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Police Officers Share The Most Unbelievable Lies They've Caught Someone Telling Red-Handed

Police Officers Share The Most Unbelievable Lies They've Caught Someone Telling Red-Handed
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Folks listen... yes those are your pants and the police totally know it. Stop it. Nobody believes you.


Reddit user RoundTriagonalSquare asked:

Police officers of Reddit, what is the most unbelievable lie told by someone that was caught red handed?

and I gotta be honest here people, I'm kind of disappointed in us collectively speaking. The sheer number of people out here in the universe wearing other people's pants is just staggering. At least that's what some of us would have police officers believe.

I'm not advocating lying to law enforcement ... all I'm saying is that if you're going to do it, at least make sure it's a new one, ya know? Not like these people.

The Pants Dance

"These aren't my pants"

Blew me away the first time I heard it. Laughed my butt of for the next few times after that. Then it became routine, maybe once every couple of weeks someone would try it.

Typically when they were being arrested, we'd have to search them for inventory and find: pipes, baggies, knives, etc. Which - according to the suspect- just happened to be in the pants when they put them on, and didn't notice they were in the pocket until we found them.

- WhalesBlowOnPorpoise

Dehydration

As we were treating the patient, the officer tried to get the story. Apparently, when the guy came home there was a man inside their house. His girlfriend, who was home, "did not know who the man was." (yup, she was cheating.)

The boyfriend "politely asked the gentlemen to leave," which he obliged. But the boyfriend thought he saw the random man in their house grab something and drive away. (Boyfriend and side dude fought. Side dude left.)

Out of frustration, he became so "dehydrated" that he wanted to go to the store immediately and get water. Which is when he promptly rammed into the car of said "random man." (Boyfriend got angry, chased him down, rammed his car.)

He then proceeded to get whooped by said "random man." (Oops. That didn't work out the way he had planned.)

Moral of the story is don't make decisions when you're "dehydrated."

- TraumaMango

Murdered Over Noodles

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Police officer of 24 years here. This is not an unbelievable lie, but rather a believable lie followed by an unbelievable truth.

When I worked homicide we responded to a dead body fallen from a high rise apartment call. The deceased is an elderly, Asian male. When we went upstairs and met with the wife, an elderly Asian woman, she told us he jumped and committed suicide in front of her.

She was hysterical and distraught. After talking to her for awhile, she revealed that he hadn't actually meant to commit suicide.

He pissed her off when he demanded dinner. He asked her for noodles and then went and took a nap. When water was boiling, she poured the boiling hot water on his face and body.

He woke from the nap disoriented, in shock and in horrible pain - and jumped out the window. Dead. 11 stories. Yes, he had scathing burn marks on his face when we inspected his body. She was arrested for murder.

- piccolopete

Pants Again

Found a baggy of coke on a guy arrested in the courthouse, on his court date, after sentencing. He knew he had that court date and brought the coke anyway. His response when I pulled it out of his pocket?

"These aren't my pants, I borrowed them from my friend two years ago."

- onesoggyhuman

Donations

Got a call about a robbery. An elderly guy had been punched and someone stole his phone. The victim had a bloody mouth and gave a very good description of the suspect. I found the guy at a nearby bus stop and put him in cuffs. He had the phone sticking out of his back pocket. His story was that the victim walked up to him and just gave it to him.

Uh-huh

And then while I looked in a different direction for a second I looked back and he had been able to reach around in front of him and was digging in the front pocket of his hoodie. I pulled his hand out and he was holding a wad of crack. He immediately said that this wasn't his hoodie and some guy just gave it to him. But it was a different guy than the one with a phone.

Now he wasn't wearing a shirt under the hoodie and it was in the mid 30's. I guess he was just walking around with no shirt on and people just decided to donate stuff to him.

We don't catch the smart ones folks.

- KellyTurnbull

Whaaaaaaat?

We were searching a car and found meth and pipe next to the passenger, the driver (in the most unconvincing tone possible) said "Whaaaaaat? I can't believe that...that's crazy...I would never expect that from her. I'll be honest with you, (usually means they're about to lie) I had no idea she had that."

Two minutes later I go to search him and unsurprisingly find another bag of meth at his feet, just under the bumper of the car. He said it was there when he got out of the car.

- enumthunder

Red-handed

I quite literally had a case involving a guy doing graffiti with red spray paint. He tried to deny that it was him when we caught up to him - with red paint all over his hands...

- bluegnatcatcher.

In HD

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The dickheads who deny its them in the HD quality CCTV of them shoplifting is always a laugh. Especially when they have been caught just after and they are in the same clothes, same obviously Tatts, everything.

- Imyourcaptainotmine

Great Throw (Yup, More Pants)

Had a woman say, when a baggie of suspected coke was found in her pants pocket, that "some one threw it over the stall wall while I was in the bathroom and it landed in my pocket."

- misfitsnowman

Undercover

"I'm really undercover following this lady around she's a known meth dealer" - from an obvious crack head...

- pteawesome1

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