Anthony Kenneth Mastrogiovanni (© Prince George's County Police via MSNBC)

Moron posing as a policeman pulls over an actual cop

6/23/2012

Unless you're going to show up at a bachelorette party to announce the neighbors complained the music isn't LOUD ENOUGH before launching into your strip routine, it's illegal to impersonate a cop. But that didn't deter Anthony Mastrogiovanni, who equipped his white pickup truck with blue and red emergency gear and pulled over a vehicle, claiming to be a "military police officer." He couldn't have picked a worse target: The driver was a REAL cop in a plain vehicle, who quickly fired back that Mastrogiovanni was out of his jurisdiction and breaking, not enforcing, the law. Mastogiovanni fled, but using his nonimaginary police training, the off-duty officer followed him, called in backup and rounded up the police poseur.

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