May 7, 2025 • 54 mins
Welcome to Offbeat! The Light Side of Law Enforcement. In this 52nd episode, Fort Worth Police Lt. Steve Myers shares hilarious stories about destroying a squad car, what NOT to give a suicidal person, how to respond to nun-compliant citizens, and more!
Hosted by retired police officer Steve Rutherford and survivor Joann Jackson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, welcome, Welcome to Off the the Light Side of
Law Enforcement, part of the Treehouse podcast Network. On today's show,
(00:22):
we're going to discuss practical jokes, Game of Thrones, and
a very very strange suspicious vehicle. Thanks for listening. I'm
your host Steve Rutherford, co host for today's show, Joe
and Jackson. Hey y'all, and we're joined by one guest
in studio today. We've got Lieutenant Steve Myers Hi and
(00:47):
Lieutenant Steve Myers, also also known as Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I kind of a funny story with that. We were
talking about that the UH A lot of times when
they're dealing with intoxicated people, they would ask them. Someone
would ask me what my name was, and I would
always tell them Officer Myers, And inevitably you would always
have some drunk that would say, you know, no crap,
your name is Oscar Myers.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And and what I instantly said, my police officer has
a first name, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
My police officer has a second name, it's m E
Y E R. Yeah. So I think we need to
talk to Troy, but it was definitely spelt different posts. Yeah, yeah,
And we need to talk to Troy about a song.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, we could definitely do that. So Officer Myers or well,
Lieutenant Myers, I guess I guess they can't mistake that
anymore now, sure, lieutenant, Yeah, but you're still an officer,
so absolutely. Do you want to mention we received another
patch from the Colony Police Department. I was given to
me last weekend from Dustin Palmer, So shout out to Dustin.
(01:53):
Thank you, sir. So another addition to the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did you put mine up from last time?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes? Yeah, the patchwall, the patchwall. Now, Joanne, welcome back
into the studio.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's been a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It has been we've missed you. Josh was here last
week and all six five of Josh standing here in studio.
Took your microphone to New Heights.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I could stand under it. I automatically knew who
was here by the setting on the headphones and the like.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, you know what wouldn't Curtis he'd be jumping up
with his hand over his head trying to grab that mic.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So yeah, yeah, the question is did.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He stay in camera? Did he stay in camera? Yeah?
Oh yeah, if he was wearing a hat, you know,
just kidding it all it all shows shows on there.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Now, Steve, you are a lieutenant. What agency do
you work for? The Fort Worth Police Department? Okay, how
long you been in fort Worth? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Lordie, that long. Yeah, I've been an officer total thirty
two years, so about twenty nine with Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, where'd you work before that? Hultm City, Propolis
of Houlton City, Okay, right down the road. Now, we
we had someone else that worked. No, he didn't work
at Alton City. We worked at Richland Hills because we
were trying to ask him where there's a Richland Hills
in the north Richland Hills. But then he came over
to uh fort Worth. But I never heard, never heard
anything negative about a fort work. Guys that go there
(03:18):
stay there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh yeah yeah. Normally, uh you know, most smaller agencies,
they'll eventually, like around that neighborhood, they'll come down drift
over to us and like all of our l e
O classes are usually Dallas PD.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
About seven eight years ago. You got a bunch of
Dallas people, I believe, Yeah, I know some of them.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, they're doing a big war right now. I don't
know if you have seen that on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, something about the DPD billboard now hiring and then
you guys came up with your own video.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, they put a they put billboards like all over
fort Worth and uh so our PIO office I guess
took offense to that, and uh, we're That's one thing
they're known for, is some.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of those Well, a lot of people don't want to
work in the city they live in. So it's good
to know you have options, Like we were never going
to live in Dallas County, right, that was never even
an option for us to live in Dallas County. So
I would imagine that depending on what your county's like
depicts whether or not you live in that county.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, a lot of officers won't. They don't.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They don't want to live in their the city that
they work in. Like I me and my wife are
both officers with fort Worth and we live in Granbury.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of fort Worth guys do.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, I've never been there, live in Granbury.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Nope, Well you never worked for fort Worth either, down there.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I've been to Fort Worth for a meetings though.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I you know, staying with staying along that train
of thought there, Uh, the agency I worked for Farmers branch.
When I first hired on there, I was living in Carrollton,
the city just to the north, and sure enough, I'm
one of my days off. I mean, I'm walking inside
seven eleven, got the kids with me, and I'm gonna
go ahead and through this date out there.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eighteen sixty two.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
No, no, it was, yeah, he's after. It was actually
after the Civil War. But but when I was walkingside
seven eleven, there was a payphone outside and there's a
guy talking on the phone. As I walked by with
my kids, He's like, hey, you remember me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Cakes go no, no, this can't be good. No, no, no,
I get in the car and lock the doors.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying to pull all the
memories out of my head. You know, I don't know
what I had. I typically don't know what I had
to eat the day before. And now I've got some
guy asking if i'd remembered who he was, and he said, yeah,
you you arrested me for some dope the other day.
And I was like, okay, kids, get back in the car.
And all my buddies aren't here at seven eleven with me,
so it's it's me and him. So I learned early on, hey,
(05:43):
I'm I'm going to reside further away from where I
work because I want to be able to lure my
guard and just enjoy life on my days off with
your family.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That that exact story happens a lot. I remember one
day I had a guy come up to me the
same thing, and he's like, you know, hey, are you
I'll scar now I do that I.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Heard stories about you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He was asking me you're a police officer, right, and
I was like yeah, and he goes, you remember me?
And I'm like no, no, and he's like, well, you
arrested me and I'm I was like, sir, I'm sorry.
I wrest a lot of people, you know, I apologize
And it wasn't a big.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
A moment for me, Sir, arrest like twenty people a day.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But he looked at me and he goes, it was
last night, and I was like, oh really. I was like, yeah, sorry,
I I'm glad you got out, but uh and walked
off with my wife and she's like, what's you even remember?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Like did they even arrest anybody? Was I work last night?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah? But luckily as a lieutenant, I don't have to
deal with that. That's funny, you outgrew it. Yeah, that's yeah.
I think that's everybody's worst night mare. We we had
a couple of guys of my agency that lived in
the city, and I mean, they're they're buying groceries right
down the street from their house where they arrested people
for shop lifting or lord knows what you know in
the previous days. And I don't know that I could
(07:05):
do that. I want to be able to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But the thing is your arrest people from everywhere. A
lot of people come to Dallas and Fort Worth to
party and drink and do whatever thing they probably shouldn't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So I wait a minute, the potential party and drink
Where you said things they shouldn't be doing. You mentioned
partying and drinking, and I.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Said in other things they probably shouldn't be doing, like
Robin and Thieven.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, now that I'll give you that. Robin and Thieven,
that's daling and doping, daling to open robin and thieving.
I think we need to divert back to Troy again
and come up with joe Anstey rep song.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
When, Yeah, when I worked in Haltom City. I actually
lived in the city.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And it's a very small city. There's only like five
beats there. So it was you constantly ran across like
you would answer a domestic in your apartment complex and
they would know who you were.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Back then I was young and you know, didn't care
that much, but now I definitely wouldn't want to know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That was when we lived in the first place we
lived and we were friends with our neighbors and they
had a domestic and Brian's like it should go into
bene and he just went over like.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Hey, guys, what's going on. I was just coming home
from work, you know, not like he heard the domestic.
I'm like, we live here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You're not being compensated to be the officer for the building,
and you know, you go to work and I'm here
by myself. Let's just mind our own business.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, that's it. I mean, just be a good witness,
come one one one and unless you have to intervene.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The funny thing with that is a lot of younger
officers and I did this when I was a newer officer.
