Teenager Fools Police: Gets Assigned To Squad Car

[TheHeathen]

http://www.wcpo.com/content/news/saywhat/story/Teenager-Fools-Police-Gets-Assigned-To-Squad-Car/2mCDpwe_-kCZ3IqeR0yzPA.cspx?rss=703

Chicago police are trying to figure out how a 14-year-old boy duped them into thinking he was an officer.

The teen walked into a police station yesterday and managed to get an assignment patrolling in a squad car for five hours before somebody figured out he's a kid.

Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan says the boy looks old for his age, and notes that he didn't have a gun, didn't issue any tickets and didn't drive the squad car. Officers only discovered the ruse after the boy's patrol with an actual officer ended and they noticed his uniform lacked a star that's part of the
regulation uniform.

Police are not identifying the boy because of his age and say he really had no "ill intent" and was motivated by wanting to be an officer.

Still, he's being charged as a juvenile with impersonating an officer.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Maybe he thought it would look good on his resume

for when he applies to police academy.

[TlalocW]

2. Was it Chicago or New York

Where some kid whose dream it was to drive the "L"/Subway was able to slip past people and actually do it?

TlalocW

[Poll_Blind]

3. I think it was New York- that kid apparently did a perfect job. I kinda...

...dig a kid who becomes fascinated with the subway, spends his free time (just as in any hobby) learning everything he can about how it works and even...sneaks in to do it. I see so many kids where I live whose idea of a good time is....well, less quaint or palatable.

PB