This is actually pretty amazing. The new story to shock this guy is the one that broke yesterday about a troubled 14 year old boy in chicago who decided to play cop. This 14 year old had originally taken part in a youth program called "police explorers", put on by a division of the chicago police department that allowed interaction between said youths and what we would have hoped were slightly more intelligent police officers. Well yesterday this 14 year old walked in to the police department dressed from head to toe as a cop. The only thing he appeared to be missing were his police stars, an actual gun in the holster, and he had newspaper in the place of a ballistic vest (which was covered by a real vest). Everything else was straight up police-issued. Now I give the kid credit for having the balls to dress up like a cop and then walk right into the belly of the beast. But it gets better.....................HE WENT ON PATROL. Yes, not a single police officer figured out this kid did not belong. Or maybe they just were too busy or lazy to actually look into their gut suspicion. His reason for being the new guy was that he was transferred for the day from another precinct. Nevertheless, this 14 year old checked out a police radio and a ticket book and then was assigned to another police officer as his "partner" for the day. While he apparently never got behind the wheel or had a chance to write any tickets, he did participate in a full day of traffic stops AND got back to the department to end his shift before anyone finally caught on to his shenanigans.
I don't know what to say about this one. I have the utmost respect for the police (S. Florida cops excluded), but they severely dropped the ball on this one. And as for the 14 year old....I want to say that he made some egregious lapses in judgement, but what he was able to pull off here is pretty amazing.
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