We have some really demented people out there. It's amazing the thoughts and the imaginations that come to the mind. That guy obviously had nothing better to do with his time. The weirdest arrest I have seen is where the guy disarms the police and runs off, only to be cornered by a barrage of cops. Even so, it took a while for the cops to detain him as he fought them off.I was watching the news a few years back and there was this one guy that had been breaking into a store and was caught on video humping a pinata.
What was your most memorable or weirdest arrest?
You will find that a lot of indecent exposure arrests are quite weird. Sometimes, as unprofessional as it might be, you're dying to laugh, because what's going on is so awkward and amusing to a certain extent. But you mustn't laugh, because you need to make sure that you are taken seriously at all times, otherwise you're not going to have any control over the situation. I once had to arrest a guy who was running round a park at night, naked. He seemed to be causing no harm, and it was late so there were no children, but it's not the kind of behaviour that I was prepared to let go - no matter how harmless he seemed at the time.
I was watching the news a few years back and there was this one guy that had been breaking into a store and was caught on video humping a pinata.
What was your most memorable or weirdest arrest?
I got one for you. A friend of mine said they had to arrest a guy for eating women feces. Apparently he was staking out at public bathrooms and turning off the water so the toilets couldn't flush. At the end of the day the toilets would be filled with crap. He'd go in and just feast on the feces. They eventually took him in, but obviously he got off on insanity plea. My cop friend said while detained he would still eat his own feces and his cell smelt to high heaven.