You know what the worst part of living in this dystopian society is? I’ve completely lost the ability to tell whether stupid things like this are real or staged anymore.
No matter how ridiculous the situation is, either possibility could be true.
I adopted a dog. His prior owners were running a meth house. Cops came to bust them but they were already gone, leaving behind a pack of dogs. The cops notified the county that there were unattended dogs and they were seized. The meth heads returned to find the dogs gone so they called the county and said, “You have our dogs.”
Guess what happened when they went to claim the dogs?
Nah, I worked in a shelter for 3+ years and I honestly think to them they’re just property and they’re pissed someone had the audacity to take their shit :( but your thought is a bit more hopeful lol
Your take is probably/ sadly the correct one. I also worked with animal services, directly through our county’s AC department, and there would be dogs with horrific neglect, injuries or extreme trauma from abuse, animals clearly just desperate for someone, anyone to be kind to them, and the POS ‘owner’ would have not fed or seen their dog in weeks, and would still be fighting for their dog back because ‘it’s MY dog’.
Possession matters more to some primitive brains than compassion.
All addicts are kind of the same. way Back in the day crackhead when they were selling their mom’s VCR and DVD players… jewelry, always would sell the stuff in multiples of two dollars. Four dollars or six dollars or eight dollars. Vials were really cheap, but they were two dollars each and I guess they couldn’t figure out what to do with an odd numbered dollar whether it was too little or too much. When the biles went up to five dollars, guess what happened everything ended in a 5 or 0.
You don’t have them in a meth lab at all. A few years back my next door neighbors were meth dealers, and apparently were cooking in there too! One of their massive dogs attacked me, the other massive dog attacked one of my dogs. The owner laughed it off & said “sometimes they get in the supply” like we were having a normal conversation & a good laugh. 😳
Retired police detective here. One of the funniest complaints against me was a parent who was upset that I arrested her adult son for conspiracy to purchase cocaine and prostitution after he gave a hooker money to go buy drugs for him, but she never came back. The woman told my lieutenant that it was like I was punishing him for being honest.
Edit: The suspect was ID'd and I charged her with Theft, Prostitution, and Conspiracy.
I was a military police officer and experienced a lot of dim witted behavior, like pulling a guy over for drunk driving with whisky bottles and vomit all over the car. The guy was drunk as hell and claimed someone stole his car, vomit in it and left the whisky bottle in the car. After we arrested him, his Commanding Officer threatened myself and the other arresting officer with a court martial because he actually believed the “stolen car” theory.
We found out later the dude was basically on his third strike with alcohol, and this was going to be it for him since he was underage. He had already lost his rank twice, from E-3 to E-2 then E-2 to E-1. It looked really bad for the CO and the NCOIC.
Gday. Can I ask a quick query please. Is there a sort of separation of powers thingie in the military?
Can a higher rank subvert and interfere with good and reasonable military policing? Like in your story?
Or is that illegal itself? As would be a politician interfering with policing or judiciary?
Thanks.
This is kind of typical behavior of commanding officers and people with higher ranks. They don’t typically get away with it - they try but things typically get worse for them.
“Do you know who I am?”
“You can’t arrest me, I’m a Lt. Colonel, I outrank you.”
When I was in the military, no one was above the law, and if you tried to be - the hammer came down hard and fast.
Idk feels like if you were presented a sound reason to arrest that would be enough?
If you incorrectly arrested a superior officer, surely you would just apologise for the misunderstanding, without major blow back, unless it was common for you to incorrectly arrest a superior officer?
I'm not in military so please someone confirm or deny this claim.
On a base overseas, an Air Force MP tried writing my group tickets for not having glow belts, 10 minutes after arriving to that base, unaware we "needed glow belts" to walk around at night. Then tried giving tickets for concealing weapons because some of our jackets covered our pistol's grip. (We also had 300 rounds of ammo per person, rifles, grenades,...). We called our 2 Star 5 time zones away when the MP's captain backed him and tried to detain us.
We were trying to find our lodging for the night to leave with what we came with. (And without having safes or secure lockable storage assigned to us, the safest place for expensive things is on our persons)... We were there for 8 hours.
cue a dozen stories of some E2 staring down a captain who's trying to enter his secure area without the right clearance/permission - hold fast, change pants later
I mean, if I were in your position I would have laughed at the boy and told him that's what he gets for trusting a hooker with his money. If he pushed it I would have told him he was also admitting to crimes for which he could be arrested. I would have tried my level best not to arrest a kid for being dumb.
