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It's 2 AM Saturday morning, a guy walks into the store requesting to use the phone.
We have a store policy that disallows customers to use the company phone unless it's an absolute emergency, only we make the emergency calls ourselves for them.
He explains he just got out of the county jail and needs to call a buddy to come and pick him up from our store. I explained to him what our store policy is and apologized that he cannot use our phone.
He asked where the payphones are. I explained to him we no longer have payphones in our store property anymore. He asked, "Why not?" and I answered to him that cell phone technology is putting payphones out of business. The nearest pay phone that I know still exists is clear at the other end of town, which would be nearly an hour's walk from the station.
SC: "Fuck that, man. Lemme use your phone"
Me: "I'm sorry, sir. But I cannot allow you to use our store phone."
Then he starts berating me for not allowing him to use the phone, so I asked him to leave.
As he's walking towards the door, he had to put the final word towards me by say, "I"m gonna kick your skinny white ass!" and out the door he went.
So I picked up the phone and called police. While I am talking to the dispatcher, I watch him flailing his arms in the air, with his head bobbing up and down which is obvious that he's cussing up a storm.
His behavior catches the eye of a police officer who just happen to come around the corner into the main street from the highway. The officer stops his vehicle right then and there. The officer gets out of the vehicle and motions the man to come towards him, obviously wanting to know what's up with the guy and why he's acting so hyped up about.
When I finished telling my story to dispatch, the dispatcher then relays to the police radio which gets the attention of the officer who's talking to the hyped up guy. I see him grab his radio piece attached to his shoulder, then motions the guy to put his hands on the hood of his vehicle.
While he's frisking the guy, another police vehicle pulls up and stops behind the other officer's vehicle and gets out. The officer who's frisking the guy pulls out his cuffs and slaps them around the hyped up guy's wrists, then walks him to a curb and sat him down.
Then the two officers have a little chat and then walks to the hyped up guy and have a chat with him as well.
Then the arresting officer walks back to his vehicle, sits in his seat, I see his arms reaches out to his laptop computer which is an indicator that he's running a check on him.
Then he gets out of the vehicle and picks up the hyped up guy and puts him into the back of his vehicle. Then both officers leave. This was around 2:25 AM as I looked at the phone clock.
By the time the polices reaches the county jail, the hyped up guy had about approx. 30 mins worth of freedom!
The officer came back around 3 AM and had some paperwork for me to fill out since I called to complain about this guy's behavior. So while I am doing the paper work, I find out from the officer that the guy had a warrant for his arrest from another county.
At first I was puzzled as to why the county jail didn't catch that before they released him. He explained that not ALL systems are tied together. The county that had that warrant for his arrest isn't tied to our county's system. At least not yet. Every city and county has different budgets, so some are behind the times with others who try to stay up to the times tech wise.
I give the nice officer some free coffee as a thank for being around to take care of things and he leaves.
5 AM, the Captain of the county jail, who's been covering a sick J.O. (Jail Officer) walks into my store decidedly to have fun by giving me a hard time for calling in the hyped up guy as he was the one that let him out at 2 AM. I sarcastically cried into my hands saying, "I'm sorry! I"m sorry!"
He read my complaint when the officer dropped off a copy of it for the hyped up guy's arrest records. He told me his little story when he booked him out of jail that he asked the guy, "You're not coming back now, are ya?" "Uh, no officer, I'm not coming back."
30 mins later, the Captain turns around and he gasps, "What are you doing back here???"
Fun times, fun times.
We have a store policy that disallows customers to use the company phone unless it's an absolute emergency, only we make the emergency calls ourselves for them.
He explains he just got out of the county jail and needs to call a buddy to come and pick him up from our store. I explained to him what our store policy is and apologized that he cannot use our phone.
He asked where the payphones are. I explained to him we no longer have payphones in our store property anymore. He asked, "Why not?" and I answered to him that cell phone technology is putting payphones out of business. The nearest pay phone that I know still exists is clear at the other end of town, which would be nearly an hour's walk from the station.
SC: "Fuck that, man. Lemme use your phone"
Me: "I'm sorry, sir. But I cannot allow you to use our store phone."
Then he starts berating me for not allowing him to use the phone, so I asked him to leave.
As he's walking towards the door, he had to put the final word towards me by say, "I"m gonna kick your skinny white ass!" and out the door he went.
So I picked up the phone and called police. While I am talking to the dispatcher, I watch him flailing his arms in the air, with his head bobbing up and down which is obvious that he's cussing up a storm.
His behavior catches the eye of a police officer who just happen to come around the corner into the main street from the highway. The officer stops his vehicle right then and there. The officer gets out of the vehicle and motions the man to come towards him, obviously wanting to know what's up with the guy and why he's acting so hyped up about.
When I finished telling my story to dispatch, the dispatcher then relays to the police radio which gets the attention of the officer who's talking to the hyped up guy. I see him grab his radio piece attached to his shoulder, then motions the guy to put his hands on the hood of his vehicle.
While he's frisking the guy, another police vehicle pulls up and stops behind the other officer's vehicle and gets out. The officer who's frisking the guy pulls out his cuffs and slaps them around the hyped up guy's wrists, then walks him to a curb and sat him down.
Then the two officers have a little chat and then walks to the hyped up guy and have a chat with him as well.
Then the arresting officer walks back to his vehicle, sits in his seat, I see his arms reaches out to his laptop computer which is an indicator that he's running a check on him.
Then he gets out of the vehicle and picks up the hyped up guy and puts him into the back of his vehicle. Then both officers leave. This was around 2:25 AM as I looked at the phone clock.
By the time the polices reaches the county jail, the hyped up guy had about approx. 30 mins worth of freedom!
The officer came back around 3 AM and had some paperwork for me to fill out since I called to complain about this guy's behavior. So while I am doing the paper work, I find out from the officer that the guy had a warrant for his arrest from another county.
At first I was puzzled as to why the county jail didn't catch that before they released him. He explained that not ALL systems are tied together. The county that had that warrant for his arrest isn't tied to our county's system. At least not yet. Every city and county has different budgets, so some are behind the times with others who try to stay up to the times tech wise.
I give the nice officer some free coffee as a thank for being around to take care of things and he leaves.
5 AM, the Captain of the county jail, who's been covering a sick J.O. (Jail Officer) walks into my store decidedly to have fun by giving me a hard time for calling in the hyped up guy as he was the one that let him out at 2 AM. I sarcastically cried into my hands saying, "I'm sorry! I"m sorry!"
He read my complaint when the officer dropped off a copy of it for the hyped up guy's arrest records. He told me his little story when he booked him out of jail that he asked the guy, "You're not coming back now, are ya?" "Uh, no officer, I'm not coming back."
30 mins later, the Captain turns around and he gasps, "What are you doing back here???"
Fun times, fun times.
"bonding out a foolish friend". I bet there's a hell of a story behind THAT one.
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