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Great stories.

One from my days catching shoplifters...

Got a call from the cart attendant that there was a guy boosting merchandise in mens. Went over there and see a tall gent who looked like Hakeem Alajuwan (former Houston Rockets center). Followed him to the back of the store and watch him grab some merchandise and stuff it into his waistband. I see he already has full pant legs and guess he has boosted the clothes in them. He is accompanied by a gent who tipped the scales at 300+ and while the gent looked small compared to "Hakeem" he was as tall as me (6-4). I start taking stock of my back-up in the store: The only male is the cart attendant (and me), everyone else is female.

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I follow Hakeem to the register where he buys gum. I 'm thinking fast as I HAVE to let him exit the store but I don't want him to get too far out. IF he is gonna resist it will be easier to push him back into the store than fight it out with him in the parking lot. I turn to the woman behind me (she has no idea who the hell I am ) and say, "I forgot my effin wallet in the car, I'm going to get it..." She gives me a look and I walk toward the exit. Hakeem is behind me and I can see him in the glass reflection (it was night). I exit and he is right behind me. I turn as soon as I get about three feet out, take out my badge, identify myself and ask him to return to the store.

Hakeem is trapped by the railing that keep people from walking into the auto doors that swing outward and the doors themselves. Big guy is behind him, sees me and detours around to another door. Hakeem looks at me and I get that lovin' feeling (stomach dropping to my feet/fear/fight or flight/etc...) he asks to repeat myself as he tries to get by me. I block him and am thinking to myself: "dude you ARE LOOKING UP AT HIM!" I never look up at anybody.

Hakeem decides he wants to talk in the parking lot and tries to push by me. As soon as he touches me I can touch him, take him down, FAST, and flip him onto his stomach before he can think. (Damn BunBun! nicely done!) I cuff him and bring him into the security office.

I recover the merchandise and call the police to have him taken to jail. Officer arrives and I let him in. The officer takes one look at Hakeem and says, "Why John Doe (not his real name...of course) never thought we would get you this way!" Hakeem shakes his head and says, "yeah, yeah, yeah I was stupid."

I, of course, have no freaking idea what is going on and take the cop out of the office. "Hey, uh....There something I need to know?"

"Yeah," the cop says "He is wanted for the Phone company and Pizza parlor takeover (armed) robberies we had in this city last week. We have him on video doing both robberies."

Really...

Gulp!

Thank you!  So FYI to everyone else, a 5 day out of state license is $16.00.

Gabby - I will ONLY go camping with an air mattress!  Not only is it comfy, but if your tent should get a bit wet inside for any reason it also keeps you "above water"

OK, I've collected songs (113) for my song book but when I print it the print is too small for this long in the tooth oldie.  Is there any way I can increase the size of the print?

Hello Chordians!!!!
This may have been covered before but........

Wanted to take a poll on which you prefer:

The hard driving, ear drum splitting, head banging sounds from an electric

or

The melodic, gets in your soul, natural sound of an acoustic.

I lean toward the acoustic. I listen/watch in awe at guys like Tommy Emmanuel, Andy Mckee, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reid. You know what I'm talking about. Although my favorite genre of music is 80's hair bands. That is nothing but electric to the nth degree. I think I appreciate the artistry that comes from an acoustic guitar. It seems to me that it takes more talent to get an acoustic to sound like the fellas I mentioned than it does to get an electric to scream and melt your face off. I liken it to the diff between a photo and a pencil drawn picture. While both are great in their own right, I much prefer the pencil drawing because of the talent and work behind it. Hope that makes sense.