Busy Busy Busy

So I've gotten to be pretty bad about updating this thing, but I've got good reason. I've been staying pretty busy. I've been working all the overtime I can get my hands on. On the days I do have off, I've been filling the down time with lots of fun stuff.

On May 27th, I ran with two other officers and the Chief of my police department in the Law Enforcement Torch Run for the special olympics. There were a couple of news clips where you could see me for a second here and there, but not long enough that I think it's worth looking for the links now. Then on May 30th, after working all day I went to a family dinner thing for my cousin Shiloh. She got sealed to her husband and her two kids that afternoon in the Salt Lake temple. It was really good to get to visit with her and some of my Little cousins from Texas. This is a picture of us at the dinner (L to R: Tabetha, Amanda, Shiloh, Jessica and me).

On June 7th I had kind of a "fun" day at work, and by fun I mean I was sick and didn't want to do anything, but of course had to chase and fight with a guy. It was less than two hours from the end of my shift, and I got sent on a call that this guy was threatening other students in the library. Another female officer went on the call with me. When we got there, library security was trying to convince this guy, we'll call him "Moron", to go study in another area of the library and stop yelling at this group that was in the group study area. Apparently Moron had been sitting in this area studying for a test when this group of students came and sat across from him. They were talking. Moron was mad because he felt like they were too loud. So Moron makes a couple cracks about getting the National Guard called out too when he sees us and says he's moving.

As soon as he gets in the elevator, I go to talk to the students to find out what kind of threats he had been making. They told me he had been reading stuff off of his phone really loud and playing his music really loud to try to get back at them for talking, and when they didn't react, he came over and started telling them that they didn't want to f*** with him and that they better not run into him outside the library or they would be sorry, etc. etc... So while they're telling me this, Moron comes back and starts yelling to me about how outrageous it is that they wouldn't move and how there were six of them and he didn't have anyone on his side. So I tell him to go back upstairs and as soon as I'm done talking to them I would come and get his side of the story from him. He refuses. I gave him a couple chances to leave the area peacefully and he refused repeatedly. So then I tell him I'm going to cite him for disorderly conduct and I need his identification. He refuses to give it to me and steps back into the elevator. We follow him into the elevator. I give him one last chance to give me his ID or he gets to go to jail. He refuses so I pulled my cuffs and grabbed his wrist. Moron tries to pull his hand away and we start fighting with him in the elevator trying to get him into handcuffs. All the while he's yelling about how outrageous this is and how he knows this guy who is the son of a major donor for the university and how he's going to sue...

Anyway, we get tired of fighting with him, so the other officer pulls her taser, presses it against the moron's chest and tells him if he doesn't stop fighting, she's going to tase him. He refuses and gets tased. The sucky thing is I have the handcuffs in my hand and my hand pressed against his back, so I feel the shock up to about my elbow of my left hand. So I let go of him to prevent getting shocked further. Unfortunately, the elevator doors open and Moron makes a run for it the minute the shock stops. So then I have to chase him through the second floor of the library and there's people sitting at tables on either side of me. (Side note: I had been really sick and very congested so I'm coughing and wheezing the whole time this is going on)

The other officer and I trap him in one of the rows of bookshelves and we begin the fight to get him into custody again. The other officer rams him but isn't able to get him to the ground, so I grab his left arm, throw my leg out in front of his legs and used a technique I learned during a jiu jitsu class in the police academy and throw him, that's right, I lifted him off the ground and threw him on his face, jumped on top of him, placed my knee in his back and proceeded to cuff him. Moron starts crying and yelling stuff about having systemic lupus and how he was going to sue us both. I kept him on the ground until we got another officer there to help us get him and his stuff back upstairs to where my patrol car was parked. I ended up taking him to jail on 4 charges instead of just the disorderly conduct that he would've gotten if he'd just listened to me from the beginning.

After I got to jail I started realizing that though I hadn't gotten hurt in the fight, I had sustained a couple casualties. Moron somehow ripped the flap of my shirt pocket half off and broke my sunglasses. He also gave the other officer a fat lip. He has since been asked to leave the University by the Dean's office. I guess he was a mouthy jerk to the officers working when he came by the police station to pick up his backpack and stuff when he got released from jail and to the dean of students, so the dean decided he just needed to go elsewhere for his education. Good riddance!

Anyway, on June 11th, I went up to Clearfield to help my cousins load up thier moving truck so they could move to Kansas the next day. One of them, Holden's 7th birthday is on June 15th, so I took him his presents a little early since they would be gone by then. Here's a picture of him with the present. I took a few more of him opening it, but you can't see his way cute dimples.

I'm really going to miss their family a lot, especially this little nugget of cuteness, David. I tried to pack him in a box to take back to my house, but he only liked being in the box for a minute, then he got angry with me and made me take him back out.

I joined a softball team made up of people at work. The team is made up of police officers, dispatchers, security officers and a couple of their wives. The season started back when I was in Louisiana on vacation, so I missed the first game, which I think we lost. Then we won my first game the next week. The next 3 games all got rained out and we finally got to make one of them up yesterday. We won that game in extra innings after coming back from a 4 run deficit. Tonight we had our normally scheduled game.I thought we were going to have another comeback game because we were only down by one at the beginning of the last inning, but the other team scored like 5 or 6 runs and we lost. I had a lot of fun anyway and the next few pictures were from the game tonight.

This me playing second base as I was about to catch a throw from the left fielder to get the runner out.
This is me batting. Durh.

And this is me running to second base which was as far as I got the whole game. Good times. I'll try not to wait so long before I update again, although it may be July before I have anything of note to blog about. I'm stoked for my backpacking trip with my cousin Nicki to Buckskin Gulch 4th of July weekend. It's gonna be awesome!