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Me in an apartment parking lot, trying to calm down a large man. He was only 25 years old but he weighed at least 400 pounds.
I was able to accurately gauge his weight because he had no shirt on. His 79-inch gut was just hanging out over his large belt
that was about ready to explode off. Dude had a giant tattoo on his chest; right above his giant man-boobs. The tat read, in fancy
script font: “DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR”. Uhhh…..?

Walmart store security guard called 911 to report a suspicious-as-hell guy in the store, loading up a cart with expensive electronics
to steal. The guy caught on to the nearby security guard watching him so he ditched the cart and escaped into the parking lot,
where I caught up to him and started some questioning. He whipped out his cell phone, put it on record, and held it up my face;
lens side out. “You recording me?” I asked. “Yes I am, because this is police harassment!” To his disappointment, I didn’t turn
around and leave. I pointed to my bodycam and said “Well sir I’m recording you too, so that’s fair.” I eyed his baggy clothes.
“While I’m talking to you, I need to know if you have any weapons hidden on you,” I said. “No, I don’t have any
weapons…uh…except for a couple knives..” I sighed. “Well that counts,” I replied. “I’m going to remove them from you for a little
while so nobody gets hurt.” I then admonished him to not move his hands, as I removed, the first knife, the second knife, and
then a third and then a fourth fucking knife from his pockets. The best part though- as he kept loudly complaining about how
he was being harassed by the police for no reason, and while he was still recording video on his phone, was when a fifth, brand
new big knife in a large clamshell packaging fell out of his coat onto the ground. Followed by another brand new stolen knife.
At which point I stopped and just stared at him. The other officer with me asked him “Why are those still in their packaging?”
The suspect stared down at them. “Uh, because I haven’t taken them out yet.” I asked him if he had a receipt. He said no. He
then had to admit that yeah, he had just stolen them. I think he turned off his video recording around that time. And decided
to stop with the big complaining act about being harassed. And then the handcuffs went on. And he went to jail. I told him
later that if he wanted to put his little video on YouTube that would be fine with me. He said he didn’t want to.

75 year old man lived in the run-down trailer park. The kind of trailer park that is mostly old cheap single wides, 40 to 60 years
old. Or, in mobile home years, 230. Old guy is not right in the head. Severely mentally ill. His thing was to call 911 and complain
about the loud bass noise coming into his house. He’d call all the time. The first 26 times we went out there we heard nothing;
after that we stopped responding. We tried telling him that there was no actual audible noise but he always refused to answer
his door to talk to us and listen to reason. One time I did talk to him face to face and he said the loud bass was coming from his
next door neighbors; they were teenagers who didn’t care about his feelings or his sleep and they had a bass machine that creates
inaudible sound waves and vibrations that go 100 miles straight down and they were going to cause an earthquake and we had
to do something about it. He said he can feel the vibrations in his body and if I went next door and put my hand on their door
I’d feel the vibrations too. I told him that if the vibrations are not audible, then it’s not a crime and not worthy of a 911 call for a
police response. He disagreed and insisted he had a constitutional right to call 911 as often as he wants. I was not able to change
his mind. He kept calling 911 a lot. He was too crazy to be charged with the crime of false reporting and wasting our time. I felt
bad for the poor 911 dispatchers who had to keep taking his angry calls.