
What I want to know is what was the instigating factor in both stories for the police asking the questions? Otherwise, they just come off as cops looking to F with people, and they are in the wrong.
@A Bison I agree with the OP in that even the good cops can overreact and look foolish in the eyes of the public and the law. But , with the calls to defund the police it is usually based on a small number of cops acting illegally while performing their duties. The vast majority of police interactions that happen daily in the country happen without incident. In this day and age, you can bet that every police interaction is being recorded by one or more sources. So no, the "defund" cry is totally on the part of the woke leftist grifters trying to scam money out of public outrage using out of context and mischaracterized police interactions. Not all interactions are that way but none are sanctioned by any department when officers act illegally.
Finished pumping gas at a convenience store, I put the pump handle away, and started to make my way to the convenience store. An officer then walks up to me to ask me where I was going and I told him inside the store. He proceeded to step-up to me and tell me that the gas pump was not a parking spot and that I had to move my truck "right now".
In my life, I have never been in situation where an officer showed up and made things better.
Never trust cops
YES SOMEN FOLKS SHOULD NOT BECOME COPS NO COMMON SENSE
His personal feelings became law in his own mind like most of the over paid haul monitors.
The police department doesn't hire people for their intelligence.
On private property and you conducting a business transaction is none of his business, and the cop should have been told so. And then shared with the cop, he needs to buzz off and go prevent crimes. Real crimes, and not harassing citizens
If I cost my company 500k
..I guarantee I wouldn't have a job.
Agree! AND They cost the taxpayers $500K! Thats the really terrible thing.
I've seen retail workers cost the company 100 dollars and get fired.
Any job would fire you ASAP! But cops NO. Taxpayers pay for their crimes 😂. That’s why cops don’t give 2 fuks.
As a truck driver for over 18 years who has been hassled by law enforcement while in the duties of my job. This story brings me untold amount of joy and warms my heart beyond words. This was a victory for my people. Blowing my air horn right now to celebrate 👍
I drove tractor trailers for over 30 years and before I started driving Trucks I Never realized it was such a Crime to Drive Trucks...
Careful, apparently wanting good clean cops makes you far left. They tell you to call a crackhead next time instead of them
Don't be driving and texting dude
@@everythingpony- don't worry, he's not. He's driving and youtube commenting
Why are you watching RUclips while you drive? Maybe you deserve the hassle
I was arrested by when I was 16 years old by Los Angeles Sheriff Dept for answering the same question in exactly the same way. The female sheriff told me to “keep walking”. As I walked away per her orders, I voiced back “oh, you’re tough.” Apparently, that really hurt her fragile feelings because she and three other deputies tackled me, cuffed me and hauled me off to jail. Assholes don’t care if they ruin someone’s life and trample their rights.
Clintonville Pennsylvania,Chris Rapp put superglue in all the cop car locks. Way way past statute of limitations now,made the paper back in the day. He was living in the old post office building and working at the water treatment plant back in the 90's.
He showed us the article.
this is exactly why cops don't deserve respect
Wow, you should be a very rich man.
They're always on a power trip. And I swear resisting arrest is their favorite charge.
You could also have controlled your mouth.
Early 1970's. A wealthy neighborhood adjacent to the one I lived in hired a county deputy for security. My friends and I were under 18 and the city had a 11:00Pm curfew. We were in the front yard of my house. Deputy rolls up, asks what we are doing. We laughed - that pissed him off more than his "I am God" attitude that he had already. He open the back door to his patrol car and told us to get in. We laughed again. He turned red faced and started yelling for us to get in the car. My dad comes out and stands on the porch - yells out "What are you doing?" Deputy yells to my dad "I'm going to take these boys home and have a talk with their parents." Dad walks out and says "Ok, talk away." We stayed in the front yard - right at the property line for the sidewalk. Deputy then puts the pieces together and starts stumbling all over himself. Dad told him he better be On-duty, had better have a good reason other than us standing out in front of one of our homes and had better not enter private property. Deputy got a defeated look, said he will be watching us and got in his car and drove away. We got to stay out till like after 2:00Am. Deputy drove by a few times. We flipped him off each time. It was glorious.
What actually is the motivation for these nuts?
We got "pulled over" ,on foot and accused and questioned by Peachtree City cops about stealing tractors. Yeah,pre teens stealing tractors.
Double digit IQ's most of them.
That would have been my dad’s reaction back in the 70’s too! Parents today don’t stand up to tyrants in the schools or with a badge for their kids. It’s pathetic.
Back in the 70s and 80s everyone knew my dad, and therefor me. Oh, that's Bill kid, either it was a good thing, or a bad thing, depending. I will say though, the worst thing I had with the cops, was telling me my headlights were off once.
@@TheCheshireMadcat I guarantee that we had fun!
Back in the 70's for some reason I needed to go to the police station to get something. The cops said I needed I needed to show them a driver's license in order to a background check or whatever. So I came and filled out a form and the cop says "You live on Wedgemere Rd, do you know Andy Robustelli?" I said yes, we live 3 houses down from him. Cop gives me whatever I needed and never asked for any kind of ID.
As a retired cop, I agree 100% with you. A great many cops today have NO BUSINESS wearing badges. This truck driver's arrest is a glaring case in point!
YES I AGREE,,,,,,,,,,,,,NO COMMON SENSE AT ALL
Yep, if you’re a cop and can’t handle someone using their free speech in telling you what they think of that uniform you’re wearing, you need to find a new career.
This truck driver's arrest is a terrifying reminder that you can be arrested *even if you didn't break the law.*
@@GunClingingPalin you are so gullible , cops of his era were just as bad as modern cops the difference is modern cops are often videoed and their misdeeds exposed.
@@GunClingingPalin that’s why I believe 90% of the good ones have either retired or quit by now.
I had a similar experience as Steve. I was working at a tax office and was eating lunch in my car behind the building. I was wearing business clothes with a tie and an officer stopped and questioned me why I was there and asked for ID. After I told him he claimed to be concerned because they've had trouble with vandalism there. I asked him if he thought I looked like a vandal and where was the vandalism. I had worked there for 20 years and we had no such problems. He did choose to move along without making a big fuss but it should not have happened to begin with.
as soon as he asked for your id, you should have asked for his tax return...
I'd like to send this video to every person that's ever said, "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from the police."
Every one of them will answer that if you aren’t polite to police you’re doing something wrong.
