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Funny stories about local police
This more of a funny story about myself, I have been in law enforcement for seventeen years. I need to back up to a month or so before and the night before the story takes place hopefully to redeem myself a little. One night I received a possible burglary in progress call, I arrived on scene and checked the area and the home for any signs of a break in, I found nothing. I returned about three more times that night and also found nothing. The shift sergeant ask me why I kept going back to the house and if I had any proof of anybody actually being at the home, I told him I would wait down the road and see what was going on. The caller called back and said he heard someone on the roof, well I was on the spot and found, drum roll please, nothing. I told the sergeant it was gargoyles and left it at that.

The night before my "encounter" I was at a home that had a man barricaded in the house with 20+ firearms. Prior to arrival it was raining very hard so I had my wipers on high, I exited my vehicle and found a place of cover to watch the house. After an hour of negotiation the suspect surrendered and the scene was clear. I was walking back to my patrol unit with a K-9 officer; we both heard an odd noise coming from my vehicle. As I came closer I saw that my wipers were still on high and it had quit raining for about 30 minutes. There was a big black streak across the windshield, so I knew I needed new wipers. The next day I had completely forgot about the wipers, but it wasn't a problem because it wasn't raining at the time. I remind you at that time and bad wipers.

I was working a 3pm to 1am shift, it was around 12:30 am, and I was in a shopping center parking lot that was partially lit. The shopping center had a movie theatre at the far end so I decided to drive to the entrance and watch the people leave from the theater as a good gesture because it was late. All of a sudden it began to pour the rain, very hard; I turned my wipers on and immediately remembered the wipers were bad. All of the movie goers had left and it was about 12:35 am or so. I thought to myself I could drive to the local gas station that was just a few feet from the parking lot and wait under the awning until the rain quit. I could see the lamp posts so I felt good about the small trip. I began driving at about 20mph in the middle of the parking lot, totally away from the lamp posts; I was almost at the end when I had a tremendous bang and crash come over my police car. I knew it wasn't a lamp post or a car, but what ever it was it knocked my driver's side mirror off caused damage to the driver's side head light. I stopped and got out of the car, my heart was racing, I had no idea what hit me or I hit, I knew it was a gargoyle! I turned on my flashlight and saw a red streak of paint on the driver side of the cruiser, on the other side the left back door had a huge dent in the top of it. I shined my light about ten feet behind my car and saw a piece of tangled metal. As the rain subsided it was clear, it was not a gargoyle, but a metal shopping cart rack, yep the place that you put your empty shopping cart.

The last and hardest thing I had to do was explain to my sergeant what had happened. He came to the scene to take a look, by this time the rain had quit so the sergeant was able to see the scene clearly, that was after he had quit laughing so hard that he was in tears. For a few months after that the entire department would kid by asking me on the police radio to meet them in a parking lot and then finish by telling me the location of the cart returns before I would get there. I'm just glad it wasn't gargoyles!

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