New Recruit ride along

I went patrol this Friday with a new recruit, who happens to be an old friend of mine. I was really hoping to show him a bit of excitement and give him something to talk about the next day with his family and friends.

It worked out pretty well.

The night started easy enough with a couple of officers catching a couple of drag racers. This has become a hot button topic in our part of the world lately, since a couple of people in a neighboring city were killed as a result of other people drag racing.

Soon after we responded to a call where a couple of real smart young men were covering the Judges car with shaving cream. So you know they got the scare of their life when they suddenly found their vehicle surrounded by three police cars. As we approached the suspect vehicle it was pretty obvious we had the correct suspects, as there was shaving cream around the door handle. (oops) Turns out they were friends with the judges son and were just having some fairly harmless fun with him. We soon learned that there were 4 other "friends" in the neighborhood had received their attention. We let them go at the request of the victims... AFTER they cleaned the cars with the only cloth they had available to them... the shirts off of their backs.

Minor stuff, but funny... at least to us at the time.

Later that night we were dispatched to a residence where a woman called stating that a man was in the front of her house brandishing a gun. Of course we get there and see three men to the side of the ladies front yard and from where we stood it looked like one of the men had a semi-automatic pistol in his hand. We drew down on them ordering them to the ground. Turns out it was an air-soft pistol. One of the men was a known drug dealer... hmmm wonder if there is a connection.

Later, I was dispatched to a suspicious vehicle in the yard of an unoccupied residence. I arrived to find a single young woman servicing FOUR yes FOUR young men. I bet her parents were proud of her.

I called it a night just as officers stopped a truck that the occupants inside of which, thought it would be funny to drive by and throw empty beer bottles at a pedestrian walking down the street. Real geniuses. Somebody went to jail over that one.

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