I am not talking dirty, get your mind out of the gutter. I am serious, nothing is simple or easy any more. The more we evolve as a people the more we put ourselves reliant on technology and communications devices and gone are the days of paper and pen. I know some agencies still keep the paper and pen handy or still use it as primary record keeping. I had an incident for a subject who was having vehicle problems after "falling asleep at the wheel" coming from a second party. I dispatched an officer to the area. Upon arriving the officer located vehicle off the roadway in a field. The officer requested an ambulance to check the subject out. Meanwhile he called me on the phone to check for jurisdiction. After discussing his location with him as best I could since there were no clear landmarks and the jursidictional limits are like a zig-zag in the area, I made the call that I believed it to be outside our patrol area. I advised I would contact the other agency. I got on the phone, and notified them, and they sent an officer out while my officer waited on scene. Before long another officer arrived with the 1st from our agency. Then another went en route to the location. I was scratching my head at the desk thinking what are they doing. Then the Sgt was requested to the location by the 1st officer and the other agency arrived on scene. The ambulance transported a subject from the scene and a tow was called. I spoke with the officer later on who advised the guy had drove off the roadway across another side road, into a field and nose down towards a dry pond bed, and had air bag deployment. Wow, what a way to wake up!
Later on in the shift an officer makes a traffic stop and within a few minutes is doing a field sobriety check of the driver. Another officer arrives on scene to back him up. The next traffic I have is from the 2nd officer advising the 1st has 1 subject in custody. The 1st officer then asks for the normal court date, time of stop, etc. He brings the subject to the station and place him in a holding room. He advised he was going to be cooperative. A little later as the officer is assembling all the papers for his tickets, and reports the subject starts running his mouth. About "Yeah you guys read me my rights, but I didn't get my freaking phone call, I am going to sue you. I want to call my mom, I am going to sue everyone." This coming from a guy with no job, in his middle 30's, who has no job and is just generally a person who goes around running his mouth and getting into trouble I got a good laugh out of it. He had only been in there about 10 minutes. Later while the officer asked him if he was diabetic, he stated no. Then when he was asked about taking insulin, he said yes, Dilantin. I nearly fell out of my chair. "I take it in the morning and at night." The officer went on with some questions and then the subject when asked what medications he is on stated again, Dilantin. The officers aske what it was for, and he replied for his seizures. He last took it in the morning and takes it at bedtime too. But he wouldn't be taking it tonight because he had been drinking, and it causes problems if you drink with it. I enjoy work on days like this when we deal with idiots. When he blew into the machine to check his alcohol intoxication, I believe it was 0.20+ The legal limit is .08, this guy was nearly 3 times over. We have dealt with this guy so much it is crazy. He calls up drunk, and then when you place him on hold to get an officer on the phone with him, he hangs up, or he says "If you guys won't deal with it, I will call the state police." We are always picking on him anytime the officers arrest him.
I am pretty wore down today. I slept well yesterday I thought, but maybe too well. It was a nice day and I enjoyed it. But at the end of the week I am exhausted. I hope next week will hold some good stories to share.
Later on in the shift an officer makes a traffic stop and within a few minutes is doing a field sobriety check of the driver. Another officer arrives on scene to back him up. The next traffic I have is from the 2nd officer advising the 1st has 1 subject in custody. The 1st officer then asks for the normal court date, time of stop, etc. He brings the subject to the station and place him in a holding room. He advised he was going to be cooperative. A little later as the officer is assembling all the papers for his tickets, and reports the subject starts running his mouth. About "Yeah you guys read me my rights, but I didn't get my freaking phone call, I am going to sue you. I want to call my mom, I am going to sue everyone." This coming from a guy with no job, in his middle 30's, who has no job and is just generally a person who goes around running his mouth and getting into trouble I got a good laugh out of it. He had only been in there about 10 minutes. Later while the officer asked him if he was diabetic, he stated no. Then when he was asked about taking insulin, he said yes, Dilantin. I nearly fell out of my chair. "I take it in the morning and at night." The officer went on with some questions and then the subject when asked what medications he is on stated again, Dilantin. The officers aske what it was for, and he replied for his seizures. He last took it in the morning and takes it at bedtime too. But he wouldn't be taking it tonight because he had been drinking, and it causes problems if you drink with it. I enjoy work on days like this when we deal with idiots. When he blew into the machine to check his alcohol intoxication, I believe it was 0.20+ The legal limit is .08, this guy was nearly 3 times over. We have dealt with this guy so much it is crazy. He calls up drunk, and then when you place him on hold to get an officer on the phone with him, he hangs up, or he says "If you guys won't deal with it, I will call the state police." We are always picking on him anytime the officers arrest him.
I am pretty wore down today. I slept well yesterday I thought, but maybe too well. It was a nice day and I enjoyed it. But at the end of the week I am exhausted. I hope next week will hold some good stories to share.