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Had a rock once get thrown up by a car on the highway and the rock hit my windshield at about Mach .8, impacting directly in
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front of my face and causing a very large chip and crack. Took me about 1/50 of a second to have a complete heart attack before
realizing it had been just a rock.

A house was on fire. One of my coworkers – a super smart guy but completely lacking in common sense (so…kind of an idiot..)
got there first before the fire department. He wanted to go in and check the house for victims, but couldn’t because of the smoke.
It was fine though; nobody had been in there. My idiot coworker later petitioned the police chief and the fire chief for permission
to get issued a self-contained breathing apparatus, to carry in his trunk, in case he needed to run into another house on fire and
save somebody and be a hero. Both chiefs told him, for a variety of reasons, “Absolutely Not.”

A woman with some kind of a medical condition had fainted/lost consciousness while outside her house. A small crowd gathered
while she was on the ground. I arrived with the EMT’s. A passerby asked one of the medics “What happened?” and he quickly
answered with a terse ‘Skydiving accident.” Which made the inquiring citizen look up into the sky, bewildered. Me, being new
to the job, was slightly shocked to hear a public safety professional so brazenly make up a lie like that. I guess he’d gotten tired
over the years of people asking what happened. I was shocked, but also highly, highly amused. Still am.