@@AtomicBuffalo if someone genuinely responded with that, I'd laugh in their face.
There's to much proof out there for anyone to say those words 😂
@@maximus-hl9jw And yet people keep saying it.
@@AtomicBuffalo And those people are part of the problem. Being rude is not unlawful.
I was expecting a story about civil asset forfeiture being ruled unconstitutional
That would be pretty awesome
If you've ever had a couple of cops decide that having $300.00 in your wallet COULD BE for a drug purchase... then take it from you!! Glib would be way down on your list of responses. Don't think Civil Asset Forfeiture couldn't happen to you!
We can only hope!
And the asset was a RV
We can dream
It’s a big power trip for people who love being a bully.
The worst part is the officers will not have to personally pay anything, which they should!
Tell the whole story though, Steve. He was probably eating his muffins in a _suspicious manner._ Maybe he licked them first. You know how those muffin-lickers are.
I bet he was eating the bottom and in the process of tossing the top...
@@RobDucharme WTF? What kind of perverted monster doesn't eat the muffin top? We're gonna have to beat him into submission until he can explain himself to my satisfaction.
Hey, now! 😆
Cop mistook it for a donut
@@RobDucharme Crime against humanity.!
The problem, Steve, is that "Officers" are never held personally responsible = the TAXPAYERS are.
...one way to solve this abuse of badges is to make officers carry personal insurance - they pay out of pocket for their gross misconduct when they get sued.
We'd still end up paying for that insurance though.
Better way would be to put it into law that at a certain point they can no longer hold a job in law enforcement. And that goes all the way up the ladder
A N D take their pensions!!!
@@TheCarpenterUnionYes we would pay for their insurance, but if the carrier decided not to cover someone…
Qualified immunity needs to be rescinded first!
I have a different thought. Cities pay projected liabilities into the pension fund. But then all liability claims come out of that pension fund, not out of legal funds.
There are good cops and bad cops. Problem is the good cops won't cross that thin blue line and stand up for what is right. JUST WATCH when their pension takes a hit due to bad cops. Just watch that blue line break and bad cops weeded out.
The cops don't hire the sharpest knives in the drawer. That's why they get sued so often.
Ron White said: "I know I have the right to remain silent.....I just don't have the ability"
“He was eating his muffins because that’s what you do when you buy muffins.” 😂😂😂
I laughed way to hard at this
Let’s be honest, muffins are just cup cakes for adults!
The drivers mistake was not offering a muffin to the cops. perhaps he didn't bother because their heads were too far up their @sses to be able to eat one.
😹 I would ask for my attorney at that point
Too
I made the same comment and then I saw this. 😅
Once upon a time I thought all law enforcement were heroes. Now I have to doubt ALL of them. Sad.
@Brian Dawson no it didn't, they just got away with it because of the lack of recordings.
They're all human. Some are good, some are bad. Call out the bad ones, praise the good ones. The issue comes when training is inadequate and/or the bad ones aren't booted or charged.
Bad cops have always existed. The only thing that’s changed is that we have digital cameras available to the general public now.
@@kstricl That's very true. But thanks to Qualified Immunity and strong police unions, the bad ones are getting away without being booted or charged more often.
Too many are too busy being police officers rather than being peace officers.
As a fellow delivery driver, the thought that I could be detained/arrested for "loitering" *while making a delivery* is mind-boggling.
Steve, thank you for this great story !
I have a good one for you. A few Months ago, while driving home from work on route 40 in Silver Springs , Florida. I stopped to get gas, and when done, returned to state road 40. There was a stop sign and I did slow down...but kinda of rolled through the stop sign, albeit at a very slow speed. As soon as I made a right to get back on st road 40, I saw a Marion county Sheriff parked on the side of the road looking directly at me. Needless to say, his red and blue lights got activated immediately. I pulled over, rolled my window down, hands on the wheel and the deputy asked me for my papers. After handing him the paperwork, he asked me the following " Did you see the stop sign? " I replied, " Yes Sir, I did see the stop sign. What I did not see was you !". He started laughing, like he just heard the best joke ever. He gave me back my papers and let me go !. I can still remember seeing him walk away laughing. A deputy with a great sense of humor . They do exist after all.
Abe D
AHHH ALWAYS TO HERE A GOOD ENCOUNTER
THERE ARE GOOD COPS OUT THERE
I think he appreciated both your HONESTY, and your comedic talent. 😂. I have gotten out of many tickets in my life, just being honest, and copping to what I did, or not actually knowing how fast I was going, and that I could have been going, and most importantly, SHOULD NOT have been going, as fast as they clocked me at.
Never did have a good line like that come to me though! 😂
LETS REMEMBER THE MAIL ORDERED BRIDE ON HER BUGGY RIDE TO HER NEW HOME. AFTER THE HORSE STUMBLES A 3RD TIME, WHICH THE FIRST TWO TIMES THE OWNER COUNTS..1-2- ON THE THIRD! SHOOTS THE HORSE DEAD! WHA??? SAYS THE NEW MAIL ORDER BRIDE..WHA????? THE NEW HUSBAND-SHOOTER SAYS; "THAT'S ONCE!"
I met a Texas State Trooper with a sense of humor. It was a cold, drizzling rain day and the trooper pulled me over. He asked me the ridiculous question, "Sir, do you know why I stopped you?"
Me: "No sir, I don't. I wasn't speeding and had made no improper lane changes. "
Him: "Sir, your inspection sticker is expired."
Me, turning to my wife: "This is YOUR car, it ought to be YOUR ticket."
Him, laughing out loud: "Just get it taken care of and drive carefully."
"There are people drawn to law enforcement who shouldn't be in law enforcement." Nailed it!
In psychology it's well known that anyone who seeks power shouldn't have any. And being a cop is a huge amount of power over the lives of others.
99% of cops should not be cops. Law enforcement, I don't need law enforcement. That is asking for more tyranny.
@@trumpisthemessiah7017 And the people who should have power avoid seeking it.
And the "good" cops say nothing. Making them bad cops. So no cops are good cops
@@Idontanswerquestionz Such an asinine and over the top statement. I am sure you'd be the first person to call the police and expect them to protect you or help you, etc. if you needed them.
What's actually ludicrous is that the state or city took this to court to the point if a jury trial.
Yes! that's exactly what i was thinking too!
Now I'm wondering about the San Bernardino County supervisors.
I wonder what happens to them at election time?
