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Grocery store manager calls the police for advice. I call him back and he said he had caught a shoplifter. Guy had stolen a
sandwich. Sandwich thief turned out to be one of our long time local, uh, private attorneys who had a business nearby. Grocery
store owner decided to just make the lawyer pay for it and call it even, with no further police involvement. If you were a local
resident and I divulged the name of the lawyer, you’d be quite surprised.

Bored 17 year old kid, driving around at 2 am with his friend, ringing doorbells and running away. (This was before the internet
was invented). After several confused and highly bothered citizens call 911, I caught those darn rascals and put an end to their
fun. I read them the riot act and point out that if they kept at it, sooner or later somebody is going to answer their door with a
gun. The kid’s dad is a state trooper. I do a catch and release on the kid and tell him to have his dad call me ASAP. Trooper dad
never called me but he did write a letter of complaint to my chief, complaining that I had scared his kid and was rude to him. I
pointed out to my chief that in addition to the disturbing the peace charge that I did NOT file on the teen, I also let him off the
hook for violating his intermediate drivers license status on two counts: 1) driving at 2 am and 2) driving with another teen in
the car. So it seemed to me that I went pretty easy on the kid and he had no grounds to whine about anything, and in lieu of
some tickets, a good yelling-at was an equitable substitute. My chief agreed with me.

911 call: missing girl. Elementary school age. Parents were getting ready to take her to school, turn around for a moment and
she’s gone from the house. Police are called. Girl can’t be found. More police are called. About 20 minutes later we found the
girl, hiding between some arborvitae trees by the street right in front of her house. She was wearing school colors; dark forest
green, so she blended in pretty well. She just didn’t want to go to school that day.

The paramedic stepped out of the aid car and briefed me on the patient inside. She was unconscious with a major head injury.
Bad car accident. He looked at me and said “The back of her skull is just..all..squishy..” Yeah…she died.