8/9/2013 10-11 by CAD

Did you ever have one of those days that start out bad and go downhill from there? Well today was that kind of day. Oh and I woke up with a nasty sinus headache to boot.

It starts out with me driving a vehicle with my Sergeant and two others officers to the city garage to pick up some vehicles that were recently serviced and are ready to be put back into service. We get down there ok but when we pull around to the side to pick up the cars one of the officers in the backseat says there is something burning in the rear of the car. Well we all jump out and I pop the trunk and it's on fire....yea a real live fire in the trunk of the car. The officer grabs the fire extinguished and puts out the fire and we discover that someone had left some flares loose in the storage compartment in the trunk and one of them must have ignited and set the other 2 off. The fire did some pretty good damage to the trunk and would have probably been a lot worse if the one officer didn't spot it when he did. 

Second call was to assist the EMS crew with a sick person. I get there and I'm told that there is a 62 year old lady who will not take her medicine and will not verbally communicate with anyone and just keeps pacing in the kitchen. I go into the house and this lady is pacing back and forth and would not respond to anyone. I get some background that crisis was out here the other day and the husband tells me they did nothing for her so I called crisis and found out that when they responded she did not fit the criteria for a TDO or ECO because she was simply having a panic attack so they told the husband to take her to the hospital himself. I ask them to respond and they told me that we should try and have the husband take her to the hospital and to call them back if we had no luck. Ok so onto plan B. I go back into the house and the husband then tells me that after crisis left the previous day it took them 3 hours of trying to convince her to take her medicine and when she finally did, 10 minutes later she was fine. I politely told him I don't have 3 hours so he needs to get her to the hospital right now. Well after some hollering and some gentle prodding the husband gets her in the car and off to the hospital they go. I heard on the radio later that a TDO was issued for her.

After the previous call I decide to drive down Riverside Drive to look at the river and calm down a little and smoke a cigarette. As I'm driving I see about 12 to 15 kids, 11-12 year olds tubing down the river towards a dam that has really bad hydraulics and have claimed many lives (see the sign below).

 

I stop the car and get out and start yelling at them to paddle over to the side and get out and walk around, which is what you are supposed to do, and get back into the water. Well kids being kids they did not listen and one by one they went over the dam and went ass up in the water and got separated from their tubes. I watched them as I got on radio and told them what I was out on and when asked if a water rescue was needed I told them to hold on that it looks like they all are going to be OK as they all made it through the hydraulics and were not in any danger and continued down the river minus the tubes. This got me thinking about where are the adults with all these kids in the water and after about 3 minutes I finally saw an adult floating along with 2 more kids coming towards the dam. I got the adults attention and told him to get over to the side which he did along with one of the kids. The second kid, a girl went over the dam and got hung up in the hydraulics and started to scream for help. I took off my gun belt and radio and was about to jump in when she managed to grab hold of her tube and get out of danger. I then had some choice words with the adult who was supervising the group and asked him if he was the only adult here and he replied no there was another adult at the front of the group at which time I replied well why didn't he make the group get out of the water and walk around the dam like you are supposed to do? As he struggled for an answer his cooler, which was still in the water, went over the dam and got caught up and when it did it opened and spilled all of the kids lunches into the water. The boy who was standing next to me said "there go the lunches" and I said "yep there they go"  Pretty scary for a couple of minutes so I pulled into a parking spot and had my cigarette.

There's your lunch kiddies!

A few calls after that to assist EMS and I figured I'd cruise until EOT. Wrong.....I got sent to another sector to handle a recovered auto(trailer) call at about 30 minutes before EOT, no biggie I can recover the vehicle and bang out the report in 30 minutes so I'm good. Well the victim meets me and says he got a text from a guy who said that someone tried to sell him a trailer for $300.00 and that he thinks it is my victims trailer. I said OK how do you know this guy and he says he doesn't recognize the number that he was texting from but the guy just said this is the last text I'm sending because I'm going out of town. Now this is getting weirder by the minute and all I want to do is take his trailer out of the system and go home. So we walk up the driveway and he says yep that's mine so I told him I need the registration and the original report number so I can do my recovery supplement report and clear it from the system. He tells me he doesn't have either and that they are at his house. I said OK for now I will just run the tag when you pull it out and get the registration information that way. So he pulls it out and I run the tag and it comes back to a totally different trailer with a different owner name and address nowhere near where this guy lives. Now I'm thinking that this is not his trailer and I am helping him actually steal this one. That I had a moment of clarity, the person who stole his trailer took the original tag off and put another one in its place so if anyone ran the tag it would not come back as stolen. The victim hooks up the trailer and I follow him home so I can get the report number and look at his registration. I get all the information from him and it all checks out and I'm only looking at being a little late getting off but it's cool until I realize that I need to put the tag I found on the trailer on a property voucher and hold it for the detectives in case they follow up with this. Went down to property and did my thing and got off an hour late....oh well I'll survive.

A very long day.....now 2 days off.

10-7 EOT

8/7/2013 10-11 by CAD

Well back to work after 10 days off and boy was it hard to get up this morning and get motivated. Made it into work and it started off with an accident that was pretty much handled by both drivers before I got there. They exchanged information and did not want any police involvement. Cruised through the day answering run of the mill calls until I was dispatched into another sector to assist Crisis in evaluating a mental party.

It was alleged that a 62 year old pushed her 94 year old mother's head through a screen door window. The 64 year old was off her meds for about a month and it appears that being off her meds for that long contributed to her sudden anger issue. TDO was issued and she was transported to the hospital for psychological evaluation.

Other than that I was not faced with anymore stupidity, but alas my sector mates did encounter some stupidity.

One of them gets a call for a lady waving a knife at some tree workers who were cutting down some tree's on a neighbor's property. When the officer gets there she is armed with a spatula.......yep a spatula. I guess she's one mean cook!

The second call was for a lady complaining about some guy who was cleaning out a house and left some type of furniture item partially on her property. The officer gets there and moves the item back onto the original property and sends in a defect notice to have it removed problem solved.

Good first day back after being off, can't wait for tomorrow and the 3 squad day!

10-7 EOT