Police pulled girl over, made her put her hands on her head so a boy could ask her out on a date

[951-Riverside]

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An Indian teenager was trying to think of a creative way to ask his girlfriend to prom, so he called the cops.

The police officers pretended to to pull the girl over, and told her to stop, put her hands on her head, and turn around.

When she did, she saw her boyfriend holding a sign that read "Will you go to Prom?".

She said yes.

http://www.kdrv.com/news/Police_Prom_Proposal.html

And we're supposed to think this is remotely cute or okay?

[morningfog]

1. The cops involved should be fired.

[Egnever]

13. Yea God forbid cops interact with the community

Fire them and tazer them afterwards.

[LanternWaste]

14. Unless she reached into her waistband...

Unless she reached into her waistband...

(six of one, half a dozen of the other, and both as petulantly irrelevant as the other)

[Egnever]

17. Horse manure

Thousands of people interact with the police daily the overwhelming majority of which have no issues whatsoever.

The idea every cop is just waiting for a reason to shoot someone is garbage.

[951-Riverside]

19. So, you're okay with taxpayer resources and color of authority being used to prank a person?

From all indications she was unaware of what was going on beforehand but even if she was, taxpayer resources was used for this little stunt.

[Egnever]

23. Absolutely

Police need to spend as much time with the public as possible I am also ok with cops going to schools and doing meet and greets and other community outreach programs they do.

[951-Riverside]

34. Then there is nothing more to discuss with you n/t

[morningfog]

24. Interaction? Please. Nearly false arrest.

There are any number of things that could have made this go very badly. It was totally fucking stupid and all the cops involved should be axed.

No need to taze them, just fire them.

[Egnever]

25. Glad I don't live in your world

What a cold dark place it must be.

[morningfog]

26. It's one that doesn't trust cops, for damn good reason.

This only makes it worse.

Not sure why you have to be an ass to me about it.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. I would be pulling badges for this

[morningfog]

3. Lucky they were all white, had the boy or girl been black, it could have ended with one being

shot to death by the cops.

[immoderate]

4. What would they have done if she said, "no?"

--imm

[geek tragedy]

6. "she reached into her waistband!" nt

[geek tragedy]

5. "Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romanticcomedy-behavior-gets-reallife-man-arrested,757/

[PoliticAverse]

11. +reality. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. I thought of this exact Onion article when I read the OP. nt

[arcane1]

7. Movies and television are always telling the lie that the Grand Gesture always works.

I suppose since she was already his girlfriend, it was interpreted differently in this case

[KansDem]

21. "The Grand Gesture"

Tell me about it!...

[Phentex]

29. Are mall proposals common?

I've never heard of that before.

The ones at the games I've heard of. But I don't get why the guys are slapped.

[KansDem]

33. Don't know about mall proposals...

But you'd think the couple would have discussed marriage to some degree before these "grand gestures" so these kinds of rejections wouldn't happen.

[Phentex]

37. Seriously!

and you should know if the person is the kind who would even want such a thing.

[tblue37]

31. That very last one was actually pretty cute. nt

[HassleCat]

22. Jumbotron Rejection

There was a semi-famous incident a couple years ago, where some guy proposed to his girlfriend on the Jumbotron screen at a baseball game, and she said no. Poor guy. It always works in the movies.

[BKH70041]

8. Sounds harmless enough.

And it was creative, there's truth to that.

[catbyte]

32. Seriously?

[BKH70041]

41. It wouldn't be my first choice,

I would have tried to get a police helicopter in on the act, too.

[KamaAina]

9. I assume they mean an Indiana teenager

An Indian teenager

[BKH70041]

12. LOL! Good catch!

[KamaAina]

10. What if the boy had wanted to ask another boy on a date?

This is Bigotland, after all.

[HassleCat]

15. Maybe OK

I'm guessing this was in one of those Mayberry RFD towns where everybody knows everybody, and there would be little risk of anything going wrong.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. yeah,maybe

[PoliticAverse]

18. "That's a shitty way to ask someone to prom"...

When prom proposals don't go according to plan (go to 1:58 in the video):

#t=1m58s

[frogmarch]

20. Arrest ‘n’ Guest ‘em

was a “fun” promo thing the local chamber of commerce once did in Hot Springs, SD. Maybe it still goes on – I don’t know. Every week or so during the summer tourist season the local police would put on their flashing red lights and siren and randomly pull a vehicle over that had out-of-town license plates. The police would pretend to arrest the people in the vehicle, but then hand them tickets for free meals or discounts at local stores and motels. The “lucky” arrestees would then have their pictures plastered on the front page of the local newspaper.

All apparently went well until the cops pulled over a married man and his girlfriend who’d driven over from Wyoming to avoid being seen by their family and friends. The couple wouldn't give their names, but their Arrest 'n' Guest 'em picture appeared on the front page of the paper anyway. Oops.

[liberal_at_heart]

27. I'm guessing since she said yes she was okay with it. It is a risky play though because there are

girls that would not be okay with it.

[morningfog]

35. It is indicative of the boy's and police's view that

they are justified in manipulating her. They feel it's okay to control her body and vehicle movements. It's really twisted.

[liberal_at_heart]

36. Like I said some girls would not be okay with it but this girl was okay with it.

Not everything a boy does is malicious in nature. She clearly did not feel this was done in a malicious manner or she would not have been okay with it. How offended a girl is by something is different for every girl. Some women think all marriage is slavery. Clearly there are those of us who do not view marriage this way because we chose to get married and are happy. Others chose never to get married because they don't want to be enslaved. We are all different and have different views about what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.

[catbyte]

30. Yuck

[jmowreader]

38. These "promposals" are getting slightly out of hand

This is NOT a "creative" way to ask your girlfriend to prom, it's a totally assholish way and if I was the girl I would have dumped his sorry ass for doing it.

[Initech]

40. It's the teenage equivalent of proposing on a stadium scoreboard.

Not cool with that, and I'm not cool with teens trying to ask celebrities out. Go with someone in your class, not Selena Gomez or Sofia Vergara, both of which I'm sure have much better things to do.

[Initech]

39. Did he get the idea from Me, Myself & Irene by any chance?