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Another hoarder: but this one is Expert Level, on a couple acres. This guy had run out of room in his house so he had taken to
stacking and stockpiling things along trails in the woods surrounding his house. It was actually kind of organized; there was a
lawn mower and riding tractor section (with about 30 or 40 different old rusty models), a BBQ grill section (old gas and briquet
models), an acre or so for cars, boats, motorhomes and motorcycles, a bicycle section (about 60 bikes, all junked) there was a
section for scraps of wires, another section for pipes. Just about everything was on pallets, and pallets were stacked up
everywhere. Truly epic. The best part was the boat in the tree: a 12 foot fiberglass rowboat, about 20 fight high up in a maple
tree. Like a tree house, you know, as one does.

You know what a rumble strip is, right? Those grooves cut into the shoulder of roads? Fun fact: when it rains, those things fill
up with water. And then if it freezes during the night, they become ice cube trays. So. If you’re on patrol and respond to a car
crash on the highway, and when you get there you jump out of your giant patrol vehicle which is a Ford Expedition, you’d be
well advised to NOT land directly onto those ice cube trays. They are slippery as hell and you’ll wind up on your ass.

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Female teenager chronic runaway/juvenile delinquent is in the back of my patrol car again, and I’m taking her to the JV detention
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center again, because she can’t go more than about 3 weeks between probation violations. I realize this is the 6 time I’ve
arrested her, and like the 5 times before, I was not able to contact her absent parents. What does that say when an officer arrests
your kid 6 times and you’ve never talked to him, even once?

Our newest municipal court public defender shows up for court, to represent the great unwashed masses of accused alleged
criminals. Nice young man, personable, and his name is Justus, even. I don’t hold it against him that he defends criminals; he’s
an important part of the criminal justice system. Although every opportunity I get when I see him, I tell him that all of his clients
are guilty. When we got introduced his face lit up and he said that he remembered me from back when he was in elementary
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school…I had been his DARE Officer when he was in the 5 grade.