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A new-car customer called 911 from the new caller dealership, something about how they couldn’t get their keys back. I went to
the dealership, which had a reputation as being full of smarmy slimy salesmen- the stereotypical worst-case salesmen everybdoy
hated, and sure enough it was ANOTHER case where the new customers, a married couple, got halfway through the buying
process and the salesman and manager had taken their trade-in car out for a test drive to determine the value but price
negotiations had stalled and the process was getting dragged on for more than a couple hours and the people wanted to leave
but the salesman and the manager, in an event to prevent a lost sale, did not want to return their car keys to them and were still
trying to talk them into buying a new car. I had to explain AGAIN to the manager that he could not legally keep anbody’s keys
unless or until the owners wanted to actually finish the deal, which they didn’t, so give them their stupid keys back already or
somebody wearing a managers name tag is going to get arrested for theft. That deplorable sales tactic was still being used because
social media had not been invented yet and the car dealership could get away with it, usually.

Local resident had his pickup truck stolen from his driveway during the night. He was mad. Mad at the thief, and then he got
mad at the police for not finding his stolen truck after a couple weeks. I tried to explain to him that the truck was obviously out
my jurisdiction, otherwise I would have found it. For the record, I did feel bad he never got his truck back, but what could I do?

Car wash manager got caught on video taking cash payments from customers, and pocketing the money. When his boss
confonted him with the video evidence, he tried explaining those were cash tips for him. Not believable. He was fired from his
job and a police report was sent to the municipal prosecutor for theft. Funny thing was, the manager was a super religious guy.