Saturday, July 30, 2005

not much to report this week.

Another day another Dollar, This week was fairly boring actually. We had a few DUI's and a couple or traffic accidents. One incident stands out this week though. I was called to go into the next county and assist on the Highway, because both State Police and all the officers in that county were busy on other things and couldn't make it.

     It was only about a mile into their county, anyway. This car was parked right in the middle of the highway, with no lights on. Luckily someone had stopped behind them and turned on their flashers. I walked up to the car and had to wake this guy up. He was actually drooling. When i yelled at him he suddenly jumped up and tried to start his car and drive off. I took his keys away from him and tried to smell any alcohol. I could smell a little bit but not much. I called for an ambulance to make sure this guy wasn't diabetic or something like that. He wasn't but it was not adding up. We ran him through the field tests, and he failed but not that bad. Anyway. It seems that the guy had a seizure, and passed out. He had driven thought eh median on the highway 5 times, tore the drivers side mirror off his car on something we still don't know what. Almost crashed into several cars and then he just simply stopped his car and went to sleep.

     Crazy stupid drunk drivers that's all i have to say.

Friday, July 22, 2005

St. Anthony Car show

     Went to a Car Show today. Saw some pretty amazing cars. We also got a chance to go ot a very nice shop. Saw a gt 500, and a Judge, Very cool Cars. The yellow Mustang there is supposed to be the only yellow GT 500. Anyway take a look at the cars very nice.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Day shifts Uhg!

     Yep, just as the title says, Day shifts are no fun. This week i worked Monday through Thursday, 6am to 6pm. Long days. It's seems twice as long when all the brass is in the office. It is also longer on a weekday shift, because you get a lot of monotonous complaints. The "my nieghbors dog peed on my lawn" complaints. It's a lot of busy work, and a lot of traffic stops. (I like the traffic stops)

     This week was pretty busy, nothing really exciting though. It was thos monotonous calls I already mentioned. So this weeks blog will be short and sweet.

 

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Runaway's

     Well this week was filled with runaway juvinile's. I sent many hours way on the west side of hte county. A hispanic family were missing there 17 year old daughter. They were convinced she had been kidnapped by a guy that liked her. I tried and tried to get some real evidence that there may have really been a kidnapping, but there just wasn't any. I finally found the girl, in another county. she admitted to me she had run away on her own accord.

Saturday, July 9, 2005

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If anyone knows how i get this to be a permanant piece of my site, I would love to get a comment from you. Right now it's just a blog entry wich is nto really what i had in mind.

 


Friday, July 8, 2005

Kenneth gets Baptized

     Tomorrow my son will be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am very excited, and a little nervous, because i will be performing the baptism and the confirmation. I don't feel worthy, but i have been working very hard to make myself that way. I am mostly excited, because my son is such a good boy. He makes me proud every day, and I really hope he stays the way he is right now forever.

 

Congratulations Kenneth, and good luck in life. Remember to always pray.

Drowning

     This week was very busy, I worked the 4th of July weekend. Lot of fireworks complaints, and  a lot of Drunk Drivers. The one thing that stands out in my mind is a crash. I think i will probably remember this one until I die. A Hispanic man was driving down the road, he had a blood alcohol content of 2.5, which is very high. He ran off the road hit a power pole, breaking it in half. Then his pickup tipped upside down and landed in a canal full of fast running water. The power pole landed on top of truck, causing hot wires to be in the water.

     When i arrived there was only one other person on the scene. I wanted to jump in the water so bad, to try and pull this guy out. I knew logically i would probably only end up hurting myself, but i really had to fight the urge to jump in. Eventually we got other emergency workers there. we got the power lines cut, and we used a tow truck to pull the pickup semi upright. The dive team had a very difficult time getting him out of the pickup, and after watching them i realized that there was no way i could have gotten the man out by myself. They got him out of the water, and immediately started doing CPR. The ambulance transported him to the hospital and he lived for about 12 hours, but did eventually pass away, due to internal injuries. I am very surprised he survived as long as he did , because he was under water for at least 20 minutes and when they pulled him out o the water he was not breathing and he did not have a pulse.

      I spent the entire time trying to calm down his family who showed up just after the emergency crews. They were very excited and upset. I was able to keep them calm and get them to help me by getting in touch with the rest of his family to let them know to go to the hospital.

     I guess this is just another story that shows that you should not drink and drive.. too bad this one didn't have a happy ending in some way.