Things you shouldn’t say to a deputy Part 1
November 23rd, 2007, 5:30 pm · 2 Comments · posted by Brady Calhoun
The Blotter is intended to show that there is more to policing than many realize, and is based on reports from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Nov. 20: A 49-year-old Panama City Beach man allowed a 27-year-old woman whom he had known for only two weeks to borrow his truck. The woman was supposed to take it for only a few minutes to go to the store. Surprise! She never returned. The man did get an identification card from the woman before she took off in his truck. However, when deputies went to the residence listed on her card, they found she no longer lived there.
Nov. 20: A Fountain man made $60 but now is facing burglary charges, and we doubt the pawn shop he used will ever buy from him again. Deputies said the man was caught on videotape during a burglary - twice. First, when he stole a high-pressure washer off the back of a trailer in the parking lot of a shopping center. He was seen again selling the washer at a pawn shop for $60. He was not seen at his home when the cops arrived but a warrant is now out for his arrest.
Nov. 19: The deputies did as they were told. During a traffic stop, a female passenger refused to comply with several requests made by deputies. The woman stepped out of a vehicle and would not return when ordered by officers. The woman kept moving to the back of the vehicle even as a deputy ordered her to get back into the van. When she reached the back of the van the woman said, “Put me in jail.”
Deputies put her in jail. She was charged with resisting an officer without violence.
Nov. 19: If you left a T-shirt, a pillow case, a pack of Marlboro’s, a bottle of wild grape-flavored Smirnoff and brochure in front of a Bayou George store, you can pick your items up at the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. You might have some explaining to do though; the T-shirt and pillowcase are covered in blood.
Nov. 19: Respect your elders even when they threaten to spray you with water and videotape you at work.
A 57-year-old woman, unhappy that a lift station is being built near her Panama City Beach home, got into a verbal disagreement with construction workers. The woman used a ladder to take pictures of them men and used a garden hose to spray a previous crew down. A member of Monday’s crew told the woman that if she hit him with water, he was going to wrap the hose around her neck. No water was sprayed, but deputies were called.
The deputies decided that no serious threat was made and no one was arrested. However, the information was forwarded to the State Attorney’s Office.
November 24th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Ah, the romanticized shenanigans of those crazy boys in blue. Is this really news? Hell, is it really interesting is a better question. Given the work of law enforcement around here the NH should be about holding them to the highest standard of public trust and not focusing on their “wacky, zany, comical day-in-the-life moments.” However, it is easy copy and probably endears you to these thugs and that can make your life easier in the long run. Easier if you define your role as being an extension of the BCSO public relations department. Let me guess how law enforcement coverage works? You send a green reporter out to talk the PR people at the sheriff’s office. They, under the guise of “helping them,” basically write their story for them. Throw in a little flattery about their journalistic capabilities and then let them fulfill a lifelong dream of wearing a holster or going on a ride-along, and voila! Investigating journalism happens. I don’t know which is more disappointing…the gang who can’t shoot straight or the news media charged with protecting the public interest.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
get a frigging grip. Why must everybody be dead serious 24/7? Police, not only in Bay County but everywhere in the WORLD, have unusual and sometimes hilarious incidents.
I personally find it humorous. You, OTOH, are one uptight dilbert who needs to learn to laugh from time to time and get a grip. You must be one miserable person, IMHO.
BTW, your powers of deduction are ‘not all that’.