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Cats freak me out. I'd be out there with a gallon of pepper spray at the low ready. All that purring and those claws...you never know when a cat will turn on you.

That officer deserves and award from the ASPCA!

not as good as trunk monkey but pretty darn funny

jimlongley wrote:... The entire basement floor was inches deep in excrement and the house stank.

Wow. A basement in central Texas. Who would have thunk it?

Years ago I was driving back to school in Brenham with a friend and her new 10 week old kitten. We were in my '74 VW bug and zipping along on 290, just outside of Hempstead when I was pulled over by a Trooper. When he said he pulled me over for speeding, I really was shocked ('74 VW bug, remember...) and he said I was doing 68 mph...I said 'REALLY?' Grinning the whole time....didn't know the car would go that fast. The vent windows usually slammed shut on me at about 60 mph and they were still open. All the while he is trying to get my information, friend's cat is crawling out of her lap into the back seat and through the driver side window. Trooper kept catching kitty and passing it back in the car. This went on about 4 times, he just kept saying 'here's your cat'. Finally he said he'd give me a warning about the speeding and did write me up for missing the inspection date. As he left, he muttered something about cats. Never did figure out what he said.

Tass

Gotta love it!!

ninemm wrote:

jimlongley wrote:... The entire basement floor was inches deep in excrement and the house stank.

Wow. A basement in central Texas. Who would have thunk it?

He didn't always live in Texas. If memory serves, I believe his telephone career was in Illinois.

What a cute poo-poo kitty!!

This LEO deserves a free lunch since he was so sweet to that cat.

I figured this was staged or the cop has VERY LOW SA!

Glad to see that if real, he treated it with kindness & he probably has some cats himself . . .

LAYGO wrote:I figured this was staged or the cop has VERY LOW SA!

Glad to see that if real, he treated it with kindness & he probably has some cats himself . . .

I disagree. Good SA dictates that he stay alert to the stop and the person he's ticketing, as well as other individuals in the vicinity. The cat is not a potential threat and therefore tolerated during the interaction while maintaining proper SA to all potential viable threats.

NcongruNt wrote:

LAYGO wrote:I figured this was staged or the cop has VERY LOW SA!

Glad to see that if real, he treated it with kindness & he probably has some cats himself . . .

I disagree. Good SA dictates that he stay alert to the stop and the person he's ticketing, as well as other individuals in the vicinity. The cat is not a potential threat and therefore tolerated during the interaction while maintaining proper SA to all potential viable threats.

Poor SA because that cute lil kitten could be DEADLY! He didn't seem to notice it approaching at all. While I agree he was focused on the true "threat" (if any), but not seeing the cat could be the same as some perp's attack dog?!?

LAYGO wrote:

NcongruNt wrote:

LAYGO wrote:I figured this was staged or the cop has VERY LOW SA!

Glad to see that if real, he treated it with kindness & he probably has some cats himself . . .

I disagree. Good SA dictates that he stay alert to the stop and the person he's ticketing, as well as other individuals in the vicinity. The cat is not a potential threat and therefore tolerated during the interaction while maintaining proper SA to all potential viable threats.

Poor SA because that cute lil kitten could be DEADLY! He didn't seem to notice it approaching at all. While I agree he was focused on the true "threat" (if any), but not seeing the cat could be the same as some perp's attack dog?!?

I'm pretty sure he saw it coming up. He didn't even react when it started rubbing against his legs. I don't know about you, but something unknown brushing against my legs would cause an immediate reaction on my part.

Pretty funny.

That was one cool, collected, Cop! He gets an A+ from me, good guy!