Hashers in the News
In case you aren't on any hash lists or have been living under a rock...the story about how hashers closed down an IKEA in Connecticut is here. Be sure to click on the video link. It made me laugh when I saw how much caution tape was everywhere. Oh yeah, and it's now on ABC news too!
But the funny thing is the Orlando H3's response to this. They hashed through the parking lot of their IKEA....and had a run-in with the cops.
Here is the excerpt.....
The Other Orlando H3s run in with police last week. Another lesson learned
From: Iva Biggun
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: running club causes alarm of terrorist
Common sense was thrown right out the window. I have to wonder what happened between the cops and the hashers. Usually if you are polite to the cops, they are polite back. For some reason they felt they had toarrest somebody. I have to think that once the emotions die out and people realize how stupid it all is the charges will be dropped. Just to show our solidarity we laid trail through the Ikea parking lot in Orlando on Saturday. :-)
Thursday night we had a run in with the cops when we were doing ourfinal trail recce. Something about machetes and walking through ashopping center. We had a bit of trail right at the beginning through some woods leading into the back side of an apartment complex. I'm thinking hacking our way through this with machetes probably isn't the best idea (one of my few correct insights). We hacked our way through, made our way through the complex, crawling under a fence on the frontside. We decided it was best to put the machetes away. We did. We were trying to be discrete by holding them up along our arms as we walked back to our cars.
We walked along the backside of a bunch of shops and stuff that were out buildings in the shopping center. We had cut through the Panda Express drive through, across a field and back toour cars. Then we ran back to the where we'd come out of the apartments to finish our trail recce. We (3 of us) were standing at a bus stop discussing where to put marks and who was going which way when 7 cop cars and one cop dog showed up with lights blazing. We stood there wondering what was going on until they surrounded us. That's when it dawned on us; we were their interest.
Cop-1 comes up and says, "Higuys. Got a minute?" I said, "What can we do for you officer?"
Cop-2 comes up and says, "Have you seen a couple of guys with machetes?"
Cop-1 is in front of us, Cop-2 is beside us. Tactically it is very good. They are 90 degrees to each other so they are out of each other's line of fire. It's amazing how you notice such details when you suspect your life is about to turn to s***.
Cops 3, 4, 5 & 6 and the Cop dog are at various positions around us, all within about 50 yards.
Cop 7 (we found out later) was staking out our cars. I said, "Yeah, that would be us. We were hacking a trail through the woods behind that apartment complex for our running group. Why?"
Cop-1, "We had a call about 2 guys with machetes walking around. In this area that gets our attention."
Me, "Oh. We've finished with that part and put them away. We are part of a running group and we are setting a trail in this area for Saturday. We wanted to go through those woods and then across the field and out that way (me pointing out the backside of the mall)."All the time I'm explaining this to Cop-1, Cop-2 is relaying this to a faceless person on the radio.
Faceless Radio Person, "Are they hash house harriers?"
Cop-2 looks at me with a quizzical expression, and I say, "Yes we are. We're one of the local chapters." I thought it was pretty obvious since I was wearing a hasher t-shirt and headband.
Cop-2 relays this information to Faceless Radio Person. Cop-2 goes off to talk to Cop-3. Cop-1 continues to entertain (readpolitely detain) us. I'm explaining all about the Hash House Harriers.
Cop-1 is starting to laugh and says it sounds like a lot of fun.
Cops 4 and 5 are milling about purposely in the background.
Cop 4 is letting the dog have a pee break and sniff around, fortunately a good distance from us.
Cop-6 comes up and takes charge. He doesn't bother to introduce himself nor does he have any rank insignia. He proceeds to give us the business about walking around in public with machetes. He tells us the report they got was 2 guys with machetes walking through the Panda Express, one guy is covered in blood. None of us were even wearing red. People will see what they want to see. I asked him if having a machete was illegal. "No," he says. But it did cause them concern.
He then told us we had to move our cars because the Devry University didn't want us there anymore. I thought it prudent not to ask about the lack of no parking, or towaway signs or anything that said "Devry University Parking Only." They refused to give us a ride back to our cars. We walked back and as we went through the Panda Express drive through one more time (3rd) we stopped and made faces at the security camera.
I guess they cops felt they had to exercise their authority and make us do something. The amusing part was at no time did they ask for ID, nor did they ask our names. Neither did they caution us about being on private property. Once they found out we were harmless they pretty much wanted to get rid of us without any paperwork.
When we got back to our cars Cop-7 and Cop-6 were waiting for us. I asked Cop-6, "Didn't you trust us?"Cop-6 smiles and says, "Just checking." "I'm hurt," I reply. We got in our cars and got the hell out of there. I'm sure they knew who we were if they ran the license plates. I'm sure that once they figured out we were harmless all they wanted to do was get us out of there so they could go back to doing whatever cop stuff they do. It was an amusing incident and cost us several down-downs.
But the funny thing is the Orlando H3's response to this. They hashed through the parking lot of their IKEA....and had a run-in with the cops.
Here is the excerpt.....
