Mall cop tosses wounded warrior out of the mall for speeding
Adam sends us a link to a local story in Tennessee in which wounded warrior Master Sgt. Michael Trost was tossed out of his local mall for speeding on his Segway, an Americans with Disabilities Act device he needs for walking long distances after being wounded in Afghanistan;
“A security guard approached me and said I was going to have to take out the Segway. I told him it was an ADA, or a handicap piece of equipment. I had the handicap sticker on it. He goes, not in this mall,” described Sgt. Trost.
According to the mall, their policy does “permit the use of battery powered scooters and segways inside the shopping center by people with disabilities. They must be operated in a safe manner.”
Trost says he was operating in a safe manner. But after some back and forth, the mall security guard told him he was speeding.
I wonder if he caught MSG Trost on radar.
Reminds me of this stereotypical mall cop.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
Mall cops. People who can’t be real cops. Should not have guns. Should only have phones to call real cops.
Whatever happened to common sense and human decency? Was I living on another planet back then?
Good on the Master SGT. He kicked it up a notch, “it is not about being wounded … it is about all disabled”.
Great story … he kept his cool and was wearing his US Army reflective belt and helmet throughout the entire ordeal!
A Segway? Going too fast? You-have-GOT-to-be-joking!!
A simple “please slow down sir we think you’re going too fast for safety” would have more then sufficed.
Power tripping immature can’t-get-a-real-job mall cops. Second (or first?) cousins to TSA “agents”.
If he had been speeding, that’s what the security guard would have said first. ‘Hey, bub, slow down on that thing, please.’ Instead, the speeding explanation came later so run the BS flag up the pole and present a snappy salute.
@ 4, exactly! The Mall Cop after being schooled on the ADA instead of apologizing and dropping it could not let his ego be bruised and came up with that lame ass excuse.
The idiotic comments on that page, even some coming from supposed disabled veterans are astounding. Not every disability is alike, and the ones telling him to get a wheel chair “like the rest of us”… how asinine is that!!Not everyone needs to be or wants to be in a wheel chair. A Segway is no different than use of a Scooter or motorized wheel chair (some of those bad boys can move quick!)…
Ignorance knows no bounds.
@#3, B Woodman, IMHO, a TSA puke is just one step below a shopping mall “Rent-a-Fuzz”. They’re ALMOST as stupid, incompetent, and inbred! The ones that are too stupid and slovenly to even walk around a mall are the ones that end up in the TSA!
Yeah cuz someone who suffers alot of pain in his legs wants to speed and possible crash into something and fall over.
Redankulous.
The fact that a MALL COP ‘caught him’ should be 100% proof in any court of law that he could NOT have been speeding in the first place..
Well segways top speed is a blistering 12.5 MPH. The Master
Sgt. must have had it wide open, weaving in and out of
traffic and not staying in his own lane. Now this brave
mall enforcement officer who was stationed just behind a
J.C. Penny sign caught The Master Sgt 4.5 MPH over the speed
limit with his trusty radar gun he got from Sears ( or was
it a fish finder ) well no matter. The Mall can rest easy
tonight, because your Mall Securty is on the job.
What is the legal speed limit in malls?
Someone should busy the Arundel Mills Mall security for speeding on their segways then!
It appears that mall is owned by CBL. Here’s a link to their “leadership” and means of contact. Call for fire, fire for effect but keep it polite. http://www.cblproperties.com/cbl.nsf/officers_directors.html
I guess Gecko45 is working in Maryville these days…
For those of you that have never had the pleasure of reading the tale of Gecko45: http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
Country Singer thanks for that link. I just spent a cold rainy Easter morning cracking up.
The sad thing is that I actually worked with guys like this while an MP.
@13 – I love this! I work security at a nuke plant, and have to share this. Thanks for eating up an hour of my day, haha!
Most of the guys I work with are good people, but we have our share of what I call the “TSA Tools.”
Just this morning I overheard a comment from a prior service guy that went something like “In the military, we were highly trained to listen for different sounds that might alert us to an attack.”
My response – “Ohh, and what sounds were those exactly, Mr. 88M?” His military claim to fame was getting denied to go on a REFORGER exercise.
I guess if I have to be around morons, I’ll always have something to laugh about. It could be worse.
Oh Jeebus…the Mall Ninja…I had forgotten how awesome that sh!t is!
Respect my authoritah!
@13 Gawd that is CLASSIC! Reminds me of a thread I was involved with on USENET about 15 years ago. I was Love reading from “real” experts in mental masturbation. Its so enlightening. As to Mr. Blart above, he truly needs to be dropped into the hot zone once (or if he survives it,twice) to learn to chill the fuck out. I live in a peaceful suburban area filled with way too many cops who want to be in the actions sequences of COPS. I’m all for letting them, in the Glorious People’s Democratic Republic of Detroit for a year or three.