Please note - readers of the Police Blotter are hereby notified that faking a medical emergency will not get you out of a speeding ticket, DUI or driving with no license citation.

But, for some reason, people think that if they get pulled over and then tell the officer they are having a diabetic attack, the officer will take pity, call EMS and forget all about the citation.

And each person who does it thinks they're the first brainiac to come up with this clever idea.

However, Mount Pleasant Police are on to you, as they've seen this little ploy all too much.

So when an officer pulled a man over recently for a severely cracked windshield, and expired vehicle tag he let the man complain about being in the midst of a diabetic attack, calmly called EMS and waved to the man as he was transported to the hospital.

Then, he wrote up the tickets, for driving under suspension second, expired license and cracked windshield and took them to the hospital. Now the man was stuck with exorbitant fines and an EMS fee plus hospital bills - all just to get out of a ticket.

Brazen move

Four underage girls were at a concert and as they were walking in, they were swigging on a bottle of vodka. Knowing they couldn't take it in the concert with them, one of the girls tossed it under a van. It just happened to be the police department's paddy wagon.

Of course several officers saw this girl make the toss, so they detained all four of them to see what was up.

One of the girls refused to provide police with her information. Even after an officer explained to her that she was only getting a no trespass notice and no other citations, she still refused to tell the officer who she was. Then one of her friends went into the uncooperative girl's purse and handed the officer a driver's license.

Keep in mind, this was a nice gesture since she was trying to help her friend out, but the license she handed the cop was her friend's fake ID, not her real license.

All four girls were wasted and underage so they were walking on some pretty thin ice.

You would think they would all just cooperate. But the one girl continued to refuse to answer any of the officer's questions.

So instead of just getting a no trespass ticket, she was arrested for Fake ID and drunkenness in public.

The girl who tossed the vodka bottle was issued a courtesy summons for possession of alcohol by a minor. On the way to the jail, the uncooperative girl said, "I know I am drunk but it is no big deal because everyone else in the concert is high on drugs."

And that makes her actions and her attitude acceptable?

Was it worth it?

Ipod's are a dime a dozen. Almost everyone has one. And they've become so affordable that in a couple of weeks one could earn and save the money to buy one.

But one kid at a local school decided he would just steal one for himself.

He thought he was being sneaky and unzipped a kid's bookbag and took it right out of the front pocket.

The boy whose Ipod was stolen thought it was odd that a classmate of his was standing close to his bookbag and appeared very nervous as if he had done something wrong.

He wasn't aware at this point that the Ipod had been stolen.

When he discovered it missing, he looked high and low for his Ipod, finally giving in to the notion that it was gone forever.

The next day the class walked the nature trail to study about science. The boy who had been acting nervous the day before dropped something. The kid with the missing Ipod looked down to see what it was, and what do you know, it was an Ipod.

In fact, it was his Ipod.

The thief snatched the Ipod back up real quick and shoved it in his pocket.

When class let out, the kid with the missing Ipod went to the principal's office.

He explained his suspicions, and the school resource officer called the suspect in.

The suspect told officers he had his own Ipod that he bought off of another student last year for $60. The officers then asked him if he had it on him. He said he did and they asked to look at it.

They sent the suspect back to class and said they needed to hold on to the Ipod for further investigation. But to set his mind at ease, they said it was not being confiscated and he could retrieve it at any time.

The suspect went on back to class and the police officer wrote down the serial number of the Ipod.

They then called Apple and confirmed that the Ipod was registered to the victim.

At this point the thief was called back to the office and allowed to give a statement.

He said he found it on the ground and knew it belonged to someone in his class but instead of asking around, he just kept it.

Then he took it home and erased everything on it and downloaded his own stuff to it.

He was charged with petite larceny.

How not to act in ISS

One would think that if you have In School Suspension you would behave so that you could pay your dues and get out of there.

But no, of course not.

Teenagers always have to push the envelope - particularly ones with questionable behavior.

One kid was showing off when he should have been studying and started bragging to the kid sitting beside him.

He pulled out a hand blown pipe and showed it to the boy sitting beside him.

The teacher of course saw this and gave them the eye. Then the teacher picked up the phone and pretended to call the principal.

At this point the kid got nervous and took the object and balled it up in a piece of notebook paper and threw it away.

The teacher knew at this point the kid was up to no good.

So he called the principal for real this time and sent the kid down to the office.

It was then that he admitted that it was a pipe. But, he said, he gave up reefer and was only smoking the fake stuff.

Nonetheless paraphernalia is illegal on school grounds.

ISS is small potatoes compared to what he has to deal with now.

Pay to play

A woman left the bar without paying her tab because she drank something that she never even ordered. One would think that if you didn't order it you should send it back and not drink it. However, when she ordered a Crown and Coke, she got a Captain and Coke.

She drank several of these and watched football with a friend. When she got her bill she refused to pay it because it wasn't what she had ordered.

The manager came over and asked her if she drank them and she admitted that she did.

But she was very upset and left without paying anything.The bill was only $32.50 and she came out on the cheaper end of the deal than if she had paid for what she intended to order.

The manager had her name because the friend with her snitched and gave it up. Police intended to find the woman and make her pay.

Awww

A bar manager and a drunk customer got into a little tussle recently.

It turns out the customer was not ready to leave when the bartender made last call. But by law, everyone has to leave and all alcohol must be off the tables. The staff was inside trying to clean up but the customer kept coming in and out of the bar. Finally the manager walked outside to explain why he had to leave. But the customer sucker punched the manager. Then the two started fighting, but the manager was able to pin the man down on the ground. He looked at the drunk customer and said if he stopped causing trouble, he would call a cab and simply let him leave.

The customer agreed and gave the manager a big old hug as an apology. But, someone had called police in the meantime.

The cops pulled up right as they were hugging and thought it odd that these two would be in an embrace.

EMS was also called and they determined the drunk should be seen at the hospital for his injuries from the fight. The bar manager wished him well and chose not to press charges.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous column written from police reports obtained from the Mount Pleasant Police Department. Many of the stories come from the initial incident reports and, occasionally, supplemental reports. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication. See more columns at www.moultrienews.com.)