looking suspicious and LOL !

[Bubba]

In Palo Pinto County it seems that poaching is a family tradition for the locals. It is a very poor, rural county with abundant white tail deer. The Game Warden usually stays VERY busy, as best that I can figure. There are plenty of very dark, narrow back roads to wander around if you are so inclined. My wife grew up in that County. I was raised in Fort Worth (Tarrant County) and taught very strict gun safety and hunting rules by my Dad. Hunting at night and / or "road" hunting was something that I only heard about. About 10 years ago ( I was a Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff at the time) while on the way home from my mother-in-law's house, my wife wanted to take the back roads. It was just something she enjoyed since being a kid and either day or night, she liked the scenic route. This was about 10PM on a very lonely road and I was driving very slow. I noticed some headlights behind us and I became concerned that someone was following us. Approaching a "T" intersection, I down shifted to slow down without using the brakes and killed my lights and turned onto the other road. After going maybe 100 feet down this road, whipped a "U" turn and stopped about halfway off the roadway, lights still off. We were just waiting to see if the following vehicle approached. Suddenly from the other direction of the road that we had been on, a truck turned and pulled right up in front of our truck. I was already in gear, headlights on and starting pull out quickley when I noticed the emblem on the door as the Game Warden got out. He did not use any lights, just an agressive approach. Now that I knew we were safe, since it was just the POLICE, I began to see humor in this situation and started laughing because I had a very good idea what he was suspecting. My wife doesn't have quite the same sense of humor and was VERY embaressed ! Realizing that made me laugh even harder !!! By the time the GW flashlighted the truck bed and back seat (super-cab) and didn't see any deer or guns or spotlights and approached my drivers window, I'm laughing so hard that breathing is difficult !!! Then came the questions;
Are ya'll married ?
To each other ??
What are you doing out here ???
LOL
All this time I'm ROFLMAO and wife is hating me for it !
:)
As was my own rule, I never badged them when stopped, I took and deserved every traffic citation that I've received, so he never knew I was LEO. The GW ran the usual check and seemed to relax after that and when I managed to quit laughing, explained to him why I had killed the lights and turned around.
All in all he was pretty cool about it.

[stevie_d_64]

I understand its hard to find those "good" spots these days, err nights...

[carlson1]

My big brother is a Commander for TPW in the East Texas area. I worked DPS narcotics. He did not like this story, but it was funny to me. In the late 80's TPW (probably still does just don't know) would use a mechanical deer for spot lighters. I was working a stake out late one night and we all used the same frequency. I was listening the GW's working this mechanical deer. You talk about funny. After about three or four can't remember for sure. I hear "8314 to 8322 we have another one. He is slowing down, no he kept going. Wait a minute he is coming back." This went on for it seemed like forever. Then all of sudden it was (on the air way my friends), "8322 he has stolen the ******* deer." I have never laughed so hard in my life. I like the GW and would not want their job. But you know these guys took it for weeks over this one.

[Baytown]

A GW in the area was a student in a rifle class I was teaching and we hit it off pretty well. Being in LE I could appreciate the story.

They had set up a mechanical deer and were sitting on it when an older lady comes driving by and sees the deer. She gets out of her truck with her rifle, crosses the fence and shoots and hits the mechanical deer.

They swoop in on this soon to be felon and put the habias snatchas on her. She could not understand why she was being arrested. They told her it was against the law to trespass in order to take a deer on another's property.

Imagine their surprise when it turned out she was the property owner!

Glenn

[carlson1]

There are so many of these stories we should have a forum for LE bloppers. I arrested a School teacher one time for having what I thought was execcy. She told me they were aspirn, but they were 65 pills in a baggy. I had been out of the Academy for almost a year. I had finished my probation period and just became a Trooper II. I thought it was the bust of the year. It was Aspirn. The war stories you could tell. Maybe Mr. Charles could start a blooper forum. Police are humans too.

[KBCraig]

There are so many of these stories we should have a forum for LE bloppers.

http://www.policemag.com/forum

Kevin

[Charles L. Cotton]

Then all of sudden it was (on the air way my friends), "8322 he has stolen the ******* deer." I have never laughed so hard in my life.

This is priceless!!

[Charles L. Cotton]

There are so many of these stories we should have a forum for LE bloppers. MaybeCharles could start a blooper forum. Police are humans too.

Done! This can really be fun, but funny stories only folks; no venting or ranting about COPS. And don't give the LEO's names if the event could still cause them problems!

Good idea carlson1; this is the first new forum we’ve added in a long time.

Chas.

[carlson1]

There are so many of these stories we should have a forum for LE bloppers. MaybeCharles could start a blooper forum. Police are humans too.

Done! This can really be fun, but funny stories only folks; no venting or ranting about COPS. And don't give the LEO's names if the event could still cause them problemsChas.

EVERYONE should remember the police are just people. Just because he did his job and gave a slip of paper that cost you does not make him a bad person. I understand that in all groups there are bad apples, but the police get a bad rap sometimes because people who think they are good citizens should always be given grace. And that is WRONG.