Tag Archives: stories

A chat with some protesters…

Posted on November 18, 2014 by donofalltrades

Hi protesters, it’s me, Don. Do you remember me? No? I’m a police officer. We’ve met before. Excuse me? Did you say Ferguson? No no no, not there. I’ve only been there a couple of times, but never in riot … Continue reading →

Posted in Police Stories, Stories, The not meant to be funny stuff | Tagged blog, Ferguson, law enforcement, police, prostest, stories | 96 Comments

Answers to your pressing police related questions…

Posted on July 21, 2014 by donofalltrades

Wow, I’m a posting machine here lately, aren’t I? Sorry about that. Anywho, an indeterminate number of days ago, I offered to answer y’all’s (is that the correct usage, Molly?) police officer related questions, since many of you show mild … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Police Stories, Uncategorized | Tagged blogging, humor, police, Q & A, questions, stories | 37 Comments

Grease

Posted on January 25, 2014 by donofalltrades

The tension in the air was palpable. It always is, but it’s worse when the weather is so unbearably hot and the air is thick with humidity. Twelve police officers circled around a slick suited detective in a vacant parking … Continue reading →

Posted in Police Stories, Stories, The not meant to be funny stuff, Uncategorized | Tagged blogging, canines, dogs, fiction, pets, police dogs, stories | 144 Comments

Guest post…a random time i met an interesting woman.

Posted on January 15, 2014 by donofalltrades

Some of my more popular posts are the simple ones where I just talk about an encounter that, for whatever reason, I hadn’t thought about in a while. I shared one with my friend Kristi over on her blog Finding … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Post, Police Stories, The not meant to be funny stuff, Uncategorized | Tagged caring, homeless, homelessness, law enforcement, police, police story, stories | 10 Comments

The beautiful fox…

Posted on November 20, 2013 by donofalltrades

I saw a fox as I was driving and it was neat. I pulled to the side of the road and exited my car. The fox looked at me with a cocked head. I followed the fox into the woods. … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Stories, Uncategorized | Tagged fiction, foxes, funny, humor, Poetry, stories, stupid | 39 Comments

Lots of stuff and a monday funday with G$…

Posted on November 12, 2013 by donofalltrades

When I’m extremely swamped and frustrated at work, I sometimes like to distract myself from doing actual work by whipping out quick posts about nothing in particular so I feel as though I’ve accomplished something. Here’s another one of those … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Parenting, Uncategorized | Tagged bonding, dads, day's off, humor, Lone Elk Park, off days, Parenting, stories, vacation, World Bird Sanctuary | 61 Comments

Siri was a cat before she was a bitch inside your iPhone and I’ll soon be rich…

Posted on November 8, 2013 by donofalltrades

For reasons I’ve never pestered my parents about, I left my perfectly fine public school from second through fifth grade to attend a Catholic school. I went back to the public school to finish up my grade school learnin’ in … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Stories, Uncategorized | Tagged Apple, fun, grade school, humor, kids, reunions, Siri, stories | 38 Comments

Part one of the contest!

Posted on October 2, 2013 by donofalltrades

Hey, at noon today I’ll need your votes, please, for the Blogger Idol contest. In the meantime, please check out one of my favorite bloggers, Kristi from Finding Ninee. She’s allowed me to hang out in her land here today … Continue reading →

Posted in Police Stories, Stories | Tagged arrest, empathy, Finding Ninee, police, stories | 13 Comments

An open letter to the jane q. public i wrote those tickets to…

Posted on August 13, 2013 by donofalltrades

Dear Jane Q. Public: I recently became aware that you took a few minutes out of your life to send an online complaint to my Department’s Internal Affairs Division because you were upset that I would not listen to your … Continue reading →

Posted in Police Stories, Stories, Uncategorized | Tagged law enforcement, loss, open letter, pain, police, stories, tragedy | 337 Comments

How ‘you people’ caused me to incite a mini race riot…

Posted on August 12, 2013 by donofalltrades

My first regular patrol partner and I both joined the police department at about the same time. When we started, we were both green and inexperienced, but, out of necessity, we rode together a lot. Ideally, very new officers would … Continue reading →