You know, you didn't know when to shut it off,
like you'd be on your way home something happened, and
like I know, one time I had a hit and
run happened right in front of me, and I bail out,
and I'm just playing clothes and I'm chasing this guy
catching and all this stuff. And probably now if that happened, just.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Just pick up the phone. Hey, y'all got some guy
running out here.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, because the officers have a duty to act, like
ems you know, I'm where I'm from, we have a
duty to act. And it was all volunteer, so you
were always responding to things in regular clothes and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Your private Yeah, live for death, I think that would
you wore that, But you know, a shoplifting or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know, No, I don't see nothing nothing. I don't
see nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Anyway, if they were life and death thing, I would
hope that everybody would intervene. But there's also every agency's
got a policy on how to you know, what to
respond to, what not to respond to, and some direction
for whenever you're off duty. Yeah, you know, sometimes you
can be the best witness out there versus versus stepping
in where you don't have your normal backup, you don't
(09:47):
have your tools with you don't have pepper spray and
taser and as baton. You've got a gun and maybe
a pair of handcuffs. So yeah, unless detective it takes you. Yeah,
in which case you don't even have ant even have, yes,
a gun, got a pen and a notepad. Now, now, Steve,
(10:07):
how you said that you've been at Fort Worth? You
said twenty nine years? Yes, what kind of opportunities have
you had at forth PD?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh, I can tell you, Uh, getting to work for
the Fortworth Police Department. Uh, it's incredible. We have you know,
like working from a smaller agency. For just three years,
I'd basically done everything that you can do there, you know,
besides being a motor officer.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
You know, I'd been with Spot.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You know, their detectives at that time were just uh,
it was an officer position, so there wasn't a lot
of room to do anything else. And that was my
main reason to switch to Fort Worth. And once I
switched over, Uh, you know, I got to you know,
obviously do patrol multiple different sides of town, but I
(10:51):
got to work with the downtown bike unit. I got
to work with what we called was our weed and
Seed Unit, which was a patrol division in George District, which, Uh,
that was an incredible time getting to work there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Fifteen years of my career I spent with the zero
Tolerance team, or the SRT team, or the DRU team
or the CRT They keep changing the name of it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's all the same team. They just changed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, every time we'll get a new TIEF for something,
they think that zero tolerance sounds too harsh, so they'll
change the name to something else.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And then.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, slightly tolerance and tolerance depending upon what.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It depends on what time of day. Sometimes you were
kind of tolerant.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Other time I'm on a kind of.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I haven't slept in two days and I haven't anything
to eat today, so it's zero.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, we're back to the zero beginning of the shift
at zero tolerance.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you know, about an hour before we got off
a lot of talerents one.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
At lunch time, they were kind of medium tolerance.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'm eating, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
So yeah, I got to bounce around, got to do it.
That's one of the great things about working for a
large cities. You can move around. And then after about
ten years is when I decided, you know, I need
to start promoting and moved up to detective, got to
work on the West c I D, the Central Investigation
or in c I D, and then the last part
(12:16):
of that, I moved over to t I U, which
is our traffic investigative units accident extent. Yeah, you mainly
deal with fatalities.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And Steve did that TOOLI.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We had some interesting stories. Yeah, we swapped stories earlier
on that nice.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Nice, nice, But we're.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Here for the funny side of Longforce.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, we want the funnies.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They were funny, but funny to us.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, Yes, that's how we that's how we deal with it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But you know, staying on, staying on funny. I understand
you were quite the jokes. You're over in Fort Worth
and involved in quite a few practical jokes.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Uh, yeah, you could say that talking about that one
division that we worked in. It uh, the Weed and
Seed Unit. See un Yeah, it was uh we had
our own little rockers and everything, and uh you had
to you had to earn your rockers and uh, but
basically it was a patrol division. We called it the
(13:14):
Dome or we had all sorts of names for it.
But uh, that place was probably the craziest with practical jokes.
That I've ever seen. Like, we had, uh, one officer
and I'll to kind of date myself a little bit here,
but do you remember, like a long time ago phones
(13:35):
you just hold down the one button and it would
go to your voicemail.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, you would flip your phone open.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Uh well that would have.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Those him, right, so uh but so excuse me. So
one officer uh gets the other officer's phone, and it's
right before roll call and in this division, we had
like twenty eight to thirty people in roll call, so
it's it's a huge roll call. And so he gets
his phone and he goes through it and he finds
the first you know dad, dad.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So wait, he finds his first dad.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, he finds his first But the first number, first
number he finds under there under D is dad.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And so he calls dad.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's calling another officer's dad's wrong, that's right. In his defense,
he doesn't know that this other officer's dad's hard at
hearing and you know, elderly. So he calls this guy
and he doesn't answer, and he leaves a voicemail, and
he leaves a voicemail and he's basically, you know, dad,
(14:42):
I got to tell you the reason. I'm thirty years
old and I'm not married, and you've never seen me
with any women, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And and basically it just comes out to this guy's
dad and uh and and so he and then he
just hangs up because role call starting, and he goes
and he puts the phone back by the other officer.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And so we're sitting there in a roll call. The
sergeant's talking and as he's talking, his phone's just blowing up.
And this poor officer he's looking at his phone and
he's like, I got to get this. Yeah, so he
puts it up to his ear, and over half the
roll call knew what had happened. So they're just expecting,
(15:27):
you know, if you would have done that with my
dad or something, you know, he would probably not even
call back. But the very first thing this officer says,
he's like, cloak, well, yeah, I love you too, dad,
nothing's going to change it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What's going on? And so he's like.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What And also he walks out of roll call, and uh,
you know, we were just amazed. I was like, I'm hoping,
you know, my dad would know better than that, but
since he was hard of hearing, and everything he couldn't.
So the joke is I'm in it, and that that
triggered an entire like joke war because that officer got
(16:07):
the original officer we'll call him Tony, got Tony's phone
and held down the one button, got into his voicemail
and left a voicemail for people, and it is one
that we will not say.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So when people call, that's the vice mel that that's.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
What you're saying, and so perfect.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And he changed the code to where now the officer
can't even get in to check his own voicemails. And
for the older officers out there, we know what an
MDT is. We call him MDC's Now it's basically our
mobile computer that we have in our cars. But back then,
if I sent an all message out, which is to
every single officer signed on in the entire city of
(16:51):
Fort Worth, it only looked like it was going to you.
It didn't look like an all message Like now I
would be able to know yea. And so he goes
down and puts a this message and he's like, hey,
call me immediately at this number. So everyone is calling
this number and we're talking, uh duty lieutenants captains. Everyone
(17:14):
is calling this number. Yeah, so they uh, and he
can't even answer them all because they're just pouring into
his voicemail. And all of a sudden, the next colleague
gets is from Internal Affairs. Oh yeah, because one of
the captains thought since he thought it was directed at.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Him, and so yeah, because it went to everybody, but.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's on he couldn't tell because on NBC it's telling
you to call me at this.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Numbers tells each individual party.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now you could tell, but back then it just if
you sent an all message, you couldn't tell that was
an all message.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So he uh.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So basically internal Affairs gets involved and during this we're
just doing joke after Joe and we had a sergeant
at the time that he was a brand new sergeant
and he had to have his podium. You know, he
had to stand behind his podium because he could he couldn't.
He couldn't give roll call without a podium, I guess, so, uh,
(18:18):
the other sergeants wouldn't use it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So they'd pull it out of the way. And this
thing's heavy, and every day he'd walk in and it
would be like right over where you are, and he'd
grab it and just drag.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It right, and then he just tuck from where it
was well.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Because it was kind of in the corner and he
needed he needed to be in the center. He has
to be friend and center, I guess. So anyway, he
would drag it over there and the officers were like hmm.
