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I pulled over a car once, I think it had just a burned out tail light, and as I called in the stop over the radio, the driver put both
his hands out his open window, a classic “Look I’m not holding any guns in my hands” which of course made me think I was
dealing with a bad hombre who had experience with police and felony stops, probably from an inner city like Oakland or
Chicago, and when I walked up to the car very cautiously with my gun almost upholstered, I was relieved to see it was actually
a recently retired county deputy, who started laughing uproariously in a “gotcha” sort of way. I agreed it was funny as hell, too.

The drunk navy petty officers who left a July 4th bonfire going past midnight, unattended, in the middle of a neighborhood. In
the front yard of their rental house. Things got really interesting when I had the ranking one call his division Chief on the phone
and self-report their stupidity. From several feet away I could hear the Chief yelling on the phone, demanding they all report to
him in the morning. Which was I’m sure not in their original plans, based on their levels of intoxication.

Bank teller thinks the young lady in the drive through is trying to cash in a fraudulent homemade check. The fact the lady is
wearing sunglasses and a costume wig is also raising questions. And the two dudes in the car with her are wearing hats and
sunglasses and acting nervous. Bank teller shows bogus check to bank manager. Bank manager recognizes the name of the
account holder, and agrees the check is fake. Then the bank manager sees the account holder; he’s actually in line in the lobby
on unrelated business. Bank manager shows him the check. He confirms that is not actually his check and he gets mad enough
to run out to his truck and block the suspects in the drive thru. Would have worked too, but the two dudes in the car tell the
female suspect in the wig to back out in reverse at high speed. As they left the parking lot they spot the police officers arriving;
one guy in the back seat bailed and ran away. I caught the female driver and the dude in the passenger seat; they went off to jail.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a criminal in a small town.