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Comment preview: **TLDR:** So /u/144k is not a police officer (and probably isn't involved in law enforcement in any capacity; otherwise, he presumably would have mentioned the fact). However, he nonetheless had a contribution to make to this /r/askreddit thread. Whether o ....


Comment preview: Oh, so, so many things. My white trash family's super power is getting arrested at funerals. 1. When I was 7 I watched as my great-grandfather's KKK buddies formed a barricade (complete with guns) to prevent a black, middle-aged female nurse from entering ....


Comment preview: My uncles look very, very similar but are a couple of years apart. When my youngest uncle was in high school he had a bit of a drug problem and had made some enemies/run up a bit of a tab. My older uncle had just come back from Vietnam where he was a tank ....


Comment preview: He's the designated "crazy" son of the family and has a conspiracy theory that he was screwed over with his grandmother's inheritance in that he should get more and my Uncle & Aunty are "hiding" it all from him and that his half sisters got more. In re ....


Comment preview: Uncle was a teacher for 25 years at a fairly prestigious school and told me some pretty unbelievable horror stories, I'll just talk about the one that sticks out in my mind. He had taught several grades and at this point I believe he was teaching a 6th gra ....


Comment preview: Uncle was a teacher for 25 years at a fairly prestigious school and told me some fairly unbelievable horror stories, I'll just talk about the one that sticks out in my mind. He had taught several grades and at this point I believe he was teaching a 6th gra ....


Comment preview: In 1955, my uncle was a law student at Purdue. Walking home from his job as bartender one night, he saw several drunks drag a lady kicking and screaming into an alley. He followed them and saw them trying to rape her as she fought back. Not knowing what el ....


Comment preview: Playing CK2 Old Gods as a Viking. I had conquered Scotland and most of northern England and had usurped the Scottish Crown. When my character died, his son succeeded but had to deal with the huge short reign opinion penalty Vikings get. Every major lord re ....


Comment preview: I'm 47 and I'm going to give everyone here a view of changes in personal rights over the decades. My uncle when he was 16 "he's now 58 and works for the baptist church" did something to embarrass the son of the police chief of our small town. Well his dad ....


Comment preview: I'll play but can't top anything you just dropped on us. * -Jehova's Witness Aunt ran up 25k in credit card debt without telling my uncle about it. * -Same Aunt suddenly moved out of the house one day and moved in with a black guy in a different state. * - ....


Comment preview: I have a great Uncle who in the late 60's was divorced. His ex hooked up with this religious nut. This nut began raping his daughter and telling her God wanted him to do it. When my Uncles daughter ran away one night she told her dad what had been happeni ....


Comment preview: My cousin raped and murdered a girl a few years ago and dumped her body on the side of a road which no one in my family ever drives on anymore. He was really strung out on cocaine and met her at a bar and brought her back to his place where he murdered her ....


Comment preview: In the late 70's, my Uncle was studying medicine at the University of Chicago. After a morning class, he decided that he would hitchhike back home to Lincoln Park on the North side instead of pay for a taxi. A man drove up in a Plymouth Satellite and offer ....


Comment preview: Danny Butterman: So what made you want to become a policeman? Nicholas Angel: Officer. Danny Butterman: What made you want to become a policeman-officer? Nicholas Angel: I don't remember a time when I didn't want to be a police officer... apart from the su ....


Comment preview: There are already 3022 submissions so this will probably get buried, but here is a true story: In the late 70's, my Uncle was studying medicine at the University of Chicago. After a morning class, he decided that he would hitchhike back home to Lincoln Par ....


Comment preview: This isn't my story, but I am sharing it on my Uncle's behalf. My uncle had 3 other roommates in college that all lived in a house together. Every month they would get together and all pay up their part of the rent, utilities, etc. For whatever reason, I a ....


Comment preview: My uncle unfortunately had the same thing happen to him (In the UK) He worked as a janitor/handyman at a school in London. He had a really nice house that was next to the school that he was allowed to use rent through as part of his job. He saw 2 girls thr ....


Comment preview: My grandfather served in the IRA in the 1920s. He was a De Valera man, so he actually fought against Michael Collins during the Battle of Dublin. A few of my uncles followed suit and my family became well known as an "IRA family"... I have one uncle that ....


Comment preview: My mom is from Chicago. Her brother was selling candy bars or something door to door to raise money for his little league team to buy uniforms one year. So he knocks on a door and this guy answers and says sure, he'll buy some candy bars, just come inside ....


Comment preview: You know, I once tried that, and learned a valuable lesson about life. In an attempt to deal with a faction demanding the installation of my incompetent uncle I had arrested the key ringleaders of the rebellion. This went down poorly with, well, everyone. ....


Comment preview: I have an Uncle who was like this. He's a broken down, washed up, paranoid schizophrenic now. He's got no teeth, only 1 lung, and a failing 1/2 liver. He was a perfect natural athlete and could compete at a pro-level in damn near any sport he tried. He pis ....


Comment preview: It is best to contact law enforcement but I think it would be best to go beyond the city police. I would contact the county sheriff's dept, and whatever the equivalent of child protective services is in your area. Take a buddy, go out there, talk to the gu ....


Comment preview: A cousin of mine has turned out to be pretty shitty. He has Aspergers and a couple other disabilities, but he was very functional. He's had jobs, usually quit or got fired though. Has worked for my Dad and Uncle's Practice doing IT stuff for quite awhil ....


Comment preview: My uncle was NYPD in the south Bronx for 20 years so I've heard about a million truely unbelievable stories, but heres a good one: So he he trying to arrest this guy and it gets physical and a fight ensues. My uncle eventually subdues him but ended up disl ....


Comment preview: I responded to a major crash one night as a rookie that haunts me still. A motorcyclist was escorting his nephew off of a Highway off ramp that night. He had just bought the bike as a retirement gift to himself that morning and went riding with his nephew. ....