If they get reelected then shame on the citizens of San Bernardino County!
Courts lining their pockets shaking down some defenseless persons
They don't like to admit wrongdoing, they Are the "law"! Also if they're convicted it becomes excessively difficult to prove your innocence, so once they do wrong the One way out Scott free is a conviction.
@@skippylippy547nothing!🙏🙏👍💪
The DA dropped charges he probably sued for civil rights violations.
ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY NOW!
Save taxpayers the burden of paying these suits!
I am a truck driver. This happens frequently. We often make deliveries where the warehouse people have not arrived. The Police see us and ask us what we are doing. We are waiting for the warehouse people to arrive. Some Police Officers do not understand that we are making a delivery and assume we are engaging in some sort of suspicious behavior behavior.
I'm sure the aggressive posture was the truck driver taking a defensive posture, to protect his muffins from the donut patrol.
Oh! the muffin man the muffin man..........How does the rest of that song go?
😂😂😂😂😂
I was a retail grocery manager for some years, and I can attest to just how common this exact activity is. Usually, the back doors are locked and alarmed, and the manager is the only one with keys. Drivers will show up with a load, and sometimes you're caught up with a customer or something and can't get to the door right away to let them in. Instead of waiting, they'll walk around, get a bite to eat, use the bathroom, and walk back around and hang out until the trailer is unloaded/reloaded with empty pallets and recycle. I'm glad this man got his dues, and I'm suspect of the authority these deputies even had on private property to enforce those rules. Usually, without a written agreement to enforce them, they can't just roll up on private property and start enforcing stuff like that. Had they bothered to ask the manager on duty, I'm sure they could have cleared it up. But instead, they were on a mission, and now the taxpayers are out half a mill. Not to mention the inconvenience to the business. They now have a truck blocking the dock, and may have had to have another CDL driver shipped to the store to remove it. In my area, the distribution center was in another state 5 hours away. Good job deputies!
WINCO stands for Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, and this should give you some context about the geographical reach of the company.
I've got a bunch of dealership experience with OHV's. They usually come in crates, or on a trailer that's on the semi trailer.
Forklift or a travel crane is used to unload. And then the parts department might get a few pallets showing up that also needed unloaded.
More than 2-3 trucks at once, and they have to wait off property.
Pretty common in any business that receives actual FREIGHT to have semi's waiting to be loaded or unloaded.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou It was a different name when I was living in Boise back in 94-96, Waremart. They did the best beef jerky.
The cop didn't want an explanation, he wanted to abuse his power like I'm sure he does regularly
My question exactly! Why were the cops patrolling private property? I had two cops in their car ask me, while I was in my car, why I was in the lot after the grocery store was closed. It was maybe 5 minutes after their posted closing time . I told them I was waiting for my wife. The senior cop (just saying because he looked older than the other cop and he was driving, but I digress) then joked by asking if I was sure that it wasn't the girlfriend I was waiting for. I did not find any amusement on any level from his humor and stonefaced repeated that I was waiting for my wife. He tried to cover up his lack of comedic ability by telling me he was just joking. I said I didn't find it funny and more to the point insulting. He wisely decided to just apologize and move on without arguing about it. I knew why he was there and watched him go car to car that had someone in it and probably ask the same question of why they were there before he got to me. He was just doing his job of making sure the people in the cars had a plausible excuse for being there and if someone was planning some criminal act, they might be deterred from committing said act. I just wanted to answer his question and then be left alone. I didn't want to be his friend or be his fan boy by thanking him for his service, like a cuck. I just wanted him to leave.
As a retired truck driver I have to say that’s the best story you’ve done yet
That $500,000 should be factored in the next time the Sheriffs Department wants a raise!
Years ago a good friend who doesn't drink alcoholic beverages was stopped on his way home from a party at about 11pm on a Friday night at a roadside sobriety checkpoint. He was asked if he'd been drinking and he answered truthfully, 6 or 7. He failed to ad that the drinks were soda. He was told to get out of the car and was given a sobriety test, which he passed with flying colors. The LEO asked again how many drinks and what were they. He replied 6 or 7 sodas. The LEO got pissed off and asked why he hadn't specified that at first. My friend replied that you (LEO) hadn't specified what drinks. He was told to get back in his car and get out of there. 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is that exact story why cops now ask, "how many beers or alcohol drinks have you had tonight?
Lmaoooooo
I got pulled over for stopping at a red light for some roadworks. The officers logic was that it was a quiet road at 1am so most people would just drive through, so stopping was "suspicious". I passed the breathalyzer as I was stone cold sober. I wasn't that surprised to be stopped though as it was new years day.
@@hamishadamson4628 "got stopped for obeying the law, Pulled out of car, forced to blow, for obeying the law, then was released for obeying the law. I would have have fucking sued that entity.
"He took a fighting stance with a clipboard and a muffin in his hands"
I'm dead 😂
Hey, if it works for clowns and pies… 🤣
Hell maybr officer was affraid of a paper cut, officer safety or maybe he was diabetic and was threatend by the amount of sugar as a deadly weapon. 😅
My god imagine if he had a bagel.
Now there’s the Death Wish reboot I need to see.
I would be terrified by some random truck driver walking toward a truck carrying a manifest on a clipboard. Who knows what dangerous things he could do with that deadly weapon!
🤔...🙄🙄🙄
As a trucker of 25 years. I have grown to detest cops because of how cops and dot treat us. So i cant tell you how happy this story makes me.
But why the taxpayers? All cost should be paid by the cops involved, or the UNION, or the department!
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY should be STOPPED
I've been trucking for over 40 years, this is classic truck driver. I guarantee that this wasn't this drivers first day. After a while you tend to develop a rather healthy cynicism
I think the same can be said for anyone getting older. I'm in my 50's and I'm more cynical than ever.
In the immortal words of Lily Tomlin, "No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up."
I drive a van, not a truck. But my back is sore, my knees are swollen and my feet are absolutely killing me after loading and unloading the back of it three or four times a day.
I know how quickly someone can go from having a good day to totally losing their cool. It's usually something mundane and annoying as the last straw. Being asked what you're doing in a place where you are obviously supposed to be is one of those last straws.
@@PhilLesh69 My aunt drove the city bus for over a decade then got her CDL and she takes shit from nobody.
@@Xbox360mIRC You can drive a city bus without a CDL?! I'd expect that to need something stronger than a CDL, not less - after all, you're transporting people, not apples.
