And He Believed Him!

I thought this only worked in the movies:

On Thursday about 10:30 p.m., after taping a performance on the “Late Show With David Letterman,” the Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, 26, hopped into a livery cab with two other men at West 56th Street and Seventh Avenue, near the hotel where he had been staying for his appearance on the show.

The police said Mr. Taylor told the driver he was an officer, flashed a badge and ordered the driver to speed through red lights because he needed to get somewhere quickly. The driver did as he was told, until he was pulled over by the police at West 43rd Street and Avenue of the Americas, the authorities said. After the driver told the police why he had run the lights, Mr. Taylor was arrested [for impersonating a police officer] and given a desk appearance ticket, which means he was released on his own recognizance but must appear before a judge within 30 days, the police said.