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I pulled into a gas station here in my little town a few weeks ago. One of our few officers had his hands full with a car full of 5 hoodlums. Old hoopty, you know? Anyway, it just smelled hinky to me. I was filling up and asked him if he was 10-4. He said, "ehh, hang out for a bit for me. He knows I carry and all that" 'Sho' nuff, he got consent and started to search and three of em started inching back towards the trunk where he was about to search. I walked over and in a loud voice, he said, "Hey Monkey, help me out." So, they spent the next 5 minutes sitting on the curb against the wall.

Driver went for meth possesion, 1 went for outstanding warrants out of Dallas County. Rest of em got to go home.

Essentially, Steve requested assistance, and I complied. If I would have said, sorry dood, i got my kid in the car" there is no way he would have written paper on me or anything, just a citizen helping out.

This is the problem with only having one guy on duty at any given time. County takes too long to show up unless they are in our sector already.