25 signs that you're a cop

[SANE-A30]

Never discussed dinner, but one night the wife sent me in with spaghetti. There was a traffic crash that night involving a pedestrian. His head was crushed causing his brain to spill out. After that it was dinner time. I think my CPL threw up when he saw me eating, but I can't be sure. He walked in then ran in the general direction of the bathroom.

it's always funny what triggers people I can handle a lot the blood and gore don't really bother me b/c I find anatomy fascinating... I actually once "volunteered" to watch a bone/ organ harvesting..... it's vomit that gets me..... EVERYTIME

[MikeG]

44. You've honed your lie detecting skills down to a fine art and you can detect subtle clues. The subtlest, most tell-tale clue, is their lips are moving.

45. While at the drive-thru, you reach for your radio dial to adjust the volume on the talking clown.

[suzanne1020U.S.]

Good job on posting this, Greg, it's quite funny.

[cntryboy0531]

My personal one.

46.) While ever off duty in your POV you've seen someone bust a red light, and you instinctually reach down to your light switches and radio mic to call in the traffic stop, and then go through the red light to chase down said violator, before realzing you're in your POV and not on duty.

Yep, done it with the wife in the truck as well.

[cntryboy0531]

#27 is factual and will cause havoc each and every time you mention the Q-word.

Before going to traffic, I worked with a 13 year veteran of law enforcement as my sector partner in this real crap hole community. I hated this place. Seemed like everyday between 17:00 and 17:30 (we go off duty at 18:00), we'd get some off the wall, charlie foxtrot of a call that would keep us there till well after quitting time.

So, my sector partner came up with this invention. It's called "Spin the wheel of BS at 17:30". Little paperplate with a paperclip stuck in the middle. at 17:30ish we'd spin the wheel and see where it landed. We had School Bus Fiasco (Don't know how this place could produce a school bus fiasco at 17:00 hours, but it damn sure could), Stabbing, Shooting, Brawl, Baby-mamma-Drama, and repeat domestic.

I was out working an off duty detail the other night and saw him on duty at 19:00. I sent him a computer message...

Me: "Wheel of BS Strikes again?"
Him: "Yep"
Me: "That sucks..."

[BJJVad]

47.) You have a better recollection of a street's location based on the amount of warrants it's residence posses.

48.) When you feel uncomfortable holding small talk with a normal citizen but feel completely normal interrogating a double homicide suspect.

49.) When you consider a 7-Eleven "Big Gulp" as part of your regular daily gear.

50.) When you or a friend have at least one registered firearm listed as "evidence".

[MikeG]

My personal one.

46.) While ever off duty in your POV you've seen someone bust a red light, and you instinctually reach down to your light switches and radio mic to call in the traffic stop, and then go through the red light to chase down said violator, before realzing you're in your POV and not on duty.

Yep, done it with the wife in the truck as well.

That's nothing. I've been known to blow a red light without even a good excuse. It's my theory that people pick up movement or change better than the absolute color. So if it's green and I glance away and don't see the change, there's a good chance that when I check back and it's red, I missed the whole thing and my brain is still saying "good to go". Pretty scary if your a passenger. Even scarier is that they have to tell me what I just did. That means I have no idea how many times I've done it alone. There's apparently never any traffic when I do it so I think that's why it's happened and I'm still alive to talk about it.

[BP348]

19.) You are the only person introduced at social gatherings by profession.

20.) You walk into places and people think it’s high comedy to grab their buddy and shout, “They’ve come to get you, Bill.”

22.) People shout, “I didn’t do it!” when you walk into a room and think they’re being hugely funny and original.

All of the above are true but these 3 ^ really stand out. It seems like 20 & 22 happen at least a couple times a day.

[MikeLowrey]

Never discussed dinner, but one night the wife sent me in with spaghetti. There was a traffic crash that night involving a pedestrian. His head was crushed causing his brain to spill out. After that it was dinner time. I think my CPL threw up when he saw me eating, but I can't be sure. He walked in then ran in the general direction of the bathroom.

Lol!! One time, me and partner had a crime scene of a guy that got shot like 10 times, while in there I told my partner "D@mn, I'm getting hungry" You should've seen his face, hahaha! after that he took a break and didn't see him for the rest of the day.

[greg72982]

All of the above are true but these 3 ^ really stand out. It seems like 20 & 22 happen at least a couple times a day.

I walked into a gas station this morning on the way home to get milk. We don't have locker rooms so we have to wear our uniforms to and from work. I was grumpy because I hadn't eaten all night (worked 12a-8a). Right as I walk in a customer, obviously a regular there, points at the one employee and goes "Take her, take her!" I was less than amused. I bit my tongue and just gave a quick smile and didn't say anything.

That stuff didn't used to bother me but it is starting to. My Chief at the one department will tell people off when they do that. I wish I could, but I'm the type that would do something minor like that and it would somehow blow up into something big.

[1depd]

I typically gave the obviously fake laugh, then go one with life.

[retdetsgt]

I walked into a gas station this morning on the way home to get milk. We don't have locker rooms so we have to wear our uniforms to and from work. I was grumpy because I hadn't eaten all night (worked 12a-8a). Right as I walk in a customer, obviously a regular there, points at the one employee and goes "Take her, take her!" I was less than amused. I bit my tongue and just gave a quick smile and didn't say anything.

That stuff didn't used to bother me but it is starting to. My Chief at the one department will tell people off when they do that. I wish I could, but I'm the type that would do something minor like that and it would somehow blow up into something big.

When I worked uniform, I didn't like to eat in my car. I wanted to go into some place decent, sit at a booth and take the time to enjoy a decent meal, if possible.

I realize most were well meaning, but I hated it when people felt it important to stop and talk to me. I felt like this was my time, leave me alone. I always worked nights so it was often someone half in the bag who had nothing to say I wanted to listen to anyway. I was usually torn between just being slightly rude and risking embarrassing the management by verbally ripping the guy's head off.

[kazz]

. . . . just being slightly rude and risking embarrassing the management by verbally ripping the guy's head off.

That's "slightly rude" . . hahahaha, hate to see just plian old rude.

=]

[cntryboy0531]

When I worked uniform, I didn't like to eat in my car. I wanted to go into some place decent, sit at a booth and take the time to enjoy a decent meal, if possible.

I realize most were well meaning, but I hated it when people felt it important to stop and talk to me. I felt like this was my time, leave me alone. I always worked nights so it was often someone half in the bag who had nothing to say I wanted to listen to anyway. I was usually torn between just being slightly rude and risking embarrassing the management by verbally ripping the guy's head off.

Me and one of the guys I work with stopped at a resturaunt one night to eat. An older male and female stopped to BS with us and give us their personal oppinions on nearly everything police related in the news lately. Some of it nice, some not so nice. Either way, I didn't care to hear any of it and neither did my partner. They both were in their 70's so I didn't want to be rude. But they stood there for a good 15-20 minutes talking. The lady had the nerve to tell me "You need to eat the rest of your food". Hard to do that when you got two strange people standing over you yapping.

I hate it when people do that.