Thursday, January 08, 2009

Ghost Hunting Cops?

  • A&E is seeking to one-up Sci Fi's "Ghost Hunters" with a new series that blends paranormal investigation with law enforcement.

    The network has greenlit a new unscripted series called "Paranormal Cops," about a group of Chicago police officers who moonlight as ghost chasers in their spare time.

    Given the team's law enforcement credentials, the format seeks to add a new layer of credibility to an increasingly popular reality TV genre which has featured ghost hunting teams founded by professional plumbers, college students and academics.

    The police group includes four officers, two tech assistants and a "medium." The ghost-chasing group existed before the show's producers came along, a network spokesman said, and the officers' various departments have approved the venture.

So are these guys putting cases on ghosts? We don't think haunting is a prosecutable offense in Illinois. And even if it was, if you can't put cuffs on the offender, how can you enforce the law? And judging by the fight that it took to even get a rumor of rifles for the CPD, does anyone really think Shortshanks is going to allow proton-pack particle accelerators on the city streets?

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44 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

BOO

1/08/2009 12:08:00 AM  
Blogger leomemorial said...

It would be nice to see our Chicago cops on film. But I do not recommend any officers to participate in anything involving A & E. They hire an outside production company & the company goes thru staff like a bad leaky faucet. They did a craptacular job with the Naperville Police Dept

1/08/2009 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, and they're looking for "ghost payrolling" alderbums.

1/08/2009 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

maybe these guys can look into all those "GHOST BANK ACCOUNTS" belonging to Mayor Daley.

maybe they can find J-fed brain. I know it floated away before he got into office.

1/08/2009 12:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't worry about it...this is Chalkie bunch!

1/08/2009 12:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of those guys worked in SOS. LOL!

1/08/2009 02:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

'damn pookie i heard them detectives gonna be puttin tresspass cases on you even after you die now. shiiiiit!'

'you right ray ray po-leece extra thirsty these dayz'

1/08/2009 02:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who ya gonna call?

1/08/2009 02:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey there is a copper in 18 that does "real" ghost hunting

1/08/2009 05:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who ya gonna call?

1/08/2009 06:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe these guys can find the 3000 ghost cops that we supposedly aren't short.

1/08/2009 06:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I ain't afraid of no ghost.

1/08/2009 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's not like they'd have to look hard. Check out the voter lists and.... bingo! Ghosts abound....on to city payroll list...bingo! .more Ghosts....ssssspoooky..maybe the premise of the show will be on avoiding all the "Ghosts" in this town.

1/08/2009 07:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I originally tried to post this a few days ago, you never put it up! You're as bad as Frank & Fran!

1/08/2009 07:49:00 AM  
Blogger SCC said...

When I originally tried to post this a few days ago, you never put it up! You're as bad as Frank & Fran!

It's in the comments section where you left it. We just got it to the front page today.

1/08/2009 07:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They did a craptacular job with the Naperville Police Dept

1/08/2009 12:16:00 AM



Leomemorial -

Hate saying it to you, of all people, but c'mon!


They should the true colors of the NPD - Pathetic! A bunch of stuck up bitches, who all think that their shit does not stink, and no matter how much edit work you do, you can not put lipstick on a pig, and not know that it is a pig.

Naperville Police Department Officers are pathetic, click-like little grade school children, who try to play police. Just like the FBI kids too.

A & E did a fine job showing this.


Still love everything you do Leomemorial.

1/08/2009 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DAMN IT, I was gonna post a big BOO someone beat me to it

1/08/2009 08:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll watch the show

1/08/2009 09:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The goof in 020 that worked in SOS is a goof-ask anyone who had the displeasure of working with him.

1/08/2009 10:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

they should check if these guys had a few ''pops'' then saw some ghosts... it would make sense

1/08/2009 10:29:00 AM  
Blogger Jason said...

Who says local law enforcement can't help fight voter fraud?

1/08/2009 10:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They should start with the 25th District. Is it true, was it an ancient Indian burial ground.

And the term "hunting" usually implies seek and destroy. Perhaps "research" or "investigate" might be a better word as all ghosts are not malevolent.

1/08/2009 10:55:00 AM  
Blogger Ray said...

Ghost Busters!!!!!

1/08/2009 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope they investigate the ghost at the police memorial.

1/08/2009 11:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can ya' see me now? No, not there, here. Aw c'mon!

1/08/2009 12:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cool. I love all that ghost stuff. Maybe they'll have me on the show as a guest. I'm the biggest chicken.

Good luck guys!

1/08/2009 01:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dont cross the beams!!

1/08/2009 02:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the ghost busters club found a place in beecher somewhere

a coffee house or tea place

it was in the papers so it must be true

1/08/2009 02:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And whom are we to apprehend Ghost payrollers perhaps? Who ya gonna call!

1/08/2009 03:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard 023 tact is on the show and they'll be looking for ghosts riding their bicycles on the sidewalk, pissing in an alley or panhandling aggressively... and the beauty of it is ghosts can't sign an ANOV so the tact guys won't be lying when they say he refused in the narrative...

but does the CB number count if it's on a ghost?!

