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Woman shopping in a thrift store set her purse on a shelf to try on some shoes. Forgot about her purse for just a moment and
wandered one aisle over. Just long enough for a thief – a perfectly normal-looking/non-criminal looking woman- to swoop in on
the purse, snatch it up, and take it away. We know this is what happened because it showed up on the surveillance recordings
very clearly. I suggested to the thrift store folks that the video would look great on facebook. They agreed. By lunch the next day
the woman was identified. By the end of the day she came forward with some kind of lame excuse about how it was not a theft
at all, I mean she could see how it might look like one, but it wasn’t really...I don’t know if she got prosecuted but I do know
several hundred people (at least) on facebook got a good look at her face and then her name, which I felt was a pretty good
punishment in and of itself.

A lady called 911 to report a parking violation in her neighborhood. I show up, reluctantly. It’s in a new neighborhood and most
of the houses are complete. The offending vehicle is a gutter installing truck; the guy is forming out 20 foot long sections and
the only place he could park was half on a sidewalk. Which really upset this lady because she had got a ticket the week earlier
for parking on a sidewalk or too close to a hydrant I don’t know, and I told her I wasn’t going to write the guy a ticket because
it’s not like he parked his car and walked away for day; he’s right there, doing his job, and he’ll be done in a couple of hours.
Complainant was insistent that I enforce the law! And write him a ticket! I refused! And I still don’t feel bad about that!

One of the huffers I had caught and referred to the prosecutor for a criminal charge did indeed get charged with a crime, and a
court date was set. The huffer failed to show up for her court date, and so a warrant was issued. She got caught after that and
agreed to make it to the next court date so the warrant was quashed and her name put back on the docket for the next court
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date. Which she missed. So another warrant was issued. I can’t remember if it was the 2 or 3 Failure to Appear but the judge
got frustrated with her pretty quickly and raised the bail amount to a whopping $50,000..for a simple misdemeanor charge she
didn’t want to resolve.

Minor car crash in the middle of an intersection. No traffic lights, just 4 stop signs. Two drivers had approached the intersection
at the same time, at a right angle to each other, and both of them somehow proceeded into the intersection without seeing each
other until they ran into each other. I was not impressed with either of them.