More entertaining than the game.
I’m not really a Texas A&M fan. They’re too much like a cult for me, their yell leaders are weird, and they always seem to be overrated and end up blowing it when the pressure’s on.
Their police department, however, is undefeated.
If you’re not following the Texas A&M Police Department on X (formerly Twitter), you’re missing out on some great entertainment, because the fine folks at TAMU PD live-tweet their arrests and interactions with the public on game day – and as you can imagine, they’re pretty great.
If you recall last year, we got a report of a man riding a longhorn around campus before their game against Texas:
And there was also the two men who were arrested wearing hard hats and fake construction credentials, which we later found out contained the names “Harry Azcrac” and “Duncan McCockiner.”
(Clearly big fans of The Simpsons).
Of course some of the interactions are more routine. Naturally it’s a lot of dealing with people who got a little too intoxicated at (or before) the game, or students busted for underage drinking. (Come on, let ’em enjoy the game). But some of the interactions – and the reactions to their posts – are just hilarious.
Usually, drunk people are just released to sober friends instead of actually taken to jail:
But occasionally the students have to go with somebody worse than the police: Their sober parents.
And when the cops can’t track down somebody to take care of their buddy, unfortunately that means a trip to the drunk tank:
Then of course you have the kids trying to sneak alcohol into Kyle Field:
While most of the interactions seem to be alcohol related, there are occasionally other serious issues that the cops need to handle – like smoking or vaping in the stadium:
My favorites, though, are the dudes who get in trouble for being too drunk and end up having to be released to their sober wife…because you just know how that car ride home is going to go. Somebody’s sleeping on the couch tonight.
I think I’d rather go to jail.
I’ve always been somebody who liked listening to the police scanner, or following live updates. We used to have an account here in Nashville that would live-tweet the police scanner from Broadway. That’s how we all found out about the guy arrested at Kid Rock’s bar for swinging his colostomy bag. Remember that classic?
Unfortunately that account went away a couple years ago when the Metro Nashville Police Department encrypted their scanners, so I can’t follow the action on Broadway anymore. But thankfully, the Texas A&M Police Department is here to give me some much-needed entertainment – especially on Aggie game days.
