Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of NYPD.

Guys, if you notice I have the white police off-the-cuff banner behind me, that usually,

if you've been with the show for a while, you know that means I'm in Florida.

And I left Thursday, Thursday morning, well, Thursday, early afternoon, 1230, and I drove till 10 o'clock at night

that day. And then I stayed over at a Marriott Hotel. And they had one room left because I

didn't plan where I was going to stop. So I got that room and it was a suite. And the guy started

at a certain price and I kept mentioning different

things and I got him down.

You know, it's my New York bargaining and I got him down to a price that I was happy with.

I was mentioning everything.

I won a spelling be in sixth grade.

No, that's a joke.

I said, uh, triple A.

Okay, we'll take you down.

What was the other thing?

Oh, senior citizen. Next thing. Oh, I'm a 9-11 first responder. I showed him my ID card.

All of a sudden, he was like, okay, I'll give you the government rate. And I got it for an XYZ, but I got it got it down 40 bucks, so I was happy. And all I did was sleep overnight.

I left at 8.30 in the morning, and I got here last night at 7.30. But I'm too old for driving,

that type of driving over two days. And it was tough. And I'm still, I'm'm still feeling it today but I had to get on the

air to address this case anyway I also want to mention one other thing my buddy duty Ron

announced on his show you know crime time with duty run that he is has cancer and I just want

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