I've been thinking of doing a work-related blog for some time now. You see, I love bikes and I've met some great people on here and I'd like to contribute more than I do. But no one wants to read about my 90 minute rides at a moderate pace. Or that I finished DFL at the last Cat 4/5 CX race. Hell, I don't want to write that, let alone read it.
In social situations, I am routinely asked, "Got any funny cop stories?" Sure, I see some weird shit. What kind of funny do you want? Sad? Hilarious? Just plain unbelievable? Sometimes I'm not sure what direction to go in because I don't know my audience. I've also developed a twisted sense of humor from this job. And honestly, unless something happened recently, I usually freeze because I have so many choices.
I've gone back and forth with the idea because I need to be careful about what I post and how I post it. But I think I can keep things non-specific enough to "protect the guilty", so to speak. I am not sure of the format quite yet. I think it's easiest to just dump snippets here as they happen.
My goal here is singular. Humor. It's not to discuss case details, legal implications, or police procedure.
So here's a little introduction:
For those that do not know, I have been a police officer for 17+ years, the last 16 have been with Raritan Township in Hunterdon County. While it's a relatively safe town of 22,000 people, it is spread over a large geographical area of 38 square miles that encompasses a little bit of everything: three state highways, dirt roads, working farms, dense apartment and condo complexes, the third largest high school in the state (3,000 kids), and the only hospital in the county.
Even in Hunterdon County, I have handled just about every kind of call imaginable. Murder. Rape. Bank robbery. Officer-involved shooting. Suicide. Fatal car accidents. Officer killed in the line of duty. I have delivered two babies (both girls; the first is entering high school in the fall), worked during hurricanes (Floyd, Irene, and Sandy), and tornadoes (well, singular...I think the other weather event was ruled straight-line winds). Oddly enough, I was the first officer on scene at a plane crash and a hot air balloon crash.
So on to the incident that prompted this blog...
In social situations, I am routinely asked, "Got any funny cop stories?" Sure, I see some weird shit. What kind of funny do you want? Sad? Hilarious? Just plain unbelievable? Sometimes I'm not sure what direction to go in because I don't know my audience. I've also developed a twisted sense of humor from this job. And honestly, unless something happened recently, I usually freeze because I have so many choices.
I've gone back and forth with the idea because I need to be careful about what I post and how I post it. But I think I can keep things non-specific enough to "protect the guilty", so to speak. I am not sure of the format quite yet. I think it's easiest to just dump snippets here as they happen.
My goal here is singular. Humor. It's not to discuss case details, legal implications, or police procedure.
So here's a little introduction:
For those that do not know, I have been a police officer for 17+ years, the last 16 have been with Raritan Township in Hunterdon County. While it's a relatively safe town of 22,000 people, it is spread over a large geographical area of 38 square miles that encompasses a little bit of everything: three state highways, dirt roads, working farms, dense apartment and condo complexes, the third largest high school in the state (3,000 kids), and the only hospital in the county.
Even in Hunterdon County, I have handled just about every kind of call imaginable. Murder. Rape. Bank robbery. Officer-involved shooting. Suicide. Fatal car accidents. Officer killed in the line of duty. I have delivered two babies (both girls; the first is entering high school in the fall), worked during hurricanes (Floyd, Irene, and Sandy), and tornadoes (well, singular...I think the other weather event was ruled straight-line winds). Oddly enough, I was the first officer on scene at a plane crash and a hot air balloon crash.
So on to the incident that prompted this blog...