So one day they drug it to the back of
the room and he walks in and he stands up
there and he's looking for it and he sees it
in the back. So he goes back there and I mean,
(18:51):
this thing is loud, and it just drag and it
takes him five minutes to drag this thing up. And
it escalates, and it escalates to where basically, with all
these jokes that are going on, the chief gets involved and.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
A and air and arrow.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, and he loves good jokes, so he so he
comes to our sector and he's wanting to tell us, hey, guys,
let's not.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Take these outside of your division. Let's keep them inside.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And he shows up and our lieutenant goes down to
greeting and he goes down and the chief gets out
of his car and he looks up and what is
on top of the sector the building the podium, an
officer had drug it through a hatch, took it up
onto the roof and put it there, and he's like,
(19:45):
I'm gonna see if sergeant actually goes up there, drags
it down and does this. And so the chief looks
at our lieutenant and he's like what is that and
he's like, uh, you know, just don't worry about it.
So now the chief is walking up and he's going
to address our role call because you know about yeah,
(20:06):
because of all these practical jokes. And so he walks
in and you know how everyone back in the well
they still have them boxes is what we called them.
You know, it's where if you get a letter or something,
uh you know the problem. Yeah, they're lined up on
the wall.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
One of the things that the officer started doing, just
uh play a joke on each other was they would
take a piece of cardboard and cover that duct tape
it and seal it up basically with all your stuff
in it. Then they'd poke a small hole in it.
And then they would take this stuff called great stuff
and you buy it home depot and.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's a phone phone.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So they would just completely fill up your box with
this phone and you had to leave it for about
three days, so you had to wait for the officer
right when he left for you know, his days off
or something and do this. Well everyone was like, oh crap,
the Chief's coming up, and they panic and they run
up and they peel it all real quick. Well, the
stuff hadn't set, so it just starts flowing down the
(21:11):
floor and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Welcome to the station, chief.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Right, so something to see you over here.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You know our chief of police, you know who just
had to come out here and tell us about, you know,
practical jokes. And he walks in and first he sees
the podium and it's got the badge on it Fort
Worth Police and it has a little mic standing in
it the roof and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Like three stories up there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And then he walks in and this stuff is just
oozing out of all the boxes and he just looks
at our lieutenant and he just is like, what is
going on here? And afterwards you want to talk. The
chief was real cool, but the lieutenant was not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I bet.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
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Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let's talk to Daniel Cook now from cook DFW Roofing
and Restoration eight three three. Cook DFW is the phone number,
the website Cook dfw dot com. Daniel, how are you today, sir?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Doing fantastic Steve, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Man. Now, what should a homeowner do first if they
believe their roof has been damaged? Should should they contact
their insurance agency or get their roof inspected first? Well, Steve,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
We always suggest having your roof inspected after any kind
of storm damage. But if you have a level of
damage that you know, broken windows, leaks coming inside your
home after a storm, you know, something traumat I mean
that needs to get a claim called in immediately, and
then you need to call you whoever your roof or
a contractor is to come out and do some temporary
repairs and get your home back to you know, safe
(22:55):
conditions so you don't have water pouring inside of it.
But if you just have an event that comes or
you have some you know, some minor hail, or you
have a heillstorm or windstorm and you're just not sure
whether you have damage, that's when you call us. We
come out, we do the complimentary inspection for you. Fifteen
twenty minutes, We do an evaluation, we take some pictures,
let you know exactly how it looks, and you know,
(23:17):
gives you the details to make a decision whether you
should call in a claim or not.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But if if you if you come outside after a
storm and your roof is laying next to your house,
probably go ahead and contact your insurance company.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, it's always wise to contact your insurance company. And
if you have an agent that you can, you know,
talk to directly, you know, it's always good to call
them and let them know what's going on too. But
it's a collaboration. It always depends on the level of damage.
But you have you have any questions at all, you
give us a call, we come out, we do your
evaluation for you, and you know exactly where you stand.
Because just because you have some shingles in your yard
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doesn't mean you're going qualify for a claim. A lot
of times that may only be a thousand dollars repair
and you may have a seven eight thousand dollars a day,
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Speaker 1 (25:06):
And we're back back to more Offbeat the light side
of law enforcement. Now, this segment sponsored by our good
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today we've got Joe Anne co hosting the show and
we're joined by one guest in the studio. We've got
Lieutenant Steve Myers Oscar.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
So you realize every Fartworth officer I'm going to see,
I'm gonna be like, hey, do you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
What you're talking about? Well, yeah, his bolooney has a
first name. Definitely.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I was just gonna say Dizzy drive the Enam reveal.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But all right, well that wraps it up.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So now next time it comes through town, we definitely
need a picture of you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, when I get back, I'll be sergeants after this,
Sergey Myers, now, Steve you You also you mentioned that
you're on the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
SRT Team and I'm sure you've got some stories going
back to your days there on the team. Oh god, yes, probably.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Like I said, it was about fifteen years of my career,
whether I was an officer sergeant with the team, and
the probably last ten years before I promoted to lieutenant,
I was over SRT Team four. We call ourselves Rogue
another team.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
They used to say that we would we would do
all sorts of rogue stuff. So the guys kind of
adopted it and they'd put a patch. So you went
from weeds and seeds yeah, rogue, Yeah, to Rogue Team
Rogue And uh, you know one thing with that is
we had to you had to do tons of interviews
because with the City of Fort Worth, we have six
SRT teams are now they're called uh d are E,
which is directed response.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
In it and go go there, do this.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, they're basically, you know, a unit that they don't
answer calls. They wear all the tactical gear they have,
you know, like the battering rams. They have all the
not not as much stuff as SWAT, but they have
a lot of stuff, and they're really they're highly trained
and you know, anything that breaks loose in the city,
they're the usually the first that's going to go.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Is that kind of a Lake Dallas's Mobile Field Force.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
No, that would be like right control, that's right control.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Okay, Well, but the SRT team was the first line
in riot control in the city of Fort Worth and
we had all the the sixty days where we were
working like sixteen hours every day. They were the front
line of that.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Okay, so they do that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Also, thank you for working during that. Oh yeah, that
was mensely appreciated. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
But with that, since there was six teams, we would
you know, post openings and in the city of Fort Worth,
when you have a opening like that, they have to
put a packet in and they have to you know, put.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Their resume in there, like an application.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's basically an application, and one of the things is
we have to they have to give an interview, and
it's sometimes it's pretty intimidating because you may have six
sergeants sitting in there and you're the only officer in
there and you have to do this. But we always
try to come up with like different questions to ask
(28:41):
them to kind of see what kind of an officer
they were. And one of the things that we would
always ask is, can you tell me about your worst
tactical mistake that you've ever made? And officers, inevitably, you know,
they'll come out and they'll say, you know, one day,
I was saving five children out of a burning building,
(29:03):
you know, and I was returning fire, you know, and
you know, I let my gun go drive.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They always come up with stories like that and he
kind of, you know, just go along with it, and
you know, you're really just wanting to hear what they
have to say. But this one sergeant, he asked the question,
and this officer he's like, yeah, he goes, I don't
I don't have to think a lot about this one.
I know exactly what it was, he tells me, or
(29:31):
he tells all of us. He's like, one time I
responded to a suicidal subject. This guy has a pistol
and he's trying to kill himself. So he shows up
to the house and it's got a glass screen door
on the front of the house and the inside door
is open. So the officer comes up and he's telling
us how, you know, super tactically he cleared the house
(29:51):
and he was looking and he could see the guy.
