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4X4 · 03-13-2010, 11:19 AM

One fine evening, me and a few friends wanted to have a backyard fire, but we didn't have any wood. A buddy of mine offers up some info on a neighbour of his that had a giant stack of firewood in his back driveway, so me and him jumped in my truck, drove over there, leapt out, chucked a bunch of wood in my truck and took off.

I pulled on to McLeod Trail at 90th ave, and headed north. At Heritage Drive, I noticed a cop pulling on from the WB lane, and a cop stopped at the EB light. As I got up on the hump that goes over the train tracks, I noticed two cops come screaming up behind me, and two cops at the bottom of the hump in front of me. My buddy then pointed out the heli-cop above us, as I also noticed two more cops come out of nowhere and sandwich my truck.

So I've got six vehicle cops around me, and the heli-cop above me, and I'm thinking "jesus murphy, I know that stealing firewood from an alley is bad, but I wasn't aware that the cops took it this seriously".

So in unison, suddenly all their lights come on, and I stop in the middle of McLeod Trail. They all jumped out of their cars with their guns drawn. One of them started yelling at us to put our hands out the windows and keep them in view. Then he yells to use my left hand and reach in and take out my keys and throw them on the ground. After I did that, they closed in on us with their guns drawn, and started grilling us about where we were and what we just did.

"WHERE'D YOU COME FROM? WHAT DID YOU DO?"
"SORRY SIR, WE TOOK THE WOOD FROM AN ALLEY!!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
"THE WOOD, WE TOOK IT FROM AN ALLEY! IT WAS JUST STACKED AGAINST BUDDY'S FENCE - I'M SORRY!! I'LL BRING IT BACK!!"
"Wood?"
"Yes, sir! The firewood!"
(cop looks in the box of my truck)
"GIMME YOUR ID!"

So the one cop takes our IDs to his car, while a couple other cops stand there with their guns pointed at us. A few minutes later the cop comes back and asks us if we had been at the Sev by the King's Head a few minutes ago. I was completely puzzled (though I figured out later that the place must have gotten robbed), and said no. Just as fast as we got stopped, they all just took off, except the one cop with our ID. He graciously waited while I finished crapping my pants, gave us our IDs back and told us to have a nice night.

Needless to say, I never stole firewood again.

03-13-2010, 11:19 AM	#19
4X4 One of the Nine Join Date: Dec 2004 Exp:	One fine evening, me and a few friends wanted to have a backyard fire, but we didn't have any wood. A buddy of mine offers up some info on a neighbour of his that had a giant stack of firewood in his back driveway, so me and him jumped in my truck, drove over there, leapt out, chucked a bunch of wood in my truck and took off. I pulled on to McLeod Trail at 90th ave, and headed north. At Heritage Drive, I noticed a cop pulling on from the WB lane, and a cop stopped at the EB light. As I got up on the hump that goes over the train tracks, I noticed two cops come screaming up behind me, and two cops at the bottom of the hump in front of me. My buddy then pointed out the heli-cop above us, as I also noticed two more cops come out of nowhere and sandwich my truck. So I've got six vehicle cops around me, and the heli-cop above me, and I'm thinking "jesus murphy, I know that stealing firewood from an alley is bad, but I wasn't aware that the cops took it this seriously". So in unison, suddenly all their lights come on, and I stop in the middle of McLeod Trail. They all jumped out of their cars with their guns drawn. One of them started yelling at us to put our hands out the windows and keep them in view. Then he yells to use my left hand and reach in and take out my keys and throw them on the ground. After I did that, they closed in on us with their guns drawn, and started grilling us about where we were and what we just did. "WHERE'D YOU COME FROM? WHAT DID YOU DO?" "SORRY SIR, WE TOOK THE WOOD FROM AN ALLEY!!" "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" "THE WOOD, WE TOOK IT FROM AN ALLEY! IT WAS JUST STACKED AGAINST BUDDY'S FENCE - I'M SORRY!! I'LL BRING IT BACK!!" "Wood?" "Yes, sir! The firewood!" (cop looks in the box of my truck) "GIMME YOUR ID!" So the one cop takes our IDs to his car, while a couple other cops stand there with their guns pointed at us. A few minutes later the cop comes back and asks us if we had been at the Sev by the King's Head a few minutes ago. I was completely puzzled (though I figured out later that the place must have gotten robbed), and said no. Just as fast as we got stopped, they all just took off, except the one cop with our ID. He graciously waited while I finished crapping my pants, gave us our IDs back and told us to have a nice night. Needless to say, I never stole firewood again.