Ever had the cops called on you?

Kbrasmodeler

Kbrasmodeler

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I have had the Sheriff's office out here twice in the last week, because I was hammering hot steel on my anvil. About thirty minutes ago, the deputy tells me that my neighbors thought I was running an "illegal chop-shop" in my garage!

Of course, both times they were very kind, and even showed interest in what I was doing. I just wish my neighbors did the same!

This ever happen to anyone?
 
I have this lady that lives above me that gives me a hard time about that but still no cops. What gets me is that she lives like 200 yards away and I hammer on the opposite side of the house to her and my wife sitting just upstairs says it's not too bad. Some people just like to complain I think.
 
I had a neighbor who made a point to call the cops whenever she saw anything. The cops were really nice and said that they must follow-up. She said she was just trying to keep the neighbor hood nice and I said it would be nicer if she moved. She finally moved.
 
Nope, my only neighbors within a quarter mile enjoy visiting my shop and working. I'm either lucky or live in the middle of nowhere where cows overpopulate people in a ratio of 2.5 to 1. hmmm Must be the second one. :p
 
byers wow you live in a mansion. 200 yards long is near 2 city blocks long my little house is 10 yards long by 12 yards long about 900 square ft. That i guess would make your house about 20 thousand sq ft lol sorry i had to have some fun with it. And yes I have had the cops at my house lots drug grow,partys,but seriously I had my dog outside in the summer and it was raining she wanted in my wife and i were at work and she barked for 10 min for some one to let her in.It was a sunday afternoon and the neighbour was across the alley way. The neighbour next door said she only barked a few times. The @$$ holes name is RON Hardey and to think it was a guy I worked with .Some people have no purpose in life thats meaning full enough to just mind there own buisness.
 
I'm very lucky. I live in a duplex and have another freestanding house right next to my garage/shop. Both my neighbors claim they are never bothered by the noise. I know they're both lying, but I appreciate it!
 
hellgap said:
byers wow you live in a mansion. 200 yards long is near 2 city blocks long my little house is 10 yards long by 12 yards long about 900 square ft. That i guess would make your house about 20 thousand sq ft lol sorry i had to have some fun with it. And yes I have had the cops at my house lots drug grow,partys,but seriously I had my dog outside in the summer and it was raining she wanted in my wife and i were at work and she barked for 10 min for some one to let her in.It was a sunday afternoon and the neighbour was across the alley way. The neighbour next door said she only barked a few times. The @$$ holes name is RON Hardey and to think it was a guy I worked with .Some people have no purpose in life thats meaning full enough to just mind there own buisness.
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yikes... 935 sq/ft is what I ordered for ceramic to cover the play room in the basement..
for the same money you spent on your house, if you moved to canada, you'd be like Rockerfeller or something.


I had the cops called on me and my dad once, this was a while ago... still living at home lol..

I was coming out of the house to go to work and I caught the neighbor toss his garbage bags over our fence and one landed straight on the hood of my car in front of me..lol (stupid i dont know what she was thinking)

Anyway long story short, I grabbed it... along with all the other bags... and ripped them apart all over her car.

1 hour later, I have 2 cops knocking at my door. the response time wasn't even good.. I could have killed her, and drove down to mexico.. shieeeet:D
 
The FBI came once because they found I sold things at gun and knife shows. This was when Eric Rudolph (The guy from NC who bombed the abortion clinic in Atlanta) was at large. This nice young lady asked me to look at a photo line up to see if I recognized anyone there. When I said oh yeah I see the guy you are looking for she got very stern and asked where I had seen him. When I said that I had seen his picture in every newspaper for the past month she kind of wilted and asked me some very subtle questions.
1. Have you ever sold gun powder at a gun show?
2. Pipes?
3. Nails?
4. Fuses?
When I showed her my knives and explained that this is what I sold at the shows she was obviously disappointed. The funniest thing was that when she got up to leave she spotted an air rifle leaning in the corner she went into a combat stance and put her hand over her pistol. Very dramatic and very funny. I think is must have been her first day on the job.
 
I live right next door to the high school football and baseball fields. I was forging once late on a Friday night after a game when a cop made a drive by. He saw the fire from my gas forge and put the spotlight on me, then turned around and drove off! I am fortunate that my neighbors are older folks who are very accepting of what I do and don't give me a bit of trouble, even if I am running the power hammer late at night!
 
Not called on me, but an "Opsie" for me calling the cops.

Late at night I hear someone rummaging around outside in the bushes between our, and my neighbors house. At about 3 am at night. Then a window smash, I looked outside and saw someone climbing into a broken window and called the police.

