Policeman. What crime was so cool that you didn't want to arrest the criminal?

I had a case in my first year as an officer where a drunk man launched his car off a boat ramp.

We approximated that he was going about 50 miles per hour and the car landed in 20 feet of water.

Now for the cool part. He swam out, ran eight miles to his uncle's house and stole his

tow truck. He then drove, said truck back, swam down and hooked the tow cable to the axle of the car,

and proceeded to pull the tow truck into the water as well. We were called on scene and we could only

see the headlights and the tip of the hood above the water. He was passed out asleep on the dock

next to it. A friend of mine used to be a dealer, and for some reason he spent his money on reptile

habitats. Giant glass enclosures connected by tunnels with plant life everywhere, dozens of

different reptiles living in a lush green world. When he got busted,

the cops were calling other cops to come take a look. Some of them even went to get cameras.

This was in the 90s, by the way. They were just so blown away by what they were seeing.

Of course, they still arrested him, but in the cop's eyes he'd become a cool reptile guy,

instead of just another substance dealer that they were arresting.

Oh, this one always gets me. In my city, a homeless man was breaking into homes by lockpicking.

Nothing unusual with that. However, what he did was brilliant. He'd wait until he knew the times

people wouldn't be home, and he'd clean their homes for them. He averaged a week or so per home going unnoticed. The first few homes, he was never caught, but signs of a home invasion were reported to us. On the house he did get caught in, he used the defence that he was cleaning a home, that he was hired to clean, and mistakenly got the house wrong, and the door was, quote, left open. He was armed with nothing

but a cell phone. He made fake email correspondence to back his claims from a client with a similar

address. He was able to, overall, unproven but speculated, stay for upwards of a month in homes.

In court, his defense was actually successful, in my opinion, because the other cases he couldn't

be linked to,

and he was only prosecuted for the one. Then with his defense, his lawyer only got him 14 days in jail. The guy never took anything outside of food. He'd clean the house,

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