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No. 5: New Year’s Eve/Day

Average Vehicular Deaths: 421

Don’t let the relatively low rank make you comfortable. Champagne and icy roads make Jan. 1 one of the single most dangerous days to be on the road all year.

No. 4: Labor Day Weekend

Average Vehicular Deaths: 488

Another long summer weekend makes our list due to overcrowded roads and out-of-town travel. Be especially vigilant if the holiday falls on Sept. 1 or 2 — those two days are among the top 10 most dangerous days for driving.

No. 3: Memorial Day Weekend

Average Vehicular Deaths: 493

Hordes of beach-goers crowd the same coastal roadways on this holiday, when 38 million people hit the streets in search of a warm, out-of-town weekend.

No. 2: Independence Day

Average Vehicular Deaths: 505

Keep an eye out for heavy drinkers who didn’t have the good sense to stay home and off the roads. An estimated 53% of fatal Fourth of July crashes involve at least one drunk driver.

No. 1: Thanksgiving

Average Vehicular Deaths: 573

Whether from postprandial exhaustion or a little too much wine with dinner, AAA’s biggest travel holiday of the year saw 623 traffic fatalities in 2006, the most recent year on record.

I got a new temporary assignment the last couple of nights. Plain clothes surveillance, it has been awesome!!!

A breath of fresh air if you will, Patrol is great but it does get monotonous, after 10 years, going in, doing the same ole same ole. (Don’t get me wrong, you never stop learning at this job and most days you see something new)

But the plain clothes gig is something fresh, new and exciting.  I had a blast grubbing out (sweatshirts and jeans) and I have been told by more than one coworker that if they saw me walking down the street that they’d definitely stop and field interview me, or my personal favorite one cop gave me directions to the soup kitchen.

It’s been so fun rolling up without all the bells, whistles, sirens and lights that comes with being in a patrol car. We made a handfull of arrests and got some great intell.

The guy I am working with is really cool, we are polar opposites in our approach, but we think alike on the major stuff and I think we complimented each other well.

Theres nothing like cruising around listening to Christmas music (he drives so he gets to jockey the radio and it is actually quite soothing music) and fighting crime.

First I want to congratulate BOTH candidates, president elect Obama and senator McCain, both had ideas and plans, Obama ran a campaign almost as flawlessly as Ronald Reagan’s, I still don’t agree with most of his policies but I am willing to give him the chance he deserves, McCain is a true American hero, his campaign made many tactical mistakes, some were his alone, some were his handlers, and others can be attributed to the current administration and the political atmosphere of the day, But mistakes were made, and mistakes lose elections. McCain’s concession speech was one of the classiest speeches ever made, whether it was prepared for him or it was “off the cuff” he delivered it with perfection and I believe it will go down in history as a truly American speech …..

And my remarks don’t make me a bad conservative. Perhaps not a good Republican, but that is not on me. The party left me, I didn’t leave them. I really hope this is a wake up call for the National Republican Party. I give all the credit in the world to the good Republican men who ran in this election but the party is top heavy with rich “old school” types who have already made their bones (and their money) and are content and comfortable with crossing the aisle, to appear more likeable to the press and the legislators all the while knowing that the other side in many instances will not act in kind.

Promising their voters that they have their back and then breaking those promises when it’s personally convenient to do so. 

I think that there are many great “young bloods” out there who may have different personal beliefs on this legislation or that, but there core belief system is of a more conservative nature. In line with all of the Joe The Plumbers out here who want to believe in someone or something desperately. People like Sara Pailen, Mitt Romney or JC Watts, I personally would vociferously get behind any ticket that had any two of these three names on it in any order .

Young people who have some fire in their belly that are not shut out of the process by those at the top who are afraid of change. Who will disregard a fiscal conservative over disagreements in litmus test issues that have yet to be fully defined by anyone in the party.

Candidates need to listen to their people ALL of their people (not just the deep pocket fringe groups) Listen well, and those ideas that have merit, debate and decide on them. But do it with an open mind. Tell us why we should VOTE FOR YOU  not why we shouldn’t VOTE FOR THE OTHER ONE. I’m not saying run a Pollyanna squeaky clean race (God knows that in this day and age it is NOT POSSIBLE)

If you need to make a tough unpopular decision, do it damn it, just level with us and tell us why you did it. (It worked for Reagan) We are not all as dumb as Washington and Media Land thinks we are. If you are honest and believable we may not agree but we will understand. And as an added bonus, the liberals won’t be able to bash you over the head with it.

