Lyndhurst Cops (Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria: middle-class, renting, crime)

[jmlicb]

I had to post this thread, I just had to!!!!

So, the day after Christmas I went to visit my friend in Euclid in the UPV/ Indian Hills area and sure enough a fuse blew out in his house(right, I know, whose house still has fuses, but hey it is Cleveland haha).

So any way we go down Mayfield to Walgreens and they don't have it so we decide to role over to Wal-Mart. My friend and I were talking about how small Lyndhurst is and how their cops seem to be out to get everybody. STUPID ME, I for got to put my lights on(it was night time). Sure enough I get pulled over by none other than a Lyndhurst Cop. So I flick my lights on right away. He talks to me asks for my ID and my friends, I explain where were going and what happened, seems as though I will get out of this one.

This Cop comes back with a dog and makes us do the whole pat down spread your cheeks and lift your you know routine. My friend and I are both 22 and minorities so we are on edge. Neither of us have ever smoked drank or used or really associate with people that do (yeah, we exist) so even though we are both terrified in the back of our minds we know we're good.

So my friend and I are sitting on the hood of a cop car and my own car respectively while this huge dog goes through my car. The cops seemed pretty cool and layed back even though they asked the same questions like 100 times they were pretty cool almost like thoes cops from Superbad, (if you ever seen the movie) just reminising with us about they're college days.

The K-9 officer claims he found a marijuana seed in my back seat and says that I should clean out my car and be more selective to who I give rides to( I occassionaly give people from work a ride home). He let me off so I was thrilled when we got to Wal-Mart, no ticket, no citation, nothing. I doubt he really found anything any way, but who knows, I just know exactly who is not getting rides from work any more, lol.

I have been patted down several times before but I just thought it was ironic that we were talking about it right before it happened. Like some Johnny on the spot type stuff, ya know! Just wondering if any one else has some interesting Cop stories from around the area.

Please keep it clean and in good spirit.

Thanks

[Spiegelaffe59]

I have an "interesting" cop story from several years ago. Some folks claim that if you're doing nothing wrong, you won't get pulled over or cited. News flash: Racial profiling does exist.

Several years ago, my then 17 year old son and his cousin (both Caucasian) were leaving Hollywood Video after renting a DVD and buying a six pack of Mountain Dew. It was night time, and the cousin was driving an older Buick, heading into our bucolic, lily-white, upper middle-class suburb. My son was a passenger. Unbeknownst to either boy, the Buick had a tail light out.

Of course, they were immediately pulled over as they entered into this particular suburb. I am quite sure, though I obviously can't prove it, that the cops assumed they were pulling over a minority. Both boys were patted down, and nothing illegal was immediately found on them or in the car.

But wait! What's this!?

The cousin's science experiment sat in the back seat. He was, at the time, a student at a Catholic high school in Cleveland. The cops wanted to test the science experiment for drugs. (!?!)

But wait again! The cops found two cigarettes (Marlboro Light) on my 17 year old and because he wasn't of legal age to smoke (38 days away from 18), he was given a citation to appear in Juvenile Court -- as was his cousin. Meanwhile, the cousin had to explain to Sister Mary Francis just why he couldn't turn in his science experiment.

I took a half day off work to attend Juvenile Court proceedings for my son, a passenger in a Buick with a tail light out, nailed because he had two Marlboro Lights on him -- days before turning 18. The fine was $100, and a lecture on the evils of smoking (which, of course, we all know).

Not sure what happened to the science experiment, but that's all it truly was. Simply a science project for a Catholic high school.

Talk about overkill! Again, this was several years ago. But it still makes my blood pressure shoot up when I think about it.

[BelieveInCleve]

Nice story.

Sheffield (between Elyria/Lorain) is the same way. They have nothing better to do so they stop anybody going 4 mph over the speed limit or forgetting to turn off a turn signal. Its ridiculous.

[sandlotbully2]

Reading these threads makes me wonder why, with all the thugs and drug dealers, good community services are being wasted on " speeding tickets" and pat downs on good kids. Every community needs to stop this non sense and deal with the real problem individuals in our cities. Adoption of a zero tolerance for thugs and drug dealers is how our resources need to be put to use. Some communities are not waiting for this and are adopting it on there own. Thugs and dd are on there way out or down.

[JennySquirrel]

I think the worst cops are the Brunswick/Medina cops. They will ticket you for going 1 mile over.

If there is nothing wrong, they will make sure there "is" something wrong.

A friend of mine's Mom came in from out of state (she's in her 60's) and a Media cop pulled her over for her tint. It was legal in the state she was in. She explained she was visiting and he took out a knife and cut the tint on her window and told her to get it off and she could have it reinstalled when she got back home.

I lived in a development and I had a cop come racing into my neighborhood with this sirens on and lights flashing. He had clocked me at 37 in a 35. (remember, zero tolerance) Ticketed me and made sure I did not go into my home until he was done with his nonsense.

Also, I had a hillbilly neighbor who claimed that her dog was attacked by a raccoon because I fed the birds in my yard. Naturally her dog was not "attacked" like she claimed but she called the cops and the cop shows up and "waddles" around my yard and actually took pictures of the "evidence" which was the bird seen on the ground that had fallen from the feeder. This cop wasted 45 minutes of my life filing this report. No crime so they have to create their own drama.

Thank God I moved.

[M TYPE X]

You could replace the name of any of these suburbs with another and it wouldn't make a difference. Cleveland suburban cops are obnoxious.

I still think Twinsburg is THE winner. No, I don't have any tickets from Ohio (speeding in MI and SC; warning about a taillight out in IL) but no one can deny that Ohio has too many police with too few things to do.

You could lower taxes. I'm just sayin'.