Even railroaders love this story. Still remember my dad stating. "Giving a badge and gun to some people like giving a fur coat to a monkey. After a while the monkey thinks he's King Kong".
That's a good one.
thinks but he isn't
squash that tiny coward and it's demons
Love it!
This is thee most prolific quote ever heard of describing cop nature.😂😅😂 Your dad had wisdom.
I've come to the conclusion that law enforcement needs some neutering. Disarming them should be considered. Immunity revoked at the very least.
Steve Lehto, you are a national treasure. Not only are you an educator, but you are becoming truly an entertainor,THANK YOU
Problem is he didn’t offer the cops any donuts.
Good one Steve I think his wife is buying him a snorkel for Xmas
THANK GOD THE COPS WERE HARASSING TRUCK DRIVERS AND NOT BUSTING DRUG DEALERS OR CAR THIEVES OR BUGLERS. IT'S GREAT THAT THE COPS ARE KEEPING CRIME RATES HIGH,
The only sad part of the story is that innocent taxpayers are being punished.
This story would even be better if the monetary judgment were to come out of the officer's own paycheck!
I agree with you West Bay.
However, I'd like to remind you that the voters in San Bernardino County elected these county supervisors and the Sheriff who put these numbskulls in office!
If these supervisors and that sheriff are still in office next election cycle then I'd say you know a LOT about these tax payers.
People who are so lazy and so apathetic that they refuse to be involved in their local government deserve exactly what they get. Agreed?
If the deputy involved is no longer employed, getting rid of him for just half a million might have been a good deal for the taxpayers.
Theses are often paid off by insurance the city's or police departments carry.
@@shawncook7656 sure, and those insurances just raise their fees and those are paided by - drum role please - the tax payer.
But the insurance also has admin fees and lawyers. In a clear cut case, you need a lawyer! So the sum of all insurance fees paid excites the more payout out by the insurance - which is only economical for the insurance. So... why not self insure the police office? I mean, if the insurance goes belly up, the city has to pick up the bill "eitherway", so really, cutting out the middle man is beneficial for everyone.
When I was a taxi owner/operator a police officer threatened to charge another driver with vagrancy for parking in the corner of a public parking lot where we waited for calls. Vagrancy means no visible means of support. A taxi is a fairly visible means of support.
Haha, it's literally a job on wheels. That's awesome...
A friend of mine was charged with Vagrancy in Seattle because his ID had expired the day before and he didn't have at least $2 in his pocket. He did have a check for over $10000 in his wallet. But, he was charged really for being "a wiseass"
@@shawnboyce1663 "Your honor, my client is an ass, but I can promise you he's not wise. This case should be dismissed."
@@Nowhereman2022 None of the drivers lived in his cab.
Did that cop have a hard time breathing because his head was up his ass?
The man's employer should also sue for having their business interrupted and any lost product from sitting in the truck. That would teach cops not to harass employees.
I am an older man. My respect for LEO at the town and county level has been greatly reduced over time. It seems that those bottom law enforcement positions are often little dictators looking for people they can lord over. The facts and law mean nothing to them.
Spot on.....'What I find amazing is that our founders had the forsite to see what happens to those given authority. Thus the Bill of Rights"////
There was a study done on law enforcement officers. It found that not all LEO were bullies, but childhood bullies were attracted to being cops. It found that the cops with the most complaints were bullies in high school and/or Jr high school.
@poolenudel8453 I live in a very rural area. The closest town's population is only 1200 now. When I was a child in the 1950s, it was under 500 people. This had an effect of the local LEOs being of a higher quality for several reasons.
1) Everyone knew each other. That helped on both sides of law enforcement. The LEO was known and the LEO knew who he was dealing with.
2) Also a lot of the LEOs in that time frame where WWII veterans. Many of them had been is some real heavy combat. They did not need to prove themselves to anyone as they had already face death and won, so to speak.
@Poole Nudel it depends on the color of your skin, your parents level of respect for LEO, when you were born, and where you grew up.
I grew up white, in a middle class suburb in the 70s, and my dad's only probably with LEO was getting speeding tickets or having to slip Chicago PD officers a $20.
I had some respect because I knew most of the cops. There were a few assholes that I could see doing something violent.
Now I see it as "there are no good cops if you're protecting bad cops".
Much of the problem is agency localized... some departments have recurring problems with retaining and promoting bullies.
But Steve, those deputies obviously thought the truck driver was a member of a gang that's been committing a lot of robberies lately using exactly that ruse. The lookout walks around holding a clipboard to make it look like he's working, and he usually eats a muffin while he's at it. They've become known as the Muffin Men, and they've been a particular problem around the Drury Lane area.
LMAO
I don't know about that. Have you actually seen the muffin man? The muffin man.
There is a muffin man loose in Lincoln Park. Hide your kids hide your wife hide your truck 😂
Awesome
That slayed. Ty
I no longer live in CA, however I have lived in LA County, San Diego, Alameda, Santa Clara and Ventura Counties. I was a disaster service volunteer for 30+ years. These stories warm my heart. Law enforcement officers take on a Duty and Responsibility. They are given limited authorities, not absolute or dictatorial powers.
WHO THE HELL WILL ACCEPT ANYRESPONSIBILITY? 'SPLAIN THAT TO WHOM EVER YOU FEEL WILL CHANGE OUR HISTORY AND FUTURE?
As the saying goes, “ You just can’t fix stupid.”
I had the cops stop and ask me what I was doing once when I was standing in front of a school. It was evening, and I was in a residential area. I pointed at the sign I was standing next to and said, "waiting for the bus". You'd think it would be obvious when you're at a bus stop, wouldn't you? This was in Orange County, CA (I won't name the city). I was then interrogated as to where I was going, what time the bus was coming, etc. Apparently I just looked suspicious. I was on my way to work. I was working a night shift at the time. One of many interactions with police that has made me never trust them.
California cops are the most corrupt. I know this first hand
Police officers get paid to waste your time, it's called "fishing". If they can't find anything they'll try to get you to keep talking long enough for them to arrest you on something. That's why it's a good idea to just never talk to police.
Irvine?
@@117bd Tustin, actually.
@@oddhate Not talking gets people arrested too.
When I was about 10, I was fishing in a small town when one of the two police officers drives up, get's out of the car, and then asks me if I knew I was on private property. I replied that I did because my grandmother is the owner and then informed him he was trespassing. He was not entertained by that answer, but then he let me be. I figured he should know better seeing as my great-grandfather developed the area and I had been fishing there for years.
