One Shining Moment: The Real Life Adventures of a Volunteer Police Officer
- ISBN-10
- 1478222786
- ISBN-13
- 9781478222781
- Series
- One Shining Moment
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-05
- Author
- Bill Kasal
Description
Take a radio station Promotions Director/DJ, give him a gun, night stick and pepper spray... and a badge. Then put him into a police car and say, "Go uphold the law."Actually, the author volunteered for this... he went to a police academy, bought a uniform, a bullet-proof vest and volunteered his time in a real police car.Picture a darkened alley. Imagine screams and a gun shot. You wouldn't go down that alley for a million bucks. A cop does it for a lot less. A Reserve Officer does it for free.All over the country, men and women volunteer their time-and risk their lives-as reserve police officers. Most, you can imagine, are not like this author...This is what happens when your every day radio station goofball decides to volunteer his time as a Reserve Police Officer.Excerpt:The Stu and I turned our gaze up the street, along the direction of her arm, where we saw a young African-American male. This gentleman appeared to be in his mid-20s. He was wearing only blue jeans and was carrying about four feet of a broken shovel handle. And he was striding towards us with a purpose.And this is where it happened. This is the one shining moment in my life where I did it right; where every move I made sang in perfect harmony with the Universe. Every move was exquisitely coordinated grace, every muscle a seamless choreography of precision, every motion a picture of exactitude.