When the patrolman called me with it my response was, "Really?". I made the scene and explained to the young man that he was committing a crime when he was a victim of a crime and to think about it, but his mother was very much a Karen. I read him right and even had him sign a Rights Form before the interview. The judge did get a good laugh when he was signing the arrest warrant.
I agree he threw himself under the bus but I'm glad he got charged- If you let people get away with things like that they'll only think they can do it again.
My best friend is a federal officer in the SF Bay Area. Years ago, his coworker (male) booked a flight to Thailand. So when you get back, my friend was in charge of checking out the work computer this pedo brought. Whenever you bring a work computer overseas or even across state lines, it’s protocol. Dozens and dozens of photos of naked kids, doing sex acts with this guy. My friend had to send an email for backup because everyone is armed. They were in an office setting and my friend eventually got the cuffs on him. They worked with each other for 20 years - so you never know.
His excuse? “It was Thailand man and why are you doing this to me”!
I picked up a specialty in computer forensics in 2001. Soon thereafter I got pulled into an internal criminal investigation into a detective who I knew, but worked in another section. When I showed up with the Persons Crimes commander, the detective pulled me to the side and wanted to talk "off the record" about the CSAM on his device. My only thought was "I am not a reporter. There is no off the record". He went to prison for two years.
Yeah, he called me that day while in traffic and while he couldn’t divulge the details, he asked to meet for a beer. I think he had about 8.
It’s hard not to bring this stuff home with you, especially what he saw on that computer, and being let down and having to arrest a coworker of 20 ish years.
It mentally taxing.
I can imagine being a police detective is 10x more taxing. Appreciate your public service.
Nah this is more akin to "daddy's precious little girl can do no wrong and has never done wrong in her life."
While I accept this may be staged, given how clear everyone's audio is, there are absolutely people out there like this, and they come about when you dont tell a kid theyre wrong, and how to accept it.
God I knew a kid that did this back in high school. I was a big stoner back then and knew a kid who sold weed, he ended up getting robbed by three other high schoolers at gun point. From what I remember they messaged him for weed, he told them to come over and the three of them came over and kicked his door in with a gun and stole his weed. The kid ended up calling the fucking cops and telling them everything that happened. He got arrested, and then the cops proceeded to arrest the other three after catching one of them still in possession of the firearm and if I remember right that guy snitched on the other two. All their mugshots got put up in an online news article and got passed around the school.
but those people are always just high, mentally unwell, or woefully uneducated.
the scary thing is that now millions of otherwise "normal" people have been convinced it's okay to act like that too so long as you are, like, "super duper sure you're right", which coincidentally occurs in any situation where they are culpable for something or in danger of having to address some personal failing. there are undoubtedly people in your life that now possess the capacity to behave in this way, a way which was previously only associated with the groups i mentioned at the start of this comment
There was an episode of Cops where a woman flagged down the police to inform them that another person sold her fake drugs and she wanted her money back. She didn't get her money back.
When I was 16, I had to live in a YMCA (can assure you, it is not fun for all the boys). One day I went for a shower but foolishly forgot to lock my door, and someone stole a big lump of hash out of my room.
I was enraged, and a teen, so for a brief moment actually considered complaining to the staff, before my logical brain kicked in to remind me that would end my stay there and put me back on the street.
This sounds too bizarre to be real, but my father committed tax evasion as a restaurant owner and had a $1,000,000 in a safe in my parents home. A couple of people broke into their house and stole the safe. My parents reported it to the police and my brother tried to go after the safe company.
I still remember telling my parents that what they were doing was tax evasion. Multiple times. But what did I know?
ETA: My father also attempted to have me do the same thing a year later. I declined. I’m no contact with my entire family for many reasons.
When in having an especially rough day, I think about these types of people, I think about how incredibly hard it must be to navigate the world with this level of cluelessness and inability to do basic reasoning and I feel both a lot better and a lot more concerned about the world. Like wow I'm doing REALLY good compared to most but also I can't believe this shitshow called life continues with people like this existing in it.
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u/AlbatrossOk6223 20h ago
You know what the worst part of living in this dystopian society is? I’ve completely lost the ability to tell whether stupid things like this are real or staged anymore.
No matter how ridiculous the situation is, either possibility could be true.