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Crazy lady walked away from her house, didn’t come back, and nobody knew where she went. Left behind her 15 year old
daughter. After a couple days the police were called. We considered her wandering off as a little suspicious and alarming, so she
was classified as a missing person and everybody started looking for her. After about a week she showed up back at her house;
she had been in a psychiatric facility a couple counties’ over, locked up because she was so crazy. Crazy enough to not bother
mentioning to the staff that oh, by the way I have a 15 year daughter back home who has no idea where I am right now. The
officer in charge of that case was me, and I was rather irked that she had been alive and safe, and we had no idea. But what can
you do?

Guy with a rifle and shotgun is walking around downtown. Not menacingly, just walking, being proud to be an American. We
watch him from a distance; he had already identified himself to us beforehand and told us that he’d be marching back and forth
for an hour or so, once a week. Aside from freaking a few folks out, it was okay. And if you’re wondering how the police generally
feel about folks walking around out in public with long guns…well..we’d prefer they just don’t.

Finally, I had found an unlocked missile silo. There were several of them on the old abandoned army base, a, relic from the Cold
War. The Nike Ajax missiles were designed as an anti air defense system, in service from 1958 to 1968. Now 30 years later the
base, formerly known as Nike 1B, 2C/30A/12L-A S-81 (out of 286 total bases) was completely overgrown and trees were claiming
back the barracks and motor pool buildings. The current owner had bought the property as surplus from the government, and
sometimes when he checked in on it he’d neglect to lock the chain link main gate on his way out; whenever I was on patrol and
found it open I’d go in and explore. The buildings were falling apart and some local teens had also discovered the place, so there
was a lot of graffiti everywhere. And there, finally one day, one of the silos was open. And completely flooded full of water.
So…nothing really to see there. The owner later sold the property to a developer and a Walmart and Home Deport were built
there, after the giant concrete and metal silos had been broken up and dug out of the ground.