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Ofc. Don W. Richards
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Sheriff Richards cleans up 4-way stop -
09-16-2011, 05:08 AM
This morning I noticed something different at the 4-way stop east of the sheriff's office.
Apparently,
somebody's
dog went missing and they thought the appropriate course of action would be to print off four copies of a "Missing" poster with the pet's picture and tape one to each of the four stop signs.
I guess they thought that since they were just taping it to the pole and not the sign face itself, it would be okay.
They thought wrong.
I immediately turned on my lights and stationed my cruiser in the middle of the intersection to block traffic while I tended to the situation.
Careful investigation revealed that the perpetrator had affixed their phone number and address to the poster, essentially taking all the detective work out of my job.
"Too easy," I thought as I carefully re-entered my cruiser and drove immediately to the address listed on the paper.
I banged on the door, and a retirement-age lady answered.
I inquired if she had a missing dog.
She confirmed that she did, with a hopeful tone as though I were reuniting her with it.
I informed her that stop signs are government property and are not her private bulletin boards.
I ended up having to take her to the intersection so she could remove the posters, and carefully scrape off the residue that the electrical tape had left behind on the sign posts.
It turns out that her grandson helped her print up the papers, so I decided to split the fine between the two of them since I was in a good mood.
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