Dark and Stormy Night

Tonight it raining hard and most people are safe at home watching football. Then there are exceptions like the woman who called 911 three times within the hour. First, she reported a man with a broken neck on the bike path. Of course, that is pretty unlikely, but we still had to spend twenty minutes hiking down the path in the driving rain. The second time she called, she reported that the man was now floating face down in the canal. That too is bad, so we spend thirty minutes slogging through the wet grass and frightening the sleepy ducks. We then looked for the caller with no success.

On returning to the station, I decided to walk over to the dispatch center and see what else I could find out or probably to be more honest...make sure that they knew that this was a police problem and NOT a fire department problem.

In dispatch, I found the staff discussing that the police had found the "body". He was walking around in Taco Bell and the woman who kept calling was looking for him in Shari's Restaurant. Truly...it WAS a police problem.