My heart is still in my throat

I don't want to ever be that close to a police take down again!

I was just pulling out in to the road with an empty chopper box, going back to get another loaded wagon before I stopped for dinner. My wife was going out to the mailbox. I had to wait for a cop car. It was an Ionia County Sheriff's car. I just thought Buddy, you're out of your jurisdiction. He turned the corner right at the bottom of the hill then whipped around and headed back out north where I was. It makes me nervous to make a left turn in to the field for fear of somebody trying to pass me.

I made the turn alright, pulled up behind the chopper and jumped out and pulled the pin. While I was bent over I heard a siren coming fast. A car with flat tires stopped right next to me on the other side of the ditch. A Montcalm County cop car whipped right up by his door and a state cop right behind him. Before I could even think, the cops were yelling ''Show me your hands!''. Two county cops were over the hood of their car with their guns aimed at him yelling and a state cop was coming up beside the car with his gun out. I'll tell you what, that dude was pushing on the glass so hard I thought he was going to pop it out.

Before they even had him out, two more Montcalm County cars and another Ionia county car were there with lights and sirens. They hauled him out and cuffed him right there a few feet from me. When things settled down a little I told one of the deputes that I was sure glad I wasn't making a left turn right then!

Kim said she saw and heard them coming. She said they threw the stop sticks right from the next door neighbor's driveway. I don't know what this guy did, but they wanted him bad!

And you didn't capture this on your phone?
It amazes me how some of this gets filmed, it's like they must have their phone on video record 24-7

About ten years ago I was in a bank robbery.
I even let the woman in the door. She was wearing a burka with a face mask. I thought to myself. What kind of idiot would dress up like that with a mask and walk into a bank. I was watching the teller the whole time and could tell that she was in distress. When the woman turned to leave the teller all but fainted. I knew I could disable the woman quickly but decided not to do anything because I was sure she was not alone. Had a hard time that night convincing my supervisor I was late because of a bank robbery. I dont go very far anymore without protection.
True story.

That is a bit scary. The guy was probably was behind on his payment to Oliver Corp, and they finally caught up to him.

A couple of years ago I saw two dump trucks that had been reported stolen from the storage facility that belongs to my boss. I called 911 and reported it. They had me stay on the line and follow the trucks reporting where they were going. The County Police stopped them and they showed enough bogus paper work to make them believe they were being repossessed. Made me look like an idiot. The next day the State police showed up at my work and told the secretary that they had been stolen and there was going to be an investigation and they would need to talk to me. They never did. I'm guessing it all got swept under the rug.

Sounds like the police are good at their job.
Good for them.

Scary!! I bet it happens more frequently. Crime rate seems to be rising... even in rural areas.

Have been hearing of more and more rural theivery going on around here.

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the worst i ever had was at work one day. i was carrying a couple of boxes to the loading dock when i looked up and saw a Detroit cop about 10 feet from me with a short barreled 12 gauge pointed at my stomach. he asked me which way the office was. i gestured with my head.

turned out the owner of the business decided to open the building that day. little details like alarm systems were not his concern.

:evil:

3 days from now WOOD TV 8 will have this story and label it BREAKING NEWS!!

About 30 years ago a truck driver that worked for me was hijacked as the escape vehicle in a bank robbery, when he called in we questioned it but the cop right taking the report got on the phone and confirmed it. We hauled meat scraps out of slaughter houses, meat markets and grocery stores. As the story goes the miscreant decided he was going to rob a bank. He planned it all out. Not sure how he got to the bank but his game plan was to rob the bank, take a teller hostage and use the teller's car for the escape. All went well at first, he got the money and took the teller hostage, got out to her car and demanded her keys, she explained they were in her purse that was still in the bank. The robber was smart enough to know going back into the bank for the keys wasn't a good idea. I had to explain that part because this occurred in Florida and strange and odd things happen in Florida, especially where crime is involved. The robber pushes the teller down onto the pavement and runs away. Ducks behind the nearby Winn-Dixie and sees our fat and bone truck. Runs up to the truck, pulls open the right door, climbs in, sticks his gun in the driver's face and yells Drive N***er. Our driver was Robert, a Jamaican kid. I can't do his accent justice but as he tells the story I usually don't like being called that name, but that was a big dam gun so I decided not to argue Robert drove for a dozen or so blocks before the robber made him stop, hopped out and ran away. When I asked Robert if he learned anything his reply was always keep the right door locked The funny part is the truck Robert had was assigned to that route because it had a top speed of about 45 MPH so we kept it on a city route were he didn't have any expressways.

A few years ago before I retired I was on a service call at apartment building and a couple of hours after I had been there 2 people were shot and killed in the building. It was a drug related incident but I often thought about what would have happened had I been there when the shooting happened. Tom in Mn.

I don't have a smart phone. With all those guns out, I don't know that I'd have wanted to pull anything out and point it at them anyway. Those things looked as big as cannons on a battleship at such a close range.

The Daily News doesn't seem to be jumping all over it yet. The way it went down, I figured they must have chased him up here from Ionia county.

We had a high speed chase go thru our truck yard a few years ago. The bad guy got caught by the cops in my in laws shear field. They let the dog loose on him when he ran. He finished that race in second place

I was at a gas station onetime pumping gas and about 30' from me a guy was coming out of the store and cops seem to come from everywhere trying to arrest the guy. I had to wait until it was all over before the cops would move so I could get out of there.

A couple years ago I stopped for a late lunch at a Hardees. Ate my lunch and walked outside to a parking lot surrounded by police. There were a few people left inside and 3 vehicles left in the parking lot. One officer asked me how many people were in the restaurant and then I skedaddled out of there.

Several years ago an old rancher pulled out on a lonely stretch of backroad towing his horse trailer and found himself in the midst of pickups and cars shooting at one another,doing smokey dougnuts,hellacoptor overhead and trucks with camera crews on top. He thought what a bunch of fools the newsmen were to risk their lives just to get a story on film. He quickly came upon a roadblock and a swarm of people charging toward him yelling and waving arms. Turned out to be a filming of Walker Texas Ranger. They choose the road because there are no homes or crossroads and little traffic but failed to account for the old gent working in a pasture when road was blocked. He gave them a cussing they didn't soon forget.

Know what you mean when I drove city bus I use to come up on a house that swat would be surrounding I just stepped on the pedal and got through there as fast as possible before bullets started flying

That would make my hair stand straight up with my hat on.

Ok, I'll add my story. Years ago, when I wore a younger man's clothes, I pulled up to a High's convenience store to buy the Sunday paper. A man was inside at the counter, and when he saw me he ran out the door, got in his little car and high-tailed it out of there. Pretty soon the cops showed up. I'd interrupted a hold-up. Had to hang around to give a description, kind of car, etc.

Funny thing is the woman at the cash register treated me like I was some kind of hero for showing up when I did. Wish I could claim some heroics like tackling the guy, high-speed car chase, explosions, hanging by one arm off a helicopter, etc. All the stuff you see in movies. There was none of that.

I did get the paper, and no one got hurt.

Gerrit