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I used pepper spray and taser applications to end some fights. I put laser dots on people’s chests and convinced them to
surrender. When the situation warranted it on occasion I drew my firearm to convince people at gunpoint that I was deadly
serious about them not making any sudden movements and they’d best not resist arrest. Although I carried a collapsible baton
for my entire career I never actually had to use it to clobber anybody; it was used mostly just to reach over and adjust the
passenger side air vents of my patrol cars.

During my patrols I encountered wildlife occasionally, usually at night. Some critters were very much alive, some quite dead.
The list includes foxes, raccoons, beavers, possums, deer, bear, bobcat, coyote, and river otters. I was dispatched to respond to
scenes and situations that included sled dogs, farm hogs, bears, bees, bats, goats, horses, racoons, an emu, whales, and spiders.
I once famously wrangled a wayward potbellied pig; the pictures and local TV news story went viral. I’ve had a few other pictures
get very popular, like my police K9 partner posing at the chief’s desk and computer, or pretending to drive a patrol car, and the
famous one where he was wearing a specially tailored old chief’s shirt (with tie!) and then there was the one with me and another
officer posing with some monster giant glazed Viking Donuts from the local bakery.

I helped plenty of kids and teens and even adults and senior citizens with public scavenger hunts, and I posed for more than a
few photos with tourists. I also obliged more than a few young aspiring teen film makers when they wanted to make a scene for
their movie with a cop in it. And when I was in a good enough mood to relent and succumb to begging citizens, I’d let them
pose for pictures in the back of my patrol car, or wearing handcuffs.