I am an FTO and Firearms Instructor. When someone screws up on the firing line, I tell them to go find the LT., and get an ID-10-T form so that I can document what they did. (IDIOT) Amazingly, no one has caught on to this yet. The LT. will tell them that he forgot them in his office and tell the troop to go to the Captain for some. The Captain then tells them that if the Instructor doesn't have them, then the Instructor is getting fired.

Another good one is tell someone that slightly messes up to document it on the ba-1100-s form. (balloons)

 

today on the ride home i rolled the stop sign at the end of my street ( why its there i'll never know its dead end) i hear the woop woop and theres a cop pulling me over. he walks up and said i did not see you put your foot down at the stop sign. my reply was i don't put my foot down when driving my car. he smiled and told my to get the hell outta there i drove 5 feet and pulled into my driveway.

 

When my wife went to work at the fire department they called her and told her she had to check the water pressure on a regular basis. There were large gauges in the station house. They had her flushing the toilet and writing down the readings for days before she caught on.

 

I was a rebellious teenager. Dad was a retired (injured in line of duty) cop. Me just being a teenager doing teenager crap messed with him daily.

 

I don't mess with LEO
#1. They are packin loaded firearms, but so do I sometimes.
#2. They are doing a thankless job, but so do I sometimes.
#3. They are under public scrutiny, but so am I sometimes.
#4. They are able to have 50 of their closest buddies show up within 1 minute if the need arises to respond to a call for back-up. Whereas it takes me 1 minute just to get my cell phone out of it's holster. That's why I don't mess with LEO.

 

All good laughs,actually helps a person live longer.We have a young ex LEO working with us and he is a character! Some happy we have people like you doing what needs to be done,and still not forgetting to have a little fun.

 

As far as #2 on your list, sending a new officer to a "man with a gun" call, well the departments I am familiar with would have terminated you for that crap.

 

when I was an admin clerk in the USMC we used to send boots to get ID-10-T's & the Bravo Alpha 1100 November Forms... we also sent them after so many yards of Flight Line... flight line being another name for the flight deck (or the runway)

 

When i was a medic the local LEOs would stop in the station at dinner time most would pitch in for the cost of dinner. How ever this one would stop in every other day and not pitch in. So one day when we knew he was on shift we made a special dish of cow tongue for him. Las t time he ever stopped in for a free meal.

 

When I was in the USCG we would send new guys after fifty feet of shoreline or to get a bucket of relative bearing grease