Pippin needs help coming up with something fabulous to do this weekend? Surely we can help out our dear beloved Pippin. Although, have you ever seen Pippin's writings. She's more than capable of doing it herself, but she likes to humor us. So? Let's think of something and we'll put it together. (Remember, we must find a way to incorporate annoying Ma in the idea. Okay? Hehehe)
We are expecting to start selling alligator purses and shoes anytime. We stumped the consultants also, but we are getting closer to fixing everything.
Consider the hugs passed along as soon as possible.
(Whispering)Shhhhh....SouthernHawk you shouldn't just announce something like that. You should have consulted Mrs. SouthernHawk first. You will upset those inbred idiots at PETA. (Which happen to be right across the tunnel bridge from me. They are located in Norfolk) Anyways, you want to use such words as "road kill" or "gun wounded reptilian" purses. Yes! That's much better. LOL! Just thought I'd help you! Now I really need to get going!! *HUGS* back at ya!
Don't do this!!!
Fake cop busts real cop -- uh, oh
By CHRISTINE VENDEL
The Kansas City Star
Jun. 12, 2003
Jackson County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with impersonating a police officer after he allegedly tried to pull over a real police officer who was driving to work.
"Out of all the people to try to pull over, he picked a police officer," said police spokesman Capt. Rich Lockhart.
Clifford P. Holloway, 30, of south Kansas City, was arrested late Tuesday after police say he led them on a chase, crashed his blue Ford Crown Victoria into a utility pole, then ran to his home in the 11400 block of Lister Drive.
Police found a gold badge, a police scanner, a list of police radio frequencies, a night stick, handcuffs and other police paraphernalia in Holloway's car, according to court records.
Holloway was charged with felony resisting arrest. He also faces misdemeanor charges for false impersonation of a law enforcement officer, careless and imprudent driving, leaving the scene of a vehicle accident, and driving with a suspended license.
He was being held Wednesday night in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Police did not know whether Holloway had tried or had successfully pulled over other motorists in the past.
Holloway was a licensed security guard in the mid-1990s in Kansas City. But he lost his license in January 1996 after several incidents of "poor judgment and abuse of authority," according to files at the Board of Police Commissioners Private Officers Licensing Section.
Section employees wrote Holloway a letter in 1996 telling him that he exceeded his authority when he pursued prowlers onto public streets, causing a multicar pileup.
He also was chastised for telling a person accused of injuring a child to leave a motel, handcuffing a relative of the child, and pointing a handgun at a crowd of bystanders.
The incidents helped lead to his indefinite suspension, records show. The Licensing Section wrote Holloway another letter in May 2000 telling him to stop working as a unlicensed security officer. Records show that the section had learned that he was still working as a security guard without a license and had been identifying himself as a police officer.
Holloway also was wanted on six city bench warrants for animal control violations.
Police said they did not know the man's motive for trying to pull over the off-duty officer. But the officer, Matthew Bandler, said he suspected that the man "liked to pretend he was a police officer."
Court records gave this account of the incident:
Bandler was driving to the Metro Patrol Division station in his red pickup truck about 10:25 p.m. Tuesday when a car ahead of him pulled to the shoulder of northbound U.S. 71 near 85th Street.
As Bandler's truck passed the stopped car, the driver shined a spotlight in Bandler's face. The car then pulled in behind Bandler's truck and the driver activated a flashing blue light on the dashboard.
Seeing no police markings on the car -- and because Missouri law requires police vehicles to use red lights -- Bandler did not pull over. Instead, he slowed down to get the license plate number of the car. But the car slowed down too, and did not pass Bandler.
Bandler called dispatchers on his cell phone. An on-duty officer then tried to pull Holloway's car over, but it sped away. The officer noted that the driver was wearing a gold badge on a chain hanging from his neck.
Holloway, Bandler and the officer exited and turned onto southbound U.S. 71, reaching speeds of 95 mph. The chase wound along Red Bridge Road to Grandview Road to Blue Ridge Boulevard. Officers placed spikes in the roadway and flattened three tires.
The suspect lost control of his car and struck a utility pole. He ran through several back yards and was caught in front yard of his home.
"I wasn't scared," Bandler said. "I was more curious as to `What was this guy thinking?' I'm just glad it happened to me, as a police officer, because who knows what his motives were?"
To reach Christine Vendel, police reporter, call (816) 234-4438 or send e-mail to
cvendel@kcstar.com.
Good Morning FReepers. It's payday and I got my coffee.
