COPS – Re-ducks (of course it’s on purpose)

So 48 hours after I mention that the TV show COPS should show an episode where the bad guy gets away, what do you think happens? Granted the guy crashes his own car into a fence and leaves his drivers license behind, but WHAM…he escaped. Lo and behold the officer was left wandering around talking into his radio. The only thing that could have been better was if the camera man saw him lurking behind a tree and got a shot of the culprit in the “Shhh…don’t rat me out” mode.

I sure wish I knew what it felt like to have Ed McMahons people knock at my door and give me that big old check. I’ll let you know if it works.

Bad boys, bad boys…

I was watching an episode of COPS the other night and I thought of a good way they could refresh this show a bit. How about they show some of the chases where the people get away? I’m curious if anyone who runs from the cops ever gets away. I think it’s probably best to keep the message in front of our kids that if you run away, you will get caught, but I still want to see the fat cop and the cameraman running after some teen and rounding a corner, going “What? Where did he go? The they can walk around frustrated for a while talking into their radios, “You see him? No I don’t see him…Wanna go get a donut?” Same with “America’s funniest, silly, out of control, car chases” Some of those people have to get away don’t they? Lastly….don’t these people ever watch these shows? They do the same dumb thing the last 5,000 criminals did in the last 5,000 episodes. You cannot hide under a car. Oh…don’t forget to take your shirt off. Lie to the cops, that always makes them feel better about catching you. You are a true criminal if the first thing you do is lie about it. Oh, and COPS? Don’t bother asking them “Why did you run?” They’re criminals…that’s why they ran. This question just makes you look dumb too.

Erik Estrada lives in my neighborhood

Ok…forgive me if this is even more rambling than usual, but I just had a run in with “the law”. The reason it’s in quotes is that he wasn’t really doing any LAW related work when we ran into each other. We live in a “gated community” and the reason that this is is quotes is because half the time the gate isn’t working and it takes an act of congress to get your phone number changed in the magic box. Well tonight I decided that since I left my remote control to the gate in the house I would follow the next person in. This just happened to be a police car. It crossed my mind that it might be a sketchy maneuver and apparently he thought so too. I reasoned that I did actually live there and that I wasn’t breaking any actual laws. He pretty much called me stupid, or actually he did call me stupid and proceeded to read me the riot act. I was actually cool with that because I knew how it was going to end. The part I didn’t really like is that he wouldn’t let me speak. So I gave up. After a few minutes of getting yelled at and a fake license check he calmed down, shook my hand and went home. I got enough words out to tell him I didn’t mind him stopping and checking my address, but I didn’t get out the part where I think he went a little overboard. Probably better that way.