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More than once I recovered license plates left behind at crash scenes (I LOVED that!!) by fleeing hit and run drivers. I also saw
lots of switched license plates, altered plates, and counterfeit plates. I carried a screwdriver around for many years and took a
lot of bogus license plates away from people, sometime with legal authority and sometimes maybe without. I pulled over multiple
cars at once (my all-time record was lining up nine at once one right after another) and I did catch some repeat offenders
multiple times. A met a lot of drivers and passengers who wanted to try the old switcheroo, some were successful and some
weren’t when helpful witnesses were present. I got dispatched to intercept and stop road raging motorists; some I missed and
some I caught. Some of them were actually pretty worked up and just stupid violent.

I caught people littering; smoldering cigarette butts flicked out of cars, bags of garbage thrown out, piss bottles tossed out, and
other folks who filled garbage dumpsters that did belong to them, which is called a theft of services.

I got dispatched to a million reckless drivers; most were just idiots but a few were dangerously sleepy and more than a few were
drunk. I also got dispatched to about a hundred calls of drivers “slumped over steering wheels” – the vast majority of them were
just sleeping or texting and not close to dead, although occasionally there would be one having a diabetic issue or something.

I learned early on to expect at least one frustratingly oblivious driver for about every half mile of roadway when I was driving
fast with lights and sirens in order to get somewhere in an emergency hurry.