A pair of eager BYU students once dressed up in a doo-rag, wore a large Spanish Fork basketball jersey and walked into the backdoor of Jamba Juice asking for free drinks.

"We made up crap and said that we know the boss," said Jordan Tall, a 22-year old student from Sacramento, Calif. majoring in biology teaching. Tall is an avid fan of the police beat and has been trying to get in it since he came to BYU.

Tall is one of 407 members of BYU Facebook group "My Goal at BYU is to get on the Police Beat."

The group claims to be for students "who have a wild side" and whose dream it is to be mentioned in the police beat in some way, according to the group's description.

"A lot of people like us do dumb things to get into the police beat," Tall said. "We don't do anything that is really wrong though."

Tall says the police know and understand the motive to his behavior.

"They usually laugh because they think it's kinda funny," Tall said.

While Tall and his friends make sure to stay within the law, other eager fans of the police beat have caused serious damage.

A couple of years ago students threw a refrigerator off of Deseret Towers. When police finally apprehended them, the students said that they were not trying to hurt anyone; they were only trying to get into the police beat.

"We know that students try to get into the police beat," said BYU Police's Lt. Arnold Lemmon. "But it is against the law to lie to an officer," Lemmon said of the rumor that some students call in ridiculous false reports to be mentioned in the beat.

"We don't call in fake reports," Tall said, "but [getting into the police beat] is tough though, tougher than you think."