Cops give out a lotta advice. Better slow down. Don't do that again. Go home and sober up. Stuff like that. Sometimes it's heeded, most times just for a while, or not at all. But, sometimes a joke is taken for advice with disastrous results.
We had a black business woman who owned a juke/restaurant, The Green Top Social Palace, in McDonald's Quarters. Her name was Lillie Williams, but all referred to her as Miz Lillie as she was a force to be reckoned with.
Miz Lillie had been having trouble with a drunken customer, who we'll call S. Jay. She asked him to leave and he wouldn't. So she called the PD.
On arriving, Miz Lillie said S. Jay had left the premises, but she knew he would come back and cause more trouble. She didn't know what to do.
Our officer, Rich David, said, joking, "Why don't you get out that pistol of yours and shoot him." Everyone knew that Lillie kept a hog-leg under the counter. The cop then closed out the incident and returned to patrol.
About thirty-minutes later Miz Lillie called the station. "S. Jay come back and I shot him." Officers hurried to the scene, one of them Mike Grimm. Mike said Lillie came up with that pistol and just started spraying lead. It was a miracle she hit the intended target. She shot her juke box, a pinball machine and scared the hell out of most of her customers. The ones who weren't hugging the floor were flying out of there like their asses were on fire. And, S. Jay had also been hit, a bullet in the leg.
When asked why she'd done it she said, "Cause Officer Rich tolds me to," she replied.
And I guess she was right.
PS The Green Top Social Palace had many names. It was also called the Green Top Social Club or Place. But, Miz Lillie, herself, said it was supposed to be the Green Top Social Palace but the sign painter misspelled it to Place.
Thanks to Dave Dampier and Mike Grimm
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