omurphy
Sep 16th, 2007, 8:51 pm
this was sent to me by my cousin robert harley a retired chatham county police officer. that is as in savannah, georgia. it is about an incident from the 60's involving two county motor cops. enjoy
Sparky, this is one of a few comical incidents I can remember happening to me on the Chatham County Police Department in Savannah. It had to be in the early 1960's. Hope this is suitable for the Historical Police Book. (it wasn't funny at the time)
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Sticky Valve Gets Two Motor Officers Loss Of Days Off.
Big "Moose" Caffo and I were cruising side-by-side on our police motors out the Ogeechee Road one pretty Sunday morning. Enforcement the traffic laws were not necessarily our number one priority at that time.
The two Harley-Davidson "Pan Heads" running abreast gave a deep and synchronous rumble that was quite pleasing to our ears. To add to this enjoyment we added the sound of backfiring by turning the ignitions on and off while twisting the throttles about half way open.
The fun soon ended as what we forgot as we approached the overpass just south of the Thunderbird Motel was Chief Love by habit would be returning from his Quacco Road Farm about this time. Neither the Chief nor Caffo and I were aware of each other’s approach until we topped the overpass, with the motors backfiring.
"Number One to Chatham" I heard the Chief over the radio – about the same time as he met us in his unmarked 62 Chevy .
"Go ahead Chief" Sergeant Doug Prouse our dispatcher answered.
Then the inevitable, "What motors you got working?"
"Vines and Caffo, are the only two Chief", Prouse replied.
"Tell them two officers to report to me in my office first thing in the morning" ordered the Chief.
The next morning Caffo and I were standing in front of the Chief’s Desks on the second floor of the old County Police Station on Habersham Street.
"What in the hell do you guys think you were doing on an early Sunday morning when most folks are either getting ready for church or still alseeping? It sounded like a gun battle going on. You two were acing like a couple of dam idiots." The Chief had a way or staring straight through you when he was right. And, he was usually always right. He looked straight at me first.
"I was just playing, acting like an idiot" I replied meekly.
"What about you Moose"?
"Well Chief, I had a valve sticking and it was causing my motor to backfire." Caffo offered.
With this I thought the Chief was going to go straight up into the belfry over his head. "Well, do you expect me to believe such (@#$%^&*) (bull shit) " screamed Love.
"Well Chief that is the truth" said Moose.
After the Chief finished chewing on our butts some more, he told us each to put our names on the Sergeants calendar at the radio that we would both be working our next two days off, without pay.
I don’t remember if Caffo ever had his valve fixed or not.
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Sparky, this is one of a few comical incidents I can remember happening to me on the Chatham County Police Department in Savannah. It had to be in the early 1960's. Hope this is suitable for the Historical Police Book. (it wasn't funny at the time)
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Sticky Valve Gets Two Motor Officers Loss Of Days Off.
Big "Moose" Caffo and I were cruising side-by-side on our police motors out the Ogeechee Road one pretty Sunday morning. Enforcement the traffic laws were not necessarily our number one priority at that time.
The two Harley-Davidson "Pan Heads" running abreast gave a deep and synchronous rumble that was quite pleasing to our ears. To add to this enjoyment we added the sound of backfiring by turning the ignitions on and off while twisting the throttles about half way open.
The fun soon ended as what we forgot as we approached the overpass just south of the Thunderbird Motel was Chief Love by habit would be returning from his Quacco Road Farm about this time. Neither the Chief nor Caffo and I were aware of each other’s approach until we topped the overpass, with the motors backfiring.
"Number One to Chatham" I heard the Chief over the radio – about the same time as he met us in his unmarked 62 Chevy .
"Go ahead Chief" Sergeant Doug Prouse our dispatcher answered.
Then the inevitable, "What motors you got working?"
"Vines and Caffo, are the only two Chief", Prouse replied.
"Tell them two officers to report to me in my office first thing in the morning" ordered the Chief.
The next morning Caffo and I were standing in front of the Chief’s Desks on the second floor of the old County Police Station on Habersham Street.
"What in the hell do you guys think you were doing on an early Sunday morning when most folks are either getting ready for church or still alseeping? It sounded like a gun battle going on. You two were acing like a couple of dam idiots." The Chief had a way or staring straight through you when he was right. And, he was usually always right. He looked straight at me first.
"I was just playing, acting like an idiot" I replied meekly.
"What about you Moose"?
"Well Chief, I had a valve sticking and it was causing my motor to backfire." Caffo offered.
With this I thought the Chief was going to go straight up into the belfry over his head. "Well, do you expect me to believe such (@#$%^&*) (bull shit) " screamed Love.
"Well Chief that is the truth" said Moose.
After the Chief finished chewing on our butts some more, he told us each to put our names on the Sergeants calendar at the radio that we would both be working our next two days off, without pay.
I don’t remember if Caffo ever had his valve fixed or not.
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