They showed up, surrounded the house and start yelling on the megaphone. Everybody in the neighbor hood is up watching threw their blinds in their housecoats. A very confused, intoxicated young man comes to the door, I instantly recognized him as the neighbors kid. He lost the keys when his parents were out of town and broke a window to get in.
 
I am very lucky. I live a 1/4 of a mile off the main road. My closest neighbors are about an 1/8 of a mile from me and they are my brothers. If they have anything to say about it I can tell them where to go:D. The next closest ones are a ways after that.
 
The thing that I hate is that the people I think are calling the Sheriff are the same ones who play their music so loud at night that my kids, whose bedrooms are at the opposite end of the house, can't sleep.:jerkit: Unfortunately, my forge and anvil are on their side of the house, so I am trying different things to keep the noise down, and only forging during daylight hours for the most part.
 
I once had the cops called on me for playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" Hendrix-style on my guitar at 9PM on July 4th. Mind you, I was playing it LOUD AS HELL, but I made a point not to do it too late at night. The officers who responded just chuckled. Whoever it was who called them, is un-American.
 
James_Terrio said:
I once had the cops called on me for playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" Hendrix-style on my guitar at 9PM on July 4th. Mind you, I was playing it LOUD AS HELL, but I made a point not to do it too late at night. The officers who responded just chuckled. Whoever it was who called them, is un-American.
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And they didn't call the cops on people blowing up stuff in the sky that night?
 
I was shooting my Ruger .44 and the Sheriff showed up. Said the business next to my house called (i live out in the county, no law against shooting my guns at my shop). Any how, the Sheriff saw that I was shooting into a good back stop, and was not breaking any laws, so we talked guns and such for about 10 minutes before he left.
 
G L Drew said:
The FBI came once because they found I sold things at gun and knife shows. This was when Eric Rudolph (The guy from NC who bombed the abortion clinic in Atlanta) was at large. This nice young lady asked me to look at a photo line up to see if I recognized anyone there. When I said oh yeah I see the guy you are looking for she got very stern and asked where I had seen him. When I said that I had seen his picture in every newspaper for the past month she kind of wilted and asked me some very subtle questions.
1. Have you ever sold gun powder at a gun show?
2. Pipes?
3. Nails?
4. Fuses?
When I showed her my knives and explained that this is what I sold at the shows she was obviously disappointed. The funniest thing was that when she got up to leave she spotted an air rifle leaning in the corner she went into a combat stance and put her hand over her pistol. Very dramatic and very funny. I think is must have been her first day on the job.
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This story is HILARIOUS!!!! :D
 
:DWell as a matter of fact I have had ye ole constables called on me, on more than one occasion but not for forging... here's my funniest yet. Back in 99 I got a wild hair and thought I'd make a really kewl clock for my brother who was turning 16 at the time. (I'm the eldest of 3 boys... my poor mother!) I thought I'm gonna make this one look like a time bomb. so I got a 1-1/4" poplar dowl cut it into 3-1 foot pieces and painted them fire engine red w/spray paint. Some black tape for end caps and binding, then taped it all together to the little electronic travel clock and an old spiraled guitar cord and put it all together this thing looked just perfect... had the chimney sweeps out to service my furnace the next day and I left it under a sheet on my workbench down in the basement where the furnace was. They got to snoopin around and found it. I was away at the day job and my wife says they came running upstairs telling her they forgot a part. and would be back. they peeled out of the drive way (they didnt evacuate my wife and kids?:eek::thumbdn::mad:) so then my dad being the local Marshall hears the dispatcher call for my address about a bomb. he calls my wife tells her she's about to be surrounded by cops and to get over to his house and call me home and to go straight to him. so I get called out of work and go see dad he says "Son the Chimneysweeps found a device..." "It's a fake dad. I built it for a birthday present for Carey" he say's you sure?" " yes dad I'm sure, I'd be glad to show it to you or anyone else. So he radio's the county and tells them I'm in his custody and that the device is a model and I'd be glad to show them, in the meantime I've got 2 warrants for my immediate arrest in 2 counties because of it. Dad takes me to my house and there is a state cop car and a couple of county mounties in my front yard, hands on their holsters. I lead them down and show them the "device" and the ISP detective says well it's not illegal to have unless you committed a crime with it...he makes me dismantle it which aftwards I put it back together and gave it to my brother... so then the president of the chimneysweep company comes out to apologise. :thumbup: I negotiate a free tank of LP from him for the trouble his employee's cuased. :thumbup: The warrents are dismissed and I get a heckuva story for the future grandkids :p:cool:

Looked kinda lke this.

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lmfao thats the funniest one ive heard in a long time then the picture thats excellent lol
 
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