The new cops

[captain queeg]

3. Yeah I grew up in a small town kind of like Mayberry with the police chief kind of like Andy.

The only run ins I’d had were a couple times where me and my buddies were out after curfew. One time during duck season we were walking the dirt road home after doing some shooting. We hadn’t bagged anything. On the was home a new deputy stopped us and harangued for shooting within town limits. I guess the funeral home director/owner had called the cops saying we we shooting “his” ducks. As the deputy was threatening us the chief pulled up and informed him the ducks were not the property of the funeral home (there was a small lake there). He asked us where we’d been shooting and when we told him he said we’d been outside the town limits. We all had licenses. Then he said are those guns loaded? All four of us racked our pump action shot guns and spilled out all the shells. The deputy was mortified that he hadn’t thought of that. The chief then asked us to leave our guns at the closet friends house because he didn’t want us walking through town with guns, not that it was illegal. Then we’d get our moms bring us back in the car to pick them up. Anyway those were simpler times when everyone knew each other.