I've got a story that involves me, a family member, and a friend :D Back in my college days I was visiting with a friend when he confessed that he had a problem. He'd gotten drunk the night before and liberated one of the large orange warning signs that they're fond of putting up near road work in these parts but his parents were due to be there in a few minutes and he didn't know what to do with it now. Being the helpful individual that I sometimes am, I offered to take it off his hands and solve the problem, at least temporarily.
Spring break rolled around shortly thereafter and I found myself at my mother's house with a similar difficulty but after a little brainstorming (and possibly a few beers) I had the brilliant idea to just nail it to a tree in the woods were nobody could see it. Problem solved, no? I thought so but with the coming of fall the leaves changed their colors and fell from the trees and shortly thereafter I received a panicked phone call from my mother. She'd spotted the sign on her lunch break and for some reason thought I was responsible and that the police would be showing up to investigate it and arrest her for stealing it. With some effort I was able to convince her that she wasn't going to go to jail and that it could easily be removed. Although that defused the panic I was in the doghouse for a while over that one.
As for an interesting photo, here's me in the taking photos while I'm in the process of getting tear gassed for the first time. (That's me silhouetted in the photo and the white clouds in the background are the tear gas)
Ah yes, the old I stole a road sign thinking it was a good idea and then realised what the fuck am I going to do with it story. Funny that your mum (mom) knew it was you...Your reputation precedes you obviously.
I grew up in a small town and there always seemed to be a road sign missing around the place...Some of which were hidden in peoples sheds. I only took one...I wonder hoe many vehicle accidents there were at that intersection with the give way sign gone? Lol.
Great photo...Must have been good for photo opportunities I guess, not so good for your health though. Tear gas doesn't discriminate.
#dumbestcopever
Lol! I never saw the point of messing up with street signs. Most people here do, though and we have very few left.
That meme of the idiot in uniform self-teargassing is glorious! If only God existed and causes that every time innocent people are about to be teargassed.
Oh yeah, that cop must have had a bad day...You only do that sort of thing once though, you'd hope. 😁
That video really does wondrous things for me and my contemplation of the training behind that guy. How can you be that stupid? And how can his fellow officers let that shit happen?
Shit was going bad from the moment he pointed that thing at his head. He deserves what he got, a headache and probably loss of teeth or a broken nose. What a dick.
And fired I would hope. That shit just makes me crazy.
Sends a bad massage that a professional LEO doesn't practice the most basic of firearm safety...Don't point at at yourself, and keep your finger away from the trigger.
Yeah, CS is no bueno, except for in that video! Plausible deniability works better for politicians than it did for me. I have a fondness for pranks that make people go "WTF!?!?" so I tend to be an immediate suspect anytime something like that happens.
I grew up outside of a small town but we didn't have anything like a 'give way' sign so people mostly just shot them.
Yep, there's many road sign shooters around Australia. I never saw the point to be honest.
Yeah, me neither. It was always a bit disconcerting when you saw the ones where they'd obviously fired across the road while driving. Do people spotlight deer there?
Yeah, I cull deer on a cattle farm; Kangaroos too.
Oops, forgot this...
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.Seemed like a good idea at the time. I may or may not have a couple of those on my resume.
I have a great (long) story about street testing an MGB that I'd race prepped for a guy. In a small town in E Washington. Midnight Saturday night. Seems the local constabulary was unhappy with my choices. Pity.
Seemed like a good idea at the time probably sums up most of my bad decisions. I'd love to have seen that test! Would it even count as a proper test if they weren't unhappy with it?
Ahahahahaha. Nope. We made 2 laps each (one at a time) We'd have gotten away clean with one each :)
Damn that car ran good, too!
Talking about street signs and alcohol, 3 guys were on their way home after a binge drinking party. Happily drunk they chatted and joked in the car and as they approached a small bridge they ran the car off the road severely damaging several warning signs to slow down and they ended up with the car in the small river.
They were arrested and placed on trial!
So the judge asked them; "Tell me, who was the driver"?
The one wise guy chirped up; "I don't know your highness, as we were all three sitting in the back" 🤣
Ha, that's a good one! I knew a guy who took out a few telephone poles but dodged a DUI by climbing into the passenger seat before the cops got there and then claimed that the driver ran off. He still had to pay for the telephone poles though....
Hahaha, I presume the car belonged to him and that's why he had to pay.
So many guys pull lurks like this, but the concern is that they start to think that they can always get away with it which normally ends in a sad note for them.
He'd just bought it but hadn't gotten it transferred into his name yet which I think is the only reason it worked with the police. Yeah, that's definitely one of those things that works great until it don't and then it's that much worse for everyone involved.
Yeah, if it was not in his name, then they couldn't touch him. Of course they never found the driver as he is still running today lol.
I also had a few mishaps and narrow escapes in my time, as I am sure that you and many others did, but hopefully we have all learned something from them lol.
Then there are those that refuse to learn and invariably it ends in tears and sorrow.
Cheers!