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Tacoma

Tacoma

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So a while back I got reamed a little for saying that Tooele cops act like d*cks, re: Wally's wife getting pulled over, and told that they thought the Jeep was stolen.

Well.
Tonight I'm pulling out of WalMart through the parking lot of the nearby restaurants. Two cops cars are going to turn in, but noo, they pull a u-turn, and are behind me for about a mile and a half, until I get to Little Caesar's. Get my pie, jump back in, go to pull out, no traffic, sweet! Cop in line at the light u-turns and flips on his lights. As I havent' done anything, I pull over to let him by (we're on Utah Ave, heading out to the Desert Peak Complex and Larry Miller's track, and there are lots of accidents).
To my surprise, he pulls in behind me. What's the deal? "You didn't come to a complete stop pulling out of that parking lot." Oh, uh. Ok then. No, I'm not carrying tonight. :D

Guy comes back, with his partner in full-on "I'm a big bad cop" mode, asks if I've been drinking. Kids are in the car, groceries, etc. No, hahah I haven't.
"We're gonna just do a field sobriety test, sir."
OK, OFFICER. I said "You've got to be kidding"
"No, sir, we got a call from a guy that saw you throwing beer bottles out of your car at Ixtapa. (Mexican place in the parking lot I turned out of orignally, and which I drove by in about .4 nanoseconds.) Description matches. And I saw you pull out of there."
"You didn't get any report." Now I'm a little miffed.
"Yes sir, we did."
"Really? So you let a suspected drunk vandal just mosey on down to get some pizza? That's kind of odd, don't you think?"
"Follow my finger."
"Make sure you wave it past your badge number, fraud."

He moved his finger once to the right, once to the left, and said, Have a good night.



And then I called dispatch. :D

"Yeah, I just want to make sure someone comes down to Ixtapa, for that guy throwing the bottles"
" We havent' received any calls about that sir, would you like an officer to stop by?"
"Oh, no that's ok. " :mad:





I'm not going to file a complaint or anything, but it's good to know who's who in the Tooele PD. :D
 
Tacoma

Tacoma

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bobmed said:
Were you driving your Suburban?
I thought it made you look a little like Tony Soprano:rofl:
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Good point, but no. I was driving the pimp-ass, soft-topped Blazer, with none of the "windows" in.

Speaking of which, I am solving the problem of the rear section bowing about a foot inward at 50+. All they had to do was put some braces inbetween the bows. :mad: Glad I didn't pay retail for that top. :D :D
 
Thursty

Thursty

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Location
Green River
I remember your last post on this topic. I kind of got after you then for some of the comments you made but, it really sounds like you have some d*cks out there in tooele. :-\
 
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utahxjer

Well-Known Member
That blows, sorry man. Just remember he will weed himself out of a job sooner or later. (No pun intended)
 
Tacoma

Tacoma

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You were who I was thinking of when I wrote this up LOL (Mike I mean, damn ninja posts!)

I have the utmost respect for LEO's. It's a thankless, sh*tty job a lot of the time, and I am as polite and forgiving as I can be, as often as I can be. I just really don't appreciate crappy cops, crappy policework, etc.

All he had to tell me was.. well, anything but an obvious lie. Say my eyes are red, I was weaving, something believable at least. *shrug* Oh well. :D
 
Brett

Brett

Meat-Hippy
Location
Salt Lake City Utah
****in hell, I'd file a complaint on that guy. There's no reason that it should have even happened. Dude on a power trip, making **** up for no reason. Get his ass canned.
 
gijohn40

gijohn40

too poor to wheel... :(
Location
Layton, Utah
you know if you don't report things like this to IA then the problem never gets fixed... Having Sue working for the police it would really surprise you what your comments to IA will do towards fixing the problem...

I'm not trying to be down on Leo's but cases like this are just wrong... and need to be fixed... and the only way to fix the problem is to report it...
 
Tacoma

Tacoma

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Easy boys. He wasn't a dick about it, just a liar. No ticket, short enough stop, just a bad, bad liar. If he'd have done much more than waggled his finger, I would probably file a complaint, since I obviously, and I do mean OBVIOUSLY hadn't been drinking. Soft topped BLazer, he could see no evidence of beer bottles, though I guess it was smart of me to toss them all, machine-gun style as I sped through the parking lot at less than 5mph. :rolleyes:

I pulled out without a complete stop. Justifiable stop. After that though, it was bulls*t. I have a feeling he was showing the rookie how it's done, and hopefully, when they got in the car he said something like "...and occasionally you get people like him. Back away slowly and leave quickly." :D
 
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StrobeNGH

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Location
WB
Tacoma said:
Easy boys. He wasn't a dick about it, just a liar. No ticket, short enough stop, just a bad, bad liar.
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Is that not enough to file a formal complaint with his superiors?

An honest cop is worth their weight in gold.
A dishonest cop deserves to pull night shifts at the local 7-11 . . . maybe.

Allowing him to stay in his job is not doing anyone any favors.

Let's assume that you are a criminal (is that a stretch?). By lying about why he pulled you over, ANY evidence he might have found during the stop is inadmissible in court.

