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3 am: On patrol duty. 10 hour shift. 6 hours down, 4 more to go. It would probably be easier to stay awake if I drank coffee like
every other non-mormon cop in the world, but I don’t like the taste of coffee, so I never drank it.

Repo man shows up to hook a car; the owner was delinquent on the payments and so the bank wanted their car back. The repo
man had a sneaky big pickup truck with a hidden car tow contraption thing under the back. He went to the house, backed up
to the van that needed to be snagged, and deployed the tow bar thing that extended out the back and grabbed the tires. At that
moment the home owner/debtor ran out and, seeing what was happening, jumped into the van. Turned it on, and put it in gear.
The repo man had already grabbed onto the back end of it and lifted it up, and put his truck in gear to get out of there. Later
upon questioning, he told us that he did not know that the car owner was in the van and had started it up. We did not believe
that. You might wonder which vehicle won the tug of war- the pickup truck towing the van, or the front wheel drive van with
its back half in the air? The truck won. Off it went down the road, with the van owner spinning the front tires futility, getting
dragged backward. The van owner’s brother, seeing this go down, decided to get in on the act. He jumped into his car and gave
chase. A block later he rammed his car into the repo man’s truck and all 3 cars got tangled up sideways in the road. Boy was that
a mess; three guys yelling at each other, van tire spin marks going back several hundred feet, a pickup truck with half the van in
the air, all three crooked in the road; it took me quite awhile to take it all in and try to figure it out. And nearby residents came
out, telling us how loud it had been. The best part though was that it had started out in the county jurisdiction, and the crashing
part ended just before the city limits, so it was up to the sheriff’s deputies to do all the paperwork.

Middle school kid in detention in the school’s main office got mad and kicked a hole in the wall. The police were called (that’s
me!) to file a report. I looked at the hole, asked the kid if he did that, and he said yeah. Easy report. File went to juvenile
prosecutors’ office for charging. Then the mother got involved. Got super pissed that her little angel was being harrassed by the
school. She filed a federal lawsuit aginst the middle school principal, the school district superintendent, the school board, and
because the police got involved, she added my name, the police chief, the mayor, and the city council members. Like, wow, man.
I very quickly realized that if I were ever going to get a big lawsuit filed with name in it, this would probably be the best case to
go with. Of course the lawsuit didn’t go anywhere; it was dismissed pretty quickly.