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I'm frequently teased about being one of the "older" members. One morning I went to the office, started my daily routine and noticed no one else was coming in. I walked outside to see the road LT leaving 3rd District HQ. He looked at me and said, why do they have you working on a holiday. I guess he saw the look on my face because even my offer to buy him breakfast that morning wasn't enough for him to not tell the rest of the folks in my unit. After a good natured ribbing from him, I knew Monday would really be a day I got teased. It was.

Slipping on a wet floor, falling down, being helped up by 2 female Officers and the topper was:  when they helped me up, my pants fell down, they then assisted me in righting my pants.

Early on in my career while patroling one night I went down a dirt road but had been warned not to while or after it had rained. Well here I go and about twenty feet down the road I feel the patrol car sliding more and more towards the large ditch. Once in the ditch I tried to rock the car back and forth and even though I was able to move the distance of the ditch and then to the rear as well I was still stuck. I finally had to call dispatch for a tow truck. But to my surprise the dispatcher already knew of my predicament so he pried it out of me on the radio that I had gotten my own patrol car stuck. Then when the tow truck arrived and couldnt get me out with one tow truck he had to retrieve a second one to pull the tow truck pulling me out. Needless to say dont trust your beloved tow truck driver to keep quiet. By the time the Sheriff came into work that morning I heard him laughing before he even walked into the office. I got razzed for sometime and still do by those who remember the time of the dinosours. But looking back everyone has that moment they wished they could hide under the nearest rock but if we just stand tall and go along with the razzing we actually become better people as well as get closer as a family down at the office. I will never regret that experience. Once of a life time.......

Dispatch called me on the radio to check on my status on checking a suspicios person and my reply was "HQ, I think he's resisting!". We were in fact fighting like hell inside a taxicab at the time with me trying my best to drag him out of it. I heard quite a few remarks asking me what in the heck do I mean "Think he is resisting" LOL Took me a bit to live that down. I really didn't see any need in calling for help as I was winning and was going to win in the end.

0100hrs outside Sears. There is a door that goes into the sanack bar. The bar is closed to the rest of the store by metal scissor curtains. I observe two individuals peek out of the door and say, Oh shit" when they saw me and went back inside. I put it out to dispatch and the pair came ouit of the building. I grabbed my flashligh and unholstered my weapon and directed the pair to put, and keep ther hands on the wall. One of them kept tryin to turn around. I ordered him to comply but he wouldn't so I said "Put your F*****g hands on the wall several times. By this time, the cavalry arrives and the Sgt advises me I had the mike open all along. I was holding the radio and flashlight wit the same hand. While booking my fish, one of the female dispatchers came by and said: "Good show. Joe".

Much like BigO's post, I was in a ditch too on my 3 rd or 4th night on the road (35 yrs ago).  The dispatcher called all units to my location, then called 3 or 4 tow trucks to get me out.  There were lights and coffee everywhere.  How embarrassing that was.  It's an experience I'll never forget.

I had been riding along, and was standing outside of the officer's open door, leaning down and chatting with him. Said good-bye, slammed the door shut... on my own head! Caught my temple with the corner of that door-- YOUCH!!!!!

My first on-duty assault, and I was my own assailant!

Smooth move, Chap!

Trying to bail out of the car at an injury accident with my seat belt still on.  We had happened upon the accident just as we were getting the radio call about it.

It was a head-on wreck in a 35 mph area.  There were a couple of folks wandering around in the middle of the 5 lane street, one of them bleeding profusely from her forehead.

Yep, put car in park-answer radio/notify dispatch it's an injury accident need ambulance, not property damage only as dispatched-turn on overheads-pop trunk lid (for FA bag)-open door-remove seatbelt.  I only forgot one of them in the course of a few seconds.

I was sore for a week!  The other officer said it looked like one of those "Wiley Coyote" moments as I made it about 60% of the way out of the car before the lap/shoulder belt stopped me.

Working the midnight shift and about a year on the job.  Went out of my zone wandering around and into a wooded area known for auto theft dumps.  Hit a stump and blew a tire.  The pool car I was in was missing the jack so I had to call the zone car to come by and help me out.  He did, I got the tire changed and decided I should head back for my zone.  I came around a corner in the woods and saw water ahead and thought..."If I goose it I can make it through that little puddle ---no sweat"  I goosed it and by the time the car quit moving, the water was up to the top of the star on the door.  I grabbed the portable, my shotgun and crawled out the window onto the roof and called for help.  Well the sgt. heard me that time and asked where I was...  {out of my zone] cuz he was having to answer an alarm call in my zone.  The wrecker that was dispatched pulled out about 200' of tow cable to me [the tow driver was unhappy he was getting wet] then found out that his truck was not getting the job done.  A second tow truck was dispatched and hooked in tandem, they finally got me out to the road.  The Sgt. came by and looked at the mobile swimming pool that I now had and told the tow truck driver to deliver the car to my house and that I could spend my three day weekend getting the car serviceable again.  The Sgt. told me too that he had thought about transferring me to the "zone at the end of the world" but the deputy who was working that zone had chosen that night to park his car behind a church in that zone and go riding with the adjoining deputy.  They turned their radio and didn't hear the Sgt. & Comm Center calling them for some four hours.  Needless to say, I stayed inthe hot zone I was working and spent some bucks getting the interior of the pool car detailed and servicable by the time I came 10-8 the next Monday.

