Maybe the cat just left
A deputy recently was dispatched to a harassment report that turned into a search for a cat with eight lives.
A helpful neighbor who had become involved in the search for the AWOL feline apparently became the target of the pining pet owner’s pique after a pet psychic failed to locate the missing kitty.
The cat had been missing for a month when the psychic was called in, and the pet detective postulated that the cat was in one of its owner’s paint sheds. The helpful neighbor inspected three sheds to no avail, but told the pet owner she saw the cat’s eyes peering from one of the sheds later that evening.
The next morning, the neighbor reported, the pet owner was in the backyard screaming, threatening to stab her.
The deputy also came up cat-less after searching the sheds. The woman then changed her story, saying the cat was dead and hidden in a shed.
The deputy told her he hadn’t seen any dead cats and told her to stop yelling and threatening her neighbor.
The art of subtlety
An intoxicated man driving in the wrong lane spotted a deputy and pulled back over into his lane as if nothing has happened.
Not buying the clever ruse, the officer did a U-turn and followed the motorist, who accelerated to about 65 mph in a 35 mph zone until he reached the Downieville Conoco, where he quickly got out of his vehicle.
As the man hurriedly moved toward the station’s doors, the deputy yelled at the man to stop. Sly evasive maneuvers suddenly exhausted, the man did as he was told and asked if he could have one last cigarette before being carted off to jail.
The deputy asked the man why he thought he was being arrested, and the man replied because he had been “drinking and driving.” He was ready to be carted off to jail even without a roadside sobriety test.