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To tow away the car whose owner had inexplicably chosen--out of a whole long big street full of empty free parking spots--to park directly square in front of our driveway.
Time before that, they were making sure we were okay. The house alarm had gone off at 3 in the morning and when I came downstairs I found the back door hanging open and footprints in the sand at the back door. Before they even arrived, I'd both calmed down and woken up, and realized they were lurkette's footprints, and that the door had probably not been latched and had just blown open. Still, I'd already asked the alarm company to fetch the cops. so I had them poke around the back yard a little just in case.
Time before that they wanted to pull down a very small tree that had blown over in our side-yard and was blocking a lane of traffic. I say "tree", it was a very very overgrown weed, with nasty two-inch thorns. The guy said, "Hey! I've got these gloves that are supposed to be impenetrable! Let's try 'em out!" He put his fancy gloves on, pulled that thing the rest of the way out of the ground, and dragged it to the curb for trash collection.
Our city cops are GREAT. Every single time I've interacted with them they've been pleasant, generous with their time, and highly professional.
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