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derwin award candadate
2005-01-07
A Parma, Ohio, man is facing charges after he impersonated a police officer, and was caught by a real police officer he tried to pull over. Micahel Gustafson, 50, faces a five-count grand jury indictment stemming from the Dec. 17 incident. According to police, Gustafson put a blinking blue police light on his dashboard at around 2:30 a.m. He then shined a high-beam flashlight at a woman in a car at the intersection of East 110th Street and St. Clair, in Cleveland. Gustafson reportedly told the woman he was a police officer, and that he stopped her for driving erratically. However, the woman turned out to be a Cleveland police detective, and she quickly called for backup. Police found Gustafson was carrying a gun and had a stolen police radio in his car. A search of his home also revealed more police and law enforcement paraphernalia. Gustafson faces five counts, including impersonating a police officer and carrying a concealed weapon.
Posted by:muck4doo

#11  The Derwin Awards are for folks who came this close to being Darwin Award Nominees.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-07 11:37:04 PM  

#10  OK, Mucky - I'll bite. Who's Derwin?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-01-07 10:34:56 PM  

#9  itn derwin award not darwin
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-01-07 4:24:20 PM  

#8  No darwin award. Just stupid. Darwin award folks are almost always dead, since the essence of the award is that they have contributed to the advancement of the species by getting themselves killed off in monumentally stupid ways. An occasional exception may be made if their genitalia have been destroyed.
Posted by: Weird Al   2005-01-07 3:06:47 PM  

#7  The nominee need only be unable to reproduce, Deacon. Physical death is merely a frequent side benefit.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-07 12:29:25 PM  

#6  eeks. She's lucky she didn't end up raped, tortured and buried in a shallow grave. I'd be looking to connect the dots between this guys whereabouts and other missing women.
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-07 12:00:56 PM  

#5  Ima don't think it's a typing problem.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-07 11:44:16 AM  

#4  Mucky has trouble typing. I'm certain he ment Darwin, although to be a Darwin award nominee I believe a person must "join the invisible choir".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-01-07 10:10:34 AM  

#3  derwin award? I thought this had something to do with Bewitched.
Posted by: Jarhead   2005-01-07 7:34:06 AM  

#2  May he soon impersonate Bubba's girlfriend 'Lola'.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-01-07 1:50:32 AM  

#1  ooooo - bad choice, Micahel (?)
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-07 12:12:42 AM  

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