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Hit and run in a parking lot. A very large Ford Excursion pulled out of a parking spot too sharp and smeared into the car parked
adjacent. The driver of the Ford never felt the impact and so she kept driving, oblivious to the damage she had caused. A witness
recorded her license plate and I tracked down the driver at her place of business. She could not believe she had hit and car and
not felt it; she willingly came back to the scene. So it was not an intentional hit and run; I just made sure she gave her insurance
information to the owner of the smushed car. Which happened to be a still-new bright red super nice Corvette. The carbon-
fiber front didn’t have enough resistance or make enough noise to attract the attention of the Ford driver, but it sustained major
front end damage. The owner of the ‘vette was an older guy who was trying really hard not to cry – I could see his eyes kept
welling up. He explained he took the car the racetrack regularly and it was currently the fastest recorded Corvette in the entire
state; a certified first place record holder. He entered it in car shows and had another big one coming up in a week. We agreed
it was going to take more than a week to replace the front end. Poor guy.

A drug dealer got arrested for drug dealing. Finds himself in jail. Calls his wife, tells her to get rid of that bedroom safe with the
you-know-what in it. Too bad for him, the police were monitoring his jail phone calls. A search warrant is applied for, and a
judge signs off on it. Officers take the warrant to the house to look for the safe. Narcotics detection K9 officer (that’s me!) also
is there, with the dog. Dog sniffs the hell out of the place but the safe, with the whatever you-know-what, had already been
removed. Sigh..You win some, you lose some.

A young man living by himself in his apartment called 911 after an accident. I got there first and saw blood just everywhere. He
was in shock and explained he had tripped over his stupid ankle biter dog and fell into the very large window in the living room;
his hand went through the glass and concurrently, the broken glass went through his hand, gashing it open and producing a
wound that was pouring out blood just everywhere. The EMT’s arrived and took him to the hospital. Poor kid did not have any
medical insurance.

The scourge of drugs and addiction was an equal opportunity destroyer, I firsthand saw it afflict families with no class distinction
or discrimination. City council member’s kids involved with drugs? Yes. A police chief’s son involved with drugs? Yes. A superior
court judge’s son involved with drugs? Yes. A mayor’s son? Yes. A school principal? Yep. Firefighters? Yep. Police Officers? Yep.