Have you ever recognized anyone on "Cops" or "American's Most Wan

[Xevious]

ITs a strange question but I have Cops on the TV right now. I always wondered if I will ever see anyone that I know getting arrested. Its sort of a strange train of thought I have whenever the show is on.

Same thing with America's Most Wanted.

EDIT: The topic sentence was cut off. It should read "America's Most Wanted"

[Trakan]

I hope I will never see anyone I know on that show.

[notfromtexas]

A guy at a company i worked with was actually on COPS once. He tried to sell a stolen video camera to a television studio(it was back in the 80's)

[Moxio]

I hope to God I never see anyone I know on COPS or AMW.

[dcfox]

Not Cops or AMW, but I did see my uncle's court arraignment on the local news once.

[Eric467]

Unfortunatley yes. Believe it or not it was an ex-girlfriend, pulled over for drunk driving. Then she propositioned the cop. Not a good feeling seeing that.
Funny thing is I never watch Cops, I was just flipping channels one night, and saw her. Pray you never see an ex girlfriend, it sucks.

[CaseyRyback]

Unfortunatley yes. Believe it or not it was an ex-girlfriend, pulled over for drunk driving. Then she propositioned the cop. Not a good feeling seeing that.
Funny thing is I never watch Cops, I was just flipping channels one night, and saw her. Pray you never see an ex girlfriend, it sucks.

well where you live, it would not be too hard to believe

[Trakan]

Unfortunatley yes. Believe it or not it was an ex-girlfriend, pulled over for drunk driving. Then she propositioned the cop. Not a good feeling seeing that.
Funny thing is I never watch Cops, I was just flipping channels one night, and saw her. Pray you never see an ex girlfriend, it sucks.

I'd think it'd be funny, not suck.

[supadupacheap]

Unfortunatley yes. Believe it or not it was an ex-girlfriend, pulled over for drunk driving. Then she propositioned the cop. Not a good feeling seeing that.
Funny thing is I never watch Cops, I was just flipping channels one night, and saw her. Pray you never see an ex girlfriend, it sucks.

I'd think it'd be funny, not suck.

I think Id be too busy looking up the phone number for the nearest clinic to find the humor in the situation.

[vrs1650]

Yes, my friend was chased because he was in some bushes watching them film COPS. They were investigating a break in at a laundromat. When the cops saw them they took of running and the cops chased them down the street.

[epobirs]

Can't say that I have. It has long been a parting insult among some folks I know to wave and say, "See ya on COPS!"

[Dare]

i remember watching one episode of cops about 8 years ago and my neighbor was on it, pretty exciting stuff watching somebody u know on a show unexpectedly.

[darth007]

This is weird but I actually do remember seeing someone appear on Cops a few months after I saw him in person. He was this bum who would go to gas stations and try to sell this fake jewelry for $40 dollars. He tried to get some person near my moms car to buy a chain and the guy said f' off. Few months later, I turn on Cops and it was one for my city. And I was amazed that the bum made it on tv. He was at a Hess gas station doing exactly what he did to that guy a few months earler. He only got a warning from a cop though to never do it again and he was banned from the gas station. I wonder if that bum still tries to sell his fake sh** to this day.

[epobirs]

http://www.metnews.com/articles/rose121702.htm

I was once distant friends with a guy who is now doing time for murder. He was an acquaintance from the Atari user community in Los Angeles by the name of Rob Rosenberg. Unbeknownst to most of us, he was gay and the first time actually decided to act on his impulses his younger brother and the brother friend spied this through the bedroom window. The idiot friend announce he was going to tell the world. Apparently Rob thought this would end with his being disowned by his family. In his disturbed state he grabbed the Uzi he happened to own (I'm not kidding) and got in his car to track down the idiot and swear him to silence. Somehow this end in a spray of bullets killing the kid.

Rob immediately hightailed it out of town and hid out with a guy in Marin County he knew through his BBS. (This was originally called Atari Elite and later Wasted Land. I can recall downloading Donkey Kong Jr. from it.) He managed to hide out for several months before finally surrendering to police and being convicted of murder.

