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Traffic stop: I’ve got a violator pulled over behind a gas station and I’m writing a ticket, doing my job, when the manager of the
gas station came outside, walked up to my car, and pointed out to me that there was a metal sign posted on the back of the
building that clearly stated it was a no parking zone there and that I should move.

The guy who secretly built a really long fence in his yard behind a screen of trees. Fence was about 16 feet high, using solid
plywood panels. Even painted the whole thing black to avoid detection from the code enforcement officer. You know why a
fence like that won’t meet code? Cause in a good windstorm, it is going to fail. Spectacularly. Which it did.

Fire department responds to the trailer park for a front porch on fire. While they are putting out the fire, the home owner is
standing next to me shaking his head. “Jeez..I don’t know how that happened,” he shrugged, taking one last drag on his cigarette
and then flicked it – STILL BURNING - into the nearby dry bushes.

The woman with the heroin addiction who stole ten large bags of frozen shrimp from a grocery store to resell to a local Chinese
restaurant. “I have an addiction!” she cried to the undercover loss prevention officer who caught her. “You’re addicted to
shrimp!?!?” he replied, sincerely confused, which amused me terrifically.

We had caught a criminal who had stolen a gun and had tossed it into a field somewhere near the schools. He had invoked his
right to remain silent so he couldn’t be questioned. However, since he had left a gun somewhere out in the open, where in theory
a kid could stumble across it, we were legally allowed to question and harangue him about the where the gun was. Eventually
he relented and showed us where he had thrown the gun, and we were able to safely recover it before anybody else did.