Cops have said some funny things. For example, Commissioner Frank Rizzo, of the Philly PD, when asked if reforming people worked said: "Get Serious. Most of them have been arrested so many times they're humpbacked from getting in and out of police cars."
Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said when asked why his Deputies shot an A-hole, who killed a Deputy, 68 times, "That's all the bullets we had."
At the Collier County Sheriff's Office Kurt Klutchy said some things, too. Utterances that have become legendary at the SO, handed down like the proverbs from veteran to rookie.
Kurt's observations are the kind that make you stop, recycle what you've just heard through your mental processor and wonder if that could possibly have been what he said. An example. Kurt was in charge of the Sheriff's vehicles during that time when there was a push to convert we stupid Americans and our primitive measurement system to the rest-of-the-worldwide metric system. This lasted about a week but it did cause automakers to quit defining engine size with cubic inches and switch to cubic centimeters--cc's.
Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said when asked why his Deputies shot an A-hole, who killed a Deputy, 68 times, "That's all the bullets we had."
At the Collier County Sheriff's Office Kurt Klutchy said some things, too. Utterances that have become legendary at the SO, handed down like the proverbs from veteran to rookie.
Kurt's observations are the kind that make you stop, recycle what you've just heard through your mental processor and wonder if that could possibly have been what he said. An example. Kurt was in charge of the Sheriff's vehicles during that time when there was a push to convert we stupid Americans and our primitive measurement system to the rest-of-the-worldwide metric system. This lasted about a week but it did cause automakers to quit defining engine size with cubic inches and switch to cubic centimeters--cc's.
During that time we had a run of bad vehicles from the factory. Porous motor blocks or something. Kurt allowed that he knew what the real problem was: "These engines ain't been worth a damn since they started puttin' them durn cc's and liters in 'em." And he was serious.
Then there was the safari. Kent was an avid hunter and decided that he'd murdered enough animals in the USA and would like to try his serial killing skills on the game in Africa. Maybe a nice fat elephant. A lion. A tiger. Wouldn't they look great on his wall? So, he worked up a safari, in the company of another Deputy who liked to hunt, and they headed for the Dark Continent.
At the end of the very first day, before they'd even even gone in the Jungle, Kurt told his partner he was going home. The partner, astounded, asked why. It seems Kurt was aghast to find out that Africa was a predominantly black country. "I can't take it," he said, "this damn place is fulla n-gg-rs." And he got on the next plane and came home.
And, oh yeah, Kurt was a Captain with the agency.
And, oh yeah, Kurt was a Captain with the agency.
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