-=> JOE MACKEY spoke thus to GAYLEN HINTZ <=-

 JM> open and no one around.  Knowing a bit of the city... I sure hope
 JM> whatever was in your trunk was still there. <g>

 JM>    I would imagine so  
 JM>    Had no problems at all when in NYC.  The part of Manhattan I was in
 JM> was totally safe.  To me anyway.

 That's true, it's been years since I was in NY but there were some areas that
were pretty save there.  Other parts of the city were another thing entirely. 


 JM>    Speaking of trunks popping open and no one around.
 JM>    A few years ago at work I was going to make a money run to the bank
 JM> with meter money, which was always a police escort.  The fella giving
 JM> me the ride forgot something and back into the station.  I was standing
 JM> beside the cruiser and thought I had heard snow slide off the station
 JM> roof and went to see but nothing there.  Walking past the cruiser where
 JM> a co-worker was standing suddenly the trunk popped open and closed
 JM> again. We were laughing about that when suddenly the engine burst into
 JM> flames with the hood opening, doors opening, etc.  There was some sort
 JM> of "malfunction" and what I thought was snow sliding off the roof were
 JM> the airbags opening.

 Oh wow!! That will get your attentione every time.  My goodness, was anyone
hurt?

 JM>    We were very fortunate since if we left when planned we would have
 JM> been in traffic when that happened.

 Yeah, that would have been bad.  Would have been a hot time in the city
that day for sure. 

 JM>    I walked into the station telling the day commander, "One of your
 JM> cars is on fire".  He looked out, freaked out, and grabbed a fire
 JM> extinguisher but it took the fire department to totally put it out.
 JM>    We called that Impala "old sparky" after that.  

 hahahaha, I'll bet. 

... "put the cat out?... " ... "I didn't know it was on fire!... "

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