04-09-2013, 10:23 AM
Last Friday some kids were messing around a neighbors house & I called the police & also checked our street video (installed after our last Keystone cops episode) which had recorded the kids on the street & entering the house. The police arrived 35 minutes later (interesting side note, the responding cop went by the place 7 minutes after the call & 28 minutes prior to stopping), took down the info, requested that I make a copy of the video & gave me a case # and a phone # to call when I had the copy made. (second interesting side note, the officer wanted my birthdate for the report...)
I made the copy & called the phone #, they took the info along with my phone # & stated the officer would call me back....
Today I called again... the officer has been in, but probably too busy to call.... but when he could he would stop by & collect my jump drive as evidence....I explained that I would rather KEEP my jump drive, so could I take it to the Hilo HQ to have them download the info.... after some checking, it seemed very complicated & they would much rather take my jump drive as evidence....
Since I plan to be near the Kapiolani HQ, I just decided to call them to see if this would be possible... I was told that the ticket # I have is a miscellaneous ticket number & that there is no evidence collection for this type of ticket....
So.... the time copying the data, along with the time to make the calls was all wasted....
& what if I had just given up my jump drive to the officer? (assuming that he would have even bothered to take the time to pick it up... & from the previous Keystone cops, that probably would have been after midnight without calling first!)
I made the copy & called the phone #, they took the info along with my phone # & stated the officer would call me back....
Today I called again... the officer has been in, but probably too busy to call.... but when he could he would stop by & collect my jump drive as evidence....I explained that I would rather KEEP my jump drive, so could I take it to the Hilo HQ to have them download the info.... after some checking, it seemed very complicated & they would much rather take my jump drive as evidence....
Since I plan to be near the Kapiolani HQ, I just decided to call them to see if this would be possible... I was told that the ticket # I have is a miscellaneous ticket number & that there is no evidence collection for this type of ticket....
So.... the time copying the data, along with the time to make the calls was all wasted....
& what if I had just given up my jump drive to the officer? (assuming that he would have even bothered to take the time to pick it up... & from the previous Keystone cops, that probably would have been after midnight without calling first!)