Oops! I just got a lecture from a cop!

[khashka]

So Ok , my mom and I go out to dinner. Then we can't find her purse. So we assume it was lost/stolen at the restaraunt. No one's acussing anyone of anything.

So the manager calls the cops. Later a waitress calls the cops. Then I call the cops and say that this is a problem - after an hour no cops have showed up, I have thirty people who would just like to go home.

The lady tells me to get their names and phone numbers and tell them to go home. I do. She also tells me to go home. Call back. As soon as you get home call back.

So we get home, find the purse, and I call the cops and say "drop it". "It was an honest but stupid mistake".

Then a deputy shows up and accuses me of wasting his time. So I'm standing on the front porch and this guy is reading me the riot act. And I'm saying "Sir, I know it was a waste of your time - that's why I called. When we realizied it was a mistake, not a crime, I called to make sure you didn't waste your time."

Well, fuck me with a chainsaw!


So who's the idiot? Me? Him?

Khash.

[XemaSab]

1. Cops are jerks in general

Just let it go..........

[SeattleGirl]

2. Him

This is not a general condemnation of cops or anything. I just think the guy was taking things a little too far. You weren't the only one who called the cops, and you did the right thing in calling them right away when you found the purse.

[Common Sense Party]

3. Cops are underpaid and overworked, in general

I try to cut them a bit of slack. There could have been something more important he could have been working on.

He doesn't need to be a complete jerk about it, but he's not doing anything wrong by informing you that you should be fairly confident that a crime has been committed before you involve the police.

[bettyellen]

4. he just thought you were hot and tried to start shit with you.....

any of us here would do the same.

[RevCheesehead]

5. Yeah - what bettyellen said!!

:9 Rowwwwwwrrr! :loveya:

[Heidi]

6. You were civil with the officer.

That he was rude says a lot more about him than it says about you. Let it go, and have a :hug: