Boy, 14, dupes police, patrols Chicago for 5 hours

Yahoo (AP) ^ | 1/25/08 | Michael Tarm

[DemforBush]

CHICAGO – A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment — patroling in a squad car for five hours before he was detected, police said Sunday...

[DemforBush]

"The boy once took part in a Chicago program for youth interested in policing, so he would have been familiar with some procedures, perhaps helping him blend in, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said."

Sounds like a future commandant in the civilian defense force, eh? :P ;)

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder how they caught him: Forgot his drop gun? No baggie of marijuana to plant on a suspect? Failure to sufficiently beat a perp?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

He probably gave the false name of Bill Ayers

[Enterprise]

They probably got suspicious because he was actually looking for criminal activity!

[Slings and Arrows]

They probably got suspicious because he was actually looking for criminal activity!

...instead of performing it.

[Enterprise]

LOL!

[fieldmarshaldj]

I was gonna say he must’ve been 14 that looked 18 or so. When I was 14, I looked 9. =8-0

[Dixie Yooper]

For 5 hours, the streets of Chicago were probably safer, or at least the bad guys stood a better chance of being shot on sight.

[tommyboy]

Darius McCollum, NYC stole subway trains and picked up passengers, without crashing

James L. Harris, Miami-Dade stole buses, picked up passengers, returned the bus with the fare money multiple times until caught. Go figure?

[Infralutheran]

Chicago Boy, 47, dupes America, walks into the White House and pretends to be presidential for 4 years.

[WesternPacific]

Chicago seems famous for this. Another person walked into the Chicago democrat party headquarters and was assigned duty as president of the United States. Hasn’t been caught yet.

[Slings and Arrows]

GMTA strikes again!

[Impy]

Gad zooks that’s funny. I didn’t watch the local news the last couple days.

Chicago PD are clowns.

Maybe he was in the car I saw driving the wrong way on a one way street for no reason the other day. (actually they do that a lot)

[tutstar]

gnip...

[Impy]

The answer is right in the article.

He didn’t write up any traffic tickets! That’s like going to Congress and not fondling an intern, makes you stand out like a sore thumb.

[secret garden]

Post of the day!

[WesternPacific]

Yep, nice to be in elite company.

[mkjessup]

Post of the day!

Hear! Hear!

I second that! Bravo!

[FES0844]

True, but it really isn’t funny. I’m still laughing!!

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2171358/posts