do cops hang up on you?
Thread started by
aksendz at 07.12.09 - 4:34 pm
I caught these two kush towners trying to strip my bike and called the cops. i was told that i would be connected with an operator but then they just hung up on me.
but i got some good spoils though. mmm multi tool!
reply
lol, i want that multi tool! jk..
wow they attempted to do that? where was this at?
tekmo07.12.09 - 4:35 pm
reply
right outside my work. i park my bike at a bikerack a little bit out of my own view but i can check up on it looking at our reflective wall.
at just the right moment i look and i rush out.
i'm not surprised this was in kush town.
when i got there my saddle was already off and they were done taking the toe clip off, just had to pull the stap.
aksendz responding to a
comment by tekmo
07.12.09 - 4:42 pm
reply
is there anyway you can keep it inside? In some utility closet?
Gav07.12.09 - 4:54 pm
reply
i've already made arrangements to have it handeled by the valet people. so its safe.
i work at a fro yo place, we don't have closets =/
aksendz responding to a
comment by Gav
07.12.09 - 4:57 pm
reply
well go to know you have someone watching it who knows your face.
Gav responding to a
comment by aksendz
07.12.09 - 5:03 pm
reply
I have had 911 dispatchers blow me off numerous times. I know I've never gotten any results for calling to report a drunk driver (even one time when I KNEW the driver and had his full name, all the info on the car he was driving, and where he was likely headed). A little over a year ago I tried to call about a man pinning down a woman by her throat, and when the woman made a break for it and got away in her car and the man took off after her, the 911 dispatcher told me there was nothing she could do and basically hung up on me.
2 weeks ago, I called 911 to report a drunk equestrian with a loose dog (hers) who was attacking her horse (with children riding nearby). I tried my best to communicate to the dispatcher that this was a potentially fatal situation, and they basically shrugged me off. Well dontcha know, moments after, the drunk woman attempted to ram my horse with her horse TWICE, began screaming threats at me, and threw a beer can at me before eventually riding off. So of course I called 911 again, they basically shrugged it off, and I had to call the cops two more times before they came, an hour after everything happened, and they casually took a report. They were mostly focused on the fact that she threw a beer can, because they didn't know jack shit about how dangerous her behavior truly was (despite my best efforts to describe what can happen to people when dogs attack horses, and that a friend of mine was killed in a horse accident in that exact spot just months ago).
So does it frustrate me that we got a $500 ticket on the Through the Looking Glass ride on our tandem bike, when every 911 call I've ever made for safety (I have plenty more stories where those came from) has been shrugged off? Fuck yes.
Katie
Team Creanberry07.12.09 - 6:59 pm
reply
A couple of weeks ago, I saw some pretty shady looking folks walking with bikes that were ulocked together by the frame.
They went on the bike path, while i stopped to take a phone call ... then they seemed to disappear off the bike path into the bushes.
Thats when i decided it seemed a little fishy.
I stopped to call the cops, looked up the number on my phone, then realized that i was never gonna get through, and if i did they wouldn't give a jack shit.
When I have called 911 while on the freeway to report accidents, a fire, other shit i have had a pretty good response.
Non 911 calls ... like the time i saw a crazy wire that had the ability to down a rider or decapitate motorcyclist riding in the far right lane of that little road that goes from sunset to hill street ... it took me like 30 minutes and tons of repeated efforts calling various agencies to report something that was ready to kill the wrong person.
trickmilla07.12.09 - 7:49 pm
reply
This city, this state, this country.... Is fucking broke! The cops barely have the resources to bat an eye at a hot and run. They don't give a damn about a couple of two bit grubby bike thieves. We blew all our treasure fucking around in the middle east!
Roadblock07.12.09 - 8:40 pm
reply
Not exactly hanging up, but when I lived in Ktown, dude upstairs beat the shit out his woman regularly.
Called the cops, and hung out by my window expecting them in 15 or 20 minutes.
