A few stupid calls

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We have had a deer that runs around our city for the past few years that

has an arrow in its back. The wound has seemed to heal around the arrow

and the deer doesn't seem to be adversely affected by the arrow as it

has been running around the city for quite awhile. Still, we get calls

on this all the time. People want us to come out and tranquilize the

deer and take tbe arrow out or just take the deer away. I try to

explain to them that a) it nearly impossible to get someone out the

tranquilize the deer that this deer has been like this for several

years and doesn't seem to be bothered by it c) that the deer is not

going to run out into traffic because it has been distracted.

Nevertheless, people get indignant when we don't do something about it.

Like a previous reply, we have quite a few transplanted city folks that

just don't understand country life.

Another animal story that occurred before I started working for the

department. We had a college student that called in about a oppossum

that had been struck by a car and was lying in the street. She wanted

us to come and take the animal to a vet so that it could be fixed up.

Now, most of you know, for a call like this most of us would go and put

the animal out of its misery humanely and explain to the complainant

that there really isn't anything we can do. The veteran officer with an

attitude problem that was sent didn't quite see it that way. He was

rather annoyed that he was being assigned to such a stupid call. When

he arrived, he called that he was " Code 9 " (meaning he had arrived) and,

without unkeying the mike, the next thing that was heard was the sound

of the cruiser rapidly accelerating and something going under the tires

and the words " Code 8, Service " (meaning activity was completed and

service was rendered). Unfortunately for him, the complainant was

standing by the oppossum and was not amused. She called to complain and

the officer bought a day off. It was not completely undeserved.

One other stupid call, this one from the mental department. We had one

of our frequent fliers call in the other day and complain because the

sun was shining in her window. She was rather annoyed because it wasn't

shining in anyone else's window and this just didn't happen in the town

she came from.

Sometimes you just have to wonder.

Charlie

Southwest Ohio