Re: cop stories

Not really a COP story, but my brother and I were riding around the
federal building downtown and a security guard was watching us kind of
closely. Finally we rode by him and he started saying how cool it was
and that we should be performers. He made us do some tricks for him
including pedal grabs on some cement walls and blocks there. He didn't
care about any liability. It was awesome.

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halfbike said:

*I was riding no helmet no nothing, swerving all over in the middle of
the road. Suddenly a cop pulls around corner. We're head to head. I
ride for the sidewalk to get out of the way. And then he just drives
right by like he didn't even see me(enenthough we locked eyes for a
second).

This shows that some cops are cool!😄 *

Probably just on his way home for Dinner.

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As a native NY'er who's ridden in The City almost every day for the past
25 years, you'd think I'd have a few cop tales to tell. I do.

1. I got pulled over for riding thru a red light when the car that was
down the block (and heading the other way towards that light) turned out
to be a cop car. The driver was really nice and just warned me about
riding against the light. It was not a great move by me, but I do it
fairly often when I judge it's safe.

2. A cop put on the squelch lights and sounds and pulled me over as I
was Cokering home on what I thought was a bike path. He said, "That's
cool. Where can I order one?"

3. I was riding my 20" freestyle across Central Park. There were three
bike cops out trying to enforce (thru warnings) the rule that you can't
bike in the park except on certain paths. So as I got towards him, he
says, "Excuse me, there is no biking on this path." I said, "OK, well if
I see anyone on a bike, I'll let them know." But then I calmly
dismounted as his buddies laughed and walked until he was unable to see
me. I rode on and arrived at another checkpoint. The cops there all gave
me the thumbs up and the head cop said, "Cool."

David Stone

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Phlegm.... you are definately the winner so far with that jumpin on the
car and kickin it [censored] :- )

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I was in a fountain on Bute Street in the westend of Vancouver BC with
James Hargrave, Kris Holm, Tynan Rollo, and James Prevette. We were
doing trials in this fountain which had a ledge around it and
obilesque-like stones next to each other of every height from 6 inches
to 4 feet. They were short and randomly distributed in height around the
perimeter but increasing in height as you approached the center.

Two bicycle mounted policemen came by and watched for awhile. They rode
away and said, "that looks hard; don't get hurt." That was nice.

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my only cop story was when me and a mate were riding down the main
street on the foot path (strickly no bikes or nething) and a cop walks
past, smiles and says "well at least no one will steal your bike"
i thought he was gonna tell us to get off but the rules are no
bikes, nor skateboards, no rollar blades and no scooters.

PS i looked up unicycle in my dictionary and it says single wheel
something something espeasily used by acrobats, ACROBATS i am not a
*$#@ing acrobat

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I've done several performances with police. Once in Amsterdam on a
bike-theft prevention event. The location was a parking lot. It was
reserved.... but full of cars. Normaly an event-roganizer would have a
problem. But now the parking-police was called, and cleared the stage
witin an amazing time.

Next month I will unicycle at the National Police Academy in the
Netherlands.

One other police event was a party for an entire department. I was doing
the minibike, and let them have a go on it. So with most of them I
started a little chat, and asked them what function they had. One macho
guy (part of a police-couple) answered: she's working at the department
that's investigating sex crimes, and I'm doing reconstructions. Leaving
me flabberguested.

Once, on a certain -pretty busy- chrossing I went trough a red-light by
habit...
...and so I only looked at the traffic relevant to me...
...and overlooked the police-car on the other side.
There were very enthousiast seeing a unicycle, and I did get thumbs
up.
Obviously, in their enthousiasm, not noticing what I just did.

The funniest conflict with police I ever had was on international
area.
It was with the United-Nations Police. That was where I've learned again
that the best way to frustrate a frustraded police-officer even more, is
by respond/defend unimpressed, calm and controlled. Especially when they
shout at you. I drove the guy furious in no-time. 'Full story here'
(http://unicyclist.org/blog/show.cfm?serial=00726).

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Last summer I began a quest to ride my unicycle up and down every state
capitol building in the country. I decided, too, to conduct a corollary
study of the response time of the state troopers of each state. So far,
the Louisiana State Troopers have the fastest response time. I found
out later that “central control” was watching me with the state’s
anti-unicycle video surveillance system. Officer Castleberry was
summoned when I began my climb up the fifty steps and he was pulling
into the visitor’s parking lot as I hit the top step. He was telling me
to stop as I rode toward him down the stair. I rode right up to him,
offered him my hand, and introduce myself with the smile of mission
completed. He was actually very cool. I told him about my 50 state
quest and assured him that I was done with his charge. I then asked if
he would mind posing for a photo to document my success in Baton
Rouge.

Here is a picture of me on my way up the beautiful edifice of the
Louisiana State Capitol building steps.

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UniBrier said:

told her to meet me at top level of the parking structure

Quoted message said:

On the way out

But, did you ever see Andrea again? :-)

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Dang police are el blanco diablo....
I have some good cop stories, but they are too long to write.

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> -Originally posted by TheObieOne3226-

Quoted message said:

*Time to sex up your mothers! *

1.) 3a.m., middle of nowhere...The ride was unplanned...I had no lights,
no helmet and was dressed in black...I get stopped by the cops who asked
what I was doing at this ungodly hour..I said I was riding back home ( a
long way off)....They saw the uni and gave me a "you're crazy" look and
sped off......

2.) Last week....Riding in broad daylight this time...The cops pull me
over and are very friendly...Ask why?how?is it tough?Dangerous?...Tell
me to be careful and just before I leave, they take down my
indentification number (in case somebody reports a vandal on 1
wheel)......

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DK said:

*Dang police are el blanco diablo....*

...untill you -for whatever reason- are in need of them, or start
realize law enforcement is not their only task.

Most police-(wo/)men like to do something for someone else, and prefer
to make a living out of that, in stead of making a living of selling
drugs to kids.
And yes, many of them have an anoying pride of having their priveleges
and 'power-tools' (http://tinyurl.com/7bo8u)... and unicycles are odd
and so atract attention.
But why respond primitive and childish 'like this'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/play.cfm?pi=w320240badcop)
BUT MOST POLICE ARE HUMAN:
pics found here on unicyclist.com

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several times the cops have told us to go away and stop jumping on the
benches. one time they also told us that if we stepped on and/or killed
the flowers in the garden, the U of I could sue us. stupid pansies.

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There was the time here at K-State that the lady cop came out looking
for the skaters that someone had complained about. She reckoned we
weren't them (as our wheel:person ratio was 1:1 rather than 4:1), smiled
flirtatiously and left us to our graffiti.

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BTW, I think cops on Cokers is a great idea. I mean...those big bad
bicycle cops are so threatening...cops on one wheel would have a much
more pleasant reception amidst the community.

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The local cop unofficially escorting us at the Chiltern Muniuni. Albert
thought the road was closed when it wasn't, and spent some time on the
wrong side of the road.

As this was unoficial, he didn't want pics of the car following.

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How many of you have on of these???
it cost me 35 bucks

Al :p

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al_lieffring said:

*How many of you have on of these???
it cost me 35 bucks

Al :p *

What did you do?

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