Have a Police Question? Ask me I will answer to the best of my ability.

[BigJim]

I never knew you were an ex-cop, Tom.

 

[BigJim]

Is there ever a situation where you get issued automatic weapons if you're not a member of a SWAT team? Would you ever be tempted to bullet your name into a wall if you were issued with an automatic weapon?

Anyone with that sort of mentality wouldn't even get in the TA, let alone an armed police unit.

 

[BigJim]

I have a New York Fraternal Order of Police sticker.

Just out of interest, is that a Masonic thing?

 

[BigJim]

I'll tell you in short he has a lot of explaining to do and will 12 people believe him.

If Gerard Leone is defending him, anything is possible.

 

[BigJim]

there not true to life at all.

I dunno, I think Hot Fuzz had its moments of rather toe-curling realism. Mainly the bit about the cops being all twenty stone boulder who ate junk food all day.

To be honest though, I recently saw Robocop again for the first time since I was a kid, and I was screaming at the bloody screen. Peter Weller's character (pre-cyborg) and his partner, the woman, were total idiots who were asking to get murdered.

They already knew there were multiple suspects, they already knew they were holed up in a labarynthian building that they knew not a jot and the bad guys knew very well (it being their hide-out and all).

They arrive at the hide-out hard on the tail of the villains, just the two of them, and hear a radio message saying "backup is fifteen minutes away". So do they keep the building discretely under observation and wait for SWAT and a couple of helicopters to arrive a teensy quarter of an hour later?

No they don't! They go in, just the two of them carrying semi-auto pistols against a horde of more than ten bad guys, all toting automatic assault rifles. And they wonder why that fictional Detroit city had such a high mortality rate for it's cops? Possibly, it was because they were as dumb as a fucking sack of hammers.

There is no cop in the world who would go into a situation like that. Hell, there are no special forces soldiers who would go into a situation like that! It was insanity!

So yep, I agree with Tom.

Rant over.

 

[BigJim]

Have you ever shot a person?

Or even more intriguing MP, have you ever fired two guns while jumping through the air, shouting "aaaahhhhh!!!"?

Oh, and did you cook any fools? 😀

 

[BigJim]

What do most of the police officers think of the police shows or movies?

Pretty much what most soldiers think of shows like Ultimate Force. Total crap.

Unless it's Hott Fuzz, in which case they're brilliant. 😀

 

[MasterPaladin]

Or even more intriguing MP, have you ever fired two guns while jumping through the air, shouting "aaaahhhhh!!!"?

Oh, and did you cook any fools? 😀

no I can't say that I've done either one of those lol

 

[Babyshambles]

on a side note. why does everyone live and work in hampshire??

can we nuke the county?? please?

at the very least, can we take out reading and basingstoke - and hook, andover and some other places along those lines.

 

[BigJim]

on a side note. why does everyone live and work in hampshire??

can we nuke the county?? please?

at the very least, can we take out reading and basingstoke - and hook, andover and some other places along those lines.

Aside from the fact that Reading is in Berkshire, what's wrong with the rest of Hampshire?

 

[MasterPaladin]

I see that that question was not for me lol

 

[feetandtickling]

Sorry for replying to posts from March...

OK, I have another question , I learned from a high school driving ed teacher.
Heres the scenario:
I'm driving from NYC to Albany on the Thruway. I'm doing 65 mph when out of nowhere a police car passes me doing 100mph without his lights on.

According to my teacher, I can then follow him at 100mph as long as he doesn't turn on his lights and I don't pass him.

Is there any truth to this ?

But I forgot about this thread. I write people speeding tickets for following me at a high rate of speed all the time. And the idiots that plead not guilty get convicted. The Police are exempt from the Vehicle and Trafic Law. You have no right to speed, period. My normal speech to the moron pacing me down the highway is, "Why should I continue to chase that other car up the highway, when it's easier to just slow down and stop you for chasing me". How about showing some respect anyway? If we're there in a marked unit, you should be taking your cell phone down from your ear, getting out of the left lane, slowing down, etc. Not speeding up, you are asking for a ticket doing something so dumb.

PS: Get a new driving instructor, this one's on drugs for saying something so stupid!

 

[Babyshambles]

Aside from the fact that Reading is in Berkshire, what's wrong with the rest of Hampshire?

Nothing really,

But Hampshire seems to have become the hub of the entire UK. Everybody and everything seems to take place in Hampshire.

 

[BigJim]

Nothing really,

But Hampshire seems to have become the hub of the entire UK. Everybody and everything seems to take place in Hampshire.

Could have fooled me. My experience of Hampshire is a singularly boring one. Hey-ho, etc.

 

[Babyshambles]

Could have fooled me. My experience of Hampshire is a singularly boring one. Hey-ho, etc.

Nope. It is fast-becoming the centre of the known universe.

I don't know why.

It's probably down to it's location. Very close to London. Quite close to the Midlands. Good transport links. Contains Southampton, Portsmouth etc.

Many businesses seem to have set up shop there. Almost every day I deal with a business based in Hampshire