So it's Sunday morning and I go to Bingo. The town it's in is dangerous at night but in the daytime, it's pretty normal and safe. the crazies just wait till it gets dark to strike So I play and I win

I usually hop straight on the freeway and go to LA but this time I went to the market so I detoured from my normal route. So I leave the market and I'm driving towards the left hand turn lane. About halfway through the light turns yellow so I look in my rearview mirror and my side mirror and the closest traffic is at the light behind me. The coast was clear so I turned out of the left lane and continued going straight.

My window was down and all of a sudden I hear this screeching and squeeling of tires and I look in my rearview mirror and a cop is flipping a u turn in the intersection I just went through. He speeds up on me with the lights flashing and squawking the buzzer and telling me to pull over

I couldn't just pull over because there was nowhere to pull over. So I turn on the first side street I come to. So I pull over and park the car and the cop stops and the cop comes rushing up. I'm grabbing my license out of my pocket and the cop says

What is that white thing you just put in your pocket!

Nothing officer, I just pulled out my license for you

I saw a white thing going in your pocket

There is no white thing in my pocket officer

Get out of the vehicle

And with that I was handcuffed and taken to his car!!!

What drugs are you on?

I don't do drugs sir

Are you on speed? Crack? Heroin

I do not do drugs of any kind officer, I don't even take aspirin!

I'm not going to find any needles or anything to poke me when I reach into your pockets am I?

No

.....pulls out $250 in cash..... What's this? Where did you get it?

I just came from Bingo and I won


So he continues searching me, all my stuff is on the hood and the Islamic neighbors are eyeing me with suspicion So he puts me in the back of his cruiser and runs my license and plates.

Now I'm going to go search your car. I'm not going to find anything illegal in there am I? Drugs? Guns?

I am not a gang member officer. No you won't find anything illegal


Well this cop was grindin an axe from the second he flipped that u-turn. I swear I wasn't speeding, or driving all crazy, there was no traffic for a potential accident. You would have thought this was a high speed chase the way the cop was acting. So I'm sitting in the back of the patrol car and then it hits me: The LAPD has a history of setting up people with drugs that are not theirs! Granted, they did this to gang members but maybe this cop needed a bust or something.

Then with dawning horror I remembered that 2 days before I was fighting with my Altoids tin and when I got it open a few of them went flying out and onto the floor and between the seats. What if he finds them and is convinced they are crack!

I really started getting scared because even though it would have been impossible for him to find crack in my car, I was thinking what if he arrested me and I sat in jail for 3 days while they do the tests on my Altoids! Then to make matters worse, Stephen Kings book "Desperation" comes into my head. That story opens up with this psychotic cop who stops a couple and plants a pound of cocaine on their bike and takes them to jail as guilty. Now I want to puke and shit my pants in the back of the patrol car.

After about 20 minutes of tearing my car up he comes back and lets me go Oh lord I was praying and prayin. Thankfully I don't have warrants or probation or I would have been screwed!

Moral of the story, just jump on the damn freeway and don't dilly dally in cracktown

So, the policeman never found your drugs. Nice one!

fathermcmeekle said:

I am not going NOWHERE with your crack smoking, herion shooting ass!!!!! WTF!!!! This sounds like some Twilight Zone shit!!! Glad your okay!!!

cops are weird...i know someone who was abused by cops.....can't stand them.....glad everything is ok with you.

Geez... sorry you had to go through that shit... Unbelievable. Can you sue them? Glad you're alright!

unlucky7 said:

I haven't had that experience, but there's just been so much abuse by cops. I just don't like them.

coolcat said:

the guy in the end asked the cop for his name...the cop wouldn't give it to him and just said "have a nice day"....he didn't even get the cops license #.

Now I'm officially paranoid to drive in L.A. by myself!

You know it before I write it: "only u, my dear, only u." I'm glad it ended peacefully!

madartista said:

Me too!! I cannot even leave the house! Thank you lord I didn't get framed!

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oh my god!
sweetie thank god you're alright!
that's MESSED up!

This is one time I can say thank God I didn't win a jackpot cuz if I had $1500 cash on me he woulda probably thought I wasn't smokin crack but sellin crack! I am so not a crackhead

i love you because you play BINGO. how many cards/boards do you play with? congrats on winning and not getting arrested in cracktown!

Holy shit! Did you get his name? Would it make sense to file a complaint against him?

That shit is fucked up, sorry you had deal with that.

Sweeny79 said:

That's what I'm wondering also. This cop went way too far...

coolcat said:

Wow!

It does seem as though this particular officer was intent on making a potential bust.

Perhaps he was in personal need of some crack, and hoped you'd have some on you.

I am glad the situation turned out alright.

too bad that wasnt shot for "COPS"

origmnd said:

I still ain't sacred

lilgish said:

thank you for postin her and a hilarious comment for me!

OH MY GOD!!!!

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I would've freaked out.


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I have a similar story... I'll catch up with you on this later...

Glad you're okay... and safe.

OMG!!!!! I'm so glad you're ok!


Man, I hate cops. H.A.T.E.

Case and I were in my car once and I was harassed by some nazi police officers.

Bloody hell!

I'm glad you're okay, Richard. You should've stuck your bingo dabber up his nose.

Take care.

The irritating thing is, after they rip your car apart and find nothing, they just leave it that way and don't offer to fix it.

We got pulled over about 10 years ago by local cops, for speeding. We were coming from a flea market and I picked up this mini bowl keychain, and my friend got a switchblade. The cop spotted the bowl on my keys, and made us go through the whole car search. They even called in the dog. Luckily I hadn't used it yet and had nothing on me. He broke the bowl into pieces and threw it out into a nearby field and gave me some lecture on drugs, then confiscated my friends knife and told him if he comes to pick it up at the station they would arrest him or something.

Tom said:

Geez... I don't like cops.

onenitealone said:

I can picture the cop looking like LEIGH BOWERY. Lots of dots on his face. Hahahahahah!!!



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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I can see it now: "Take that! And that! And that! House!"