Why? You’re posting on this thread because, as I asked, you’ve been to Burbank,
or you’ve had bad experience with police.
Since when do we have to prove this, and since you’re making me, how shall I do that?
The whole point I started this was after reading other BBQ Pit rants about police that focused on Burbank, CA police.
Fine, forget it. I’m just a liar, I make everything up, I didn’t have to whip out over two grand for an attorney, I wasn’t charged with a crime even though I was told I wouldn’t be, I didn’t have to sit in a hospital for five days with FAS patients, REAL suicidal jagoffs, and heroin addicts while my house had open windows, rotting food in the fridge, etc.
MODS = PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD!
If I see one more poster calling me a liar, I’ll flip out hard.
If any of you can put my rant together with Stan’s post about how the fucking Burbank police insisted his dead friend’s husband had gang connections and not a documented suicide attempt and come to the conclusion we’re liars, come to Burbank, run a red, and feel lucky when you get three years.
First I’m a liar, now I need mental help. What brought you to that conclusion?
You need a course in reading comprehension.
Tell a cop you think there’s nothing wrong with suicide, just like that bitch wrote about me, and you WILL get mandatory time in a hospital, even if you are kidding.
Please remember, I never said what she wrote.
Exactly!!! I tried to explain to them calmly that the incident was over, they told me to take a walk, they find a broken door on their own, say I broke it even when I didn’t,
NOW they claim I’m suicidal after I agreed to talk to a doctor “for a few minutes.”
Another lie. Remember, I DID NOT SAY what the female officer wrote.
Also remember, any indication of a suicidal civilian should be hospitalized for a minimum of 72 hours in order to determine the civilians mental status.
Also remember the timeline. Cops concoct something to keep me away for at least 72 hours. I get released WITH AN APOLOGY from the hospital hearing judge.
I THEN come home to a subpoena charging me with vandalism EVEN AFTER I WAS TOLD I CAN’T BE CHARGED!
Are all of you looking to get out of jury duty? If so, let me know, I’ll send them this thread. Clearly, you think the police are fair and never lie. Not True. This I know from experience.
No, clearly, I expect everyone to support the cops, call me a liar and suggest mental help. Makes me feel so good about being ransacked by small town police and having nothing to get them with. I was hoping that a rant would at least bring out some related stories about their own individual idiotic and unjust examples of police work. I’ll have to use YouTube for that, I guess.
Message to all Dopers, NEVER relate anything personal, no matter how on topic it may or may not be.
Sorry, yes. They did mention that before they sent me for a walk. Why would they send me away, then? Shouldn’t they keep me around?
Aaaaaand, looking at the police report (no I don’t have a scanner, you’ll have to trust me, probably not for most of you), YES! You are right. They did mention the broken door before I went for a walk. It also says they called my office for a clothing description
to track me down on my walk! They’ve already spoken to me, seen me, these cops can’t remember what I was freaking wearing???
That’s it. The more I read both this awful thread I started in hope of something we could all laugh at, and this fucking report from the blessed Burbank pigs, I’m getting more upset over something that should’ve passed for me. Sorry I had faith in this. My mistake.
ANd since they didn’t do that… aren’t you just a little suspicious of the Burbank cops on this? THey HAD to get me on something. One made up on the form that “I think there’s nothing wrong with suicide.” The other cop will agree. Now it’s two cops with GEDs against one educated civilian who may be suicidal. Gee, wonder who would win that argument… wait, I know, IT WASN’T ME!
I read what you wrote, but you’re assuming that I accept the story at face value and that your perception of yourself and your own actions is completely accurate. Neither of these is the case.
First of all, you had a “shouting match” (your words) in an office, and it was loud enough that someone called the cops. This tells me off the bat you are not a reasonable person, because reasonable people don’t shout in their places of work. Anger and frustration in the workplace I can understand; it’s something we all deal with at some point. But shouting loudly in an office is not something we all do. I find it humorous you called it “just business”. No, sorry, unless you are an actor auditioning for a role that calls for it, that’s not part of any type of business.
This in tandem with the way the cops assessed your behavior (saying you were “acting anxious” and then telling you to take a walk to “cool off”, which you explained as being due to the fact that you wanted to return to work) leads me to believe you were likely still agitated when they arrived. I find this an even more likely explanation based on your behavior in this thread, as you clearly have many unresolved anger issues.
A calm, level-headed person who acts reasonably would have been able to deal with the police at this point by being cooperative and explaining the situation rationally. I don’t know what really happened with the damaged door, but if it was already broken as you say, you acted rationally, and the police had no evidence or witnesses that you broke it, they probably would have left you in peace. But you failed in this regard - due to behavior they observed when they arrived on the scene they had reason to believe you were a danger to the people around you so they wanted to find a reason to take you in.
Fine, you don’t know the nature of the argument. It’s too long to start, why bother anyway? One story of a bad day at work leads you to believe I have anger issues,
which is not a very good way to assume that about someone.
And you just said it perfectly: They wanted to find a reason to take me in.
They had none, found the door, had to do something, lied and made it happen.
I should also mention that the psych staffs in both Gateway and Olive View explained to me that they thought nothing was wrong with me, but there’s nothing they can do once a police officer states I’m suicidal. They HAVE to hold me. Now at this point, I had only been there less than 48 hours total, but they were convinced: Burbank police made a mistake. Many of them commented that if I were in LA County, I would not have been taken in and that Burbank has its own set of rules.
So hearing this, I know I’m innocent, and I’m told by many including the hospital release judge that I won’t be prosecuted. I come home, and I am scheduled for an arraignment for vandalism. After speaking with my lawyer, he said, “Well, it WAS in Burbank…”
This thread was supposed to be about Burbank cops, instead it’s almost an intervention.
Why? What’s my view? I lived it, I’m looking at the police report…
Your view it what makes me glad I don’t know you. You implicitly trust people in a town you don’t know in a uniform knowing they must be right.
After everything I’ve written, I don’t see how your view can contradict. Anyway, this isn’t a debate, and I’m suddenly wishing CA had taller buildings.
Maybe that lying badged bitch was right, eh?
Look, one last thing: I was at my local pub with the usual local pub buddies while reading the rant from Stan Shmenge about his married friends. The wife committed suicide and the Burbank police were convinced the husband had gang connections. (Click here) This made me upset, my friends noticed and they went to their iPhones and Blackberries and read the rant in the BBQ Pit. They were really surprised at the reactions to Stan’s story. They said, “These people haven’t been to Burbank!”
One of these pub buds is Officer Kenny. He’s a beat cop in the San Fernando Valley in LA County. He’s a great guy. Freaking HUGE dude with a Forrest Whitaker eyelid. He was the one that said, “You oughta post YOUR Burbank story. They’ll do anything they want in Burbank.”
I guess alcohol and pub acquaintances are not exactly a good mix when it comes to suggestions, but I can’t wait to show them all this. It appears to me that if I said it happened in, say, West Memphis Arkansas, the reactions would be different. But from most reactions on sharing a similar story to Stan’s, I’m getting the feeling that Burbank is the home of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and soon, Conan O’Brien. The town that brings wholesome entertainment to your TVs. The town where police must be just as wholesome. It is not.
Dude, everyone has bad days. A “shouting match” is wayyyyyy over the fucking top. It’s not normal behavior. There is something seriously wrong with that.
