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High school assistant principal called me one day while I was working swing shift – 3 pm to 11 pm – and he reported he had
expelled a student earlier in the day, and now that he had thought about it a bit, was thinking maybe the police should be
informed that the reason the kid was kicked out of school was because he had made some threats to bring a gun to school and
shoot other students. Assistant principal admitted he probably should maybe have called the police while he had the kid still in
his office. I agreed that would have been great. Before I went and tracked the kid down at his house, I admonished the assistant
high school principal a bit.

What NOT to say when you get pulled over by the police for speeding: “Aren’t there bank robbers you need to be catching?”

A guy out walking his dog found several watches in the bushes. You know, as one does. He called 911, I showed up and looked
around, and found about a dozen more. Obviously stolen and dumped. Not expensive watches, most of them were of the
WalMart variety; used, from somebody’s personal collection. No idea where they had come from.

One day I had to search a house for a bad guy. He had decided to try to hide under a mattress that was on a floor. He was a big
guy, too; well over 6 feet and 240 pounds. He did not have the build to hide under a mattress. It was actually kind of hilarious.