My car broke down today and 5 minutes later a cop

[hedgehog]

came along to make sure I was OK, that a tow truck was on the way and to check that I wasn't a hazard to traffic where I was.


He even waited 5 minutes while I was on a borrowed cell phone talking to AAA!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Good police doing good work!

K/R

[Scuba]

2. Public servants, serving the public. Republican hate that.

[Poiuyt]

24. Scott Walker would want to fire him.

[JDPriestly]

35. Or at least deprive him of his union.

[zbdent]

37. John Kasich would call him an idiot ...

and get him to vote for him anyway ...

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. That happened to me also. They wait if you are a female alone on the road.

Glad you are ok.

[DaveJ]

39. Yeah, also, my female roomate once crashed in the middle of an intersection

totaled her car, drunk on her way home from clubbing. She didn't even get a ticket.

[1-Old-Man]

4. Lucky you

What the point? Are you just looking for a feel-good cop story? Here's one for you.

Last saturday night, around 3:00AM, the dogs started barking like hell and when we got up to see what was going on there were two young (20-something) girls at the door, both of them nearly in hysterics. Ours was the first house they came upon after being assaulted by some drunk clown. We called 911 for the girls and did our best to calm them while waiting for the police. It took the police an hour and a half to show up and when they did they decided that it wasn't anything important enough to go find the guy, they just took the girls home. Lazy bastards. Not such a feel good story.

[Odious justice]

6. I was attacked by three drunk clowns last time the carnival came to town.

The cops arrived and filled those novelty shoe wearing bastards full of pepper gas and tazed the poop out of them. Literally. I had a porch covered in clown feces, which was not distinguishable from other forms of feces per se.

I later wrote a short story about the cops quick response. It was set to be published in the Piggley Wiggley Coupon book until the Clown Unions got wind of it. They stages a protest outside the business school I didn't get into and created such an uproar that I was forced to play Diablo 3 for 17 hours.

It was this entire experience that led me to General Mills Church of Cereal and I am now at peace and eating shredded wheat.

My point being that I can type things about stuff!

[grantcart]

13. It took me 5 fucking days to get the pepper out of my eyes.

[cliffordu]

19. Yeah, and I forgot to tell you that crap

RUINED the rubber nose you borrowed.

And stay away from the business end of the elephants, my clown shoes took HOURS to clean.

Bastid.

[MissMarple]

16. Funniest post I've read today.

[randome]

17. LOL! I couldn't tell where the hell you were going with this!

[progressivebydesign]

22. that's a clown story, bro. n/t

[likesmountains 52]

26. You win! Your point just says it all. Thanks for the laugh.

[steve2470]

27. +1000 for pure comic hilarity ! nt

[Skittles]

30. I LOVES ME SOME ODIOUS JUSTICE!!!

OMG

[pizzadave]

38. Church of Cereal...

I am most interested in this. Do you think that my old Freakies toys from the 70's will get in good with the Big Guy? It's still Sonny, right?


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aL228cuWfwo/TNYaMIixcnI/AAAAAAAAAPA/o6UO0Ib4mjg/s1600/real+games+herp.jpg

[flvegan]

40. Pure brilliance!

This...is good stuff. We need more of this here.

[REP]

41. Welcome to DU

I love you.

[WilliamPitt]

43. Win

[snooper2]

9. That same fucking drunk clown was at our Krogers down the road just YESTERDAY!

He was in the 15 items or less aisle with 20 cans of shaving cream and a shitload of miller high life-


We caught him leaving in a yellow Chevy Luv with a palm tree strapped in the bed. Keep your eyes out for this bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Odious justice]

10. He's a sneaky son of a badger

and if I see him or his dirty cousin aroun my silo again I'm going to make them play battleship.

[Lochloosa]

5. It's called protect and SERVE....at least that's what it used to be.

[kestrel91316]

7. Well we know he can't possibly have been LAPD.

[RZM]

8. The cops really came through for me once in a similar situation

I got a call about 12 am that my father had been rushed to the hospital with heart trouble. I lived in a small college town and had to drive about an hour to get back. My car broke down about 20 minutes outside of town in the absolute middle of nowhere. This was before cell phones, so I was at a loss as to what to do. I decided I had to walk to the nearest houses and start knocking on doors and ask to use the phone. Luckily a cop car happened by and they gave me a lift back to my place so I could borrow my roommate's car.

[tabasco]

11. Had a minor crash in Cheektowaga , NY

The police could not have been more professional.

[freshwest]

12. I had a flat with my kid in the car. A highway patrol woman got out and she changed the tire for me.

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Down south I have never changed a tire, no matter where I was. One night on the interstate in town, my truck tire blew out. As I was waiting for a policeman to show up and call for help. It was 10 P.M. There were no cellphones then. A black guy who worked at a tire shop pulled over and changed it and wouldn't take any money. In the country, I've had truck engines blow and tires go flat. In each case, strangers always got me help or changed them. All refused money. Lucky, I guess.

