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I pulled over a driver once because she had not been wearing her seat belt. She was a very, very large woman. She explained
“Officer, I have a bad headache so I had to take off my seat belt to get my bra off.” I of course had some questions, because I’m
a naturally curious kind of guy. But let the record show that I did NOT ask any of those questions. I was actually kind of
speechless. In, fact I let her go. Quickly. Because I had a personal policy that if somebody has a really, really unique and/or
creative excuse that I’d never heard before, then they wouldn’t get a ticket from me. I had never heard the old
headache/bra/seatbelt excuse one before..or since.

Crime scene/burglary at a Thai restaurant, it’s after hours and closed but we find a door open. I’m there with the fire marshal
because the fire alarm had gone off, too. We’re in the kitchen, kind of aghast at the bowls of rice that are left out, ready for the
next morning. “I didn’t know you could just leave rice out in the open like that..uncovered?” I said to the fire marshal. H agreed:
“Yeah, uh, you can’t. I mean you can, I guess, but you really shouldn’t..especially in a commercial public kitchen.” Well. I didn’t
eat there, so that one didn’t bother me as much as the salsa chips being left out all weekend uncovered in the Mexican restaurant.
As a cop, I saw too many restaurant kitchens after hours that I wish I had not seen.

I got dispatched to a residential burglary. As I finished the investigation, I see an aid car and fire truck pull into the driveway
right next door and the crews go running into the house with their medic gear. I walk over there and see they’re trying to revive
a woman in her 50’s who had just literally dropped dead while visiting her friends there. She was DRT – Dead Right There. I was
kind of mad that the dispatchers hadn’t noticed I was literally one house away; they could have let me know when the 911 call
came in and I would have been in the house about 4 minutes before the aid crew arrived. Another example of how dispatching
is still not exactly a science yet and is definitely not perfect – if you think your local 911 center never makes mistakes…think
again.