He ain’t heavy – he’s a pissed cop.
Talking to mates of mine who are bar owners, they have always said the worst of the worst are always drunk off duty cops. They get super aggressive and won’t back down and they drink to the point of absolute collapse, which I think is another bloody good reason to legalize weed, because if anyone needs a joint after work to unwind, it is soooooooooo the Police.
Here’s a story from the Daily Post in Rotorua
Ivan James Sarich, 36, is on trial after pleading not guilty to assaulting Glen Baker, the then part-owner and manager of Rotorua's Fuze City Bar on May 21, 2003.
Judge Neil McLean said Sarich, an Auckland policeman, was on trial for a second time because "something went wrong" at the first trial. But he warned jury members at the Rotorua District Court not to speculate on that and also urged them not to do their own investigations.
Sarich was with a group of police officers visiting Rotorua for a North Island police cross-country competition at the time and was among a group of eight who went to the Fuze City Bar.
After they had been there for some time a staff member refused to serve one of the group because he was intoxicated, Rotorua Crown prosecutor Amanda Gordon told the court yesterday.
A staff member, who saw the man being given alcohol by another in the group, told them they would be asked to leave if they kept giving him alcohol, the court heard.
Sarich's partner, Tracey Wong, asked staff to order them a taxi, and allegedly grabbed a large number of bottles of beer as she left. It is alleged she began to pass them to her friends who were sitting in the taxi and Mr Baker tried to stop her but she became abusive.
The bar's licence prevented patrons taking alcohol away from the premises.
Sarich allegedly became involved, grabbing Mr Baker around the neck, pushing him and punching him in the face.
Sarich's lawyer David Jones said an assault was justified if it was in self-defence or in the defence of another person.
posted by Bomber @ 11:27 am
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Speaking of pissed cops,
Brethren's investigator went berserk at station
Tuesday October 3, 2006
By Patrick Gower
The investigator hired by the Exclusive Brethren to tail Prime Minister Helen Clark assaulted a man in custody and kicked a senior police officer in the groin during a bar-room brawl 25 years ago.
Herald files show private investigator Lew Proctor was convicted of assaulting three officers and another man after going berserk during a drinking session at the Papakura Police Station bar when still in the force as a detective in 1982.
The Herald files show Proctor struck one constable, headbutted another constable in the face and intentionally kicked Inspector Barry Davies in the groin as well as intentionally damaging a door.
Proctor's rage began after a heated conversation about dogs with other officers in the bar, where he was saying he wanted to "show how he had hit the black Samoan bastard who hit his dog".
He started taking several swings at a constable, putting his fist through a door, smashing a door and putting his fist through a toilet wall.
He then punched one of the constables in the face several times, butted the other and lashed out at Mr Davies, kicking him in the groin and later in the backside.
At some point, Proctor went into an interview room where a man was being held in custody, asked him a few questions, then punched him twice about the head.
In his defence, Proctor claimed he was suffering temporary insanity.
The sentencing judge said the assaults were out of character and unlikely to be repeated and imposed a fine of $600 to give Proctor the chance to start a new life.
Proctor could not be reached for comment last night but has previously told a newspaper that "his slate was wiped clean".
The officer he kicked in the groin, Barry Davies, went on to head the Tasman police district and retired in 2000 after 40 years in the force.
"I saw his face on the news and thought, 'Hey, I remember you,'" Mr Davies told the Herald last night.
"I've got no comment to make, though, really. He left the force, he got a private investigator's licence and here we are today.
NZ Herald
I used to hang out in a bar down the road from a police station and any of the staff there could vouch for the fact that off duty cops are arseholes who can't handle their piss.
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see why we need to make weed legal - christ cops need it to chill out - it should be mandatory
NEWS folks! well you know how you all make cracks about me at school, heres a joke for you all
the local police have been using our school gym (which has been shut down from students for 3 days), to do their FITNESS!
theres been at least 3 copper cars parked in our parking spaces everyday without permits!
and bomber, nice use of bill hick's "war on drugs".
"thatd be a nice world wouldn't it? mellow, hungry fucked about people everywhere."
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