Raindogblue

Not Theft

 

If you can't pay your bar tab, and use your phone as collateral, you cannot later file a theft report claiming the bartender stole your phone from you. 

 

 

Above the Donut Shop

 

At a No-tell,  above the donut shop, 1066, his trainee,  and I checking on Don. Before we knock, We can hear him screaming at himself at the speed of a blender. 

Don won’t open the door, so we talk to him through it. 

When asked what his diagnosis is? He replies, “Alphabet Soup.” 

Tonight, Don is raging against his Skynet Slumlord and insists “women are evil.” On his door, he has written in Sharpie that women are “whores” and “ignorant cunts.” When asked for the source of his anger, Don shouts he is ashamed his mother circumcised him 60 years ago. 

 

 

A Few Glances at Tonight's Mostly Peaceful Protest

 

 

 

 

Conservatively, the protest caused about $500,000 in damages. I would not be surprised if the real total topped a million.

 

 

 

Fairness

 

On 10th before Ten, El Cid and I are sent to a wreck.

A speeding west bound car ran a red hit  a north bound car and mail box and a parking meter. The impact launched the mail box and the parking meter into a building, cratering the wall.

Downtown is deserted, so no peds were struck. The speeding ca's driver and passenger have cuts and bruises from broken glass and the air bags, but both cars' occupants  can walk away.  

The speeding driver has no license or insurance. Despite a neutral witness's statement, she insists the other driver is at fault. When I ask why she doesn't have insurance, she claims she she just bought the car and no one told her she had to have insurance right away. 

She leaves decrying the unfairness of the older driver, 84 years old, being able to drive away while her totaled car is towed. 

 

 

 

21/LJ

 

The local mega-coffee has lights behind the counter to tell staff if someone has been in the bathroom too long.

The intent is to prevent overdose deaths and other medical issues.

 

 

Medical Transport

 

Yesterday, Mike was in a hospital in Arizona for suicidal ideations.

They gave him a train ticket to the pond.

Tonight, he wanted to cut his wrist under a bridge off 9th.

We put him in an ambulance and sent him to the hospital.

 

 

Claims and Clean Needles.

 

In an alley, in the dark, 1066 and I stop a gal who'd threatened a sandwich shop worker with a hatchet.  She no longer has the hatchet, but she has a bag of clean rigs and unused crank pipe. She claims she clean, but the bulging abscesses, ready to burst, under the track marks on her arms say otherwise. 

 

 

 

Words in the Hall

 

 

In a walk-up, on the 2nd floor, 1066 and I are listening for a whimpering dog on an Animal Call. 

On the door opposite, across the hall, we hear a man say, “Well then, I guess I’ll kill myself ...

I'll  use this dagger and …. cause one point of damage. “

 

1066 and I look at each other. I knock. A young man answers the door. 

 

Are you playing a game?

 

He says, “Yes,” and points to a laptop near the door. 

 

Good. When you say you are going kill yourself loud enough to heard in the hallway, we have to check.

 

 

 

 

Using the Least Force Necessary

 

Why does it take five officers to place a  single 6'3", 200 lb, 30 year old meth addict experiencing excited delirium into custody? 

Under most circumstances, it is the minimum number to take the addict into custody without officers or the subject being injured.

 

 

Downward

 

Peggy’s pissed herself. Sitting in her puddle, she stares up at 1066 and me. She’s soused, dressed in blue paper hospital scrubs. Peggy holds up a dollar. 

 

“Somebody gave this to me. 

 

Why would they do that?”

 

Somebody’s trying help you and you look like you need help. 

 

“I don’t want it! What would I do with it?”

 

Peggy won’t tell us why she was in hospital or where she is supposed to be. 

 

She croaks, “I’m homeless,” but doesn’t want our help. 

 

1066 points out she can’t sit in the entrance of the stop and rob, so we help her to sit along the fence line barricading and abandoned business across the street.