STORY
BEHIND THE POEM FUNK N HYDE
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It was a typical Thursday
night in District 2. Jason Funk, just 2 days graduated from the Academy,
was paired up with Emma Hyde. Emma, while more senior than Jason,
only has a few years on the job herself. Her regular partner was
off injured, and Jason, like all new people needs to start out with someone
who knows the “ropes”.
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They responded to a call
of a drunk on Wall Street, and arrived to find this wonderful, drunken,
“princess”, kicking on the balcony door of her apartment to get in.
I guess her drunken boyfriend had gotten tired of the abuse she was screaming,
and locked her outside.
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Once the erstwhile pair
of Emma and Jason arrived, the screaming and obscenities escalated to new
levels of volume. Emma and Jason ended up having to wrestle her to
the ground and handcuff her to keep her from hurting herself. About
this time, things went crazy on the radio. Knowing it was going to
be a lengthy wait for transport, they finally convinced her to quiet down,
and her boyfriend to let her in.
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Just before leaving, Emma,
removed the handcuffs and tucked the woman’s keys into her pants pocket.
Free of this wonderful lady, they left and headed off to the next call.
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When our shift ended at
2:30 AM, we all went back to the office, relieved that another busy shift
was done. Imagine, Emma’s dismay, when she discovered that the key
ring that she stuffed in the drunk’s pocket, was her own set of keys.
It had her car key, house key, locker key, handcuff key and building key
on it.
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Knowing they would probably
have another fight on their hands, Emma and Jason headed back out to retrieve
her keys, thinking that the rest of us were on our way home. Such
was not the case though, things went absolutely crazy with a double shooting
in a downtown nightclub and we were all called back out on the road to
work overtime until 6 AM.
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The happy note is that Emma,
successfully retrieved her keys, and without a battle too.
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