The guy was sitting right on the recliner, right inside
the door, and right beside him.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
He had a pistol.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And so the officer, you know, is like trying to
find a way to get his attention. So he's wanting
to give him commands and he's yelling, and the guy's
either passed out or he's just not responding. And so
this officer, you know, being a good officer, he's got
his pistol out, and he decides to knock on the door,
you know, And so he reaches up and knocks on
(30:24):
the door with his pistol in his hand. And when
he does, yeah, he's like banging on the glass trying
to get this guy. Well, glass and guns don't mix,
so he breaks the glass and drops his gun. He
drops his gun on the inside in case you didn't
(30:44):
have enough guns, and so he wakes the suspect up
when he does that, and the suspect looks at him,
looks down at the gun, looks at him, stands up,
walks over to him, and picks the gun up up
and hands it back to the officer and uh, I
(31:06):
don't want this, yeah, and just hands it back to him,
And the sergeant that originally asked that question just looked
at him and he goes, don't ever tell that story again.
He was like, never say that story again. And we
laughed about it, and believe it or not, he actually
made the team.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Uh. We didn't hold that too much against him, but.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Uh, things happen.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, uh well, but yeah, you get during those interviews
because we even.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Had one officer, it's like a fishing story.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, that he ended up coming to work for me.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
And this officer, a phenomenal officer, loving Uh, he had
a We asked him, you know, what's his worst mistake
kind of a deal and he's like, well, him and
his wife, who's also a fourth officer, have a friend
who I can say who this is, Casey Donahue. I
don't know y'all know, Uh, he's a country singer. Yeah,
(31:59):
and at the time him, he wasn't that big, and
he asked him, hey, would you mind being in a
music video for us?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Are you no?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Asked this officer and uh so he asked this off
and he's telling us this sterre in the interview and
he tells him, you know, yeah, yeah, he's like, yeah,
I'll do that. And what the he wanted him to
do was him and his wife to chase him down
in the video in uniform, tackling, handcuffing, and you know,
haul him off to jail. And he's like, yeah, sure,
(32:29):
I'll do that because you know, sign this waiver. Yeah,
because basically, h he wasn't that known, and you know,
the officer thought this video is not going anywhere. Well,
he does the video and then about two months later,
on CMT television one of the number one videos, and
(32:49):
it's uh, Casey don hue, how do I not know
that video?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I don't have to look that video up.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Trailer parkueen or something like that, something like yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But anyway, so he's on national TV in his Fort
Worth police uniform with his wife.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, knock knock.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Hey, it's I ed, yeah, which is completely against our
general orders. So h During the interview, we were like really,
and we all pull open our laptops and his entire
interview is best watching the video of him.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yeah, Well did he do it right? And was that
like a good interview for him? The video? Where is
he tactically correct?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
He actually was, And we laughed because his wife even
double locked the handcuffs on case.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Well the way you get around the chief and the
I a part on that so well. They said they
were going to put now hiring fort work.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You know, it's supposed to put an advertisement in.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
There, supposed to be ad at the bottom is actually
recruiting music video. So luckily he didn't get into that's good.
Now something else that you would you showed with the
Steve you work a lot of extra assignments and you
may or may not take some of your own entertainment
in the former an iPad there with you.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, all right, Uh, try to be clean on this
one as I can. We had a job where police
officers we work a lot of extra jobs, you know,
and it can be a parking lot security, working at
a church, doing pretty much anything. And this one time
I was working on the freeway because we were building
(34:27):
a toll way right through the center.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Of Fort Worth.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
So yeah, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And so we're just we have officers out there blocking
freeways down. Well, I'm at a spot where you can't
you shouldn't be able to get to me, you know,
like a citizen, because it's all the exits are blocked.
I'm just there watching some vehicles or something. We're gonna
have place emphasis on the word shouldn't. Yeah, should yeah, shouldn't.
And so I'm sitting there and this is about the time,
(34:54):
you know, the awesome TV series Game of Thrones came out,
woh okay, And so I'm watching it and I'm just
sitting there and I start texting my wife and you know,
I'm sitting here texting on my phone and this big
iPad is sitting right on my computer right here.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
So you get the iPad with are you watching? You're
watching this new show text?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Do you think you're liking the your Heidi hole? And
no one can get to you.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Or see you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
He's on easy money, is.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Not even sleeping like One of our other guests told
a story about sleeping.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah he was this time.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Okay, don't write yourself out, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Again he was a place where the public shouldn't be
able to get to him. Right.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So we're sitting or I'm sitting there and I'm not
really paying attention to what's on the TV show.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But have you seen Game of Thrones? No?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think I'm probably one of the few that haven't.
My Karen, you haven't either. I don't have those channels.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Going on here.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
But anyway, I have to have like a general basis
of like what it is. And I've seen the clips.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lots of dragons. I don't know
if I lots of penises in this show.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, hang on, Oscar, that's why you're watching this. The
way you know in Game of Thrones is how far
you're into it is a little more.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
And so I don't know if I could even say it,
But so anyway, I'm sitting here watching this and texting
my wife and about that time a scene comes up
and it's two of these guys and it is very graphic,
and yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I didn't know that about it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I knew that there was like the red wedding and
the dragons, and I knew there was some like some
kind of like cinemac stuff in it, but I did
not know.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
That, yes, there there are some scenes that are rough,
and uh so.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You got you guys in a.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Compromising yeah position, and uh so, but I'm kind of
on my phone and about that time, I look up
at the screen and I see it and also here
I knock on my window and so I look real
quick and it's this elderly lady and she's looking and
she can stare right up my screen and I'm like,
(37:07):
oh my, and I slam it down real quick and
I rolled the window down.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I'm like, man, I am that that is Game of
and she's like, I don't judge.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I'm making a phone call later, right, and I am
just freaking out.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm like, man, I'm being serious. This it's a TV show.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And she's like, she goes, son, we're all different, you
know whatever, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Just totally remembered it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And then finally I'm like, what are you doing here?
You know what? What? What can I help you with?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And somehow she had gotten on the freeway and yeah,
So I learned a lesson that day to kind of
maybe not watch certain movies and I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Sure you weren't expecting that to show up.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Yeah, And then it was even worse because I had
to call my supervisor because I just knew I'm about
to get a phone call.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Hey, listen, lady, one of our citizens caught me watching this.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, and Thrones.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I swear it was Game of Thrones, but yeah, so
it it definitely it was a bad moment.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, I was just I was so embarrassed. Is this
I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And she was this nice little like she could be
because I was even in a truck and she could
barely see up over the and she's this eide level
with these two guys that are just and and like
I said, this is it's early on, and you know,
there's not as many dragons, and there's way more penises.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I didn't know the ratio, like more of this and
less of that.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, the way you know how far you are. If
you're seeing a whole lot of dragons, then you're getting
towards the end of it. If you're seeing a whole
lot of other stuff here in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Of it, Oh, okay, goot to know.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
People are gonna go back and watch it and go
He's right. You don't need credits or anything. You can
tell right where you're at.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Now, what season to win? How many dragons were there
last time?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah? So they were, but there were four?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Yeah so, And that's funny.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Sometimes you just do things that are embarrassing. Absolutely. Now
you let off in the first segment talking about some
of the practical jokes you guys have done on fellow officers.
And I understand he had one to involved a bridge.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Oh yes, yes, we had a he's a sergeant. Now
I wish I could say his name.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
You should have called an ask for permission.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
He'll know exactly they called him. I think they called
him cupcake after this. But anyway is yeah, yeah, somehow,
that's I'm going to go back to work and everyone's.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Going to be a bunch of hot dogs on your desk.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Bill parked in the parking lot. Well, at least we'll
know where we're at in the series.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
They'll get that in a second, all right, but uh,
we're got to keep it clean, right. So anyway, this
brand new officer, he he comes work for us, and
like I said, he's a sergeant. Now love this guy.
And we had decided to do this practical joke on him,
and so we got another officer to tell him to hey,
(40:08):
fifty four with us or that that means meet us.
