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Had one hell of a week. Had two different occurrences. One was a large drunk man who decided he wanted to come after my partner and I. Resulted in panic alarms being activated and a rather rough scuffle trying to keep him from tearing one of our heads off.
Second was while posted near the end of our shift, all blacked out with only the map light on so I could chart and my partner could nap. Next thing you know a woman climbs in the box. We both get out and each go to a different door to find out what the heck is going on. Tried to be nice and find out if there was something we could help her with and she goes absolutely ballistic. Yelling and screaming at us, getting in my face and pointing her finger at me, thought she was going to hit me but she thought better of it and didn't touch either of us.
By this point I was fed up and requested PD, non emergent, and she heard that and bolts. We give a description and direction of travel and go back to what we were doing. PD shows up takes a report and we go home, they hooked her later and we had to go back out to ID her and do some paperwork, luckily we were already buried in PCRs and were still on the clock two hours after our shift ended.
Pressed charges on her, didn't on the first guy though.
Thankfully we made it out of both mostly unscathed.
My questions are:
1) has anyone ever had this happen to them? If so, how did you handle it?
2) why does there seem to be this whole "just let it go" mindset when it comes to stuff like this? Had a few people at work tell me I shoulda just dropped the subject and let her walk off... Sure it's not violent but that's my office, I don't go barging into other people's offices and start berating them and cussing them out.
3) in regards to the drunk gentleman that wanted to have a go, would you have pressed charges? Like I said, we didn't on the basis that he was extremely drunk and had the "lights are on but no one is home" look going. Had one of us been hurt it'd be a different story but we both escaped with minor cuts bruises and scrapes, thankfully.
4) this guy was dead set on fighting us, many said we should have booked it back to the unit and drove off rather than going hands on with him but that would have meant separating since he was in between us.
Hindsight is 20/20, both were learning experiences and I have my thoughts on what I'd do differently, just wondering all of y'all's opinions.
Stay safe out there boys and girls, the summer heat is bringing out the crazies.
Second was while posted near the end of our shift, all blacked out with only the map light on so I could chart and my partner could nap. Next thing you know a woman climbs in the box. We both get out and each go to a different door to find out what the heck is going on. Tried to be nice and find out if there was something we could help her with and she goes absolutely ballistic. Yelling and screaming at us, getting in my face and pointing her finger at me, thought she was going to hit me but she thought better of it and didn't touch either of us.
By this point I was fed up and requested PD, non emergent, and she heard that and bolts. We give a description and direction of travel and go back to what we were doing. PD shows up takes a report and we go home, they hooked her later and we had to go back out to ID her and do some paperwork, luckily we were already buried in PCRs and were still on the clock two hours after our shift ended.
Pressed charges on her, didn't on the first guy though.
Thankfully we made it out of both mostly unscathed.
My questions are:
1) has anyone ever had this happen to them? If so, how did you handle it?
2) why does there seem to be this whole "just let it go" mindset when it comes to stuff like this? Had a few people at work tell me I shoulda just dropped the subject and let her walk off... Sure it's not violent but that's my office, I don't go barging into other people's offices and start berating them and cussing them out.
3) in regards to the drunk gentleman that wanted to have a go, would you have pressed charges? Like I said, we didn't on the basis that he was extremely drunk and had the "lights are on but no one is home" look going. Had one of us been hurt it'd be a different story but we both escaped with minor cuts bruises and scrapes, thankfully.
4) this guy was dead set on fighting us, many said we should have booked it back to the unit and drove off rather than going hands on with him but that would have meant separating since he was in between us.
Hindsight is 20/20, both were learning experiences and I have my thoughts on what I'd do differently, just wondering all of y'all's opinions.
Stay safe out there boys and girls, the summer heat is bringing out the crazies.