Bruce W. Browne; a man for all phonies
Chip sends us a link to the story about Bruce W. Browne in Old Lyme, Connecticut, who just had himself a gay old time recently, when he strapped on all of his gear, including a vest emblazoned with “Police”, a TSA badge, and a Coast Guard t-shirt, 12 fully loaded magazines then went and commandeered a citizen’s boat and started inspecting boats and their owners;
Browne was arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer, breach of peace, interfering with a police officer and possession of a dangerous weapon in a motor vehicle. He was released on a $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear Aug. 22 in Superior Court in New London.
Browne was also seen driving a “police type vehicle” in the neighborhood. State police said the vehicle had antennas mounted on the trunk and was equipped with “hide-a-way” lights.
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Troopers learned that Browne had commandeered a boat earlier in the day by posing as a police and Coast Guard official. He stopped three vessels off the Point O’ Woods shore to inspect the boaters’ registration and boater safety certificates, police said.
I can’t think of a better way to spend a day released from the lunatic bin.
Category: General Whackos
He posed as a TSA Agent!?
I know people who actually work for TSA and even they claim to be something different–like a whore house bouncer seeing as it’s a more respectable occupation…
Only 50,000 Bail??Seriously, this guy needs to be tucked away somewhere getting a psych eval. His elevator is obviously not leaving the basement.
see , he needs to talk to Roy Antigua, that guy got away with faking Coast Guard a lot longer. Probably because he didn’t do dumb shit like take someone’s boat.
We get them out here too: http://www.abqjournal.com/244610/news/cop-impersonation-alleged.html The lower-budget version…
The chief of police says he is former Senator Scott Brown’s brother.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19915110&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Well, he sure is one creative little guy. What? Oh, he ISN’T 12 years old?
Sorry, my mistake.
I find better things to do when I get bored.
Dude’s lucky it wasn’t a member of a cartel with an axe to grind against the police.
He should thank them for arresting him. He wouldn’t have lasted too much longer.
@8. Funny you should mention the cartels. There’s a story that came out of Benning during the 90’s about a CPT there for the Advanced Course who had delusions of joining the DEA. He went off and tried to infiltrate one of the drug gangs in Columbus. He was later found floating face down in the Chattahoochee.
Don’t know how true it is, but I can definitely see something like that happeing to our intrepid hero if he weren’t caught in time.
The entries for next year’s tournament are starting early.
@6 Ex-PH, of course he was the “creative one” that’s what people always call the lesser child. His brother is the one that became a senator and spent 30 yrs in the Mass NG going from enlisted to full bird.Wiki even says Sen Brown spent time as a model and was selected as “Americas Sexiest Man” by Cosmo in 82. Think he was a little jealous of his brothers success?
Are they sure he wasn’t high on “Bath Salts” when he was running around doing that? Here in FL, he’d be held under the Baker Act for a 72 hour Mental Evaluation!
@9 – Play stupid games….
At least this turd is original.
I wonder if he wrote and handed out his own citations?
@14. Citations? I hear that his plan was to execute violators. “What? Four boaters and three life jackets? Step over here, please.”
@15. “Dammit, Jim. I’m 2/17 Air Cav, not an Anonymous!”
@13…Win stupid prizes.
In considering him for next year’s tournament, would he need a special exemption for posing as LEO versus .mil?
@Andy, yes, I think jealousy has a real hand in this brand of stupidity.
LebbenB, IMO , if their story gets posted here, they are fair game.
From The Connecticut Post:
Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s brother has been charged with impersonating a police officer after authorities say he stopped boaters off the Connecticut coast and had a bulletproof vest with a Transportation Security Administration badge attached to it.
Did he have a Coast Guard tattoo?
Minor error in the article. The TSA Officer’s Tactical Shield (yes, that is what the tin shield is called) is gold-plated or gold-filled, not silver. Those are pretty tightly controlled – surprised he got hold of one. Sorry to say, he was probably a former TSO who never turned it in on separation.