Ok I was out in the shed today and found one of my old notebooks from when I worked security. So I got a few more thigns to talk about.
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1) I was on shack duty at a private lake/housing development third shift. The county sheriff's would sometimes stop by to check on things, use our restroom and grab some coffee and BS. Well one night I brought in some jelly donuts for my lunch/snack and had put them in the fridge. One of the deputies drops by and I'm filling out my report when I just good naturedly and sharing say "Oh hey there's some donuts in the fridge if you want any."
Well he didn't exactly take it so well and went totally cold vader voice and said "I don't eat donuts." and stomped out without any coffee or BS. Oops. I did manage to explain things to him later but it was kinda funny, at least to me at the time. BTW some cops are rather sensitive about the donut jokes thing, but some actually find it funny.
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2) Holiday Inn. I'm walking through the restraunt area and see a guy sitting at a booth in the corner. Now its 2 in the morning so I go over and ask him what's going on. He just tells me he's waiting for breakfast since he couldn't sleep. He's not doing anything and doesn't present a threat so I just chekc on him once in a while. He really does wait until breakfast. Very wierd.
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3) Holiday inn again. Had a young lady decide to do some sun tanning by the pool. Topless. Had to ask her to cover up. (unfortunately) Turns out she was from England and forgot that it wasn't cool stateside to do that.
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4) Airport. Vehicle patrol. I come pulling up on a car along the access road with what looks like a body on the ground by the back bumper. Yep it was a body. Guy was drunk pulled over to take a leak and passed out hard core. Thought I'd seen my first DB that night but the paramedics took him off and we had his car towed.
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5) Factory. Office manager come sback askign if I had a spare key for handcuffs one weekend. Turns out he and his secretary where playing some games in the offices and he lost his key. (Don't know why they was using real ones for that!) Gave it to him and didn't ask anything else.
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6) Construction site. Supposedly building is being built on old indian holy grounds. Partner comes screaming up from the basement claiming a flaming wolf ran out of the wall at him. Go back down while he stays upstairs cowering. Never saw anything.
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7) Another construction site. Show up to relieve guard on duty. He is hiding under a tarp in the corner. Claims the VC are coming and to watch out. (Yeah he had a flashback. Not a comfortable moment.) Didn't report him as he was usually quite calm and reliable, just had a moment I guess.
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8) Yet another construction site (do you see a pattern here). Show up to find the on duty guard playing lightsabers with one of his buddies with scrap PVC from the site. Widn up challenging him to a duel and winning.
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9) Back at the holiday inn. Classic car show so we had extra people on hand for the overnight guests cars. Got to sit in a mint 59 caddy when the owner stopped to talk to me. (My most favorite car on earth!)
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10) And yet another construction site. Middle of winter it starts snowing so had a snowball fight with the other guard. (Hey third shift is rather boring and you can't stay stiff and "professional" all the time!) when Post jumper shows up. Wind up gettign him to join in, not exactly by his choice either. :-)
Just a few things from my old notebook where I kept track of things going on around me that didn't quite "need" to be in the official logs but I wanted to have a record of in case it became useful.
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1) I was on shack duty at a private lake/housing development third shift. The county sheriff's would sometimes stop by to check on things, use our restroom and grab some coffee and BS. Well one night I brought in some jelly donuts for my lunch/snack and had put them in the fridge. One of the deputies drops by and I'm filling out my report when I just good naturedly and sharing say "Oh hey there's some donuts in the fridge if you want any."
Well he didn't exactly take it so well and went totally cold vader voice and said "I don't eat donuts." and stomped out without any coffee or BS. Oops. I did manage to explain things to him later but it was kinda funny, at least to me at the time. BTW some cops are rather sensitive about the donut jokes thing, but some actually find it funny.
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2) Holiday Inn. I'm walking through the restraunt area and see a guy sitting at a booth in the corner. Now its 2 in the morning so I go over and ask him what's going on. He just tells me he's waiting for breakfast since he couldn't sleep. He's not doing anything and doesn't present a threat so I just chekc on him once in a while. He really does wait until breakfast. Very wierd.
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3) Holiday inn again. Had a young lady decide to do some sun tanning by the pool. Topless. Had to ask her to cover up. (unfortunately) Turns out she was from England and forgot that it wasn't cool stateside to do that.
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4) Airport. Vehicle patrol. I come pulling up on a car along the access road with what looks like a body on the ground by the back bumper. Yep it was a body. Guy was drunk pulled over to take a leak and passed out hard core. Thought I'd seen my first DB that night but the paramedics took him off and we had his car towed.
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5) Factory. Office manager come sback askign if I had a spare key for handcuffs one weekend. Turns out he and his secretary where playing some games in the offices and he lost his key. (Don't know why they was using real ones for that!) Gave it to him and didn't ask anything else.
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6) Construction site. Supposedly building is being built on old indian holy grounds. Partner comes screaming up from the basement claiming a flaming wolf ran out of the wall at him. Go back down while he stays upstairs cowering. Never saw anything.
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7) Another construction site. Show up to relieve guard on duty. He is hiding under a tarp in the corner. Claims the VC are coming and to watch out. (Yeah he had a flashback. Not a comfortable moment.) Didn't report him as he was usually quite calm and reliable, just had a moment I guess.
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8) Yet another construction site (do you see a pattern here). Show up to find the on duty guard playing lightsabers with one of his buddies with scrap PVC from the site. Widn up challenging him to a duel and winning.
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9) Back at the holiday inn. Classic car show so we had extra people on hand for the overnight guests cars. Got to sit in a mint 59 caddy when the owner stopped to talk to me. (My most favorite car on earth!)
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10) And yet another construction site. Middle of winter it starts snowing so had a snowball fight with the other guard. (Hey third shift is rather boring and you can't stay stiff and "professional" all the time!) when Post jumper shows up. Wind up gettign him to join in, not exactly by his choice either. :-)
Just a few things from my old notebook where I kept track of things going on around me that didn't quite "need" to be in the official logs but I wanted to have a record of in case it became useful.
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