The Other Orlando H3s run in with police last week. Another lesson learned
From: Iva Biggun
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: running club causes alarm of terrorist
Common sense was thrown right out the window. I have to wonder what happened between the cops and the hashers. Usually if you are polite to the cops, they are polite back. For some reason they felt they had toarrest somebody. I have to think that once the emotions die out and people realize how stupid it all is the charges will be dropped. Just to show our solidarity we laid trail through the Ikea parking lot in Orlando on Saturday. :-)
Thursday night we had a run in with the cops when we were doing ourfinal trail recce. Something about machetes and walking through ashopping center. We had a bit of trail right at the beginning through some woods leading into the back side of an apartment complex. I'm thinking hacking our way through this with machetes probably isn't the best idea (one of my few correct insights). We hacked our way through, made our way through the complex, crawling under a fence on the frontside. We decided it was best to put the machetes away. We did. We were trying to be discrete by holding them up along our arms as we walked back to our cars.
We walked along the backside of a bunch of shops and stuff that were out buildings in the shopping center. We had cut through the Panda Express drive through, across a field and back toour cars. Then we ran back to the where we'd come out of the apartments to finish our trail recce. We (3 of us) were standing at a bus stop discussing where to put marks and who was going which way when 7 cop cars and one cop dog showed up with lights blazing. We stood there wondering what was going on until they surrounded us. That's when it dawned on us; we were their interest.
Cop-1 comes up and says, "Higuys. Got a minute?" I said, "What can we do for you officer?"
Cop-2 comes up and says, "Have you seen a couple of guys with machetes?"
Cop-1 is in front of us, Cop-2 is beside us. Tactically it is very good. They are 90 degrees to each other so they are out of each other's line of fire. It's amazing how you notice such details when you suspect your life is about to turn to s***.
Cops 3, 4, 5 & 6 and the Cop dog are at various positions around us, all within about 50 yards.
Cop 7 (we found out later) was staking out our cars. I said, "Yeah, that would be us. We were hacking a trail through the woods behind that apartment complex for our running group. Why?"
Cop-1, "We had a call about 2 guys with machetes walking around. In this area that gets our attention."
Me, "Oh. We've finished with that part and put them away. We are part of a running group and we are setting a trail in this area for Saturday. We wanted to go through those woods and then across the field and out that way (me pointing out the backside of the mall)."All the time I'm explaining this to Cop-1, Cop-2 is relaying this to a faceless person on the radio.
Faceless Radio Person, "Are they hash house harriers?"
Cop-2 looks at me with a quizzical expression, and I say, "Yes we are. We're one of the local chapters." I thought it was pretty obvious since I was wearing a hasher t-shirt and headband.
Cop-2 relays this information to Faceless Radio Person. Cop-2 goes off to talk to Cop-3. Cop-1 continues to entertain (readpolitely detain) us. I'm explaining all about the Hash House Harriers.
Cop-1 is starting to laugh and says it sounds like a lot of fun.
Cops 4 and 5 are milling about purposely in the background.
Cop 4 is letting the dog have a pee break and sniff around, fortunately a good distance from us.
Cop-6 comes up and takes charge. He doesn't bother to introduce himself nor does he have any rank insignia. He proceeds to give us the business about walking around in public with machetes. He tells us the report they got was 2 guys with machetes walking through the Panda Express, one guy is covered in blood. None of us were even wearing red. People will see what they want to see. I asked him if having a machete was illegal. "No," he says. But it did cause them concern.
He then told us we had to move our cars because the Devry University didn't want us there anymore. I thought it prudent not to ask about the lack of no parking, or towaway signs or anything that said "Devry University Parking Only." They refused to give us a ride back to our cars. We walked back and as we went through the Panda Express drive through one more time (3rd) we stopped and made faces at the security camera.
I guess they cops felt they had to exercise their authority and make us do something. The amusing part was at no time did they ask for ID, nor did they ask our names. Neither did they caution us about being on private property. Once they found out we were harmless they pretty much wanted to get rid of us without any paperwork.
When we got back to our cars Cop-7 and Cop-6 were waiting for us. I asked Cop-6, "Didn't you trust us?"Cop-6 smiles and says, "Just checking." "I'm hurt," I reply. We got in our cars and got the hell out of there. I'm sure they knew who we were if they ran the license plates. I'm sure that once they figured out we were harmless all they wanted to do was get us out of there so they could go back to doing whatever cop stuff they do. It was an amusing incident and cost us several down-downs.
posted by Gagger at 9:53 AM
3 Comments:
Yeah there was this one time at the C2H3 when I got a ticket for "peeing in Public"...course it really wasn't public and the BICYCLE COP..just HAD to yell at me and ticket me to show his authority.
gotta love the stories you create at the hash:)
A very similar incident happened back when I was with the Carolina Trash. This was right after all the real Anthrax scares had happened. The two hares, can't remember names were running down the street laying trail when 3 cop cars came out of no where surrounded them pulled out their guns and almost arrested them. We made them drink heavily at circle to ensure all anthrax would be flushed from their system via alcohol...ahhh good times. Can't wait to see you in November gagger.
We had a run in with the cops once. I got put on file in an incident report since i was the only one with ID. it was just in case we got stopped again. He let us go. 10 minutes later while searching the trail for lost hashers, I found siad police man's cruiser stuck in a mud hole missing hub caps. I pulled him out with my truck. Then he posed for pictures with us.
I've also had run ins with the cops at the trash. 1 trail i didn't hare and we ran into the cops. they ran us off. 2nd one i did hare and we ran into the same cop. he was not amused. i guess the trash playing 3 man for 45minutes in the parking lot wasn't a good idea before trail.
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