I got called out one night to take a statement from a small child in a sexual assault case.  I responded in plain clothes.  The sheriff was there too...after about 5 minutes, with several patrol officers, investigators and civlians present, the sheriff looked at me and said..."Oh hey girl...I didnt recognize you with your clothes on"!!! OMG!!! I havent lived that one down yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back when I was on my first week of training,  my Training Officer and I pull over a vehicle occupied three times.  While talking to the guys I observe a baggie of cocaine on the floorboard.  So one more unit arrives and we pull the drier out and arrest him and put him in the back of the car.  As we walk back to get the second person out to handcuff him, he begins resisting.  So after wrestling with him we get him cuffed and I turn to put him in the back of the car and notice my backseat is unusually empty.......at about this point the oh shit factor kicks in.  Come to realize I had left the back windows down because the last arrestee we had was a stinker.  Well acrobat boy was able to throw himself out the window and run down the street in cuffs by the time we got #2 into the back of the car.  Seems funny now, wasn't so much at the time!

  Working traffic and flashed my lights for a car to just slow down.  The driver  was oblivious, and sped on.  I stopped the offender on a busy Hwy. at prime time, and of course she pulled barely off the roadway after passing numerous parking lots.    Madder than ever I approached, and explained why I was stopping her.  I then said " I  need to see your license, registration, and WHAM!!!!   A car crashed into hers.  I had jumped backwards, and was even more pissed that someone had crashed at my traffic stop.   Unfortunately it was my patrol car, unoccupied that had done the crashing.   Sooopid Murphy!    No ticket for her either.   And too add to it the driver looked at me and said  "What did you do to my car?"     its funny now.

Now this is a topic I can weigh in on with authority... OK, so in my rookie days (stone age for most of you guys) I'm making a traffic stop with my FTO.  After a short well-driven pursuit I'm eating up the "atta-boys" my trainer is doling out as we're getting out to write a few tickets to the violator.  As we're exiting I hear my FTO holler, "oh shit!" and I realize that the car is following us up to the violator vehicle.  I managed to get it stopped inches short of impact but it's NEVER a good idea to leave your car in DRIVE while stepping out for a traffic stop!  Especially in front of your FTO.

I have to agree with Terry, ALWAYS keep a spare uniform.

I was working midnights and responded to a traffic stop where they needed me to do a search of the tallest woman that I had ever seen. We had just gotten dash cams and I forgot all the time they came on. Anyway, i started to search the amazon princess and bent over to search around the bottoms of her pants and heard the worst ripping noise. My coworkers were about to start giving me hell for farting on camera when we realized it was the sound of my pants ripping from crotch to waist. It wasn't so bad that they ripped, it was worse that when they ripped I just happened to be wearing my bright pink hello kitty undies.  All the guys on my shift (i was the only girl) got a good view of my butt. I had to drive home to get a new pair of pants. Which ironicly ripped out the following week while i was getting into the car.

I had my mom double sew the seam on all my pants after that.

I can not believe that I am telling this one...I was sent to a local store where they were holding a teenager (13) for shoplifting. Well I got there and spoke to the manager who did not want to press charges but did want me to have a talk with the parent of the child. So I go back to where the kid is...thinking that I am going to put a good scare in him before taking him home to Mom and Dad. Well i am playing the bad cop and while I am walking him out to the car I am telling him all the stuff that can be done to him....etc.

Well, i get to the car and go to reach for the keys and i can not find them. Now I played it off as long as I could and finally the kid looks at me and said "what you lose the Keys...wonder what your boss is going to say to that" Now the car is running and NO the keys were not in the car..so I call the SGT. on that day and he goes back to the post and gets me the extra set of keys...just as he pulls up with the keys I realize that I had stuck the keys in my belt line like I always do......but this time they slipped past the belt line and into the waist of my pants.

Needless to say after I dug them out the SGT. and I had a long talk about where to put the keys while out of the car and on a call. And everyone in the parking lot of the store that day got a BIG LAUGH on me...well, AT ME.