And uh so they met up, but they were right
under a bridge. And all the rest of the officers
in Georgia District we had had missions. We set out
with a mission.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
One officer had to go to the store. Now we
couldn't do this because the price of eggs, but back
then we were talking twenty five years ago, went and
bought like six dozen eggs.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's like seventy five cents back then.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
And another officer his mission, he had to go buy
like thirty pounds of flour. And we you know, we're
trying to find something that's gooey, but we can't think
of anything. We're like baseline. But it's not gonna you know,
it's not going to work for what we wanted. So
one of the officers stopped in this little convenience store
(40:56):
and he just tells the clerk what we're doing. And
the clerks, oh, you want afrochine And he's like what
And he's like afrochine and he goes, how much of
it do you need? He goes, how much do you have?
You know, how expensive is afro? She I don't know
what this is and it's this massive bucket of hair product.
And so he buys like three of these. So now
(41:19):
we've got eggs, we've got flour and afrochine. And understand also,
this is probably three days after our lieutenant just tore
into us about practical jokes. So uh so, yeah, yeah,
So we were keeping it within our division. So the
(41:39):
plan was he's going to pull up under this bridge
and he's going to be talking to the other officer,
and we would text the other officer a little signal
and she was going to pull up, act like she
had to take a phone call and tell him just
to hold there. So everything works. We got about nine
officers up on this bridge. We're about three stories above
him and goes off with that hitch. She pulls up,
(42:03):
gets out of the way. First is the eggs, and
they just start just I mean it's a lot of
the car. No, he's in the car, okay, and so
these are just covering his windshield, his hood, all over
this car.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
And then he's probably thinking of turre ad aptel just
flew over. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yeah, and this guy.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Give him credit. He didn't even move. He was just like, yeah,
he knew. And then just take it. Right after the
eggs the flower, you know, and we're talking like thirty
pounds of flour, it just covers this car and or no,
I'm sorry. Right after that was the afrochine and it
just I mean it hits the car with this thud
because it was super hot out that day, I mean
(42:43):
over one hundred degrees We're in August, so it's melted
and it just covers his car in this goop. And
then we dropped the flower across the car and we
all laugh, have a good time, drive off and kind
of just go about our bit our day.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Never even think about him again. You guys go do
police work at that point.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Yeah, and someone was kind of like, you know, hey,
worst you know Scott, you know, we don't see him.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
We're like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
And at the end of the shift, we're talking like
ten o'clock at night, he comes pulling up and this
car is coated in this stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Still it has.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Went down in the engine. Uh, it is cooked into
the car. And this poor guy all he had in
his car was this little bitty seven to eleven cup
and nothing, no, and he s e eleven cup and
one napkin and he turned the windshield wipers on and
what do you think that did, Yeah, just coated his windshield.
(43:44):
So he's out there just with this one napkin and
he had one little cup and he would have to
run like one hundred yards to a water fountain and
fill it up and then come back. And uh yeah.
So three days after our lieutenant just got onto us
about a joke, we actually destroyed a car.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Because if you do not know that eggs and car going.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
On, Oh yeah, it'll bake, It'll bake right on there.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
And yeah, so yeah, we destroyed a car. So you
guys learned your lesson three days after you get talked
to you by your supervisor from the chiefs visit for
practical jokes. You guys destroyed a car.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
I'm glad to say that. You guys follow orders.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well yeah, well I think the order was keep it
within your division.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Okay, you kept it within your division.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah you did. They didn't say don't destroy anything.
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Speaker 1 (45:52):
And we're back back to more offbeat the light side
of law enforcement. Johanne, you got that time.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Or down the buttons don't work.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I don't know if it's just me, but I've pushed
every single of those buttons like eight times before they work.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
You pushed, you pushed all the buttons I did.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Stupid remote.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Don't take it out on the remote. So much aggression
built up.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Well, it frustrates me because I know I'm pushing the
right button and it just doesn't work. Okay, That's why
I'm like, this is it? Is it something in the way,
you know?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Like all right, And for those not watching on YouTube,
those listening, we've got a timer here in the studio
and Johann's in charge of the timer with the remote,
and the timer's not cooperating with her today, so we
might have to send you back to remedial remote training.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
I guess so apparently.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Ah well, guys, thanks for listening today. We got one
guest joining us in the studio. We've got Lieutenant Steve
Myers from the Fort Worth Police Department. Now, if you've
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Hey, you had my mic turned off, as like, subscribe, Now.
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That's started off. Okay, you're back.
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Okay, Russ to do that to you a lot, yeah,
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Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay. Now we've got one final story here, Steve. You
you with your the Zero Tolerance team. You you know,
you guys are out there. You you guys are looking
for any kind of gang activity stuff like that, checking
out suspicious vehicles. What is one of the strangest suspicious
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vehicles you've come across?
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Oh, lordie. One thing to Zero Tolerance. You know, we
would work like six at night till two in the morning,
and basically you just go out hunting, you know, trying
to look for criminals and all this. So one night
I was driving around and I kind of saw this car,
you know, and I could tell I had four people
(49:31):
in it, And right when I got behind it, I
could swear I saw all four of them pull their
hoods up. Oh someone's got something to hut. Yeah, and
they you know, and I swear I saw that, you know,
they bring their hoods up. And so immediately my partner,
Hank Nova, I keep up on the radio and I'm like, hey, Hank,
(49:52):
I got I got something over here.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
I need you to get over here.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
And so I'm following them around and these people they're
not too in their heads nothing, They're just looking forward,
which a lot of cops, you know, two o'clock in
the morning, there's a car behind you. People are gonna
turn their head, they're gonna look. So I was like,
all right, something's up with this. So I stop them,
and you know, still hoods are up. So I'm telling them.
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I'm like, you know, so I start ordering I need
you to get your hands up, you know, because I'm
not going to approach this vehicle, try to get the
driver out. Driver won't get out. I'm saying it English, Spanish,
you know, every way I can. And you know, so
I tell the guys, hey, I need you all to
get up with me now. So everyone's running code, so
step step it up, lights and sirn get here.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
So and you know, We're in a residential neighborhood, you know,
two o'clock in the morning. Everyone flies gets to me.
So we have probably half the SRT team there at
the time. You know, there's like eight of us, and
we've got the whole road blocked. We've got lights, I mean,
air one gets there, helicopter, We've got a canine with us,
and I'm just like screaming at this car. I'm like,
(51:01):
you know, get your hands up. And finally, uh, you know,
with all the commotion, I think, you know, these you know,
gang members in the car finally decide they need to
get out of this car. So the driver door opens,
you know, we start relaying, okay, driver door is opening,
you know, and I'm giving commands. I need you to stand.
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And when this heinous gang member gets out of the
car and kind of turned sideways, I realize that there's
something really.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Odd about this gang member.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
This gang member is a nun. She stands up, and
when she faces me, I can't I think it's called
a habit, I don't know, and she's got this habit on,
and immediately I recognize the other three have these same
identifying gang attire, and I remember I just look across
(51:59):
at the other guy and immediately their guns are pointing
at the ground. And I remember Hank, he just looked
at He's like nice, nice and uh so, you know
they only spoke Spanish. We you know, got an interpreter
there told him the story and they were super happy.
I think I got blessed and uh and everything. Yeah,
(52:22):
I hope so. And uh even Air one was uh
because you know in that radio voice they have, pilot's laughing. Well,
he's like, you know, because we don't want everyone to know,
and he's like, one does one nineteen go ahead?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Well was that a nun? And I was like yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And uh so for weeks after that, you know, whatever
reason they could come up with on the radio to
you know, do you have any Nope, I got none.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
It took a while to live that one down. But uh,
that was probably the weirdest suspicious vehicle.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Uh yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
What you do last night?
