With all the (very much understandably so) ill will against police-men/women on this forum part, I wanted to highlight some positive examples.

Don't get me wrong, I am by NO means a police fan boy, quite the other way around. If I saw a Swedish cop shot, I'm far from sure I'd sacrifice my best shirt to still the blood...

With that said, let us bear in mind that there truly ARE good cops out there... Guys and gals who just wish to serve the public. I think THOSE people need all our respect, if for no other reason than the uphill struggle they have going to work with the colleagues they have.

So here is my second best run-in with cops... I will save the best for later.


I was happily strolling away from a cloister in Prague with a girl, making a short cut through the park that led up to the Embassy area of town. It was later in the summer, and I saw these AMAZING apples hanging from the trees...

They were quite high up, but I do have ski instructor legs and I wanted to impress the girl. So I jumped for one... And failed.

My GF then was English. Imagine her and mine horror as a cop with a beret and a assault rifle with a bayonet comes sauntering over. She thought we were heading for interrogation, I looked forward to being yelled out and having my passports blocked.

Anyway, beret slightly astray, he walks up to me: "Need a hand with that?"

He then jumps up a couple of times, pushing through apples with his outstretched bayonet all the time, before serving us a snack. "Apples on a bayonet", I think it should/must be called.

He laughed our concern away with the comment: "We're here to protect the Embassy, not the apples in the park around"- said with the biggest grin and wink ever...

Most DEF not what I had been expecting from an officer of law enforcement...

So that's my SECOND best run in...

Share yours.

And again, yes many/most cops are absolutely rotten... But let's not forget about those who.... aint ;)