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North Carolina.

A woman speeding down the highway in North Carolina called 911 while being pursued by the police. She bargained that she would pull over for $300,000.
Thirty-seven-year-old Jennifer Melissa Herring refused to pull over for a police officer on Monday night and led the cop on what ended up being a 15-minute chase. She then called 911 to negotiate. The opening of the 911 call (the is below) shows just how bewildered the 911 operator became.

Brunswick County 911, what's your emergency?
Hi, this is Jenna, I don't have the emergency but the car behind me does.
Ok
I'm trying to figure out what that is because I'm driving 45 miles an hour on, I believe its Osprey road.
Ok.
And I have a contract with you guys and if you want to go ahead and declare a false sense of emergency. It's $300,000 per incident and I wanted to make sure that you guys are willing to pay the fee that you already owe before I pull over.
Ok, I don't know what you're talking about what can I do for you.
I know you don't, I know you don't.


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Herring claimed that the pursuing officer was giving "a false sense of emergency," which she claimed warrants a $300,000 fine. Herring's logic was that either the officer could leave her alone, or the department could incur a $300K debt to her. Following that train of thought, she demanded that she would pull over so long as they were willing to pay her the 300 grand. She would not pull over without her money, she screamed.

Herring eventually turned onto a dead-end private road where she came to a stop. reports that she was arrested for driving while impaired, felony fleeing to elude arrest, driving while license revoked, careless and reckless driving and driving left of center.
Needless to say, she did not get the money.

 

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Arizona.

Growing up, many kids are told to find a police officer if they need help.
It's a lesson Demarco Alonzo Thomas took to heart.

Thomas was an alleged drug courier who said he misplaced $20,000 in drug money and wanted authorities to write him the Associated Press reported.

In November, when Thomas, 30, was traveling through Tucson International Airport from North Carolina when he reported misplacing the money, according to a search warrant requested by the Tucson Airport Authority Police Department.

Fearing for his life, he called police to ask if an officer could write a note to the local cartel explaining that he lost $20,000 in drug money; he thought it might smooth things over if he could show cartel members a phony receipt from the local police stating they had seized the money, the Arizona Daily Star reported.

But when police searched his belongings, they found $17,000 in a pair of pants and another $3,000 in his wallet, Geobeats reported.
The unsympathetic officers arrested him on suspicion of money laundering and racketeering.

 

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Sweden.

A Swedish ferry line is rethinking its retro-style ad campaign after trying to lure passengers on a nostalgia visit to the Germany and Poland of the 1940s. Stena’s direct mail advertising campaign was designed to target potential customers based on their decade of birth—from the ’40s through the ’60s.

The pitch to the folks born during World War II began, “Hooray, you were born in the 1940s!” It went on to say, “This was a delightful decade when lots of fun things happened.” Since the campaign debuted, a number of people have questioned just how much fun Germany and Poland were during the Nazi era. Stena executives have apologized for the “unfortunate wording” and say the company will be rewriting the campaign.

 

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England.

Thanks to budget cuts, police in South Yorkshire have seen their numbers shrink from 3,289 officers in 2008 to fewer than 2,900 last year. The department came up with a creative solution, however, deploying 280 life-sized cardboard cutouts of policemen in order to deter shoplifting.

“The rationale for buying them was based on research indicating previous success at reducing crime. It shows stores are working in partnership with the police to tackle retail crime and puts at the forefront of potential thieves’ minds the issue that police may be nearby,” a police spokesperson told London’s Daily Mirror. Police say the cutouts have been effective at deterring petty crime, reducing shoplifting in some areas by as much as 50 percent.

They also admit that the $40 “paper PCs” have recently become the target of theft themselves, with a number of the cutouts disappearing from shop doorways or foyers.

 

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I like the first post.....:rofl!:

 

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North Carolina.

A woman speeding down the highway in North Carolina called 911 while being pursued by the police. She bargained that she would pull over for $300,000.
Thirty-seven-year-old Jennifer Melissa Herring refused to pull over for a police officer on Monday night and led the cop on what ended up being a 15-minute chase. She then called 911 to negotiate. The opening of the 911 call (the is below) shows just how bewildered the 911 operator became.

Brunswick County 911, what's your emergency?
Hi, this is Jenna, I don't have the emergency but the car behind me does.
Ok
I'm trying to figure out what that is because I'm driving 45 miles an hour on, I believe its Osprey road.
Ok.
And I have a contract with you guys and if you want to go ahead and declare a false sense of emergency. It's $300,000 per incident and I wanted to make sure that you guys are willing to pay the fee that you already owe before I pull over.
Ok, I don't know what you're talking about what can I do for you.
I know you don't, I know you don't.


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Herring claimed that the pursuing officer was giving "a false sense of emergency," which she claimed warrants a $300,000 fine. Herring's logic was that either the officer could leave her alone, or the department could incur a $300K debt to her. Following that train of thought, she demanded that she would pull over so long as they were willing to pay her the 300 grand. She would not pull over without her money, she screamed.

Herring eventually turned onto a dead-end private road where she came to a stop. reports that she was arrested for driving while impaired, felony fleeing to elude arrest, driving while license revoked, careless and reckless driving and driving left of center.
Needless to say, she did not get the money.

Priceless :rofl!:

 

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[tboy]

you just can't make this shit up! As for the cardboard cops: the opp did this years ago...they'd park a cruiser on the side of the road with a cardboard profile of a cop in the front seat and people slowed down when they saw it....I don't know why they stopped, probably because it caused all kinds of traffic headaches when people braked for the cruiser.....