They came about an hour and a half later, pulled on the gate outside, saw it was locked, and took off. Why the fuck did they bother to take my cell # if they were gonna be deterred by a locked gate?
illafilla07.12.09 - 8:44 pm
reply
o yah, and when someone broke into my car, i got transferred then hung up on twice
illafilla07.12.09 - 8:44 pm
reply
Many advise against an armed populace and vigilante justice, but TPTB have pretty much left us with no choice.
bentstrider07.12.09 - 9:07 pm
reply
So if the city's so broke, and the police don't respond nearly fast or hard enough for domestic violence, drunk drivers, etc. . . . why the fuck do they come out in full force, sometimes sending helicopters, for our bike rides? And Ridazz get tickets for not having bike licenses and not having a current address on their driver's license? I really, really want to like cops and what they do, and I feel like I could forgive the petty BS we deal with on the rides if I started to see the people in need of real help getting it when they need it.
Team Creanberry07.12.09 - 10:29 pm
reply
Because they make the city money by issuing outrageous tickets, but tending to messy business does not make the city money. I'm not saying it's OK, it's just what the scene seems like to me.
kryxtanicole responding to a
comment by Team Creanberry
07.12.09 - 10:59 pm
reply
"We blew all our treasure fucking around in the middle east! "
L.A. blew its treasure a lot closer to home than that.
Take a look at the city pension scam, where city employees get extra overtime their last year of work, so they can retire on 100% pension after 20 years. People in their 40s and 50s never having to work again because they're living off the taxpayers.
The amount of money wasted in this city is just absurd.
JB07.13.09 - 9:51 am
reply
i was going south on Sepulveda just before Culver when an SUV backs out of a driveway without looking and almost pegs me. I go around and shout "HEY!" and he looks at me. I see he's on his cell phone. I pull back into the right lane and this same guy pulls a fast turn in front of me. I skidded but still hit the rear window with my hand. He started to drive off and I pounded on his window. He never took the phone away from his ear. I did get his license plate. So I called Pacific Division and their line was busy. I tried a couple of times within the next 15 minutes, but the line was still busy. So I went down there to make a report. The guy at the desk told me that because I was riding WITH traffic and not AGAINST traffic, I had been breaking the law. Then I asked for a supervisor, who refused to take a report because no crime had been committed. I told him my hand was injured when I hit his window, to which he replied "that's a stretch." I continued to insist, but eventually I just got tired of arguing and went home.
tortuga_veloce07.13.09 - 10:43 am
reply
Hopefully that guy ended up in a deep ditch where he won't be found for another 10 years.
Sort of like that guy from Iron Butterfly.
bentstrider responding to a
comment by tortuga_veloce
07.13.09 - 10:50 am
reply
Fuck one time I called to report a fresh accident on the 101 and the line was BUSY, so I kept calling, each time getting a busy signal. I finally got through, about 20mins later. I'd been hoping that the line was busy because other people were calling about the accident.
Nope, I was actually the first to do so.
HappyLand07.13.09 - 10:59 am
reply
they never really do shit until its life or death. ques like ''decapitated, has a gun, or trapped in the car'' might be the ONLY way to get the proper response time , or any response at all out of these people. When I call 911 and see that somebody is potentially in danger, I always feign to the suspicion of a more heinous crime (which it often escalates into by the time the cops arrive) to get them going faster.
angrytoaster3007.13.09 - 1:24 pm
reply
i guess the dispatchers are just so cynical they expect everyone is exaggerating. this city is so broken.
tortuga_veloce responding to a
comment by angrytoaster30
07.13.09 - 1:45 pm
reply
> ques like ''decapitated, has a gun, or trapped in the car'' might be the ONLY way to get the proper response time ,
Haven't you heard that saying that someone has a gun means as much to the LAPD as saying that they have a lightsaber, as evidenced by the Hummer incident?
I wouldn't be so upset about the police never helping me if I wasn't paying for the privelege of not being helped.
Team Creanberry responding to a
comment by angrytoaster30
07.13.09 - 4:57 pm
reply
Haha, I have heard that, and funny enough, I was the guy the officer said it to.
angrytoaster30 responding to a
comment by Team Creanberry
07.13.09 - 8:52 pm
reply
in case you did not know, dialing 911 from a cell phone will get you the CHP. For a quicker responce use a land line or pay phone.
2zRescue07.14.09 - 6:19 am
reply
-->
Ridazz Roulette!
