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I generally shy away from talking bad about law enforcement officers but I gotta tell this one.
About a year and a half ago one of my mom's neighbors called the local police to report a rabid skunk loose in their backyard. They dispatch the only officer on duty at 5 pm middle of the week. Officer arrives and approaches the critter in question and begins a spray and pray campaign the likes of which have never been seen before.
The shooting begins at 5:20 pm three houses down from my mom's place. Mom hears gun fire and promptly calls my brother to come see what's happening. My brother Ed shows up at around 5:40 and hears small arms fire coming from the back of the property. He edges around to see and there's the police trying to shoot this skunk with her 9mm Glock and not having much, or any, success. She's already gone through 2 full magazines and is on her 3rd and final mag. So we're guessing close to 40 rounds expended thus far.
The poor skunk appears to have been hit as it is barely moving but not dead yet. My brother yells over and asks if she needs any help. She says no "I think I got him". Well, about that time the skunk makes a break for it and runs right at my brother. He's scared to death that he's going to be a victim of friendly fire so he runs around the house to get clear of the line of fire. The skunk stops about 6 feet from the front of Ed's pick up truck, which he left running with the a/c on.
The coup de grace was fired from less than 15 feet away and, of course, hits the skunk right in the stink bag! All that skunk smell gets pulled into the a/c and Ed's truck takes a direct hit inside and out.
So 40 plus rounds fired and the critter goes down but takes the '99 GMC Sierra with it. Ed says he can still smell that smell on hot summer days if he leaves his windows rolled up.
So maybe mom and the citizens of Caddo Mills Texas would be better off if she got a scatter gun for Christmas.
I'm still laughing.