If, for example, you were carrying several hundred pounds of crack, not one grain of the crack could be used against you. You'd get off Scott free . . . well, you wouldn't get your crack back.
Hell, under certain circumstances, if you had a stack of dead bodies in your vehicle, they couldn't even use that against you.

Cops have rules for a reason. That reason is to make my job more difficult.
Trust me, file the complaint. You don't want that person "protecting" you.


P.S. unless Tooele's code is different than the State's code (as in the case in SLC), you are NOT required to make a stop when entering a road-way from a private drive (parking lots are private drives).
 
phatfoto

phatfoto

Giver of bad advice
Location
Tooele
SO, uh, do you get the same guy each time? Or just lucky to get the Tooele PD randomizer?

I've been lucky enough so far to not have been pulled over by Tooele's finest and hope to keep it that way.
 
GI'sCHICK

GI'sCHICK

Active Member
Location
Layton, UT
Hey T~
John's right, but u do what u want. After living in Grantsville w/ my ex way back when, it's alot of "good ol' boy syndrome" out there. I'd hope that even small town Tooele wld investigate an IA report of harassment - and becuz they are THAT bored, you won't be the only one they harass for no reason.......
Sue
 
NoTrax

NoTrax

New Wheels Big Trax
Location
Utah
Tacoma said:
So a while back I got reamed a little for saying that Tooele cops act like d*cks, re: Wally's wife getting pulled over, and told that they thought the Jeep was stolen.

Well.
Tonight I'm pulling out of WalMart through the parking lot of the nearby restaurants. Two cops cars are going to turn in, but noo, they pull a u-turn, and are behind me for about a mile and a half, until I get to Little Caesar's. Get my pie, jump back in, go to pull out, no traffic, sweet! Cop in line at the light u-turns and flips on his lights. As I havent' done anything, I pull over to let him by (we're on Utah Ave, heading out to the Desert Peak Complex and Larry Miller's track, and there are lots of accidents).
To my surprise, he pulls in behind me. What's the deal? "You didn't come to a complete stop pulling out of that parking lot." Oh, uh. Ok then. No, I'm not carrying tonight. :D

Guy comes back, with his partner in full-on "I'm a big bad cop" mode, asks if I've been drinking. Kids are in the car, groceries, etc. No, hahah I haven't.
"We're gonna just do a field sobriety test, sir."
OK, OFFICER. I said "You've got to be kidding"
"No, sir, we got a call from a guy that saw you throwing beer bottles out of your car at Ixtapa. (Mexican place in the parking lot I turned out of orignally, and which I drove by in about .4 nanoseconds.) Description matches. And I saw you pull out of there."
"You didn't get any report." Now I'm a little miffed.
"Yes sir, we did."
"Really? So you let a suspected drunk vandal just mosey on down to get some pizza? That's kind of odd, don't you think?"
"Follow my finger."
"Make sure you wave it past your badge number, fraud."

He moved his finger once to the right, once to the left, and said, Have a good night.



And then I called dispatch. :D

"Yeah, I just want to make sure someone comes down to Ixtapa, for that guy throwing the bottles"
" We havent' received any calls about that sir, would you like an officer to stop by?"
"Oh, no that's ok. " :mad:





I'm not going to file a complaint or anything, but it's good to know who's who in the Tooele PD. :D
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Wow, I am glad you shared that with us. I hate bad cops, they give good cops bad names, and it seems like there are more bad ones than good ones, but thats a myth, people are more apt to share horror stories thatn a good one.

That cop should be reprimanded for treating you like that with kids in tow. Harass me all you want alone, and I wont like it Harass me with my kids and I will really get irate.
 
Tacoma

Tacoma

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I have been pulled over a total of... let me think...

1. moving in here, with a van full of guns and a couple thousand rounds of each kind of ammo. Busted headlight. Officer asks if I have a permit for teh one I'm carrying, I show him, he resnaps his holster and gives me a fixit for the headlight. Same cop signs off the next day for the repair. :D No problem.

2. Nailed doing about 50 up Skyline, late as hell for Kenpo class. Traffic school, ticket was for 10 over (35 in a 25). No problem.

3. Questioned by DOD cops after driving along a fenceline that may or may not have been under their jurisdiction. 5 Suburbans and a Cherokee full of nameless assassins and I'm not going to really question that one. :eek:

4. Tonight!



I really haven't had much to do w/Tooele's finest here. Couple times I called about the gang in my neighborhood... but that's about it. Helped nab some vandals that were tagging new houses, when they tried to get my neighbor, who spent months finishing the inside himself.

LOTS AND LOTS of stories about what happens when you are working all over the east coast w/UT plates though. :mad:
 
Tacoma

Tacoma

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StrobeNGH said:
You don't want that person "protecting" you.
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Trust me, I do not for a second expect the cops to protect me. I expect them to mostly get stuck w/a BS job in a town like this, writing tickets and breaking up fights on Broadway... or domestics all over LOL

I'm glad you're a lawyer though-- you might actually be one of the decent ones. :eek:


EDIT: you've got me thinking now though. I think I will go down and ask about that code issue. -_-
 
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