"Ghost writer" wrote:

Our local cops take a real ribbing on various
things... donut shop, etc. IF you're not using
it to insinuate something, they could care less
and roll right along with you on the jokes.
They too are human and like to poke fun.
They get their job done and they do it well.
There are a few who don't like them, but gee,
can you guess who the crowd consists of?
Those who've been busted.


Oh, I agree. Most of the cops I've met are pretty decent fellows. I got to
know a lot of the local cops one summer after I started grilling late at
night after work (two or three in the morning). Obviously, it wasn't long
before cops started driving by to see what the heck I was doing. That
eventually led to passing conversations and even to several getting out of
their cars to talk for a while. On some nights, I had three or four police
cars parked in front of my house and five or six officers sitting around the
yard talking. A couple of them even started bringing hamburger, buns, and so
on, to throw on the grill.

Of course, all of this led to some very strange looks from people driving
by (perhaps because the cops were just sitting around - a cop in uniform
grilling in the middle of the night may have looked a little strange also),
and questions from some of the neighbors, but I didn't care - I had the
safest house in town while they were there. I also knew more about what was
going on around town than most. And, finally, I also got the radio
frequencies for every police, fire, and law enforcement, agency in this part
of the State (including many frequencies I didn't even know about) and lists
of the codes they used.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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