As I said, it was a good fight, a long painfully brutal political season. I congratulate Mr. Obama and I hope to God that America stays the best and safest damned place in the whole world to live in.

Peabody Police get a paid holiday for Sept. 11

I really have to say as a cop this disgusts me. Peabody Ma. is an above average income town in Massachusetts, I on the other hand work in a poor economically challenged city in Massachusetts. We have been working without a contract going on 3 years now. These officers are getting an above average pay raise that we can only salivate over. They also already have evacuation day and victory over Japan as paid holidays. I am all for police getting paid a decent wage for the work we do. But in an era where it is political sport to villify police officers and departments, this action was just stupid.

Hell, NYFD hasn’t asked for such a contract perk (and if they had I for one wouldn’t have a problem with it) They lost so much that day. NYPD and Port Authority Haven’t requested this consideration either and they lost brother and sister officers that terrible day.

As an American I am outraged that this podunk little police department in Massachusetts has the balls to ask for and the town fathers lacked the balls to slap them down for such an outrageous contract demand.

As a Massachusetts cop, who isn’t making anything close to the money the Peabody PD is making, all the while dealing with crimes far greater than they could ever fathom AND dealing with the aftermath of their stupidity, in the court of public opinion, because the public doesn’t distinguish one department from another, they just hear horror stories like these, see the badge and jump to the conclusion that they (us cops) are all alike, I am  livid. 

So in conclusion, thank you to the rich pampered selfish Peabody Police Department.

(I’m guessing this post will hinder me from getting a peabody PD patch for my collection, I’m not sweating it though)

The 911 call went something like this:

I got a call last night for a dog bite investigation. That was what was given to me over the police radio. Ok, I’ve done a few of these calls before. Off I go to the reported location.

I get on scene with the ambulance and we find the victim, she and her friend were walking his pit bull and at some point the dog got agitated for some reason or another and whammo, the dog snaps and bites her twice. Once in the arm and once in the groin. They weren’t terribly vicious bites but there was discoloration and obvious injury. I handled the call and called in for a return to the station to write an incident report. It was granted and I returned.

Upon my return the calltaker comes over and quietly asks me where the victim had been bitten. Me, knowing all the right and wrong things to say in mixed company says “she got bitten in the arm and the cookie” The calltaker tells me I cleaned up the description from what she got from the 911 caller.

Calltaker: 911 what is your emergency

Caller: Yeah, could you send someone, my sister just got bit by a dog and we dont know if it’s infected or not

Calltaker: Ok, we are sending assistance, where was your sister bitten?

Caller: right on the side of her Pu…..ssy

Calltaker: (long, long pause) Ahhhh, WHERE??????

Caller: You know, her pussy, right here (as if the calltaker could actually see her pointing to her goods)

CallTaker: Ok Ambulance and Police are enroute.

Yeah, you would have thought that the calltaker would have given me a heads up like call into dispatch for details or something but no. She figgured it would be funnier to send me in cold and let me fend for myself. I learned two very important lessons though

• Life on the job is never boring
• Calltakers can be so evil sometimes.

THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES

Its so freaking refreshing to see superstars who actually get it and these guys do. In a place and time in history where both sides of the political spectrum try to tear the other down and “superstars” who are so narcasisstic that they believe that just because they say something that we the unwashed masses should gobble it up like manna from heaven. Seeing someone that just lays the facts out there and lets the consumer make up their own mind is something to be applauded (and even brings the Enforcer out of BlogBlock)

THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES

 

 

I’m not saying Metallica hasn’t in the past been pollitical (Disposeable Heroes, even though it’s a great song does have a political bend to it) and least we forget their crusade against music downloads. But it seems to me that aside from being a great song that (without the video) is inspirational  (just listen to the words and the lyrics) but with the video is a tribute to every man and woman who wears a uniform and protects life and liberty. A subtle aknowledgement that someone understands and doesn’t believe the hype spewed forth from the Far Left that the military are all jolly green giant thugs with guns looking for personal payback.

On a personal note, thanks to all of you who contacted me and inquired about me while I was gone MIA. I still don’t know about constant posting like I had done before. I like to blog about the things at work that make me go hmmmm in a funny way and to put my sarcastic wit on the things that bug me. Somewhere I burned out a bit and nothing seemed blogworthy until I heard about this video and saw it for myself. Enjoy!!!