Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ So much for a quiet Sunday

I went to work at 5:30 AM this morning (I'm home on break right now). First call is a wreckless driver southbound Highway 87 coming from O'Donnell (Home of Dan Blocker who used to play Hoss Cartwright!!!). I locate the guy coming into town...only thing he is doing wrong is 104 mph in a 60 mph zone. Chase him all the way through town and he finally stops six miles south of town. Drunk as a skunk...blew a .203 on the breath test at 6:37 AM. Just finished booking him and the second call is a domestic disturbance...get there...female has assaulted her husband...both EXTREMELY intoxicated....she goes to jail at 7:14 AM. Third call is a burglary of a habitation in progress...we get there....get in a two block foot chase (I hate chasing 18 year olds on foot) we get one of the three that ran from the house in custody....he goes to jail at 7:47AM. The last call we went to was another domestic...male assaulted his live in girlfriend....both of them are extremely intoxicated...but the male had left with someone before we got there.....charges are being filed on him. What is up with these knuckleheads today....it's not even a full moon!!!!!!!!! The night shift guys only had four calls each last night and none of them amounted to anything.

By the way....I have a badge and gun for sale....CHEAP!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess you're staying busy at least.

Just stay safe, Officer!

-Bob

Are you shure those nightshift guys are reporting everything?

Are you shure those nightshift guys are reporting everything?

It was just a weird morning...had three wedding parties in town and everyone was partying late last night....except for the moron this morning that was coming from Lubbock.

Man I appreciate you boys in blue.

Here in Maryland Heights our boys wear black

Dont sell your badge or gun, the world needs you

Man I appreciate you boys in blue.

Here in Maryland Heights our boys wear black

Dont sell your badge or gun, the world needs you

We wear the dark navy blue uniforms here....when it's 100 degrees outside with a bullet proof vest on you REALLY feel it. Of course, during the northwest Texas winter when it gets to 10 or 15 degrees with a 30 mph north wind the vest helps as much then as it hurts during the summer. As far as wanting to sell my badge and gun...I think that comes more from being burned out than anything else. I've been pulling extra shifts, extra duty, and working a part time job to save a little money for vacation so I'm just flat tired. I think last week, between my regular job and my part time job I worked a little over 80 hours in a seven day period.

I work on a loading dock from 4:30pm to 12:30am for an air freight company.
The building has a steel roof and keeps all the heat in. I was told the company was going to buy fans for the dock. That was 10 years ago!

I work on a loading dock from 4:30pm to 12:30am for an air freight company.
The building has a steel roof and keeps all the heat in. I was told the company was going to buy fans for the dock. That was 10 years ago!

My first job out of high school was for a company called C&H Die Casting....we made water pumps for Chrysler, some parts for NASA and a whole bunch of parts that I had no idea who they went to. I worked on one of the die casting machines pouring molten aluminum into the die press and casting the parts. The most depressing thing about that job was it was in close proximity to a thermometer and I vividly remember some nights it would get as hot as 120 to 125 degrees. The boiler room where they kept the bulk aluminum would be around 135 to 140 near the vats where the aluminum was melted down. You didn't go in those areas and stay very long....we were warned that exposure to that area for more than three or four minutes at a time could lead to some serious long term health problems, not to mention the equivalent of a bad sunburn. It was a miserable place to work and I wouldn't do it again unless things got really desperate.