Myers Depot Metal Detectors

WARNING for you guys, according to cops we are aliens...

This reminds me of a incident that happened to me when I was about 17 or 18 years old, was installing a new stereo in my pickup and was laying down on the seat with my head up under the dash doing the wiring, I hear a couple cars come tearing into the parking lot and didn't think much about it till suddenly this woman screams "freeze" I pull my head from under the dash and am staring into the barrel of a gun about two inches from my nose,I froze!!!!!! then I hear another car pulling in and I am thinking what did I do? thankfully the last car to pull in was a local cop who knew me and my vehicle,this lady cop is shaking and drooling when the other cops had to pull her back and take her gun away, which was locked and loaded safety off and cocked, she just sort of stood there then started screaming at me till the other cops pulled her away and put her in a police car, by now I am pretty scared wondering what the heck I did or am being blamed for. turns out the next door neighbor's mother in law from the city somewhere called in that someone was stealing a car and they had a gun. yeah there was a shotgun in my redneck back window gun rack as it was hunting season, but was unloaded and locked in place with a cable lock. scared the crap out of me!
 
Bonesquat said:
Something interesting happened to me about 20 minutes ago. I thought I'd share this with you. I went to a school 2 miles down the road from my house to MD a school I have done many many times at night with no problems, until tonight.

He tells me to drop what I'm carrying and put my hands on my head as if I were holding an RPG. I comply and he comes over and frisks me down very thoroughly....:mad:

He said that from the road he thought a guy was holding a shotgun at a woman on the ground and that I was like an alien because of the red headlight. So guys, we're a bunch of aliens holding women hostage I guess. I can live with that so long as I keep finding the goods! :lol:

Anyways, HH and hope you don't get frisked like I did! :D

Rick
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Well, that is by far the funniest story I've read in a long time. Now I feel safer from aliens with shotguns.:yes: I've actually never worried about that before hearing your story.

Sadly, it shouldn't have happened that way. They should have let you hunt and they should have felt better informed about local activities.

Jill
 
jack&jill said:
Sadly, it shouldn't have happened that way. They should have let you hunt and they should have felt better informed about local activities.

Jill
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Easy to say, not so easy to do in real life. Unless you've been a peace officer like I was, it's almost impossible to imagine the information overload you get everytime you start a shift. People also think that because cops have computers in their units now, they should be up to date on everything. They would be, if they could chase a suspected DWI vehicle going the wrong way down the freeway at 110 mph and drive and type at the same time.....

Dusty
 
Bonesquat said:
Wow we revived a super old thread! Yikes! Just noticed 365 days ago I started this fiasco, almost down to the hour. :wow:
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That's pretty impressive actually... unless it was bumped for that reason :?:

I suggest not detecting tonight, you might run into the same guy! :lol:
 
I've never detected at night. I'm too busy sleeping.:lol:

I can definitely see the benefits especially with the hot dry weather most of the country has been enduring.

I can see why they would frown upon the night time activity occurring at a school too. Not long ago, my local elementary school, closed two of the play grounds due to vandalism. Stuff like setting fire to the plastic sliding boards, cutting swings in half, tearing some equipment right out of the ground. Not to mention the actions of some deranged chump, burying a fake pipe bomb in the middle of the soccer field. Haha, pretty funny, but not when children are involved..

You just never now these days. Anyway, interesting thread. I'm new here and hadn''t seen it before.

HH Mark
 
Dustyloins said:
Easy to say, not so easy to do in real life. Unless you've been a peace officer like I was, it's almost impossible to imagine the information overload you get everytime you start a shift. People also think that because cops have computers in their units now, they should be up to date on everything. They would be, if they could chase a suspected DWI vehicle going the wrong way down the freeway at 110 mph and drive and type at the same time.....Dusty
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That's all fine and dandy as an explanation why a cop might perceive danger from the road, and he would be grossly negligent if he did NOT check it out.

But by the time the cop gets close enough to realize that the "shotgun" is a metal detector, and nobody is lying on the ground - no amount of "information overload" is going to justify frisking the guy and running his driver's license.

As far as I can see, it is the STATE who has been grossly negligent in certifying this barney fife wannabe as a cop!
 
emfederin said:
That's all fine and dandy as an explanation why a cop might perceive danger from the road, and he would be grossly negligent if he did NOT check it out.

But by the time the cop gets close enough to realize that the "shotgun" is a metal detector, and nobody is lying on the ground - no amount of "information overload" is going to justify frisking the guy and running his driver's license.

As far as I can see, it is the STATE who has been grossly negligent in certifying this barney fife wannabe as a cop!
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Well put - there was enough ambient light for him to be able to tell what I was doing AND he put his super xenon bulb flash light on me from 10 feet away. Maybe he was legally blind.
 
Bonesquat said:
Well put - there was enough ambient light for him to be able to tell what I was doing AND he put his super xenon bulb flash light on me from 10 feet away. Maybe he was legally blind.
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And now he is forever immortalized on FMDF as an idiot. :lol::yes::cool:
 
That's funny Bones. I remember you telling me about this, and then I see this thread. Didn't notice the date and assumed you'd been busted AGAIN!

D'oh!


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Bonesquat - you were pretty reserved. I would have also lit up when they asked about the batteries. That is just nuts.

I don't blame them for checking but here in Burbank and Glendale we have some over zealous ex MP cowboy cops that like to stir it up.

I respect police officers until they act like storm troopers for no reason.
 
You cannot hunt 1 school here all of them are fenced up. I think it is to keep the neighborhood safe from the school kids.. :giggle:
 
There are these woods next to an office building in my town, and everytime I get out and walk in them, im waiting for the cops to show up. I always have this thought that someone in the building will see me walk in the woods thinking im carrying a shotgun or something.:D:D
 
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