I can't get it to come on you kind get the youtube it will make you laugh out loud

Did you see the one where he is in his car in a parking lot with no one near him. Then at the end someone parked right next to him. I love that one. I had that happen to me in the late 1960s in a shopping mall. Got a little nuts when it damaged my new car.

[quote=Footreads]In the meantime, here's a story for you. My Dad used to bowl often. So, the story goes that the night he went bowling that week, there was supposed to be heavy rain due to a storm coming. This is in Jersey. So, before going into the bowling alley what does he do? He gets soap and puts it all over his car. He goes inside to bowl. He hears the rain coming down hard. The guys are getting ready to leave the place. Some guy says to them, hey the parking lot is full of suds. So, they go outside and there's bubbles and suds all over the place. But my Dad's car was as clean as a whistle he said. But when my father would tell the story it was so funny.

My father had so many stories. He said that after a big snowstorm, he wouldn't drive. Instead he'd SKI down Gorge Road to River Road to go to work in Edgewater. My Aunt said he's so full of it. But my Godfather said that he believes my father really did it ONCE. Ha ha.

Did you see the one where he is in his car in a parking lot with no one near him. Then at the end someone parked right next to him. I love that one. I had that happen to me in the late 1960s in a shopping mall. Got a little nuts when it damaged my new car.

My dad was similar. He was born and raised in Brooklyn but when he spoke of my mother's family (she was born in Kingston, NY - upstate - but moved to Brooklyn when she was about seven years old) he used to say that her family was chased down the Hudson River by Indians when it froze over.

Then he told me how Joe Volachie lived in the iron place barn as a homeless kid. That was right around the corner from me. He said that was why he was a rat. That barn was full of east river rats. I used to take one of Daddio guns and we would shoot the rats in that barn.

That's terrible what happened to those kids who weren't doing anything wrong. Cops can be real assholes.

When I was a young kid, my Grandma (who was visiting) and I went with my Dad to take some things to the dump. He didn't really know the area that well because we were only in California for about six months. So, unknowingly, he dumped the stuff in a PRIVATE dump area. All of a sudden this cop comes down the road lights on, siren. The cop asks my Dad what he's doing on this private road. And my Dad tells him he didn't know it was a private dump. Then, the cop puts my Dad in handcuffs. My Grandma starts getting out of the car yelling at the cop. The cop told her to get back into the car. I thought she was going to hit him with her pocketbook lol. I could see that my Dad was getting aggravated but had to keep his mouth shut because the cop hated his kind, a New Jersey/New Yorker moving into California. Finally, the cop took the cuffs off and let him go. But, it's something that I'll remember my entire life. My Dad had to go to court. He told this story a million times. He said that he told the judge he's "guilty with an explanation". He paid the fine. Back then if you had an east coast accent especially what I call a CITY accent like my parents have, native Californias dislike you. They think you have an attitude when it's not that at all. You only speak up for yourself. They don't like that.

Brea cops are the worst:(

Foots, good stories. And thank you for telling me about the funny vids because I really did laugh my ass off last night watching them. I needed that!!

I have a story but it's not a very nice one. Back in my Dad's high school days in Cliffside, he and his pals held one of their teachers out the second story window until the teacher agreed not to give the class a quiz he was supposed to give that day.

I think Brea was one of those Orange County towns where black people weren't allowed after dark. I mean there was actually a law in the books.

Black teenage woman, mistaken for machete-wielding black man, alleges police brutality

BY HAROLD PIERCE hpierce@bakersfield.com Jul 10, 2017 Updated 10 hrs ago 49

A black 19-year-old woman was punched in the mouth by an officer, bitten by a police K9 and arrested last month after an officer said he mistook her for a 180-pound bald man suspected of threatening people with a machete at a nearby grocery store.

Tatyana Hargrove’s story has been gaining attention this week after the NAACP's Bakersfield chapter released a Facebook video Monday morning recapping the incident, which it said was racially motivated.

It comes about six months after the group released a similar video alleging two black college students were roughed up similarly by Bakersfield Police Department officers without cause.

In the most recent video, Hargrove alleges that on June 18 she was walking home from Wooden Nickel Trading Company on Ming Avenue, where she had gone for a Father’s Day gift, when she was approached by an officer. He drew his gun as soon as he got out of his patrol car, she claims.

The result of the contact? An altercation that left Hargrove with scrapes, bruises, a punch to the mouth from one officer and a bite from a K9 released by another. During the course of her arrest, Hargrove said she feared for her life.

“He [the officer] put his other knee on my head, and I told him, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’ and I started yelling out: 'Somebody help me, somebody help me, they’re going to kill me,’” Hargrove said in the video, which received more than 225,000 views in eight hours and attracted hundreds of comments expressing frustration and anger.

She declined to speak to The Californian through NAACP Bakersfield chapter President Patrick Jackson, who spoke on her behalf.

She was arrested on suspicion of resisting or delaying an officer and aggravated assault on an officer, according to BPD arrest records.

The NAACP says Hargrove was targeted for her race. BPD says it was a case of mistaken identity.

