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In reply to the discussion: Off Duty Officer fires gun inside school [View all]marble falls
(56,029 posts)90's made Barney Fife lock academy trained.
Our sheriff was a former bar owner who's only qualification was the required $20,000 bond the law requires of a sheriff. His wife was made the dispatcher for the town's volunteer fire fighters. She drank a bit and in one month managed to sent the fire dept to house fires on farms to quadrants 180 degree the wrong direction in the county.
The town council asked him to attend a meeting and when they brought up the bad fire call-outs and asked what could be done together to stop them before someone died, he stood up, told them he didn't answer to the town for anything and walked out. He made the State Trooper stay on State 9 through town while on duty, he was not allowed to drive anywhere else in town.
His son was his head deputy and he was known to pick up bags dropped in touch and go drops at the town airport, and was said to be the major source of drugs in the county.