Even cops get to play sometimes
Life 09/13/2002 |Every morning on my way to work, I walk out my door and head about five blocks down 8th avenue to my usual bus stop. Once a week, when I need to pick up my paycheck, I cut through the Freeway Park next to the Convention Center and head into downtown to the Today’s offices.
Since I had a paycheck waiting for me today, that was my route. Once I turned into the park entrance, though, I was a little concerned, as there was a small group of five police officers, all on their patrol bikes, grouped around the top of the staircase I normally head down. It didn’t look like anything was really happening, though, so I just kept going on my merry little way. Just before I got to the top of the stairs, one of the officers turned his bike around, carefully took aim — and started to attempt to ride his bike down the staircase, egged on by the other four officers he’d just been talking with, and another officer already at the bottom of the staircase.
He paused at the first landing long enough for me to walk by, then started working his way down again, only to take a tumble off his bike about halfway down. Fortunately, the next officer, already starting to ride down the stairs on his bike, managed to both avoid the one who’d just fallen off his bike and was laughing and trying to disentangle himself from the spokes, and keep going down without taking a spill. “It’s not as easy as it looks!” said the officer waiting at the bottom of the stairs, as we watched a couple more start to bump their way down.
Must’ve been a slow morning.
Man I wish I’d had my camera with me.
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4 Responses to “Even cops get to play sometimes”
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Cheryl
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Michael Hanscom
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Bob
December 18th, 2002 at 9:00 am
Cops are human as well and enjoy a challenge as does john doe public. Rather important to interact with other that you serve as well. I have a brother and a best friend that are cops and at one time my Uncle was police commissioner and all three are great dudes that love and support the public and are there to protect as well as live an ordinary style life for themselves and their family. Try meeting a police officer and getting to know him, usually they are swell dudes with broad mind and a caring naturte.
December 18th, 2002 at 10:40 am
I’ve actually rarely had any problems with any of the police officers I’ve ever had to deal with. Most times I’ve had occasions to deal with cops, they’ve been quite polite and just doing their jobs, so I’ve never had a reason to build up the automatic “cops are pigs” distrust that so many other people seem to.
That said, I don’t often run across a group of officers taking time out to just kick back and be silly, which was what caught my eye this day.
August 7th, 2003 at 6:12 pm
Actually, pinheads, wives of cops have the highest rate of divorce of any profession. Why? Because cops are control freaks with serious issues; they want to commit rape, so they are doing it legally by raping the general public. Cops are self-centered pigs; your contention is B.S., and the fact that any of you are too blinded by your police friends to see the truth is ridiculous.
March 20th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Let me see if I get this right from the previous posts. They are great people and human. So were many notoriously “evil” men in history in their personal lives. Does that make doing wrong “ok”. A hitman is just “doing his job” when he kills people. But we consider that to be wrong, but if a soldier kills somebody, or a cop robs people out of money at a traffic stop that is ok because they are “just doing his job”. What ever happened to having a spine and standing up for what is right and wrong.
Whenever I have had a problem with someone breaking into my appartment, mugging me or anything else I have received very poor service from the police. But writing a ticket for going a few MPH over the speed limit is something that they they have been very effective with. Never mind the fact that they are doing nothing to ensure the safety of the public.
If the majority of the police stood up and said, “this is wrong, we are not going to do this anymore”, the profession would gain some dignity. Unfortunately that will not happen. So every time that I hear about a soldier dying in Iraq, or a cop dying, I have trouble having much sympathy. After all, we never hear about the hundreds of Iraqis that die each year for each soldier that dies, and we never hear about the countless lives that were disrupted or ruined for each cop that dies on the beat because of what the police have done to them. The reason that they are killing others is wrong, and if they can’t think beyond the mentality of a lemming, the natural law of survival of the fittest is slowly taking these guys out.
I am in the percentage of the population that pays a large chunk of their saleries throught my taxes. I don’t support anything that they do, and am really ashamed to say that I am an American supporting this in any way shape or form. But what is really sad is that at the end fo the day this will be one of the many things that will bring down the United States. The enemy of this country is not some terrorist, Al Kida, or Islam. The enemy is this countries own greed and corruption. These guys don’t have to do anything to bring down the US because it is doing a pretty good job of gutting itself.
I may have been born and grown up here, but I certainly don’t plan on staying.