People have said that they like my stories about being a police officer. Amanda Rose said I should post this one again so here it is....again. I like the funny ones. I remember checking out the basement under one of our local businesses several years ago. There are tunnels that run underneath the old part of the city. Date back to the 1890's/1900's for moving merchandise and goods. The old streets were dangerous back then. Lots of horses and wagons and no street lights. ...Anyway the tunnels are now dark (very dark) and wet. Doors lead to the tunnels in several businesses and some of the doors haven't been nailed shut. So there I stood. Looking at an open door leading to an inky darkness and a strong damp smell emanating from that doorway and I was a uniformed officer. Yep seen this before. I go in and C.H.U.D.(Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers) gets me. Nope. Don't want to be monster fodder. Everybody knows that the dumb uniformed officer is monster food. I kicked the door shut, went back upstairs where the employees were huddled and told them that everything would be fine. I then spent the rest of my shift waiting for a panicky 911 call and screams. Nothing happened. Whew. Give me an active shooter any day over ghouls and zombies. Then there was the time I almost shot a flock of pigeons..........but that's a story for another day.
A real police story.
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That's intriguing - I want to know more about the pigeons. .
I had one where a detective called because he had seen a guy he knew violating an order of protection issued to a child,the man was not supposed to be near him.Anyway,when the guy saw the detective,he fled into the basement..while the detective was searching the upstairs,I went to the basement,an old abandoned house the guy ran into,very dark..so I am looking around,and just as my flashlight beam reaches the furnace,from behind it comes a sound.."PPPPPPTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" I order the guy out from behind it and am cuffing him when the odeur of the day hits..yeccchhh..I can be scary,but not that scary! Needless to say it was a quick trip to jail with my windows down, hoping for summer breeze to aid the transit..
I love PD humor....
I posted earlier that dark humor was the only thing that would keep those of us on the sharp end of the spear sane. Without that, your only option would be alcohol or drugs. Lol. So your LE, EMTs, ER folks and the like have to find humor where we can. (Grin) Or end up a character in one of King's stories. Having BTDT... I understand.
I posted earlier that dark humor was the only thing that would keep those of us on the sharp end of the spear sane. Without that, your only option would be alcohol or drugs. Lol. So your LE, EMTs, ER folks and the like have to find humor where we can. (Grin) Or end up a character in one of King's stories. Having BTDT... I understand.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
That is one of the coolest stories ever! You just told it Brilliantly! We cant wait to hear about those pigeons, we know you didn't, do, that, 
Looking forward to hearing all of your stories and any Stephen King moments and encounters of which many more may still lie ahead 
like on the night beat, the city is dead and eerie quiet, and youre sitting in your patrol car, all alone ... listening to the oldies ....
Looking forward to hearing all of your stories and any Stephen King moments and encounters of which many more may still lie ahead like on the night beat, the city is dead and eerie quiet, and youre sitting in your patrol car, all alone ... listening to the oldies .... 
Didnt you mentioned the pigeons over in the rip off thread? Yes, do tell!
...Nurses too....
...we have a similar set-up here, need to talk to the property owners about letting us do a ghost hunt.....
Heard several from my Dad (God rest his soul), who was on the Boston P.D. for 40 years.
The best one was when he and his partner were first on the scene at a house-fire. They went in and saved several children from the building before the Fire Department got there. They were both awarded the department medal of honor for that.
There were some gruesome ones as well. Like the one where he and his partner found the charred remains of a homicide victim of one of Boston's worst gang leaders (Darryl Whiting) in the trunk of an abandoned car. The gang leader's street name was God. Whiting was played by LL Cool J in the movie In Too Deep. The movie was based on the book written by the undercover housing authority cop that infiltrated Whiting's gang. They changed the location from Boston to Cleveland for the movie.
The best one was when he and his partner were first on the scene at a house-fire. They went in and saved several children from the building before the Fire Department got there. They were both awarded the department medal of honor for that.
There were some gruesome ones as well. Like the one where he and his partner found the charred remains of a homicide victim of one of Boston's worst gang leaders (Darryl Whiting) in the trunk of an abandoned car. The gang leader's street name was God. Whiting was played by LL Cool J in the movie In Too Deep. The movie was based on the book written by the undercover housing authority cop that infiltrated Whiting's gang. They changed the location from Boston to Cleveland for the movie.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
It makes me laugh every time I read it ! You are the police officer who RIDEs with Stephen King! 
I remember it was that story that inspired this cool photo. (Amanda Rose told me)
".... in this town there arE NO AcCIdENTs! "
