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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Awesome.

I saw this today while reading boingboing (which you should do too if you love quirky internet culture). It's a collection of community updates from the San Francisco police department. I love how completely over the top the write ups are. I know if it were my job to write up post-crime reports I would totally do the same thing. Anyway, there's a example (taken from the May 24 link):
Monday, May 16, 8:55AM, Auto Burglary Arrest
...He had not run for very long before he realized the two cops were only pacing him. They could see something he could not. With each frantic step a sense of dread nagged at him. The more calm and calculating they were, the further behind he left his common sense, and his panic ratcheted up. As he ran, the black and white radio car glided silently along behind like a predatory whale. The officer chasing him made sure he only ran in one direction. Both the officers could see he had nowhere to go, but the man franticly cast about for escape routes as he fled. He hadn’t planned on being spotted, and though he swiftly ran out of alternatives among the parked cars, he refused to contemplate giving up...
Here's the link: http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=29096

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