Originally Posted by
TC215
This reminds me of the time a co-worker decided to dispatch an injured cat with a mattock he found in the complainant’s garage, since it was early on a Sunday morning and he didn’t want to disturb all the neighbors. The onlookers were quite horrified when the officer couldn’t get the (still alive and wailing) cat off the end of the mattock and started slinging it about.
Or the time another officer asked a by-stander to lay down on a deer to keep it from moving so she could shoot it with a shotgun. The guy actually laid on it, but luckily another officer showed up and put a stop to it. She didn’t last long at the department (this same officer also popped off two rounds in roll call once).
Or the time an officer killed an injured opossum with an E-tool and found himself covered head-to-toe in opossum blood after he massacred the animal.
This just goes to show how difficult hiring has been for LE in recent years.