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Cops of Reddit, what's the weirdest thing you've ever had to arrest someone for?


  1. My father once had to arrest a 70 year old man who was attempting to drive his granddaughters toy jeep on the highway, naked. He wasn't senile.
    — somber-incandescence

  2. My dad was on Worlds Dumbest Criminals. He arrested a guy who kept checking out books at the library, then shitting in them and returning them.
    — HaiMyNameIsTrendy

  3. I know a cop who had to arrest someone for public masturbation at a truck stop back in the 90's. The man was doing it while looking at a Hot Cops magazine.
    — wendys420



  4. My sister's dad [not mine] had to arrest a woman in her late 40s on a bus for rubbing her cleavage on a five year old girl's face. When the cops came to arrest her, she started screaming that it was a "voodoo ritual" and that if she didn't do it, the "demons of hell" would grab her and pull her under. They did a drug test and she came up positive for both meth and heroin.
    — -_night_-

  5. My old man told me a story about how he arrested a serial public masturbator... the guy would literally jerk off in a massive trench coat and as he was close to the money shot he would run over to bus stops and ejaculate on people of the public. It got pretty bad as the police couldn't find him and had no hints as to where he would offend next. I think he targeted school children or younger women. This might not be what you're looking for... but a serial public masturbator who the police couldn't locate for weeks is pretty weird.
    — oldmantipsfordiqs

  6. My buddy is the sergeant of police in my town. He said he had to arrest a guy for eating the concrete under a bridge in my town, back in the days of bath salts. Another time was he had to arrest a guy in a hotel parking lot. The man was in the bushes, naked, and covered in blood, only wearing a condom. Pretty bizarre stuff.
    — ImNoSheeple



  7. I have a friend who is a federal probation officer and specializes in sex offenders. He always has crazy stories of stuff you never even thought might be real. He had one client who had been arrested for anally douching with Dr. Pepper in the bathroom of a Roy Rogers restaurant. Apparently this had happened several times. I guess people with those proclivities are very specific with place, time, douching agent, etc., so it was not difficult to catch him once they figured out his pattern.
    — carlweaver

  8. I was the manager of the city pool. Had to call the cops to arrest a man for "forcefully baptizing" all the kids in the pool. I cleared the pool, but he wouldn't get out of the shallow end. The cops finally got into the pool, so he swam to the deep end. Cops figured he'd get tired eventually. In the end it was uneventful but the standoff was kinda strange.
    — syockey

  9. I have arrested a man not once, but twice for having sex with a dead white tail deer corpse. He likes fresh road kill for some reason.
    — 2dogs1970



  10. A friend of a friend has a mental disorder that leads him to do strange things sometimes. He was once arrested for being in a bathroom on the campus of a major university "flushing for Jesus".
    — GodofWitsandWine

  11. Seemed relevant. >Ohio man arrested for having sex with inflatable raft for third time in three years >That's when a mother and her 8-year-old child reported seeing Tobergta naked while "having sexual relations" with a pink rubber pool float. [source](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-arrested-sex-float-time-article-1.1827864)
    — man-panda-pig

  12. Wasn't a cop yet and was unable to arrest because I was laughing too hard... Camp Butmir, Sarajevo, late nineties. I witnessed a local steal a roll of razor wire. He threw it on his back and started to run away... He was only wearing jeans and a thin t-shirt, no protective gear at all. That razor wire is the really evil nightmarish stuff; pretty hard to untangle yourself once your clothes and skin get caught in it. His brave escapade soon devolved into wimpering, blood and little babysteps down the street. He really did get away with it though, before I could wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes he was gone.
    — BoredCop