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An old guy in a parking lot has a scammer on the phone, and his wife calls 911 on her phone for a police officer. I show up and
they explain that in an effort to get an Amazon Prime movie to load on their ipad, they wound up calling some kind of an Apple
Tech Support number, and the guy on the other end of the phone had already got $600 dollars’ worth of gift card numbers from
them. “Is your ipad working now?” I asked him. “Uh, no!” they said. “Well hang up the phone already, you’re getting scammed!”
They insisted I talk to the tech support guy, because the phone number “Looked like an Apple account number.” I explained
how phone numbers and caller ID’s could be spoofed easily and the scammer was probably in Africa or Jamaica. Although as
soon as I heard his voice I identified him as from India. I told them they were lucky they had only lost $600 dollars. And then I
told the old guy he’d better change his phone number because he was definitely going to be getting all kinds of calls from now
on, and he should not trust the caller ID’s. His wife then hung up the phone, but first she yelled at the scammer in India: “I curse
you! I hope your penis falls off!”

Car crash; a driver had stopped in the roadway for a pedestrian on a crosswalk. The driver’s car got struck from behind by
another car; hard enough to classify the struck car as being “deep trunked” with extensive damage to the entire rear of the car.
The driver was in pain enough to get an ambulance ride to the hospital. As she was being strapped onto the stretcher she told
me that unlike the last time I had seen her, she was wearing her seatbelt this time. I had pulled her over a couple months’
previously for not wearing her seat belt. I can’t remember if I had given her a ticket or a warning, but whatever I had done had
made enough of an impression on her to start buckling up after that. We were all in agreement that if she had not been wearing
her seat belt during the accident, she would have most likely been punched out of her seat into the dashboard and windshield.

Somebody called 911 to report a handicap parking violation near the boat launch. I responded to the scene and found a truck
with a boat trailer was indeed parking in a handicapped reserved spot. Sideways. Actually taking up a half-dozen spots; all of
them were reserved disabled parking spots. So that was an easy ticket to write. As I was putting the $550 ticket on the windshield,
I saw the owner running up from the boat launch; he had obviously just put his boat in the water and decided it would be okay
to park his truck sideways over a whole row of reserved parking spots. I quickly left before he could stop me and beg for mercy.
He was lucky I only wrote him one ticket.