[progressivebydesign]

23. I've had that happen for me, too. Not sure theyr'e supposed to, but have had flats fixed by CHP.

So grateful!

[freshwest]

28. It's great to get some help away from home. Been helped by EMTs as well.

Glad the CHP does that, too.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. A cop helped me out that way, too

It somewhat helps to restore my faith in them. I remember several years ago when I saw an apparently drugged out man lying down in a busy lane of inner city traffic. A couple blocks away I spotted a police car with two officers inside having doughnuts and coffee. I told them a man was trying to commit suicide by lying down in traffic. One of them gave me a dirty look, shrugged his shoulders, and said 'what do you want me to do about it?'

[slackmaster]

15. I had a similarly positive experience when I had a blowout on I-8 east of Gila Bend, AZ

An Arizona State Trooper pulled up behind me to make sure I was OK. We chatted for about five minutes while I changed my own tire. He gave me directions to a tire place nearby.

I drove on my spare all the way to Tucson and bought a full set of new Michelins for my beat-up old pickup.

[SoCalDem]

18. My friend had a diabetic episode a week ago, wrecked his car

and the cops did not tase him.. They called his wife & had him taken to the hospital.

He does not even remember the event .

He woke up in the hospital & didn't know why he was there..

[Flying Squirrel]

20. I thought you were gonna say "wrote me a ticket."

That's what would have happened to me.

[obxhead]

21. The last time my car broke down

the cop was only concerned with my license, registration, proof of insurance and wanted desperately to search my car.

I'm glad your experience was different than mine.

[progressivebydesign]

25. That's wonderful. This is how it works when the police are adequately staffed and funded.

those people that complain about response times, are complaining about the wrong people. they need to talk to the people that cut the funding for the police.

I have never had ONE bad interaction with the police. Ever. I've been pulled over a few times, and never gotten a ticket (except one fix it.) But I've had them come to my aid when my car broke down, a few times.. Waiting to make sure I'm okay, etc.

Had the police come to my door after someone banged on it in the middle of the night (I lived in a fairly remote place,) and go around looking in the neighborhood and patrol a few more times that week.

So my opinion is clouded by the positives...

[hedgehog]

31. The one time I was stopped by a very courteous policeman -

I was driving home from work at 3AM in a snow storm. I had just gone through a major intersection, and was certain I was being stopped because I had been driving on automatic pilot because I was the only car on the road. I had just made my daily left turn and was sure the light must have been red.



As it turned out, I had forgotten it was St. Patrick's Day. He was just checking to make sure anyone out driving that late wasn't drunk!

[AngryOldDem]

29. I had a similar experience a year ago.

I was in a chain reaction crash that totaled my car. (I was the one the offending car hit, which sent me into two other cars.) After exchanging information, everybody drove off, leaving me alone, in the rain, at one of the busiest intersections in Indianapolis, at the height of rush hour. A state trooper, going home after being on duty, stopped and stayed with me until the city cops came.

The metro cops who showed up were nice and helpful, too.

They all made a stressful situation much, much easier, and I am still grateful.

[Nye Bevan]

33. When that happens, call 911 before even exchanging information.

The cops will write everything up, and put it on the official record, establishing that you were not at fault. They will also either ticket or give an official warning to the guy who rear-ended you. And they will ensure that everyone is safe and is able to leave safely.

[Nye Bevan]

32. Most cops are like that, in my experience.

Perhaps I am simply luckier than the "all cops are fascist pigs" contingent.

[Stuart G]

34. About Wyoming...this was a worker in a state park..I was 45 miles from nowhere..

45 miles east of Lander Wy.......nothing for 45 miles....nothing...
.2nd week in July 1997..So the transmissions goes. It litteraly breaks down..So I put up the hood, and wait.
I figure maybe 2 or 3 hours a state cop might find me. Same as the op, state forest worker stops in 15 minutes.
We call a tow truck, (using his cell phone) in Lander Wy, and he comes out in about 50 minutes. So, I was stuck there for three days while the transmission was fixed. But I am forever greatful for that state employee who helped me.


I forgot..the Republicans have probably fired that guy...He was too good a worker...

[SkyDaddy7]

36. WOW!

You don't hear that much these days...I am surprised he did not try to search your car or verbal judo you into losing your cool. Nice to know there is at least one cop out there who gets the idea of PROTECT & SERVE.

[shireen]

42. glad to see a positive post about police

All my interactions with them have been good, even when i've been pulled over for speeding. When i was sick and had to call 911, two cops stayed with me till the paramedics arrived. One guy knelt in front of me and watched me closely (my breathing was labored), and tried to calm me down. He got me through some really scary moments.

I realize some on DU have had bad experiences, and I appreciate hearing about their experiences. But there's a lot of good cops out there, and they need to be acknowledged too.

[steve2470]

44. I'm also glad to see a positive post about the police

The bad ones need to be ferreted out and prosecuted vigorously, but the rest deserve our praise.

I've been lucky that I've never had a truly bad experience with the cops. I had one cop snap at me one time but meh, he was probably having a horrible day. The rest have been professional and courteous.