# People keep asking me if I'm a cop.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 18, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840 "2008-03-18T21:55:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/1 "2008-03-18T21:55:53Z")
Apparently, I strongly resemble a police officer around here who used to do (or still does) undercover narc work.
“Hey, I know you. You’re a cop, right?”
“Nope.”
“Uh…ahem…OK. I gotcha. I never asked.”
:dubious:
I swear this has happened to me 3 or 4 times since I’ve lived here.
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/2 "2008-03-18T22:01:03Z")
Do you like donuts?
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/3 "2008-03-18T22:11:52Z")
Isn’t that when you’re supposed to say “yeah” and mutter something about providing “protection” at the usual rates?
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/4 "2008-03-18T22:13:38Z")
Sometimes I’ll say, “Nah. Got any dope to sell?”
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### Author:  [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/5 "2008-03-18T23:52:05Z")
I think I would take that as a compliment. There certainly are worse things to be.
You sport a flattop? I do and I’ve had people say similar things to me.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/6 "2008-03-18T23:54:31Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre]
Sometimes I’ll say, “Nah. Got any dope to sell?”
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Just say, “Empty your pockets”, and take whatever drugs you find. Tell them that you’re doing them a favor by not busting them.
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/7 "2008-03-19T01:34:42Z")
I have a similar experience- at least half a dozen times people have thoguht I was undercover store security following them around- one lady even semi-cussed me out, telling me she isn’t a fucking thief, I’m wasting my time watching her, etc. Weird, so I can empathize.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/8 "2008-03-19T01:56:10Z")
You are physically fit and have short hair. I got this all the time while I was a soldier.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/9 "2008-03-19T02:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
You are physically fit and have short hair. I got this all the time while I was a soldier.
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The cop he is being mistaken for did undercover narc work. Maybe he looks like a crackhead. But it’s not polite to ask so I wouldn’t bring it up if I were you.
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/10 "2008-03-19T02:26:33Z")
I actually had one guy go a bit further and explain that there is an actual narc officer hereabouts who, according to him, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to me. I guess I have a twin. I do have short hair, but I’m not particularly physically fit. I’m not a lump o’ lard, but I’d hardly say I’m all ripped.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/11 "2008-03-19T02:57:33Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Just say, “Empty your pockets”, and take whatever drugs you find. Tell them that you’re doing them a favor by not busting them.
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Just wait to take them until they’re not looking, otherwise that’s a dead giveaway. 😉
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/12 "2008-03-19T04:50:25Z")
1.
I owned a 1968 Plymouth Fury I ex LA sheriff’s car. Painted ugly orange. I was on Pacific Coast Highway waiting to turn onto Topanga Cyn Blvd to head home. Seated right next to me (in the center part of the bench seat) is Anna the Swedish babe of my high school. Anna it should be mentioned could have been a member of the Swedish [bikini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Bikini_Team) team. Anna was still in her bikini as we had just left the beach.
A hippie walking up the side of the road, looks over at us and says in a very loud voice
**PIG**
Cracked us both up.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/13 "2008-03-19T04:55:18Z")
Why do you hang out with the same people that narc cops hang out with?
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/14 "2008-03-19T05:05:15Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ]
Why do you hang out with the same people that narc cops hang out with?
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_shrug_ Why not?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/15 "2008-03-19T05:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=Rick]
…the Swedish [bikini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Bikini_Team) team…
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Dear Og. There’s an official website. With books and videos.
[sub]I am _never_ going to tell my cousins Linda, Ingrid and Erika about this.
But I just might order the DVD.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/16 "2008-03-19T11:19:45Z")
That’s happened to me many times, most of them were hookers though.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/17 "2008-03-19T11:26:39Z")
About 6 weeks ago, we had a big forest fire in my county, and I was out directing traffic as part of the rescue squad. Mind you, I was dressed as a stereotypical EMT, and had an orange vest on that said “FIRE/RESCUE”…
One lady came up to my roadblock and got out her driver’s license to hand it to me.
“What’s that for?”
“Don’t you want to check it?”
“No ma’am. I’m a fireman, not a cop.”
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### Author:  [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/18 "2008-03-19T14:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8]
That’s happened to me many times, most of them were hookers though.
[/QUOTE]
Every hooker I’ve ever seen asked me if I was a cop. I’m pretty sure it’s SOP.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/19 "2008-03-19T15:17:12Z")
The porn-stache I had going when my student ID photo got taken, along with my short haircut at the time makes me look quite copish. My little brother keeps trying to convince me to sign up for police academy. But I don’t think I have it in me to act that dominant when pulling someone over…
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-keep-asking-me-if-im-a-cop/441840/20 "2008-03-19T15:33:35Z")
That’s all we need, **Ogre** , a narc spying on _dopers_.
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