BPD Sgt. Ryan Kroeker wouldn’t comment on specific matters in the police report, but said that criminal charges have been filed against Hargrove and the case has been forwarded to the Kern County District Attorney’s office for review. The department has determined the force used was appropriate, and no internal investigation has been launched, Kroeker added.

‘DON’T LIE TO ME, THAT’S A GIRL’S NAME’

The arresting officer, Christopher Moore, said in a police report obtained by The Californian that he didn’t know Hargrove was a woman until after she was handcuffed.

He mistook her for a machete-wielding suspect who had come out of the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market on Ming and Ashe avenues after threatening several people, according to the report.

That man, who police identified as Douglas Washington before arresting him the next day, was described in multiple police reports from June 18 as a 25- to 30-year-old man, bald, about 170 pounds standing at 5 feet 10 inches. He was wearing a white t-shirt, dark jeans and a pink or red backpack that contained the machete.

When Moore found Hargrove behind the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, the 115-pound teen, who stands 5 feet 2 inches, was wearing a baggy white shirt, blue jean shorts and a black hat. She was straddling a bicycle, a red and black backpack slung over her shoulder. In it were three cold water bottles, Hargrove said in her video. She had pulled over in the shade for a drink.

“She appeared to be a male and matched the description of the suspect that had brandished the machete and was also within the same complex the suspect had fled to,” Moore wrote in his report. He thought she had a weapon in her bag.

Moore, who patrols with a K9, pulled over, drew his sidearm and ordered Hargrove to put her hands in the air, according to the report.

Hargrove turned around and said: “What you all stopping another black person for. I’m out of here,” according to Moore’s report.

Jackson denied Hargrove ever spoke those words and disputes other parts of Moore’s report. The incident escalated when Moore asked to search Hargrove’s backpack, she said in the video. When she asked if he had a warrant, she claims, he gestured toward his K9 and then released the dog.

None of that is mentioned in the police report.

Instead, Moore wrote that Hargrove ignored police commands, placed her feet on her bike pedals and that it “appeared she was going to flee.”

It was around then that Officer G. Vasquez arrived. Moore told Hargrove she matched the description of a man who had just threatened people with a machete, and he ordered her again to get off her bike and put her hands up.

Hargrove’s response, according to Moore: “This isn’t happening. I’m leaving.”

The report doesn’t indicate that at any time Hargrove fled.

Moore retrieved his K9, Hamer. Moments later, Vasquez was handcuffing her when she spun her left shoulder into him, according to the report.

He was knocked off balance and fell to the ground, his legs tangled in the bicycle. Hargrove fell backward on top of him, then spun around into "a mounting position” astride the officer. Vasquez punched her in the mouth then pushed her off, but she got back on top, the report states.

Seeing that Hargrove was within arm’s reach of her backpack, which Moore still suspected contained a machete, he released his dog, his report states. She tried fighting him off, grabbing his muzzle.

“Let go of my dog,” Moore shouted. She thrashed back and forth, screamed obscenities and kicked at the officers as they subdued her, the report states.

Officers searched her and the backpack but found no weapons, according to the report.

Once Hargrove was in the backseat of the patrol car, Moore asked her name. “Tatyana,” she said.

“Don’t lie to me, that’s a girl’s name. What is your name?” Moore asked.

“I’m a girl, I just don’t dress like one,” she responded.

“This was when I first discovered she was a female,” Moore wrote in his report.

He wrote that when he brought Hargrove to Kern Medical Center, several nurses referred to Hargrove as a man, asking what “he” had done. Moore corrected them, saying she was a girl and the nurses “were surprised and apologized for the mistake.”

A SIMILAR ACCOUNT

Hargrove’s account is a familiar narrative. Just six months ago, the NAACP released a similar video featuring Timothy Grismore and Xavier Hines, two black college students who said they were taking a break from studying to get a late night meal at Taco Bell when they claim they were stopped by an unmarked BPD patrol car, roughed up, and arrested.

Police said at the time they suspected the two were illegally jaywalking. Kern County District Attorney Lisa Green declined to press charges and said police had no reason to contact the pair the night they were arrested.

Grismore and Hines have since retained an attorney at Chain Cohn Stiles and filed a civil suit against the department. Their trial is set for January 2019.

Neil Gehlawat, who is representing Grismore and Hines, said he’s seen Hargrove’s video and is appalled by the events, calling it “consistent with the culture and allegations” leveled previously against the department.

Jackson said it was positive proof of the BPD's pattern of targeting black people in that neighborhood. Hargrove’s incident occurred about a mile from where Grismore and Hines were arrested. It’s a neighborhood where police say they try to proactively curb violence among criminal street gangs.

“It’s becoming more and more of a pattern,” said Jackson, who alleges Hargrove was arrested for simply walking down the street. “She’s never been in trouble before, and all of a sudden you’re a heinous criminal in two seconds.”

He wants the Kern County District Attorney’s office to drop all charges against Hargrove, but more importantly, to bring public awareness of the inequality in policing

So what happens to the cop nothing?