Good one.
Clearly, shots were fired!!!!!!!🤣😉😇
Emotional damage!
Tyrant owned by a 10 year old. Good one!
Why did the police officer at all bother? Had anyone complained about trespassing? Did he really have nothing else better to do just idling around bothering others?
I think that it is the property owner, not the police, that should take action in the first place. Then the bear could react. That is at least how it is in Denmark.
Some AH officers confuse a nimble verbal “fighting” stance with a physical threat. Their adrenaline spikes like an AH parent. The cuffs = a belt whippin’.
It's a great story indeed. As a truck driver I LOVED it.
A guy I used to work with was in a bar with his wife one night. He came back from the restroom to find "Leisure Suit Larry" hitting on his wife, who was very uncomfortable. The guy told the douchebag to back off and leave his wife alone. Next thing he knows, he's on the floor handcuffed. Douchebag was a cop. Don't remember the exact outcome, but he never got an apology and douchebag didn't face any sort of discipline. In my small circle of middle-class friends and acquaintances, I know more people who have had highly unpleasant "run-ins" with bad cops than who have been victims of violent crime.
OMG. There are readers here who are too young to have a CLUE as to who Leisure Suit Larry was.
I've never once had anything but antagonistic encounters with the pigs. Not one of them has ever approached me with politeness. It's all just dick swinging for them. There is no such thing as a good cop. Even the ones who aren't A-holes will still stick up for the ones that are A-holes. If you allow evil to persist when you have the ability to stop it, you are also evil. Period.
Jackass was disrespecting the hell out of a woman in a local bar that I frequented when I was fresh out of the service and in my early 20's. This was a pretty big guy and a tiny little woman who looked half his age. I ordered my drink and as I turned to walk away I told him that if he grew a pair meet me out back or was acting like an ass to women his true speed. As I made my way towards the exit door there was two out of state local cops sitting at the table. Both of them knew me well. The older one asked if I realized the rude dude was a State Police officer from their state. I replied nope but he is about to learn which side of the state line he is drinking and making an ass of himself on though. Big boy walked around behind the bar and ended up sleeping it off in our local jail. He wasn't happy with the lump on his head the next morning. But what could he do. my buddy from high school was the deputy that picked his out cold self up from in the alley and drove him to jail. Just because he carried a badge did not make much difference once he crossed the State line. 10 years later that jackass got arrested for molesting a minor. So no I don't feel bad about checking his attitude that night.
@@wpeale71341 People throw the word "hero" around too casually these days. With that in mind, you, sir, are a hero.
Had the same thing happen to my wife. I walked in and told the guy to back off. Got all up in my fa e until his friend pulled him back. Still don't understand the do you know who I am argument.
Monty Python taught me how to deal with a man armed with a muffin: First you handcuff him. Then you eat the muffin, thus disarming him.
But what if he's armed with a banana??
What about a pointed stick?
Lol
@@dw9034 then you use a 1 ton weight or a tiger if the weight isnt present.
I love the Quote!
I came back, after hundreds of more videos, I NEEDED to see this again! To see this refreshed me, so many cops, being so bad! we all need to know sometimes they pay for it
That's a great story. Back in my youth I used to get harassed by the local police for simply walking/jogging/biking at night. Usually from my friend's house to mine. When the cops used to stop me and ask "what are you doing"? I would also reply "walking." Of course, I didn't know better and after they demanded my ID I would hand it over.
When biking or jogging and they'd ask the same question, I'd reply "biking" or "jogging" depending on what I was doing. Then they'd follow up with "why"? I'd say "because it's faster than walking" then they'd demand my ID again. The police are the enemy of the people.
100%. Too many people have Stockholm syndrome in regards to the police, and government in general.
I'm confused, what answer are those kind of cops even looking for?
@@MagicHamsta They are, obviously, looking for a guilty person exhibiting signs of a guilty person who has done something wrong. The problem is when they THINK they found a/some guilty person/people and don't find any signs or evidence of a crime. That's when they may start fabricating shit and being corrupt assholes.
Pulling over and asking what a person is doing? Perfectly fine.
@@contumelious-8440 there’s a list floating around the internet somewhere of every single behavior that police have testified in court constitutes suspicious behavior.
Among many others, the list includes looking at police, not looking at police, making eye contact, avoiding eye contact, driving over the speed limit, driving under the speed limit, driving exactly at the speed limit, being agitated when talking to a cop, being calm when talking to a cop, being serious, making jokes, tapping fingers, keeping their fingers still, and living in/working in/just passing through any area that has any crime at all in it.
Or put another way, there is no human behavior whatsoever that police don’t find so incredibly suspicious they immediately detain the person doing it.
Regarding your pizza story. I am sadly related to one of the worst cops to ever wear a badge. That said, he once told me that the quickest way to receive unwanted attention from law enforcement is to "look like you're having fun". This has proven to be a very true statement.
maybe his work will take care of him.
I heard the same from many navy veterans. Stay out of sight. The sonar room is good because it is insulated from sound and the doors are locked. Propeller shaft alley is another good place to catch some Z's
@@sd906238 I concur with the above statement. Sometimes being in sight on a ship works even better. Walking around a ship "with purpose" gets you ignored. Rudder room was always nice and warm also.
This is precisely why I grin or smile and shake my head when I deal with or find myself confronted by the thugs in uniform.
1. It irritates the heck out of them
2. what they don't know and what I never divulge is I do this because I pity them.
True story - you see... one would have to be a seriously damaged individual enduring such mental agony that you need to dress up in a costume and go accuse, or frame, maim or murder someone who you don't even know for a damn paycheck. !!
@@bruceayers512
In the corporate world, always carry paperwork so you don’t look like you’re just walking around. One job I had, I often carried a clipboard when going from zone to zone so it looked like I was busy instead of just going to visit my coworker. 😂
Steve thank you for posting this iam a truck driver to from n.j. and have delivered to groceries stores my self
Great story Steve, I listen to you as much as I can. You are a breath of fresh air.
A dog with a bone in his mouth isn’t about to bite you unless you take it. Same with men and muffins.
Women too. NOBODY is taking my double chocolate-chip muffins away from me!
@@ES-mc3cc Don't even look at my double blueberry muffins.
@@ES-mc3cc eh, banana nut for me.
