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9 Weird Ways Kids Broke The Law That Were So Hysterical The Cops Couldn’t Stop Laughing
Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
There’s a reason it’s called the long arm of the law. If you’re doing something illegal, sooner or later you’ll run into a cop who wants nothing more than to read you your rights, drop you in a cell, and leave the rest up to a judge.
Of course, not all crimes are created equal. A netizen asked cops what the weirdest crimes they’d ever busted kids for were, and their responses are hysterical. Here’s a collection of some of the most hilarious “crime-fighting” stories they had to tell.
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#1
My brother was once jumping his bike off the end of the public boat dock behind the city hall which also housed our police station, they had it tethered so it wouldn't get lost on the bottom.
A cop came out, watched for a while and said, "I'm fairly certain something about that is illegal, but I can't figure out what and it looks like fun, so be safe" and walked back inside.
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#2
My dad was a police officer and this is my favourite story he has.
One day he was running a speeding trap and was waiting. A kid blew by going 50 km/h over so obviously my dad flipped on his lights and pulled the kid over. According to my dad, this was his first pullover he got to do on his own, so he felt like a real badass. He slowly walked up to the window of the car and saw it was a teenager inside, and he said, "I've been waiting to you all day." The kid immediately snapped back, "Sorry officer, I came as fast as I could."
My dad let the kid off with a warning.
#3
Not a cop, but I have a radio scanner.
Dispatcher: "Reports of a teenager riding a skateboard naked down Westway."
Cop: "Is the suspect carrying a suspicious package?".
#4
I remember this comment from reddit years ago that must be a contender:
>So one of my friends is in a frat. They were having a party, and some guy was dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow. Awesome, I know. Anyways, the cops show up, and the party is on the third floor. Capt. Sparrow looks at them when they come in, throws open the window and yells, "Gentlemen, you will forever remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow." And jumped out the window.
Broke both legs, still got his Minor In Possesion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/luzne/most_awkwardweirdawesome_thing_seen_at_a_party/c2vur40.
#5
Local PD SWAT team came and played airsoft with my team to help us practice. We got demolished every time against them but they taught us tactics that helped us own our local field against other teams!
#6
A few years ago a friend and I were walking home through a residential estate, drunk, after a night out. About half way home a police car pulls up next to us and says they need to talk to us.
They say that CCTV in the area had observed us entering several front gardens.
We then drunkenly explained that we had been going in to peoples gardens and swapping around flower pots, hanging baskets and garden ornaments with their next-door neighbours.
One of the cops was laughing a lot and the other seemed really confused. Luckily they got another call and let us carry on our way.
#7
Not me but my uncle.
He's a pretty young guy (35? Something like that) and definitely even younger at heart so he always tends to handle things in a pretty relaxed way. This was last year right after high-school graduation. About 50 or so of the grads decided to celebrate by buying animal themed onesies and parade around town in them. It got to be about 8pm and everyone was obviously pretty tired so they decided to take a rest outside of this shopping center around 15 minutes from my house. One of the store owners didn't like this too much so he called 911 saying some kids were loitering outside of his store. This obviously isn't an emergency by most standards so my uncle was the closest officer to the scene so he was the only one who showed up. He thought it was the funniest thing of them to do so he took a selfie with some of them, gave them a warning, and just told them to head out.
#8
Not a police officer, but this story is going to fit.
I was 17, just got my learners permit which allowed me to drive alone but not after midnight or before 6AM (NJ older rules) and a bunch of friends I went to Applebees. I had a couple of airsoft guns in the trunk, about 3000 plastic bb's and we all decided it was a good idea to chase each other around in the parking lot with the guns. Stupidly, I took off the yellow tips. Waitress inside sees us, calls the cops, cops show up. Arrest us and ask us to sit on the curb. After about 7 minutes of seriousness, they take the guns and bb's dump them in my trunk and backseat, laugh and leave after breaking the airsoft guns. They told us not to play with these in public parking lots and not to remove the orange/yellow tips. Those guys took our beers too. Now that I think about it, we could have been killed.
#9
Not a Police Officer but this happened to me...
I was going for my morning run one day when I notice a car following me driving on the edge of the road. I've looked a couple of times over my shoulder at the car and noticed that there were red and blue lights sorta hidden on the dash and worked out quickly it was an undercover car, or a detectives car or something.
Anyhoos... My street is coming up so after checking it's safe, I run across the road to my street and start jogging up the hill. At this point, the car behind me follows me, and there's another undercover car coming down the hill that pulls up onto the side of the road in front of me, and another 2 cars show up out of nowhere, and all of a sudden I'm surrounded by the cars with plain clothed cops all jumping out of the cars and coming towards me.
So it's not the cops who are laughing but obviously I realise they've made a mistake and I start cracking up laughing. I tried my hardest not to, but thinking about this situation was hysterical to me.
So as I'm laughing I say to them all casual like "Hey guys! What're ya's up to?"
Long story short, someone was breaking into houses in the area and they mistakenly thought it was me. I don't know why.
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