Speaker 3 (53:06):
I pulled over a bunch of UN's at gun point
out at two o'clock in the morning, when you know,
no one's asking this.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Question, Well, and what part of town were they in?
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Too? More side where all the Catholic churches are Okay, Yeah,
I struck out on that one. Okay, so I should
have been watching Game of Throne through something.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
She would have definitely blessed you that.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Well, yeah, my night and talk to him now. Yeah,
might have drug you over to the church. Well, Steve,
it's it's been a pleasure for having you in the
studio today. Thanks for coming in. Thank you, Thank you guys,
thanks for listening. Until next time, keep it real, keep
it funny, stay safe, and watch each other. Six
Yeah, welcome, Welcome to Off the the Light Side of
Law Enforcement, part of the Treehouse podcast Network. On today's show,
(00:22):
we're going to discuss practical jokes, Game of Thrones, and
a very very strange suspicious vehicle. Thanks for listening. I'm
your host Steve Rutherford, co host for today's show, Joe
and Jackson. Hey y'all, and we're joined by one guest
in studio today. We've got Lieutenant Steve Myers Hi and
(00:47):
Lieutenant Steve Myers, also also known as Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I kind of a funny story with that. We were
talking about that the UH A lot of times when
they're dealing with intoxicated people, they would ask them. Someone
would ask me what my name was, and I would
always tell them Officer Myers, And inevitably you would always
have some drunk that would say, you know, no crap,
your name is Oscar Myers.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And and what I instantly said, my police officer has
a first name, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
My police officer has a second name, it's m E
Y E R. Yeah. So I think we need to
talk to Troy, but it was definitely spelt different posts. Yeah, yeah,
And we need to talk to Troy about a song.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, we could definitely do that. So Officer Myers or well,
Lieutenant Myers, I guess I guess they can't mistake that
anymore now, sure, lieutenant, Yeah, but you're still an officer,
so absolutely. Do you want to mention we received another
patch from the Colony Police Department. I was given to
me last weekend from Dustin Palmer, So shout out to Dustin.
(01:53):
Thank you, sir. So another addition to the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did you put mine up from last time?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes? Yeah, the patchwall, the patchwall. Now, Joanne, welcome back
into the studio.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It's been a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It has been we've missed you. Josh was here last
week and all six five of Josh standing here in studio.
Took your microphone to New Heights.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, I could stand under it. I automatically knew who
was here by the setting on the headphones and the like.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, you know what wouldn't Curtis he'd be jumping up
with his hand over his head trying to grab that mic.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So yeah, yeah, the question is did.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He stay in camera? Did he stay in camera? Yeah?
Oh yeah, if he was wearing a hat, you know,
just kidding it all it all shows shows on there.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, Now, Steve, you are a lieutenant. What agency do
you work for? The Fort Worth Police Department? Okay, how
long you been in fort Worth? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Lordie, that long. Yeah, I've been an officer total thirty
two years, so about twenty nine with Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, where'd you work before that? Hultm City, Propolis
of Houlton City, Okay, right down the road. Now, we
we had someone else that worked. No, he didn't work
at Alton City. We worked at Richland Hills because we
were trying to ask him where there's a Richland Hills
in the north Richland Hills. But then he came over
to uh fort Worth. But I never heard, never heard
anything negative about a fort work. Guys that go there
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stay there.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh yeah yeah. Normally, uh you know, most smaller agencies,
they'll eventually, like around that neighborhood, they'll come down drift
over to us and like all of our l e
O classes are usually Dallas PD.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
About seven eight years ago. You got a bunch of
Dallas people, I believe, Yeah, I know some of them.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, they're doing a big war right now. I don't
know if you have seen that on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, something about the DPD billboard now hiring and then
you guys came up with your own video.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, they put a they put billboards like all over
fort Worth and uh so our PIO office I guess
took offense to that, and uh, we're That's one thing
they're known for, is some.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of those Well, a lot of people don't want to
work in the city they live in. So it's good
to know you have options, Like we were never going
to live in Dallas County, right, that was never even
an option for us to live in Dallas County. So
I would imagine that depending on what your county's like
depicts whether or not you live in that county.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, a lot of officers won't. They don't.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
They don't want to live in their the city that
they work in. Like I me and my wife are
both officers with fort Worth and we live in Granbury.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of fort Worth guys do.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, I've never been there, live in Granbury.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Nope, Well you never worked for fort Worth either, down there.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I've been to Fort Worth for a meetings though.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, I you know, staying with staying along that train
of thought there, Uh, the agency I worked for Farmers branch.
When I first hired on there, I was living in Carrollton,
the city just to the north, and sure enough, I'm
one of my days off. I mean, I'm walking inside
seven eleven, got the kids with me, and I'm gonna
go ahead and through this date out there.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Eighteen sixty two.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
No, no, it was, yeah, he's after. It was actually
after the Civil War. But but when I was walkingside
seven eleven, there was a payphone outside and there's a
guy talking on the phone. As I walked by with
my kids, He's like, hey, you remember me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Cakes go no, no, this can't be good. No, no, no,
I get in the car and lock the doors.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying to pull all the
memories out of my head. You know, I don't know
what I had. I typically don't know what I had
to eat the day before. And now I've got some
guy asking if i'd remembered who he was, and he said, yeah,
you you arrested me for some dope the other day.
And I was like, okay, kids, get back in the car.
And all my buddies aren't here at seven eleven with me,
so it's it's me and him. So I learned early on, hey,
(05:43):
I'm I'm going to reside further away from where I
work because I want to be able to lure my
guard and just enjoy life on my days off with
your family.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That that exact story happens a lot. I remember one
day I had a guy come up to me the
same thing, and he's like, you know, hey, are you
I'll scar now I do that I.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Heard stories about you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He was asking me you're a police officer, right, and
I was like yeah, and he goes, you remember me?
And I'm like no, no, and he's like, well, you
arrested me and I'm I was like, sir, I'm sorry.
I wrest a lot of people, you know, I apologize
And it wasn't a big.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
A moment for me, Sir, arrest like twenty people a day.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But he looked at me and he goes, it was
last night, and I was like, oh really. I was like, yeah, sorry,
I I'm glad you got out, but uh and walked
off with my wife and she's like, what's you even remember?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Like did they even arrest anybody? Was I work last night?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah? But luckily as a lieutenant, I don't have to
deal with that. That's funny, you outgrew it. Yeah, that's yeah.
I think that's everybody's worst night mare. We we had
a couple of guys of my agency that lived in
the city, and I mean, they're they're buying groceries right
down the street from their house where they arrested people
for shop lifting or lord knows what you know in
the previous days. And I don't know that I could
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do that. I want to be able to get away.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
But the thing is your arrest people from everywhere. A
lot of people come to Dallas and Fort Worth to
party and drink and do whatever thing they probably shouldn't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So I wait a minute, the potential party and drink
Where you said things they shouldn't be doing. You mentioned
partying and drinking, and I.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Said in other things they probably shouldn't be doing, like
Robin and Thieven.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, now that I'll give you that. Robin and Thieven,
that's daling and doping, daling to open robin and thieving.
I think we need to divert back to Troy again
and come up with joe Anstey rep song.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
When, Yeah, when I worked in Haltom City. I actually
lived in the city.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And it's a very small city. There's only like five
beats there. So it was you constantly ran across like
you would answer a domestic in your apartment complex and
they would know who you were.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah that you know.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Back then I was young and you know, didn't care
that much, but now I definitely wouldn't want to know.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That was when we lived in the first place we
lived and we were friends with our neighbors and they
had a domestic and Brian's like it should go into
bene and he just went over like.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Hey, guys, what's going on. I was just coming home
from work, you know, not like he heard the domestic.
