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Is this the arresting occiffer?

Police: Drunk off-duty police officer crashes into restaurant, kills woman

Dave_in_AZ, Jun 10, 2019

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AModelCat said: ↑

There's a lot of hate for cops these days. In my experience the vast majority are decent folks. No need to treat the good ones like ####.
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Cops are people too.

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PoleCrusher said: ↑

Cops are people too.
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Yes they are. My son happens to be one.

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Ridgeline said: ↑

this morning I got a call from a sheriff deputy in Ohio, who had one of my trucks sitting in a rest stop with the driver arrested. So at 2am, I had to call one of my drivers who is sleeping at home north of Detroit, go pick him up and go get the truck.

I won't post much about the details why the driver was arrested other than he was pulled over and he argued about being pulled over in the first place. He called the cop stupid, told the cop that he didn't do anything wrong and was in hurry, blah blah blah.

The cop got pissed off after 15 minutes of hearing my idiot driver going off in him, he just pulled him over because the trailer lights were blinking and there was an obvious problem that may be fixed quickly by cleaning the plug - that's what we did. He said to me that he wasn't going to issue a ticket, he knows the driver can't see the back of the trailer so he wanted to tell the driver what was going on,

The cop was patient and told the driver to let him speak, which the driver refused to do so the cop called for backup, was put in cuffs and then arrested for a few things that I won't mention.

I keep telling my drivers just don't argue with anyone when you get pulled over, I will back them and most of the time pay for the legal costs to get rid of the ticket if it isn't warranted. Speeding is an exception. But in this case this driver, he is still sitting in jail waiting for a hearing to set bail, and I won't go there to bail him out, and he knows it.

I just talked to his wife, she called me asking what happened, she said he can stay there, she isn't going to go get him.
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Time for a new wife.

Midnightrider909, Jun 10, 2019

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Midnightrider909 said: ↑

Time for a new wife.
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Or time to grow up lol.

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Tough guy,outlaw trucker.
Sitting in jail. Lol.
He'll brag about this for the
Next 20 years.

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The one and only time I got arrested, as soon as the state trooper stepped inside doorway, I put my hands in air. He told me to put them down. I then walked outside and put hands behind back and told him to cuff me. He laughed and was hesitant at first. He said “I don’t know if you’ve done anything wrong yet”

I told him there’s broken glass, blood, a brick and I’ve been drinking.....you’ll find out soon enough. LOL

Reason I wanted cuffed is the individual I was going after was coming outside and I was a wee bit sober enough to realize I would put my hands on him even with trooper standing there if I wasn’t cuffed.

Cost me my clean record, reputation and about $5000. Also embarrassed my family.

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Western flyer said: ↑

Tough guy,outlaw trucker.
Sitting in jail. Lol.
He'll brag about this for the
Next 20 years.
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Maybe so, but the only people that'll be impressed are the rest of the lunch counter crowd and some rookies who believe everything they hear.

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This story reminds me a lot of an issue I was involved in gosh at least 20 years ago. I had just got home the night before and was still a bit mentally exhausted. A friend called me and asked me if I could take him down to get his son out of the Tift County Georgia jail. To save time and a thread hijack I will only say this young man had listened to a truck stop attorney and paid for it dearly. Took almost all day to come up with the paperwork to do a property bond from my hometown. I can't remember how much the whole thing cost, but it was not cheap. The guy did 6 months and close to 2 years on probation.

Edited to add the most important point. NEVER hit a cop!

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Ridgeline said: ↑

this morning I got a call from a sheriff deputy in Ohio, who had one of my trucks sitting in a rest stop with the driver arrested. So at 2am, I had to call one of my drivers who is sleeping at home north of Detroit, go pick him up and go get the truck.

I won't post much about the details why the driver was arrested other than he was pulled over and he argued about being pulled over in the first place. He called the cop stupid, told the cop that he didn't do anything wrong and was in hurry, blah blah blah.

The cop got pissed off after 15 minutes of hearing my idiot driver going off in him, he just pulled him over because the trailer lights were blinking and there was an obvious problem that may be fixed quickly by cleaning the plug - that's what we did. He said to me that he wasn't going to issue a ticket, he knows the driver can't see the back of the trailer so he wanted to tell the driver what was going on,

The cop was patient and told the driver to let him speak, which the driver refused to do so the cop called for backup, was put in cuffs and then arrested for a few things that I won't mention.

I keep telling my drivers just don't argue with anyone when you get pulled over, I will back them and most of the time pay for the legal costs to get rid of the ticket if it isn't warranted. Speeding is an exception. But in this case this driver, he is still sitting in jail waiting for a hearing to set bail, and I won't go there to bail him out, and he knows it.

I just talked to his wife, she called me asking what happened, she said he can stay there, she isn't going to go get him.
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Wow.

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