Speaking of rats,

I did a little time on the thin blue line once. On one of my first night out alone in a cruiser, I was rolling slowly through a rough neighborhood with the lights out and the windows down. It was about two am when I saw another police cruiser parked in the community center parking lot. I thought it was some officer pulled over napping or worse. It was not the kind of place you wanted to fall asleep.

I was about to move in when I heard the pop sound. It wasn't loud enough to be a pistol and I hadn't seen any muzzle flash so I kept watching. Being new you don't want to rush in and get laughed at.

I heard the pop again, then a very slight pinging sound. I kept watching and after about fifteen minutes I figured it out. One of the other cops was shooting rats from the dumpster with a pellet rifle. I always laugh when I remember how relieved I was and yet how disturbing it was to have to fill in with that guy on calls after I knew. I never mentioned it to anyone on the PD. I had no idea how it would be received. Just a little oh rats memory lol

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