Where is everyone #5

Freind owns a towing company, not sure where this is yet....

 

The Comcar Flatbed driver thought he was in the clear. Then he checked Facebook

 

I opted out of going into civil law enforcement after I got out of the military (was a Navy cop). A good buddy of mine who got out about a year before me became an LEO in the civilian sector and boy did it change him, and not for the better. Sadly, he's just finishing up a 2.5 year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter due to being involved in a shooting that didn't get cleared as "justified". (lots of politics involved I won't get into here...)

Another friend of mine is an ex-LEO. Asked him why he quit and he said that he just couldn't stand the politics of it anymore, for the types of reasons that @shogun mentioned. Plus he's a lot like me... works in grey areas in a world where people can't get their heads out of the "black/white" (think binary code, not race) mentality.

Hit me like a ton of bricks during an interview I had with one of the local Departments years ago.... They didn't like a lot of my answers to the scenario questions they were asking. I'd been "sweat boarded" a few times in the Navy for some of my qualifications I got, so that wasn't getting to me. It was the fact that I was reading their body language and I could tell they just didn't like the fact that I was willing to go above and beyond to actually help people who needed it, instead of just throwing the book at them.

"No, I wouldn't just leave a mother and her kids out in the freezing rain because the van they were living in didn't have current registration, why would you? I thought the job was to serve and protect."

 

Like @Hurricane69 said back-hoe-R-US,. Plenty of them around needing to work. So if needed, I have a 36" pipe going in the ground out here. Could use some leveling agents. Just saying.

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we do awesome work digging holes.

 

Yep. I went into an investigations interview one time. Impeccable service record, college degree, flawless reports, several awards. I am watching these five “good ol boys” as I am interviewing thinking to myself “this is just a formality.” Turns out I was right, the guy that got it had come up to the investigations office all the time and drank coffee with the head investigator.

He liked to shout at people, lecture them on dispatched calls, I sometimes had to walk away from his scenes out of embarrassment. He was the antithesis of a good investigator (couldn’t close a case with video evidence and a written confession) but apparently he poured a mean cup of Maxwell House. Local law enforcement is mostly a joke, especially when it only requires a GED. Nothing like having to spell words for your superiors and proofread their reports for them, or find them the applicable statutes to swear out affidavits.

 

Dirty paws.... she always bathes herself before bed.



Oh...and she's a mama's girl.....

 

*cough*

Pause for a dirty thirty here in Siloam Georgia. Gonna have five or so hours to get down towards mobile. Took me too #### long to tarp this so “The Shed” will have to wait till another day. Gonna try and make that casino exit north of a mobile and call it at a night...

Shoving a pair of cheese danishes down my neck sipping on water and some energy drink stuff... I’m 23 but I feel like 54 tonight. This is some sheeeit I tell ya

 

I don't remember what 23 felt like.....but I'm pretty sure it was a fun....

In my 50's I don't get out of bed without magnesium, vitamins, and aleve...

 

I played hockey with a bunch of 25 yr olds today. I told them my shoulder pads were older than them. Worst part is it’s true.