I'm like, we live here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You're not being compensated to be the officer for the building,
and you know, you go to work and I'm here
by myself. Let's just mind our own business.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, that's it. I mean, just be a good witness,
come one one one and unless you have to intervene.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The funny thing with that is a lot of younger
officers and I did this when I was a newer officer.
You know, you didn't know when to shut it off,
like you'd be on your way home something happened, and
like I know, one time I had a hit and
run happened right in front of me, and I bail out,
and I'm just playing clothes and I'm chasing this guy
catching and all this stuff. And probably now if that happened, just.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Just pick up the phone. Hey, y'all got some guy
running out here.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, because the officers have a duty to act, like
ems you know, I'm where I'm from, we have a
duty to act. And it was all volunteer, so you
were always responding to things in regular clothes and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Your private Yeah, live for death, I think that would
you wore that, But you know, a shoplifting or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
You know, No, I don't see nothing nothing. I don't
see nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Anyway, if they were life and death thing, I would
hope that everybody would intervene. But there's also every agency's
got a policy on how to you know, what to
respond to, what not to respond to, and some direction
for whenever you're off duty. Yeah, you know, sometimes you
can be the best witness out there versus versus stepping
in where you don't have your normal backup, you don't
(09:47):
have your tools with you don't have pepper spray and
taser and as baton. You've got a gun and maybe
a pair of handcuffs. So yeah, unless detective it takes you. Yeah,
in which case you don't even have ant even have, yes,
a gun, got a pen and a notepad. Now, now, Steve,
(10:07):
how you said that you've been at Fort Worth? You
said twenty nine years? Yes, what kind of opportunities have
you had at forth PD?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh, I can tell you, Uh, getting to work for
the Fortworth Police Department. Uh, it's incredible. We have you know,
like working from a smaller agency. For just three years,
I'd basically done everything that you can do there, you know,
besides being a motor officer.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
You know, I'd been with Spot.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You know, their detectives at that time were just uh,
it was an officer position, so there wasn't a lot
of room to do anything else. And that was my
main reason to switch to Fort Worth. And once I
switched over, Uh, you know, I got to you know,
obviously do patrol multiple different sides of town, but I
(10:51):
got to work with the downtown bike unit. I got
to work with what we called was our weed and
Seed Unit, which was a patrol division in George District, which, Uh,
that was an incredible time getting to work there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Fifteen years of my career I spent with the zero
Tolerance team, or the SRT team, or the DRU team
or the CRT They keep changing the name of it.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's all the same team. They just changed.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, every time we'll get a new TIEF for something,
they think that zero tolerance sounds too harsh, so they'll
change the name to something else.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And then.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, slightly tolerance and tolerance depending upon what.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It depends on what time of day. Sometimes you were
kind of tolerant.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Other time I'm on a kind of.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I haven't slept in two days and I haven't anything
to eat today, so it's zero.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, we're back to the zero beginning of the shift
at zero tolerance.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you know, about an hour before we got off
a lot of talerents one.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
At lunch time, they were kind of medium tolerance.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I'm eating, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
So yeah, I got to bounce around, got to do it.
That's one of the great things about working for a
large cities. You can move around. And then after about
ten years is when I decided, you know, I need
to start promoting and moved up to detective, got to
work on the West c I D, the Central Investigation
or in c I D, and then the last part
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of that, I moved over to t I U, which
is our traffic investigative units accident extent. Yeah, you mainly
deal with fatalities.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And Steve did that TOOLI.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We had some interesting stories. Yeah, we swapped stories earlier
on that nice.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Nice, nice, But we're.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Here for the funny side of Longforce.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, we want the funnies.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They were funny, but funny to us.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, Yes, that's how we that's how we deal with it.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But you know, staying on, staying on funny. I understand
you were quite the jokes. You're over in Fort Worth
and involved in quite a few practical jokes.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Uh, yeah, you could say that talking about that one
division that we worked in. It uh, the Weed and
Seed Unit. See un Yeah, it was uh we had
our own little rockers and everything, and uh you had
to you had to earn your rockers and uh, but
basically it was a patrol division. We called it the
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Dome or we had all sorts of names for it.
But uh, that place was probably the craziest with practical jokes.
That I've ever seen. Like, we had, uh, one officer
and I'll to kind of date myself a little bit here,
but do you remember, like a long time ago phones
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you just hold down the one button and it would
go to your voicemail.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, you would flip your phone open.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Uh well that would have.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Those him, right, so uh but so excuse me. So
one officer uh gets the other officer's phone, and it's
right before roll call and in this division, we had
like twenty eight to thirty people in roll call, so
it's it's a huge roll call. And so he gets
his phone and he goes through it and he finds
the first you know dad, dad.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So wait, he finds his first dad.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, he finds his first But the first number, first
number he finds under there under D is dad.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And so he calls dad.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's calling another officer's dad's wrong, that's right. In his defense,
he doesn't know that this other officer's dad's hard at
hearing and you know, elderly. So he calls this guy
and he doesn't answer, and he leaves a voicemail, and
he leaves a voicemail and he's basically, you know, dad,
(14:42):
I got to tell you the reason. I'm thirty years
old and I'm not married, and you've never seen me
with any women, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And and basically it just comes out to this guy's
dad and uh and and so he and then he
just hangs up because role call starting, and he goes
and he puts the phone back by the other officer.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And so we're sitting there in a roll call. The
sergeant's talking and as he's talking, his phone's just blowing up.
And this poor officer he's looking at his phone and
he's like, I got to get this. Yeah, so he
puts it up to his ear, and over half the
roll call knew what had happened. So they're just expecting,
(15:27):
you know, if you would have done that with my
dad or something, you know, he would probably not even
call back. But the very first thing this officer says,
he's like, cloak, well, yeah, I love you too, dad,
nothing's going to change it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What's going on? And so he's like.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What And also he walks out of roll call, and uh,
you know, we were just amazed. I was like, I'm hoping,
you know, my dad would know better than that, but
since he was hard of hearing, and everything he couldn't.
So the joke is I'm in it, and that that
triggered an entire like joke war because that officer got
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the original officer we'll call him Tony, got Tony's phone
and held down the one button, got into his voicemail
and left a voicemail for people, and it is one
that we will not say.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So when people call, that's the vice mel that that's.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
What you're saying, and so perfect.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And he changed the code to where now the officer
can't even get in to check his own voicemails. And
for the older officers out there, we know what an
MDT is. We call him MDC's Now it's basically our
mobile computer that we have in our cars. But back then,
if I sent an all message out, which is to
every single officer signed on in the entire city of
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Fort Worth, it only looked like it was going to you.
It didn't look like an all message Like now I
would be able to know yea. And so he goes
down and puts a this message and he's like, hey,
call me immediately at this number. So everyone is calling
this number and we're talking, uh duty lieutenants captains. Everyone
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is calling this number. Yeah, so they uh, and he
can't even answer them all because they're just pouring into
his voicemail. And all of a sudden, the next colleague
gets is from Internal Affairs. Oh yeah, because one of
the captains thought since he thought it was directed at.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Him, and so yeah, because it went to everybody, but.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It's on he couldn't tell because on NBC it's telling
you to call me at this.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Numbers tells each individual party.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now you could tell, but back then it just if
you sent an all message, you couldn't tell that was
an all message.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So he uh.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So basically internal Affairs gets involved and during this we're
just doing joke after Joe and we had a sergeant
at the time that he was a brand new sergeant
and he had to have his podium. You know, he
had to stand behind his podium because he could he couldn't.
