Alright this is a somewhat long story so bear with me if you want.
I was with a 5 other friends (all above 15 years old) in a neighborhood park yesterday night. It was 11:23pm something, and a sheriff walks up, he shines his light and tells us not to run and whatever. He gets to us and tells us "what are you guys doing, curfew is 10pm", at the time me and another friend noticed he had no cruiser with him. He then tells us he needs our parents information and what not, so one by one we all give our information, he THEN tells us we'll be receiving a citation to appear in court in the mail. Then he tells us all to leave.
Now for some more details, we were all extremely respectful, using sir no sir etc, and he constantly disrespected us. That enough had me almost to the point of exploding in his face. But I didn't because he's an authority.
He also on later views showed no sign of authority, gave no name, had no cruiser.
Now for the next day
So we all get home, tell our parents, most of them got grounded as well. Then me and my closer friend start looking up if this was legit or not. We then find out where we were at is Columbus jurisdiction, which means curfew is midnight for anyone under 17. This means we were in fact not breaking the law.
So we flip stuff and start calling the sheriff's department, asking to find out what's going on who stopped us what happened etc. They tell (Columbus Police) tell us that they have no officer under the name of what my friend read from his nametag. We then call the neighboring counties sheriff department. They have the same guy under the same name, so they tell me "talk to him yourself".
I get on the phone with this guy, he's the same disrespectful forget I remember, and now he's telling me he never stopped us. He was at a drug bust in Cbrown town Winchester (where we were stopped), at 11:45.
Naturally I think "well if that was 11:45, you were done with us by 11:25, you could've easily made it there in time", but he basically calls me a liar that I never got stopped and to call his sergeant tomorrow.
This is what I take from this and what I'm going to do.
He parked his cruiser far away because he knew he was in the wrong jurisdiction, he wanted to scare us off so that we wouldn't cause problems so he told us we were breaking the law, he never reported it to his dispatcher's because we weren't in fact breaking the law. He then get's a call from one of us and decides he's just going to lie about it so he doesn't seem like a fool.
What I'm going to do? I'm going to gather the other 5 kids, walk into his office, and ask them who stopped us. 6 of our words is greater than one of his, and I'm not gonna let this douche bag get away with being a disrespectful forget just because we're minors.
So blf, what bad/good police encounters have you had?
