Woke up yesterday afternoon about 1:30 PM and a text message from the woman. Just 4 words. "I'm in the hospital". Panic.
Tried calling. No answer. Finally...after about 20 tries, she answers. 2 girls got into a fight. A male officer attempted to break it up. She joins the fray in an attempt to break it up. She get's knocked down hard. Taken to the ER as a precaution. X-rays. Nothing broken but she's sore. And she has been put off duty Thursday and Friday and possibly Monday. I'm going to go visit her Friday morning after work. Her planned retirement in January can't come soon enough.
Humans! This nearly happened to me a number of years ago and I wasn't even a police officer. Two (female) acquaintances were fighting and I decided to step in and try and break it up before it got ugly. I got the point when an attempt to punch me in the face brushed the end of my nose. At this point I stepped down, let them finish off and went home with my other half. My wife got a text message later saying they had made up and were best of friends again. The next morning, one of my colleagues at the time informed me that this had escalated again after that and one had bottled the other one in the face resulting in "life changing injuries"
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At this point we decided socialising was a silly idea.
Edit: also I decided never to socialise with people you work with.
Edit 2: True story. A medium sized software company I was working for about 15 years ago, someone fell off a boat at a boat party and drowned. Everyone in tears the next morning so I cheerfully said "hey we don't have to buy as many Windows CALs next refresh now". This stopped me being invited to any social events. Tactical move that played off well that.
You're too nice. I'd keep it out of spite. ![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xevil.gif.pagespeed.ic.tdrs7Uj5gu.png)
Yep, I think I would as well unless you have to sign for it.
The public record has to state that it will be returned
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