When did a cop catch someone doing something really suspicious, but for a totally legitimate reason?

At around 2am on a weeknight, I saw a guy bolt from a house in a quiet residential burglary hotspot.

His face is covered, he's wearing sunglasses or something similar, and the kind of dark clothing you catch burglars in.

As I follow him and start to shout up on the

radio, the cars parked between us clear to reveal he's running behind the tiniest dog I've ever

seen, a clearly uncontrollable pooch that's having the time of its life, so I just keep going.

And to clarify, the dog was on a lead. He was stopping to sniff at lamp posts. It wasn't a dog napping. The man was running as he was trying to keep up with the dog while letting it go at the pace it wanted to go. He ran from the house, but the front door was closed. Doglet took off when they hit the pavement. When I got closer, those sunglasses he was wearing weren't sunglasses after all, just tinted glasses. I don't know why he had his face covered. It was a scarf, and it was autumn. But we don't have sumptuary laws in our country, and you can wear what you like. I'm not the fashion police. I spoke to him when I saw him later on, but I don't remember the dog's name. Sorry. And for those of you asking, it wasn't even an expensive dog. It was a cheap dog. Cheap dogs have more fun, I reckon.

Prior US Coast Guard, we were doing a security boarding on a vessel planning on entering port with some hazardous cargo.

Me and one other guy were in the engine room, making sure everything was kosher, when we catch a glimpse of some boots barely sticking out from under a piece of machinery.

Since, as far as we knew, all crew were present and accounted for above deck, we were understandably

concerned. We radio up asking about it and get told, all present and accounted for up above.

So we're thinking a stowaway or someone being smuggled. Luckily, it was neither, just a guy who

legitimately fell asleep while doing

some maintenance. He shared a name with one of the other crew, so that's how he missed his absence.

Apparently, our guy up above checked the same guy twice. Go figure. My cousin is a cop and told us

the story of seeing a car driving slowly at about 3 a.m. through a neighborhood that had had several

break-ins. He thinks to himself that they're looking for a target, so he puts on his lights and

pulls them over. He walks up and the driver puts the window down, and she turns to look at him

with fire in her eyes and says in a harsh whisper, this had better be important because I just

got the baby to sleep. He looks in the back and there's a baby in the car seat sound asleep. The memory of what it was like when his babies wouldn't sleep rushes back, so he says, Oh no, no, I'm so sorry, never mind. And he goes back to his car. She drives away slowly. He's just glad he didn't wake the baby. Ha ha ha. Well, it looks like that woman found the

perfect cover. Start the kid off young doing that job and he'll be a legendary master burglar by the time he's 10.

I love it when hardened and forces go soft when it becomes clear there are kids on the scene.

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