The $500,000 settlement does mean anything if the Deputy Sheriff didn't get fired.
If the police departments had to pay these fines out of their budget, they would have to work for free 😂😅😂
We had an officer that would kick us off the school playground for playing basketball and other games on weekends. We just did as we were told in the 60s. One day after getting told to go home a neighbor asked us what that officer said to us. The neighbor was good friends with the chief of police. We were never kicked off the playground again.
i’m glad your neighbor seems to have helped out… they were literally being the fun police 😂
The cop would rather you play B ball in the street.
Back when people stuck up for each other, and any parent in the neighborhood could punish you for your bad behavior. Some things were much better then, unfortunately many people did not change with the times and it has caused a lot of trouble.
The jury awards need to come from the PD,s not the taxpayers
Start making cops pay for their own lawsuits and this crap will stop overnight.
Except that every single dollar in the depts and paid to officers is actually tax payers money. There literally is no PD or officer money that didnt come from taxpayers. Fire them and make thrm get real job and then pay!
That's the same pot of money. They might have to cut school lunch and librarians, but cutting PD budget hardly ever happens. Police has a lot of power in every town, and they stick together via the police unions that prevents even very bad cops from ever seeing consequences for actions. I am all for unions, but police unions have been a blight on justice and a guarantor for abuse a very long time now.
Petty tyrants like that need to be made an example of.
As a retired truck driver, I love this story!
The police have no problem continuing to give Steve Lehto all the content he needs to keep his channel going for decades to come. They are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Good comment☺️
They TAKE much more.
And it will never stop.
Him and the Civil Rights Attorney from West Virginia
@@southeastflnn5839 👍👍👍👍
My son tried to get into Law Enforcement for several years, but basically was refused because he wasn't aggressive enough. He's now a postal carrier and we are so glad he never made it into the other job.
I know people who switched from city police to county sheriff for the reason that city police start to develop an antagonistic culture against their local citizens. Probably because most of the citizens they encounter tend to have an antagonistic culture against the police. Sheriffs Dept. tend to be a bit more chill, and since the sheriff is an elected position they can be a bit more directly accountable to the public rather than loosely accountable to a city's government that changes every few years.
@@gorkyd7912"because citizens have an attitude" yeah I wonder why that is, armed thugs pushing them around under the color of law
He’s better off. Americans LOVE postal workers far more than law enforcement lol.
GLAD FOR HIM,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thanks STEVE.... great victory for this truck driver!!👍😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👊
Steve....not sure if you look at the comments, however, though this might be the best one you feel you have talked about...all your stories have not only been enjoyable but they have helped many people (I personally feel) not only to understand the laws but also their rights.
Keep up the exceptional work you are doing.
I just went to my mirror with 2 muffins in my hand and tried my best to do a a fighting stance but I just laughed at myself and said "You're not tough with those damn muffins"
😂
They were afraid it would turn into a food-fight.
Real men don't fight with throwing stars and brass knuckles, they fight with muffins. Saw off a muffin top and you can zing that thing like a throwing star. Might scratch someone's cornea.
@@frotoe9289 😂 deadly assault muffins
Try playing Hitman. The muffin is a fearsome weapon in that game.
My cousin and I were fishing at a pond when we were kids and an officer pulled up and asked us what we were doing. My cousin, in the most dead pan voice ever, responded, "We're drowning worms."
We were on private property, but we had permission. We explained it to the cop and he left, but still, the greatest response ever.
@David Ivey - if I was the coo I would have laughed my ass off. I remember when me and my friends were like 14 or 15, well none of us were old enough to have our license yet anyways, we had the great idea to go for a joyride in his moms car while she was gone. We drove around for hours. Stopped by another friends house, and told him to come with us. His reply “No. you guys are idiots and your gonna get pulled over.” We left his house not 5 blocks later, BAM! Red and blues. Lol. As soon as we pulled over my friend driving said “Shit. I forgot to turn the headlights back on.” The cop comes up asks what we were doing, we said we were just leaving our friends house.Then he asked if we knew why he pulled us over. My friend said yea he forgot to turn the headlights on. Then asks for our license… he said he didn’t have it. Then he asked my other buddy, and he didn’t have it either. He looks back at me and I said nope.
So he asks what the hell we were out doing driving around with no license, and we told him we were just wanting to learn to drive. He tells us he is going to follow us back to his moms house.
When we went to take off, he stalled the car (it was a manual transmission). Then he started it back up and he stalled it again. Third time was the charm though. Haha. We get back to his house, and thankfully his mom wasn’t home. He lectured us about driving without our license and told us “Here you are out driving without a license and you can’t drive for shit!” He said he was gonna come back in the morning and talk to his mom. He never did though. We told her all about it the next morning thogh.
Some cops are really cool. Some are asses. Just like any other population of people. The asses get more attention that the good ones
@@snyper1982 That was a great story. It made smile, and you can't ask for more than that.
@@daithi1966 thank you. It makes me smile every time I think back on it.
I’m surprised they didn’t haul you off in cuffs for attempted murder of worms.
@@aerofart You have never been fishing before have you? Haha. There is no “attempted” about it. Those worms are toast well before a fish gets them. Either when the hook tears holes all through their body, or when you throw them in the water and drown their ass.
I have to tell a story here! I'm all for police and think we need more of them. However, I knew someone who worked for a university security department who got on the city police force. I ran into him some years later in a bar and he walked up to me and said: "This is a great job. I get to f*ck with people and they pay me for it"! He was not cracking a smile as he said that!
If city supervisors should require the police department to pay 1% of the award. This type of arrests would stop happening.
2 stories from my youth.
1st, went to a bowling alley with a group of friends after church one evening. Place was packed, so we turned around and left. Walked out to our cars and were discussing where else we could go. Police/security came out from inside and told us to quit loitering, get in our cars and leave. Didn't want to hear an excuse about looking for somewhere else to go. So we left, and never went back to that bowling alley again.
2nd. Couple years later, I'm a manager at a roller skating rink. Just locked up and me and a couple of friends were standing out on the porch chatting when the local PD pulled up and griped about us loitering (there was a no loitering sign right above us). Showed him when I unlocked the door and we all just walked back inside leaving him standing by his car.
