Jujitsu and the Sheriff's Dept.

[Pacificshore]

Thought you all would enjoy a somewhat humorous story

 

The story came off the Nov. 4 blotter, not the 11th as the story indicates

 

I Fought the Law, and the Law Maced Me

 

Monday, Nov. 11, 5:54 a.m. - Two deputies responded to reports of intoxicated subjects fighting at an apartment on the 6500 block of Cervantes Dr. The officers arrived at the residence and observed two men grappling on the floor through the window of the apartment.

 

As officers watched, the first subject, a 22-year-old man, placed his sparring partner in an "ankle lock," causing the man to scream and "tap out." After the bout ended, the first man, whose friend outweighed him by 60 to 80 pounds, said he could "* him up" because of his superior fighting skills.

 

The two quickly resumed fighting, and officers watched the first man continue to employ what they described as several other techniques used by fighters trained in jujitsu, judo and various other martial arts disciplines to get the better of his opponent.

 

Seeing that the man on the losing end of the fight had already suffered a black eye and was bleeding from the nose and mouth, one of the deputies slid open the unlocked window and instructed the men to stop fighting.

 

The first man asked the officer who he was and if he wanted to fight, to which the deputy replied, "We are deputies with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept."

 

Unfazed, the man informed the deputy, "I'll * you up." He then turned to his battered friend and told him, "You're a better fighter, but I'm going to * him up. Just let me pull my pants up."

 

The deputy instructed both of them to settle down and get some sleep, but the man would have none of it.

 

"Do you want to fight?" he repeated. "Yeah, just let me put my belt on."

 

While the man was attempting to ready his pants for battle, the officer again ordered him to settle down.

 

"No, I'm coming out there to fight. I'm going to * you up," he replied.

 

Having observed the man's proficient fighting skills, the officers readied their canisters of Oleoresin Capsicum - better known as pepper spray.

 

Trousers finally secure around his waist, the would-be street fighter opened the front door, looked at the deputies, assumed a fighting stance with closed fists, and received a two-second blast of pepper spray to the face.

 

Unable to stand up to the spray's superior kung fu, the man staggered back into the house, where he was promptly taken into custody.

 

His friend refused treatment for his injuries and insisted that they were just playing around.

 

The man was taken to the Isla Vista Foot Patrol office for booking, where he was allowed to wash out his eyes, but his antics did not stop there.

 

He asked the arresting deputy why he had been sprayed, saying, "I'm 120 pounds. What am I going to do?"

 

The officer informed him that the man had threatened to injure them, and had confronted them in a fighting stance.

 

"I'm 120 pounds," the man repeated. "What would you do if someone bigger than you wanted to fight?"

 

While the logical answer would be to run away, the deputy told the man that they never challenged him to a fight, and had seen him using formal ground fighting techniques.

 

The man then refused to provide information about his identity, so he was placed in a locked interrogation room as the officer used the man's driver license to complete the booking paperwork.

 

As he was filling out the paperwork, another officer came outside and asked the deputy if he was aware that his arrestee was climbing into the office's rafters.

 

According to police reports, the deputy rushed back to the detention room and discovered that the man had slipped his handcuffs to the front of his body. He had stacked the room's plastic chairs and trashcan on top of one another to form a makeshift ladder, which he used to climb up into the acoustic ceiling tiles.

 

Unimpressed, the deputy pushed aside the chairs and trash can and assisted the man down from the ceiling.

 

The man was re-handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car and transported to Santa Barbara County Jail, where he was booked for resisting arrest, escape from custody, and vandalism less than $400 for putting a hole in the ceiling of the IVFP station.

[Rich67]

Ahhh, pepper spray. The second great equalizer.... (first being Smith and Wesson).

[Shane]

I will never forget when I had to be sprayed with OC (pepper spray) inorder to carry it on duty. That stuff is no joke, it effects some people worse than other. I'm pretty much finished when sprayed hahahahaha

[Vito]

yea that stuff will mess you up good.

[wrestlingkaratechamp]

Hey, the cops could not take him by themselves

[Rich67]

Hey, the cops could not take him by themselves

Uhhhh...yeah. That's because we don't get paid to spar on duty. I'm pretty confident in my fighting skills, but I also have a gun, baton and taser on my hip in addition to the spray. That's why they give us all that fun stuff....so we don't have to get our uniform dirty. I don't mind the occasional scrap, but I also like to use the stuff I have at my disposal. The key word is LIABILITY in our field. It looks a lot better when we spray someone as opposed to putting them in a rear naked choke and knocking them out, or snapping their arm using an arm bar. Remember that movie, Indiana Jones or whatever it was called? Harrison Ford watches the guy spin that sword around for a minute, then he pulls out his gun and just wastes the guy? That's a lot easier in my opinion.

[Pacificshore]

Hey, the cops could not take him by themselves

 

Obviously the Deputies used SUPERIOR BRAIN TACTICS vs. the INFERIOR BRAIN TACTICS of a student seeking higher education

[Kreisi]

Pepper spray is bad hurts so much that it's hard to breath