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I knew a number of officers who had what we called “unintentional discharges” or “accidental discharges” of live rounds from
the guns in locations other than the firearms range. Things shot that shouldn’t have been included: the police car parking lot at
the PD, the officer’s locker room floor, and a countertop, and one time, a guy in a tree. In that one, a deputy was going to taser
the guy out of the tree but she confused her gun with the taser…uh..she’s not a deputy anymore. Because it’s bad policy to taser
people from heights. Oh, also the whole mixing-up-the-gun-with-the-taser thing was problematic.
The mad pooper struck again: this time behind a church building in the playground. A surveillance recording identified him as
a local homeless schizophrenic man. He didn’t do it often, but enough to get a reputation among the police. A week later I
encountered him in such an aggravated state (him not me) that I chose to disengage from my contact; I knew that if I tried to
control him any way it would end up with me tasering him, at the very least. So I let him just wander off, ranting and raving.
Old lady drove her adult son’s really nice BMW sedan to the medical center. While there, she didn’t notice there was a 3 foot
drop between the upper and lower lot, with a concrete wall and ledge between. She managed to drive right over it, and bounced
off the hood of a jeep that was parked in the lower lot. Somehow she didn’t notice that thing, either. The car landed with almost
no (visible) damage, which I’ll never be able to understand. Grandma than reparked it, no big deal and walked into her physical
therapy appointment. A witness called 911 and I found grandma (in her 80’s) waiting in the lobby and we had a little chat. I then
talked to her physical therapist and told him she might have damaged herself a little more from driving over the ledge and jeep.
I then called her adult son, who then told me that was the last time she was ever going to drive a car; he sent for a taxi to come
pick her up, and a tow truck to get his BMW.
