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The time I was training a reserve officer; he was casually driving me around one Saturday afternoon when I suddenly realized
the car facing across an intersection from us was being driven by a high-profile most-wanted fugitive. I immediately directed
the reserve officer to drive up to the suspect’s car and block him in, since the bad guy had recently and successfully evaded the
police several times already and the likelihood of a pursuit was about 100%. And since he was rumored to be packing a gun and
had threatened to engage the police if contacted, I had to get the drop on him first, so to speak. Faster than it takes to read this,
the reserve officer blocked him in and I jumped out of the passenger side of our patrol car, drew my pistol and pointed it at him
from a very close distance. Mr. Fugitive Man wisely chose not get his own gun out but he still wanted to do the run-from-the-
police-thing so he slammed his car into reverse, went backwards about 150 feet up the residential street, turned around, and
then fled. He got away from us that day, but about 3 weeks later he had his last chase and a bunch of deputies finally caught
him. This story is another good example of how being cop can look like calmly driving around, excitement level zero, to action
and excitement LEVEL TEN within seconds and with absolutely no advanced warning.

Sheriff’s deputy was in our office one night, it was actually like around 3 am. She had just run over a dog and had brought him
to the 24 hour animal trauma clinic, but the dog died anyway. It was big old dumb and blind golden retriever that had wandered
out into the road so it was not the deputy’s fault. But the deputy had a busted swollen lip. She admitted that when she braked
to try and avoid the dog, she ate her steering wheel hard, because, uh, she had not been wearing her seatbelt. I’ll also add that
this happened on a crazy curvy road with hills up in the north part of the county in the middle of nowhere. I will readily state
that my respect for her absolutely plummeted when I heard she was driving around out there without her seat belt on in the
middle of the night…that was just beyond stupid.