Story 2, this is why community policing is important, Bet that cop never once came in and buy a cold pop, shoot the breeze with the workers and manager. Thank them for the cold pop. Then that Night he comes pulling in acting all high and mighty, instead of lifting his jaw off the ground, (when you unlocked went inside) , he could have said, "Hi Cheeto4493 is going ok?" you could have responded ,, "Everything Fine". or "Need some help here"
I worked at a relatively hippy pizza and craft beer place that gave a ten percent discount to any public safety employees who came in wearing their uniforms, or got takeout, and we would often fully comp deliveries to their police/fire station, hospital etc.
The amount of good-will you get back in return is amazing, even the delivery drivers got a little more leeway on the road when the cops got free or discounted food.
Phil, all I read from your post was "give cops free stuff and they will treat you like they are supposed to"
@@p12423073 Do not bite the hand that feeds you.
@@frantzjensen3983 I wish more people understood the concept of community policing.
There is no situation that can't be made worse by the presence of law enforcement.
San Bernadino Sheriff’s are the FRIGGIN worst
"You have a problem? Call the cops... now you have two problems."
On rare occasions the cops make it better but rare.
...and the PUNITIVE damages are not PUNY :) Yeeee-HA! Go cops! Do your worst! Oh, I've just noticed... they already did!
I like how this is worded. It's true. There really is no situation that *cannot* be made worse by the presence of the wrong cops.
A few years ago in Suffolk County N.Y. I was called by the S.C.P.D. to the scene of a collision in the left lane of a 6 lane limited access highway Rt 495 Long Island Expressway. I pulled into the left lane 1/8 mile from the wreck. I was stopped at the scene and issued a ticket for being in the left lane with a commercial vehicle and told if I went into the left lane again my truck would be impounded. The Trooper at the wreck did not say a word when I was getting the ticket. So when he than told me to remove the car I told him to block the center and right lane so I could remove it. His question and his Captain question was "why?" You heard the other officers statement to me along with my ticket at the scene. . . A twenty minute tow with a single lane closure turned into a 1 hour tow with 3 lamers closed ans a 3 mile back up.
Road pirates repeatedly use the same methods to turn nothing into something and get off scott free. Even when the victims are cleared, the cops sued, it's the tax payers that pay. This has to change.
I drove tractor trailers for 25 years delivering to Winn Dixie stores. Our drivers had countless encounters with law enforcement officers similar to the facts of this case. More commonly though we encountered cops parked in front of and blocking the delivery docks. One time in Jacksonville the cops refused to move their vehicles that were blocking the delivery docks. They only moved after a lengthy argument with the Store Manager. Then the same cops waited for the driver to leave so they could stop him and issue bogus tickets for running a stop sign and failure to use turn signals.
Hope he sued!!
Now that’s an F’d up story… wow
Cops are too petty for kindergarten, clearly.
Years back, people wouldn’t believe you. Today, we realize all the stories we have heard over the years, were very likely true.
Remember the stories we heard people tell us and we thought they weren’t telling the story correctly and maybe embellished? I think we can safely say those stories were very likely true.
The only time I had trouble with the cops was in the scales. One guy threatened to shut me down for 8 hours because my dispatcher kept using the "alert" feature on the Nextel. Finally, I had to tell him, "I'm standing here with the radio in my hand, just key the mic, I'll respond."
Another one held me up for an hour because his computer told him the company I was driving for, Hughes Pool Supply, hauled fruits and vegetables. A little flippantly I said, "Well, your computer is wrong, you know how they are!" I had my delivery manifest, which showed I had done deliveries to 5 swimming pool supply stores in Kentucky and Ohio. It was literally written on the truck, Hughes Pool Supply.
Was watching an episode of FSC Trucking on YT. Guy hauls oversized loads on a drop flatbed around the country. Hauled a Fire Truck to Jacksonville FL & had to go through the FL Agricultural Inspection Station.
@@jamessimms415 we all do sometimes. I did flatbed for 6 years. I've been stopped with steel coils. There's a slim bit of legitimacy because if invasive species.
I drove for Gypsum Express, ( Sheetrock) hauled mostly Budweiser Beer 🤗
@@waltstrait5807 it doesn't count if it's in your sleeper.
@waltstrait5807 You hauled what your dispatcher said you were picking up. We only delivered swimming pool supplies to our customers, retail pool supply stores and installers. We weren't for hire.
Steve, i watch this anytime i need the story to beat all stories! Freakin amazing
Always interesting, thank you.
Had a cop stop me as I was biking to the store near me. Ask what I was doing. "Minding my own damn business". He was mad. Couldn't do anything because the chief pulled up. I worked at a restaurant at the time. The chief and his wife were regular customers at the restaurant. I chatted with him for a bit. Mentioned in passing that the patrol officer was a bit nasty and needed to deal with actual problems. Chief came down hard on the fool, gave him desk duty.
Strange but true story, several years ago a "detective" on the sheriff's dept. was running for sheriff and came to talk to a group of us. He said that he had been a detective for several years on the dept. and was running for sheriff to help improve our community. He tried to get us to believe that it wasn't about income and said " I don't even know how much the sheriff gets for a salary" ! I told a buddy "He must be some detective that he doesn't know the salary of the office, which is public knowledge!" Makes you wonder why?
He doesn't care what the salary is, because he's going to make so much more abusing the position!
I once got surrounded by three cop cars while setting in a mall parking lot. It was after the mall had closed. I was in the parking lot to meet my friend's parents. They were supposed to meet us there so he could finish riding home with them and they were late.
The male officer asked me what I was doing. I said I was waiting for my friend's parents to show up. The officer countered with. "Likely story". So a female officer stepped up and asked the same question. I responded with, "I am an alien from another planet, I just go here and was learning to drive in the parking lot." To which nobody laughed. I finished with, "I told you the truth and you didn't believe me so I figured I would tell you a story."
I am so lucky that I didn't go to jail that night. Or maybe unlikely. I might be the recipient of 500,000.
I can relate to this, even though I only went as far as box trucks. This warms my heart. And that thangs chilly
As a retired truck driver I enjoyed that as much as you obviously enjoyed the telling .
The sad part is the officers will be subject to Zero repercussions for their stupidity ignorance and corrupt behaviour, they’ve probably got away with stuff like this before and some innocent person has been fined / jailed / lost their job over false charges and because there’s no consequences for the officers they’ll likely do it again tomorrow .
Thank you anyway for highlighting but maybe add their names ?
As a former police officer and former truck driver I love this story.
What are ya doin' now....loitering?
