Injured on duty...again

[Aussie George]

Well last night I got hurt...again!!

This time I fractured my right terminal phalanx....

That's right, my pinkie finger!!

How pathetic.

But you should have seen the other guy!!

[retdetsgt]

And you broke it saving a nubile 22 year old blonde from a 18 foot saltwater crocodile?

C'mon, give us the rest of the story!

[Aussie George]

Our town is a half hour drive from our Headquarters in the nearest city. So me and my partner are running some urgent paperwork into town to the court house when we hear a call go out for any patrol to go and locate a stolen vehicle. A neighbour has called it in that they know of a SMV in a back yard.

There was no-one available. Staff shortages are nuts here at the moment and this was one of the problems. A K-9 unit was going by himself but we suspected more than one suspect and if they ran it was not ideal. We decided to go and assist although we were miles from home.

When we located the right house (Comms initially gave us the wrong address) two officers entered the back yard and my partner and I went in through the front.

We stormed the place and got everyone outside and cleared the house.

Three males (one white, two black - this is important later) and a female. The female was a belligerent, annoying POS as was the white guy. The two black guys were not quite so bad initially but bordering on it.

Anyway, the female grabs her mobile and I tell her to hang up. I feared she might be calling others that might be getting rid of evidence etc. After a little "debate" she reluctantly put it down...just about a second before I arrested her.

I reached over to pick it up and one of the black guys goes to grab it and starts yelling at me that I have no right to tell her what to do etc etc.

I grab the phone and he starts trying to grab it off me. I felt a snap and then advised him he was under arrest for obstruct and yanked him off the couch he was sitting on, placed him gently against a pole...then a wall...then cuffed him...then against my car...and then assisted him into my car. The whole time my finger is yelling, "STOP USING ME!!!!"

During the struggle the other black guy jumps to his feet to help his mate, and finally one of the other officers tells him to sit down. No-one bothered help me restrain the first guy or cuff him, despite it obvious I was having trouble doing both.

There may have been some profanities too!!

Who would have thought a finger could hurt so much.

Anyway, I get everyone's names as it appears not one of the other cops there were capable of so much as getting their notebooks out, and lo and behold, the other black guy is wanted in relation to a stolen car (not to mention the one in the backyard, that no-one knows anything about).

I then go back up onto the porch and cuff that guy and march him to another car (still no-one else seems to want to do anything.)
Finally Detectives arrive and I show them to the car and point out that there is glass in the back and the tail lights are smashed. I guess it has been involved in some ram raids. They confirm it did and the witnesses state two aboriginals (black guys) were seen in it, presumably the two I have just binned!!

The white guy (who is sort of dark looking until you gut up close) is all mouth and just wont shut up. I was starting to lose my cool with him so I suggested I take my prisoner to the watch house and then get my hand looked at. I left the Det's in charge.

This morning I looked the job up, and see that the second black guy I arrested put his hand up to all the offences and admitted it all, but it was not the first black guy I locked up that was with him. He nominates a co-accused, however he only knew him as Jim SMITH (names have been changed to protect the guilty SOB's).

I see that in the report it appears that no-one worked out who Jim SMITH was...at which point I sent an email saying surely someone worked out that the white guy who was at the house, whose name is James SMITH, just might be the man they were looking for!!!

Freakin' amateurs!!!

No doubt they will work it out and can go pick him up, but it was a joke that I was the last person who should have been at that job and I was the only one who seemed to do anything!!! And now I get a couple of weeks light duties and a busted finger for my troubles!!!

[Aussie George]

And you broke it saving a nubile 22 year old blonde from a 18 foot saltwater crocodile?

C'mon, give us the rest of the story!

HA! I wish!!

[retdetsgt]

I know how that hurts. When I was young and even less bright than today, I was on a call regarding an unwanted adult son who was on drugs and tearing up the parents' house. I got there and he came down the stairs and it appeared I might be able to talk to him.

Well, when he reached the bottom of the stairs, he made a fist and started drawing back his arm. After hours and hours of defensive training, I chucked it all and did what I knew best. I hit him with a right cross, but he ducked his head just a little so instead of hitting him in the face, I connected with the top of his forehead. I immediately knew I broke a bone and hoped to hell he didn't get up. He didn't and I was able to get him cuffed, but I broke the metacarpal of the ring finger of my right hand.

[Aussie George]

You don;t realise how hard it is to do things with even just the tip of your little finger busted!!! Things like tuck in your pants, or hold a pen, or wipe your...well you know!!!

It is my right hand too!!!

[retdetsgt]

Yep, that made me realize just how right handed I was.

It's really odd because I use an ax, shovel and bat baseball and shoot pretty good left handed, but I can barely button a shirt or anything else like that with my left hand.

[greg72982]

You don;t realise how hard it is to do things with even just the tip of your little finger busted!!! Things like tuck in your pants, or hold a pen, or wipe your...well you know!!!

It is my right hand too!!!

I guess there goes your sex life for a while...

[mcsap]

I fractured my right thumb about a year and a half ago ( and I am right handed). That hurt for almost a YEAR !

[ChesCopPodz]

Hell, I didn't even break anything in my right thumb when i sprained the hell out of most of the ligaments in it last summer, and it still hurts when I put pressure on it just the right way (like using one of those push button opening storm doors on the side of my house) a year and a half later.

[MikeG]

So after all that, it comes down to some guy broke your finger with a cell phone? I thought only Chuck Norris could do that.

Was it one of those deadly flip phones or a slider? Please tell us it wasn't an iPhone.

[Samuel]

Great job George, heal up quick but make sure you're good enough before you go back full duty (and make your slap partners do some work while you're off IOD)...

[Aussie George]

I guess there goes your sex life for a while...

You been talking to my wife?

[Aussie George]

I fractured my right thumb about a year and a half ago ( and I am right handed). That hurt for almost a YEAR !

Thanks. That's very comforting to know!!

[Aussie George]

So after all that, it comes down to some guy broke your finger with a cell phone? I thought only Chuck Norris could do that.

Was it one of those deadly flip phones or a slider? Please tell us it wasn't an iPhone.

Chuck Norris is my homeboy...and I got the shirt to prove it