A few years later I read this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553285203/qid=1096171974/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0645015-4305630?v=glance&s=books

All but one of the murderers is described by their actual name. One is given an alias because he is the only one the author believes might eventually be paroled. Although he changed a few details, such as having live up North and flee South, I immediately knew who was writing about. The author is of the opinion that if Rob had kept his secret just a year or so longer until he was a way at college, he would he built up enough confidence to come out of the closet regardless of his parent's reaction.

The first time someone told me Rob was on the run for murder I thought I was the target of a prank. I didn't believe it until a story appeared in th LA Times. I didn't know him very well but he struck as someone who was well on his way to a successful life. Certainly more than most people I hung out with back then. Go figure.

[Kaijufan]

Ive never seen anyone I know on Cops or AMW, and I hope that I never do (unless its someone I dont like). :)

[Zenithian Legend]

um... nope, can't say that I have

[tornadomann]

Nope, I never have. There are some people I know that I can only hope to see on there!

[ZeroSupporT]

I saw a guy from around here in Greenfield, IN running from the police in a truck in the snow, guess he had a gun rack in the back (f*cking classic) so they make this comment about the cops radioing in to check and see if he owns any weapons that he might be carrying on the rack. Anyway he flies around this church parking lot in town and crashes into this snow mound near his house and tries to run to it to get inside and beat on his wife some more (domestic disturbance call I think was why they were after him) and they grab before he gets like 5 feet from his truck door, funny as shit but don't know the person personally.

[beerguy961]

Never had a Cops filmed in my town. It's quiet in suburbia. AMW, never seen anybody I recognized (although I never watch it...)

[Spacepest]

My family lived in a shitty town in Southern California when we were growing up. One night we saw an episode of COPS showing busts in our town.

We did recognize one person in the bust...it was the local crackwhore who always hung out by the roadside at one of the cheap motels. The cops were doing a routine prostitution bust of the area. First they arrested the local ho, then they installed an undercover vice officer to lure in suckers. They busted like 30 people that night...the undercover cop posing as hooker was able to lure customers back to her hotel room. Everytime a client went into her room-BAM!- cops would leap out of the bathroom and arrest the john. It was all caught on tape, and it was one of the funniest damn things I ever did see.

After it aired all the people who lived in the new gated housing complexes near the motel picketed the area protesting the fact that prositution was going on there. You can bet they were hella mad to find out their brand new homes had been built next to crackwhore lane and that you could see their neighborhood in the COPS episode. (Funny how they didn't seem to notice that sort of thing before they bought their homes in the area). Since that was now the area where all the people with money were moving into town, you can bet the police took notice and cleaned up the area. The area is now ho-free, and still a shitty area nonetheless, but hey! it no longer has any hookers!

[BlueWingX]

Not on COPS or AMW, but I did see someone I knew on "Tales of the Highway Patrol"... It was a cousin of mine who is an actual Highway Patrolman. So, that was kinda cool. :)

[Theenternal]

Neither for me, but I saw a girl that i knew from HS on a GGW video in Tallahtrashy

[hasaki_cb]

I was going to say no, but I just remembered that one of the guys I knew (and lived 4 houses down from me) in elementary school was on AMW a few years ago.

He wasn't the one profiled, at least according to the AMW page linked below, but it was the talk of the town for a few weeks.

http://www.mountainmessenger.com/news0130.html#4thstory

www.americasmostwanted.com/site/archives/19990123/kdobs.html+%22shawn+boyer%22+%22america%27s+most+w anted%22&hl=en]And (http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:WcVzJIeBJHgJ:[url) a google cache of the AMW page[/url]

If you're wondering which guy, it was Shawn Boyer

[coolsteel]

Nah not on COPS or AMW and not me personally, but once some channel was doing a documentary on crack dealers and my next door neighbor was over, all the sudden it hits him " Hey I went to school with that guy!" LOL

[crickett003]

A guy at a company i worked with was actually on COPS once. He tried to sell a stolen video camera to a television studio(it was back in the 80's)

Never seen anyone I know on COPS, but I remember seeing the episode you're referring to.

[bignick]

I watched cops every now and then. I have a firend thas a cop down south, so I am hping to see him on there.

[DigitalSpace]

They were filming in Portland last year, but I only saw a few of the episodes, and didn't see anybody I knew.

[dtcarson]

My aunt was on America's Most Wanted.

She played the widow of a murder victim in a 'Dramatic Re-enactment', and got to watch her 'husband's corpse pulled from a river.