Stop Criminal! Check Background!
Posted on February 28, 2008 by Leticia
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Stop! Criminal! Check Background!
Sound like something from a Terminator movie, or from Cops? Probably should. “Stop criminal check background” . . . is the sound of a Cop screaming that she’s found someone suspicious, and that a criminal background check should be performed before allowing them access to . . . whatever!
Only happens on T.V.? Yeah, that’s what I thought too, until it happened to my brother-in-law last summer in Los Angeles
Long story short, he was just returning from Seoul, South Korea where he’d been teaching as a university professor. Soon as he got off the plane (and an 8-hour plane flight), he began looking for someplace he could smoke a cigarette.
Still half-sleep from the flight, he didn’t quite hear the policeman when he asked my brother-in-law a question . . . brother just blew it off, thinking nothing of it. Then, another cop chimed in, asking if he knew that a police officer had just addressed him with a question.
Long story short, and to my sleepy brother-in-law’s surprise, yet another cop yelled at the top of his lungs . . . “Stop criminal! Check background!” and the three cops surrounded him, as if he’d committed a crime.
“Stop criminal, check background” . . . four little words that carry a lot of weight when you’re dead tired from a long flight overseas, and dying for a cigarette. Since then, he’s stopped smoking, and no harm, no foul, but seriously, the guy was just disoriented after a seriously long plane flight and looking to smoke a square!
What does that tell us about requesting a legitimate criminal background check (even a free check background) for a legitimate reason? It tells us that this is not something to play with, that a check background criminal is something to take seriously and when companies line up to provide in-depth information about someone’s criminal background (or lack thereof), it’s usually worth it to find out sooner than later who you’re really dealing with. After all, the guy could be a university professor. He might even want to assign you homework!
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