FWIW
I have a cousin, now retired from the IBI, who used to work under
cover hunting drugs. He looked the biker part and used to ride with
some bad gangs. He told me that if I EVER see him on the street or
especially in some bar, don't even acknowledge his presence. He didn't
know me, and I didn't know him. He was out on the streets for
"business". He'd been "fake" arrested and had the crap kicked out of
him several times by cops to "play the part" One time he scored
$280,000 street value of heroin in a bust. paid for with IDOJ money.
Took down some heavies in the process.

No doubt what he did was highly dangerous work, but he feels it was
well worth it. And if younger, he'd do it again. Now he's clean cut,
and works as a consultant to various law enforcement agencies.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:31:04 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:13:00 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:02:27 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:



My kid is usually carrying a gun. He is often in the company of
felons, drug dealers, and gang members. He has been in jail many,
many, times and in court nearly as often. I told him he would get his
name in the paper if he kept it up... and it finally happened....

http://tinyurl.com/2ak7rb

Tom, feel my pain????

Just wait until his partner tells you about the traffic stop they made
with three guys, 4 kilograms of weed, 12 grams of crack, $5k cash,
digital scale, Glock 45 and Tec 9 they pulled from under the front
seat.

Yeah, been there, done that..... last week. The guy actually tried to
(with limited success) run over one occifer in the get away. Guess who
was in the ensuing pursuit which ended in a wreck.....

Heh - I have the video of Chris's first hot pursuit on a felony stop.
Looking at it, you'd never know that Crown Vic was moving that fast.
At night. It all looked like it was going in slow motion.

It has a great ending too - it's actually pretty funny.

I'll email the result to you rather than put it up here publicly.

Wreck... that would describe my wife..... I allow her the luxury of
believing that CP and SWAT have nothing in common.....

Heh. Mrs. Wave just takes it in stride although there have been time
where she gets this "your are nuts" look on her face. Then again, she
has the advantage of having me as a husband and my crazy best friends
who delight in retelling the same stories from our time in SEA and an
older son who can spin a yarn or two from his time in Falluja (or
however it's spelled). In a way, she's used to it.

You can't help but think about the possibilities from time-to-time
though.