# Fake cop pulls over real cop - d'oh! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208 "2014-06-06T16:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/1 "2014-06-06T16:32:35Z")
> **[Fake cop arrested after pulling over Florida sheriff's detective](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/fake-arrested-pulling-fla-sheriff-detective-article-1.1817028)** > > The fake cop act that a Florida man pulled on a real cop did not fly. Matthew Michael Lee McMahon, 20, was arrested Monday night by St. Johns County Sheriff's deputies for impersonating a law enforcement officer. Wow. Just… wow. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/2 "2014-06-06T16:53:46Z")
What a shitlord. Glad this happened to a cop and not an unsuspecting citizen. He might have been planning on robbing or kidnapping the person he pulled over. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/3 "2014-06-06T19:59:04Z")
Or worse: [Murder of Cara Knott - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Peyer) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/4 "2014-06-06T20:02:11Z")
But… According to your link, he wasn’t a fake cop; he was real. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/5 "2014-06-06T20:06:27Z")
The fake cop pulled over the real one, stared the guy down, then left. So the real cop went and pulled over the fake one. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/6 "2015-03-23T02:12:39Z")
Bumped for a similar case recently in Akron, Ohio: [http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/man-accused-of-impersonating-akron-police-officer-by-trying-to-pull-one-over-pleads-no-contest-1.565711](http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/man-accused-of-impersonating-akron-police-officer-by-trying-to-pull-one-over-pleads-no-contest-1.565711) ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/7 "2015-03-23T02:14:33Z")
I’ve heard of this happening before. Apparently there are a hell of a lot of cop wannabes out there, and apparently pulling over “civilians” so you can ego trip and give them a “warning” is a bit of a thing for them cop wannabes. Until they trip over a real cop. Y’know, it’s actually a crime to impersonate a police officer? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/8 "2015-03-23T03:10:10Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > I’ve heard of this happening before. Apparently there are a hell of a lot of cop wannabes out there, and apparently pulling over “civilians” so you can ego trip and give them a “warning” is a bit of a thing for them cop wannabes. > > Until they trip over a real cop. > > Y’know, it’s actually a crime to impersonate a police officer? But…it always works so well in the movies… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/9 "2019-04-22T13:41:03Z")
Bumped. It happened again in Florida: [Florida man pretending to be a deputy tried to pull over a real detective and got arrested | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/us/florida-man-fake-deputy-arrest/index.html) For SEO: fakecop ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/10 "2019-07-08T14:35:34Z")
Must be something in the water in Florida!: [A man pretending to be a police officer was arrested after he pulled over a deputy | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/man-arrested-impersonating-police-deputy-trnd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cop-pulls-over-real-cop-doh/690208/11 "2019-07-08T17:45:01Z")
_Florida Man_ strikes again…