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The time I pulled over a motorcyclist and he just went sideways on me with a ranting wild verbal tirade that lasted 8 minutes. I
got it all on video on my bodycam. It was just epic. He was complaining about police, state taxes, cops, federal taxes, law
enforcement, municipal taxes, municipal cops, building permits, code inspectors, sheriff’s deputies, health inspectors, the
department of transportation, and the state legislators. Like I said, it was epic. I just wanted to tell him to put some turn signal
lights on his bike, that’s all. Apparently my pulling him over put him over critical mass and he just lost it..for 8 solid minutes.

A deputy coroner, accompanied by a chaplain, is commenting to me how social media has made his job a bit more difficult; in
the old days he usually had plenty of time to locate a deceased person’s next of kin before anybody else could find out and beat
him to it. But in the age of Facebook, with witnesses and bystanders posting rumors and information online, he had to move a
lot quicker. Case in point: I had just been dealing with a very distraught woman in our front lobby, who was looking for her
missing daughter and was now seeing online that there had been a suicide in a public place and she was suspecting it was her
daughter and she needed answers and she was freaking out and her daughter was not answering her phone and we were trying
to placate and stall her the best we could while waiting for the coroner and chaplain to arrive and then they could explain it all
to her that yes, that dead woman found in the college bathroom was indeed her daughter.

Quite animated tall lanky homeless guy in the Starbucks, telling me and a couple other officers that there is definitely a dead
guy in the woods. One of his old alcoholic homeless friends, alone in a tent. Last saw him alive a couple weeks ago, at the
beginning of a hot August. So we go tromping through the woods. The odor and stench of fermented dead human body
decomposition was thick in the air and putrid from literally several hundred feet away, which is what you can call Not a Good
Sign. The extremely large, overweight dead guy in the tent was in an advanced state of decay; most of the face was rotted and
melted off into black goo, exposing the skull. The pale corpse skin was peeling and greenish/greyish/bluish, covered with
maggots and flies. The body was extremely bloated, looking ready to pop. The stench was unbelievably horrible. One of the
absolute worst dead things I’d ever seen. The new officer with me had been a career military special forces operator and combat
vet; he was completely unfazed by the smell. His written police report documenting the scene included a skillful usage of the
word “emulsified.”