Posted on 09/20/2005 7:07:47 PM PDT by N. Theknow
My son is one of the Minnesota Police SWAT officers.
Quite a few typos in the daily recollections. But as one FReeper has stated: "I sacrifice spelling on the altar of speed."
That and cops are lousy typists.
They are not confiscating guns.
Although my son estimates that over 75% of the returnees have them.
Read in the linked thread about visiting some of the NOPD officers houses.
NOPD SWAT travel in packs, thus with us (entire task force) following following we would sometimes have 15 squads in a row. We traveled blacked out (lights off) most of the time. We are getting night vision goggles tonight so that should be easire. In the areas we are patrol there is NO LIGHT at all. We had a full moon with clear skies, so that helped.
Our lead NOPD officer drove us to his house. He was finally able to walk to it through the silt left by the receding waters. He and another NOPD officer went. When they returned he only carried a spare gun, a lock box and a plaque containing police badges from his relatives. That's it! He has lost everything!
Some of the photos will look tike it's raining or snowing. That is the camera flash reflecting off of all the dust flying around. It's from the stuff that was in the water that has now dried. Some of the officers and I are still trying to figure out what country we came to, because this sure can't be the United States.
The smell can best be described as a combination of sewage gas, rotting meat, rotting garbage with a bitterness that stays in your throat.
Thanks for the link. I can follow the goings on more easily. I'll be checking the site later.
By the way, I like your tag line. I think I'll quote it at the next opportunity.
One resident decided to take potshots at anything and everything with his 12 gauge shotgun.
My son said his pharmacist had probably left the man without his necessary meds.
SWAT teams persuaded him to seek alternate entertainment.
Sorry it took me so long to get the thread up but I was waiting for an official Okey-dokey from Junior.
Thanks for this post I sent the link to my brother in AZ...he is a retired Mpls. police officer....God bless our men and women in blue
So your brother went from, "Yeah, but it's a dry cold." to "Yeah, but it's a dry heat?"
Sounds like a normal Sunday morning smell in New Orleans about 35 years ago.
Yeah they really loves it there....he spent enough time directing traffic in those dry cold winters that he now loves to soak up the heat....you know in all the years he was a cop I never heard him complain about his job and he rarely called in sick...I was so proud of the job he did...he was good at it....
LOL
Yep, kinda reminded me of Bourbon Street on Sunday mornings hiking down to Jackson Square for some Café Du Monde Beignets.
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