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Heroin addict wandered into WalMart one night, found a discarded syringe/needle in his pocket, and so he decided to stab the
sausages in the meat section a few times. And then leave the needle in one of the sausages, which somebody noticed. Video
surveillance was reviewed, the police were called, I found the suspect, and arrested him. The store managers could not be sure
which meat was okay and which was not, so the employees were ordered to clear out the entire meat section and throw it all
away. $19,000 dollars’ worth of meat. All kinds. Right into the dumpster. Oh the humanity. That one made national news. I
thought for sure the guy would go to prison for a very long time but he did only a couple months in county lockup, which was
very unsatisfactory for me.

17 hours into an extra-long shift, I was getting ready to call it a night, when an autistic runaway teenager turned himself in to
me, reporting his stepfather was going to kill him. The kid was exaggerating, and mom came to take him home. When I got
done with that case and finally clocked out, it was an 18 hour shift that had started at 3 am and finished at 9 pm. Fortunately I
got 9 hours off, before my next shift started at 6 am. That one turned out to be only 10 hours, so I was pretty happy about that.

I pulled over a driver because had had neglected to put on his seatbelt. And then I discovered some more violations: he did not
have any car insurance, his license was suspended, he had bought the car recently but failed to transfer the title to his name,
and there were some other violations that I tacked on because he had a really, really bad attitude that needed adjusting. Final
bill, payable to the Poulsbo Municipal Court: Two Thousand Four Hundred Dollars. That was one of the few times that I pointed
out to him the obvious: that he if had had simply being wearing his seat belt, I would not have even given him a second glance
as he drove past me.

Another seatbelt violator; an old guy driving a white pickup truck. I recognized him as a repeat offender, having pulled him over
just a month previous for not wearing his seat belt then. Without complaining too much he received his second ticket from me.
A month later I saw him AGAIN, still no seatbelt, which causes a third stop, and a third ticket. He was kind of mad though
during that third stop. Every time had been on the same road; so it would have been pretty easy for me to get in a fourth stop
and ticket #4, but after the third one when I realized that the old guy just didn’t care enough to change his behavior, then there
was probably no point in me continuing to write him tickets. I actually had several clients like that over the years; at some point
it just got to be kind of ridiculous; I gave up on them and just let them be.