Just exactly How many people's lives did you RUIN?, How many reports did you embellish/ lie on?, How many times have you lied to everybody?,10's of thousands?, How many and how much money have you extorted from innocent people?, How many people have you COLD BLOODEDLY MURDERED? You did have Qualified Immunity.
@@MrTruckerf He's resisting arrest. Better arrest him for it!
As a former mall security agent and Geo Metro driver....never mind, I am out of my league here.
As a truck driver, I had a similar thing happen to me in GA. Except in my case it was a lieutenant... my truck broke down on a 2 lane rd and I moved it over as far as I could with my hazards on. After about 3 hours the Lt. walked up to me and proceeded to yell at me that I couldn't park there because it was a safety hazard... I then looked directly at said Lt and said " gee officer, if I had the ability to pick and choose WHERE my truck was gonna break down, do you REALLY think I would WILLINGLY CHOOSE to break down on a 2 lane rd, in GA, with no cell phone service?🤷♂️
The cop looked at me, thought about it for a second, and said " well, probably not." Then he proceeded to call me a wrecker to tow me ASAP, and since it was cold, let me warm up in the front seat of his car... to this day, it's the ONLY time I spent time in the FRONT seat of a cop car😏
They arrested him, spent the night in jail. Another driver had to be sent to recover the truck that was blocking the dock at the store. The driver, being arrested probably got fired.
Now this happened in 2019 so he was potentially not able to be a truck driver for almost 4 years!
$500,000 was WAY to small of a settlement. He also now has an arrest record.
He could have petitioned the court at the lawsuit to find him “factually innocent” and have arrest record expunged. And if he got fired, he could easily have won that suit as well. Hopefully his employers were in the suit as co-plaintiffs, as they certainly would have had monetary losses as well.
@@danlewis6157 how is it not mandatory to expunge records in obviously false arrests, incredibly stupid bureaucracy
As a LEO I used to make contact by stating why I was approaching a citizen. "Good evening, I'm officer xxx. I've been called here because xxx. Why are you here?"
Oh, I have watched this video so many times! 👍 great one!
When someone I don't know asks me what I'm doing, I say "Minding my own damn business."
I used to work for the AZAFIS section (fingerprint section) at Arizona's Dept of Public Safety (DPS, state police) and I learned something interesting. My job took me into most of the jails in the state maintaining the fingerprint scanner equipment and I learned that most if not all the agencies give IQ tests before hiring officers. The surprising part is that they were not being tested to make sure that their IQ was HIGH enough! Supposedly people with higher IQ don't make good officers because they tend to not follow orders to the letter and they get bored doing stakeouts, guard or traffic duty, and foot canvasing.
Quite literally, officers are only hired if they have a LOW enough IQ, at least in AZ. This is appalling but it makes sense.
Given most of the stories that come out of AZ about their law enforcement, I don't doubt this at all
Just need a pulse and or breathing even with machine assistance
That's pretty common in alot of places. The powers that be don't want an intelligent highly educated workforce either.there afraid of bring overthrown.
As a Marine stationed in Yuma (for 9 total years) and working with the Sheriff's office plus local police, I can Agree with the Above statement from Mike. Some of the Deputies where Retired Marines and should have stayed Retired.
Yes. The higher the IQ, the higher the tendency to question authority.
Thank yoy Steve mad respect for you and what your doing thank you sincerely from the heart good sir.
Fantastic thanks for a wonderful program 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The unfortunate part of this story is that the settlement will come out of taxpayers' pockets. The officers in question might be reprimanded, but they won't be held personally liable.
This needs to change! When cops violate your rights they should be held personally responsible for damages. This would weed out the assholes cops pretty quick.
I’m told by my state trooper friend that many deputy types are basically mall cops as far as their training, but are virtually untouchable as far as their authority. 🤷♂️
Ironically coming from a trooper lol
I'm a truck driver and I live near apple valley i'm not surprised to hear this .... I'm actually surprised they didn't beat him down. The police pretty corrupt out here.
Never ceases to amaze me how so many poorly informed officers don't understand how businesses operate. They literally NEED CUSTOMERS, and if they are selling a product, there WILL BE deliveries. AND ~95% of the time, businesses operate on PRIVATE property.
As an Apple Valley resident I can confirm this is normal behavior for our local police I was recently questioned for cleaning a garage. Same story as here minus the arrest. Police: what are you doing
Me: do you have eyes
Y u not go to council meeting and bitch about overzealous cops??
Meanwhile the guy cleaning the garage on the next block was actually cleaning it out because he’s a burglar. Try not taking everything so personal. If it had been a burglar rather than you, would you have wanted the cop to just ignore him?
"I'm baking a meringue."
"I'm skinning an aardvark."
"I'm teaching a class in advanced robotics."
One you likely shouldn't use: "I'm talking to an idiot."
"Don't they make you guys take a physical before they hire you anymore?"
Those would get the cop arresting you for lying to the police!
I used to be an owner operator and specialized in time sensitive and temperature controlled transport to and from Alaska. When crossing into Canada from Alaska the Canadian Border agent asked me if I was loaded or empty. I replied empty. The next question from the border agent was: What you mean by empty? I asked him if that was a trick question. He looked pissed and his coworker busted out laughing.
THE AGENTS HEAD WAS EMPTY
How do i get that job?
LIKE ANY COUNTRY! THE NEED TO RE-FILL TAXPAYING SQUIRRELS AS A METHODOLOGY FOR MILITARY AGRESSION'S TO CITIZEN FEARS OF OTHERS, NEEDS EMPLOYENT FUNDING. HE ( THE PISSED GOT THE PROMOTION ). COULDA SAID? IN THE VERNACULAR? OR PHONIC? mt?
I mean how do I get that job driving to alaska?
I come from a law enforcement family. Two of my sons are law enforcement officers. Never law enforcement myself, i was trained as a SWAT medic in an all hazards fire and rescue department. I worked with, trained and/or was trained by various local, state, Federal, military and foreign law enforcement officers and agents for decades. I have lost all respect and all trust in today's law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies. These deputies need hard and long prison time. I'm serious. Sic Semper Tyranus
"Is it hard to breath with your head that far up your ass" will be the new anthem repeated by everyone involved in a wrongful arrest from this point forward. Thanks Steve!
I really wanna send this to some cop friends lmao.
This one rates right up there, with
"Let's go Brandon."
steve
If having a bad attitude was an arrestable offense I’d get life.