1/08/2009 05:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:55AM:

An Indian burial ground? No, but there used to be a tavern there. During some kind of party in the
70s, a band member stabbed a Copper
fatally, and another Copper, the same guy I believe that shot it out
w/3 stickup guys in another bar in the early 80s,killed the stabber.
Maybe, thats where all the restless souls are coming from....

1/08/2009 06:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

maybe they can hunt down the ghost of our contract !

1/08/2009 07:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I originally tried to post this a few days ago, you never put it up! You're as bad as Frank & Fran!

It's in the comments section where you left it. We just got it to the front page today.

1/08/2009 07:54:00 AM

My humblest and most sincere apologies. There have been so many posts in so many threads, I lost track with all the activity. I shall now punish myself by drinking a full bottle of Knob Creek and treating my body like an amusement park while watching midget porn in honor of Da Mare...all in the name of science!

1/08/2009 07:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Holy Halloween Batman!!!

Sounds like they are talking about the new gang enforcement unit. Gang officers will be chasing ghosts quotas and activity to lower that growing homicide rate and out-of-control violence in our street. Too bad it won't work out for J-Casper.

1/08/2009 07:43:00 PM  
Blogger leomemorial said...

1/08/2009 08:04:00 AM

I actually agree with you!!!!!!! But I just like to see officers portrayed as professional.

It's too bad they featured Jane Waynes focused on makeup, getting facials, shopping, and more interesting, the crap that wasn't captured on film. Even worse, the idiots in Naperville...

1/08/2009 08:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if their investigation reveals an underage ghost at a tavern, does that mean we have to ANOV them. Shit! more paper..grrrr oh, and BOO

1/09/2009 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why don't they go to 79th and Cottage and ask all the ghosts, "Who killed you?"

You know those ghosts are still hanging out in front of the liquor store searching the netherworld for a rock or a forty.

1/09/2009 12:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Sounds like they are talking about the new gang enforcement unit. Gang officers will be chasing ghosts quotas and activity to lower that growing homicide rate and out-of-control violence in our street. Too bad it won't work out for J-Casper."

---Signed, A bitter Tac guy who won't be working for Organized Crime. Now go get that piss bum or S.U.B

1/09/2009 06:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I will agree with LEOMEMORIAL.........

A...... We own a National Historic Register Home.

B...... It is very haunted, proven on tape, and hunted by a local ghosting hunting group.

C......... I belong to a ghosthunting group in my area.

D....... Paranormal State contacted me to have our house "featured" on their show.......

E....... It is a rip-off....... They get all the glory, and we were going to get all the risk. So many liabilities for a home-owner, that i won't go into them here.

D..... I would recommend the Cops that are doing this do it independently and have alot of control over what product they are producing. It all ends up in Hollyweird folks, where these sleazy producers are trying their best to make money and shaft the ghosthunter's and the clients. Very risky for the clients, and the homes the clients own. We were not willing to sign a contract that said our rights to our own video could be sold forever, our likenesses, home pictures, footage, and any and all TRADE SECRETS be discussed. So beware you ghosthunters. I particpate in a group that is out of Louisville KY. The founder teaches at the University of Louisville, and is very knowledgeable about this stuff, and gave me a big heads up on not signing any contract, otherwise they would be owning my home in 6 months.....

Just a little FYI.

1/09/2009 08:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And whom are we to apprehend Ghost payrollers perhaps? Who ya gonna call!
1/08/2009 03:28:00 PM
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Somebody needs to call Ghostbusters on that Ghostpayroller Adm. Mgr that sometimes shows up at the Academy.
She is never at work and when she does show up only stays for an hour or two.
Ghostpayrolling at its finest.

1/09/2009 09:16:00 PM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

"....they focused on Jane Waynes doing makeup, getting facials, shopping...."

Sounds like my average day in A/3.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

1/09/2009 11:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why don't they go to 79th and Cottage and ask all the ghosts, "Who killed you?"

You know those ghosts are still hanging out in front of the liquor store searching the netherworld for a rock or a forty.

1/09/2009 12:36:00 PM

those are zombies , instead of brains they wak around going crack
need crack uuuuughhhhh

1/10/2009 01:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
And whom are we to apprehend Ghost payrollers perhaps? Who ya gonna call!
1/08/2009 03:28:00 PM
#####################
Somebody needs to call Ghostbusters on that Ghostpayroller Adm. Mgr that sometimes shows up at the Academy.
She is never at work and when she does show up only stays for an hour or two.
Ghostpayrolling at its finest.

1/09/2009 09:16:00 PM

she sounds like a certain female c/o in a cush spot,who just got a brand new city car? Can you guess? Hint: she has totally singlehandly ruin morale! Hope she is removed soon!! "We Pray to God soon'! "Fells like today"!

1/10/2009 12:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The cops in the film will be your typical house cats. The clout babies and the politicaly correct.

1/12/2009 01:07:00 PM  

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