Things that make Smokey the Bear Laugh
Would it come as a surprise to you to know that the police have a sense of humour? You may find that hard to believe, especially when they are arresting you, reading you your rights, writing you a ticket, or worse, shooting at you or bashing in your head as part of riot control, but the fact is it is essential for them to be able to see the funny side of things. Some lose their sense of humour, and when that happens it usually ends badly for such officers.
I wondered what sorts of things make an officer fall about in laughter. I logged on to a website advertising funny police stories. What I found I thought was very interesting. I think I can share some of these:
A Royal Canadian Mounted Policeperson by the name of A.L. Lambie says that while working general duty he was called to the scene of an accident. A car had left the road and ended up in someone’s garden. The driver was still in the car and was having a hard time breathing. He couldn’t get out without help.
The officer gave assistance, but noticed a foul smell. Turns out that the driver was a high priced lawyer in a three-piece suit. He was on his way home suffering with the flu. He apparently felt the need to pass wind, but passed more than he expected, and lost control and ended up in the garden.
Policemen don’t particularly like high-priced lawyers who get the bad guys off, so to the police this was an A-class story. He says, “we laughed for days over that one.” I bet they did.
From the Houston Police department comes the story of a bad guy who walks up to the policeman and hands him a baggie of Coke. He said that he had just bought it from a guy down the road and he wanted the police to go arrest him for selling drugs. The truth was that this “model” citizen was a drug dealer himself trying to get rid of the competition. The police got rid of them both. Some stories are so funny you couldn’t make them up.
This one is funny and has involved apparently several people in separate situations. It’s about the cruise control function on cars. The police in California had one case where the van was owned and driven by an Asian man. He engaged the cruise control in his camper van and got up to get a drink from the fridge. With no-one at the driving wheel the van went off the road and crashed. Duh! The same thing happened in all the cases.
There is a big difference between automatic pilot and cruise control. Between sobbing with laughter the police were just amazed these people actually held driving permits.
The police nabbed three guys as suspects in an armed robbery. They got a positive identification from the victim who said they stole his watch and $15 in cash. An officer asked, “O.K: which one of you guys stole this man’s Rolex watch? One of the guys pipes up with “Weren’t no damn Rolex. It’s a Seiko! And then he took it off his wrist and said “See!”
If only police work could always be this easy.
To the men and women who police our neighbourhoods and streets, “Stay safe, and Keep smiling!”
Copyright © 2010 Eugene Carmichael
Would it come as a surprise to you to know that the police have a sense of humour? You may find that hard to believe, especially when they are arresting you, reading you your rights, writing you a ticket, or worse, shooting at you or bashing in your head as part of riot control, but the fact is it is essential for them to be able to see the funny side of things. Some lose their sense of humour, and when that happens it usually ends badly for such officers.
I wondered what sorts of things make an officer fall about in laughter. I logged on to a website advertising funny police stories. What I found I thought was very interesting. I think I can share some of these:
A Royal Canadian Mounted Policeperson by the name of A.L. Lambie says that while working general duty he was called to the scene of an accident. A car had left the road and ended up in someone’s garden. The driver was still in the car and was having a hard time breathing. He couldn’t get out without help.
The officer gave assistance, but noticed a foul smell. Turns out that the driver was a high priced lawyer in a three-piece suit. He was on his way home suffering with the flu. He apparently felt the need to pass wind, but passed more than he expected, and lost control and ended up in the garden.
Policemen don’t particularly like high-priced lawyers who get the bad guys off, so to the police this was an A-class story. He says, “we laughed for days over that one.” I bet they did.
From the Houston Police department comes the story of a bad guy who walks up to the policeman and hands him a baggie of Coke. He said that he had just bought it from a guy down the road and he wanted the police to go arrest him for selling drugs. The truth was that this “model” citizen was a drug dealer himself trying to get rid of the competition. The police got rid of them both. Some stories are so funny you couldn’t make them up.
This one is funny and has involved apparently several people in separate situations. It’s about the cruise control function on cars. The police in California had one case where the van was owned and driven by an Asian man. He engaged the cruise control in his camper van and got up to get a drink from the fridge. With no-one at the driving wheel the van went off the road and crashed. Duh! The same thing happened in all the cases.
There is a big difference between automatic pilot and cruise control. Between sobbing with laughter the police were just amazed these people actually held driving permits.
The police nabbed three guys as suspects in an armed robbery. They got a positive identification from the victim who said they stole his watch and $15 in cash. An officer asked, “O.K: which one of you guys stole this man’s Rolex watch? One of the guys pipes up with “Weren’t no damn Rolex. It’s a Seiko! And then he took it off his wrist and said “See!”
If only police work could always be this easy.
To the men and women who police our neighbourhoods and streets, “Stay safe, and Keep smiling!”
Copyright © 2010 Eugene Carmichael
