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A guy on my squad had a patrol car with serious issues. His car had 110,000 miles, always needed a jump and was generally a rolling heap of crap.
Finally, his car died last month and Fleet Management decided to give him a new cruiser. He was happy, as he should have been.
Fast forward to this afternoon:
He said to me when we got to work this morning, “Hey Dash, I gotta go to Fleet to get my new car. Drive me over there please?”.
No problem.
After a long drive we arrived and he picked up the keys to his fully decked out, brand new cruiser with all the bells and whistles, LED lights.. the whole nine.
I said to him, “Don’t get used to that new car smell, with your luck you’ll either wreck it leaving the lot or have someone die in the back seat”.
Well, sure as hell, later that day he arrested some guy with a fugitive warrant and was transporting him to headquarters for verification… when he started smelling something vile.
His prisoner, despite the back windows being down and driving on the highway, decided the back of my partners new police cruiser would be the best place to re-examine his jerk chicken lunch.
The prisoner re-examined his lunch all over the door, seat, floor and Plexiglas.
Long story short, Hazmat cleaned out a cruiser with less then 100 miles on it and my partners new car smell was replaced with a new ar air freshener.
At least he got the first Dent/Scratch/Hazmat call for his car out of the way early on…
On a related note, my car has $15,000 in repairs needed as of yesterday, along with 100,000 miles.. I might get a new car shortly as well.
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