Hello, friends. This is the way I heard it episode number 220. This one's called The Duck of Justice

Flies Again. My guest today is a cop I know named Tim Cotton. Tim has been on the job now for 33 years

serving and protecting the good people of Bangor, Maine with a level of dedication

and excellence that I think deserve to be acknowledged. He's also a gifted writer, though,

whose words have done a great deal to bridge the gap between America's cops and the people

they serve. I first got wind of what Detective Cotton was doing when I stumbled across a post on the Bangor

Maine Police Department's Facebook page that was attributed to him. It was under the title,

Got Warrants with a question mark, kind of like Got Milk, I guess. And it made me laugh out loud.

Because Tim Cotton had essentially hijacked the local police

blotter and rewritten it with a level of familiarity and humor, not often associated with

petty crimes and misdemeanors. Here are just a few of the entries that I stumbled across back on April 13th in 2016.

The first one read like this.

Hitting the building twice with a motor vehicle will cause those inside the building to contact the local gendarme.

Upon the arrival of officers Burns and Perry, they discovered that the driver was a

local lady who wore what any of us might wear to bed. The description in the report was that

she was draped in a pink plush robe wearing fuzzy slippers with a cheetah print.

Naturally, her dog had come along for the ride.

It was a small dog, exactly what you would expect,

if you were to imagine the kind of dog that might accompany a woman

wearing a pink robe and fuzzy cheetah slippers.

The woman had been consuming spirits prior to her arrival at the accident scene.

She was arrested and charged with operating under the influence.

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