"I have been waiting for this day.
The year is 2007, and I was given an Automatic Electric Defibrillator or AED, and a bunch of us in my department had gotten them as well. Some wonderful local business donated them, I went through a class, and I had this thing in my car and I was ready to save some mother ******* lives yo.
I dont know why I was so excited about it in retrospect, but I mean, new stuff is always fun. So about two months go by and I am carrying this thing in and out of the car every day and doing battery checks and being a good police officer, and I am kinda getting tired of looking at it.
A guy working my area announces he is trying to stop someone doing 98 in a 45, and by some act of will, a few minutes later, the person pulls over. I start heading to the location of the stop to make sure it was not something very serious, and I get there... get out of my car... and this 20 something year old is explaining that his father is having a HEART ATTACK.
I took the dudes ID out of my co-workers hand, asked "Is this the address your father is at?!?!?!" and the kid goes "yea."
And I ******* ran like action movie style to my squad car, put that **** in ******* gear, and everything went to plaid... ludicrous speed like. I radio'd and told dispatch to send an ambulance as well.
I get to the address, which is actually in a very affulent part of town, and the driveway has a gate on it.
No ******* time to hit a button, I throw this ******* suitcase AED over the gate and climb that mother ****** after it, and then I pick that **** up and I truck my fat *** in my polyester uniform up the longest ******* driveway in america... where I bang the **** out of the front door screaming "police... I am here to help!!!"
This 60 year old guy answers the door gingerly while holding a tumbler full of what I guess was some kind of booze that I cannot afford, and I explain... that I was told that someone was having a heart attack... and Im out of breath pointing at this ******* AED, and the guy looks at me like I am some kind of an alien.
I bust out the ID that I took from the kid, and show it to him. The guy goes "thats my son!" I explain that his son was pulled over doing 100 in a 45 and told the police that he was trying to get home because his father was having a heart attack.
The dad just stared at me blinking not knowing what to say.
I took the ID from him, got on my radio and told the co-worker that the father was having a nice night and there was not a medical emergency. (edit: I also cancelled the ambulance)
I then stood in the darkness by the gate hoping that someone would at least have the ******* decency to open it, but after a few minutes I threw the ******* AED back over the gate and climbed that *****, then got back into my squad car.
I drove back to the traffic stop, where the son was getting a lot of tickets, and I gave the ID back to my co-worker and figured that was the end.
A few months later I get a phone call from the co-worker who wrote all the tickets and I get informed that the son had a lawyer or team of lawyers and was fighting the ticket. I was asked to come to the bench trial by the prosecutor, which I did.
Now in some areas of the country there are rooms for cops to go sit in and wait, but where I live and work, you sit in the courtroom, so there is this pile of people, this pile of cops from different cities, and the judge and people in the courtroom just take it as it comes.
I, by some act of god, was sitting about 10 feet away from son, dad.. without the tumbler... and a well dressed young man that was explaining to them both that if the officers (us) show up, the best course of action would be to plea guilty. The Lawyer type asked son and dad if they recognized the officers (us) in the room, and they both stared right at me and my co-worker and told him no.
They seemed excited.
I went out to my car, got the stupid AED... and came back into the courtroom, and sat there with it. Same spot, next to the co-worker... and I caught the dad's gaze when he looked back. He nudged his son, who looked at me... holding the AED... and it was like I saw his soul escape his ******* body.
They plead guilty. I left and went and got lunch."