He couldn't give roll call without a podium, I guess, so, uh,
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the other sergeants wouldn't use it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So they'd pull it out of the way. And this
thing's heavy, and every day he'd walk in and it
would be like right over where you are, and he'd
grab it and just drag.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It right, and then he just tuck from where it
was well.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Because it was kind of in the corner and he
needed he needed to be in the center. He has
to be friend and center, I guess. So anyway, he
would drag it over there and the officers were like hmm.
So one day they drug it to the back of
the room and he walks in and he stands up
there and he's looking for it and he sees it
in the back. So he goes back there and I mean,
(18:51):
this thing is loud, and it just drag and it
takes him five minutes to drag this thing up. And
it escalates, and it escalates to where basically, with all
these jokes that are going on, the chief gets involved and.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
A and air and arrow.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, and he loves good jokes, so he so he
comes to our sector and he's wanting to tell us, hey, guys,
let's not.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Take these outside of your division. Let's keep them inside.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And he shows up and our lieutenant goes down to
greeting and he goes down and the chief gets out
of his car and he looks up and what is
on top of the sector the building the podium, an
officer had drug it through a hatch, took it up
onto the roof and put it there, and he's like,
(19:45):
I'm gonna see if sergeant actually goes up there, drags
it down and does this. And so the chief looks
at our lieutenant and he's like what is that and
he's like, uh, you know, just don't worry about it.
So now the chief is walking up and he's going
to address our role call because you know about yeah,
(20:06):
because of all these practical jokes. And so he walks
in and you know how everyone back in the well
they still have them boxes is what we called them.
You know, it's where if you get a letter or something,
uh you know the problem. Yeah, they're lined up on
the wall.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
One of the things that the officer started doing, just
uh play a joke on each other was they would
take a piece of cardboard and cover that duct tape
it and seal it up basically with all your stuff
in it. Then they'd poke a small hole in it.
And then they would take this stuff called great stuff
and you buy it home depot and.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's a phone phone.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So they would just completely fill up your box with
this phone and you had to leave it for about
three days, so you had to wait for the officer
right when he left for you know, his days off
or something and do this. Well everyone was like, oh crap,
the Chief's coming up, and they panic and they run
up and they peel it all real quick. Well, the
stuff hadn't set, so it just starts flowing down the
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floor and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Welcome to the station, chief.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Right, so something to see you over here.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You know our chief of police, you know who just
had to come out here and tell us about, you know,
practical jokes. And he walks in and first he sees
the podium and it's got the badge on it Fort
Worth Police and it has a little mic standing in
it the roof and it's.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Like three stories up there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And then he walks in and this stuff is just
oozing out of all the boxes and he just looks
at our lieutenant and he just is like, what is
going on here? And afterwards you want to talk. The
chief was real cool, but the lieutenant was not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I bet.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
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Speaker 1 (23:22):
But if if you if you come outside after a
storm and your roof is laying next to your house,
probably go ahead and contact your insurance company.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
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if you have an agent that you can, you know,
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today we've got Joe Anne co hosting the show and
we're joined by one guest in the studio. We've got
Lieutenant Steve Myers Oscar.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
So you realize every Fartworth officer I'm going to see,
I'm gonna be like, hey, do you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
What you're talking about? Well, yeah, his bolooney has a
first name. Definitely.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I was just gonna say Dizzy drive the Enam reveal.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But all right, well that wraps it up.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So now next time it comes through town, we definitely
need a picture of you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, when I get back, I'll be sergeants after this,
Sergey Myers, now, Steve you You also you mentioned that
you're on the.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
SRT Team and I'm sure you've got some stories going
back to your days there on the team. Oh god, yes, probably.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Like I said, it was about fifteen years of my career,
whether I was an officer sergeant with the team, and
the probably last ten years before I promoted to lieutenant,
I was over SRT Team four. We call ourselves Rogue
another team.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
They used to say that we would we would do
all sorts of rogue stuff. So the guys kind of
adopted it and they'd put a patch. So you went
from weeds and seeds yeah, rogue, Yeah, to Rogue Team
Rogue And uh, you know one thing with that is
we had to you had to do tons of interviews
because with the City of Fort Worth, we have six
SRT teams are now they're called uh d are E,
which is directed response.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
In it and go go there, do this.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, they're basically, you know, a unit that they don't
answer calls. They wear all the tactical gear they have,
you know, like the battering rams. They have all the
not not as much stuff as SWAT, but they have
a lot of stuff, and they're really they're highly trained
and you know, anything that breaks loose in the city,
they're the usually the first that's going to go.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Is that kind of a Lake Dallas's Mobile Field Force.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
No, that would be like right control, that's right control.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Okay, Well, but the SRT team was the first line
in riot control in the city of Fort Worth and
we had all the the sixty days where we were
working like sixteen hours every day. They were the front
line of that.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Okay, so they do that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Also, thank you for working during that. Oh yeah, that
was mensely appreciated. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
But with that, since there was six teams, we would
you know, post openings and in the city of Fort Worth,
when you have a opening like that, they have to
put a packet in and they have to you know, put.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Their resume in there, like an application.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's basically an application, and one of the things is
we have to they have to give an interview, and
it's sometimes it's pretty intimidating because you may have six
sergeants sitting in there and you're the only officer in
there and you have to do this. But we always
try to come up with like different questions to ask
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them to kind of see what kind of an officer
they were. And one of the things that we would
always ask is, can you tell me about your worst
tactical mistake that you've ever made? And officers, inevitably, you know,
they'll come out and they'll say, you know, one day,
I was saving five children out of a burning building,
(29:03):
you know, and I was returning fire, you know, and
you know, I let my gun go drive.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They always come up with stories like that and he
kind of, you know, just go along with it, and
you know, you're really just wanting to hear what they
have to say. But this one sergeant, he asked the question,
and this officer he's like, yeah, he goes, I don't
I don't have to think a lot about this one.
I know exactly what it was, he tells me, or
(29:31):
he tells all of us. He's like, one time I
responded to a suicidal subject. This guy has a pistol
and he's trying to kill himself. So he shows up
to the house and it's got a glass screen door
on the front of the house and the inside door
is open. So the officer comes up and he's telling
us how, you know, super tactically he cleared the house
(29:51):
and he was looking and he could see the guy.
The guy was sitting right on the recliner, right inside
the door, and right beside him.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
He had a pistol.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And so the officer, you know, is like trying to
find a way to get his attention. So he's wanting
to give him commands and he's yelling, and the guy's
either passed out or he's just not responding. And so
this officer, you know, being a good officer, he's got
his pistol out, and he decides to knock on the door,
you know, And so he reaches up and knocks on
(30:24):
the door with his pistol in his hand. And when
he does, yeah, he's like banging on the glass trying
to get this guy. Well, glass and guns don't mix,
so he breaks the glass and drops his gun. He
drops his gun on the inside in case you didn't
(30:44):
have enough guns, and so he wakes the suspect up
when he does that, and the suspect looks at him,
looks down at the gun, looks at him, stands up,
walks over to him, and picks the gun up up
and hands it back to the officer and uh, I
(31:06):
don't want this, yeah, and just hands it back to him,
And the sergeant that originally asked that question just looked
at him and he goes, don't ever tell that story again.
He was like, never say that story again. And we
laughed about it, and believe it or not, he actually
made the team.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Uh. We didn't hold that too much against him, but.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Uh, things happen.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, uh well, but yeah, you get during those interviews
because we even.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Had one officer, it's like a fishing story.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, that he ended up coming to work for me.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
And this officer, a phenomenal officer, loving Uh, he had
a We asked him, you know, what's his worst mistake
kind of a deal and he's like, well, him and
his wife, who's also a fourth officer, have a friend
who I can say who this is, Casey Donahue. I
don't know y'all know, Uh, he's a country singer. Yeah,
(31:59):
and at the time him, he wasn't that big, and
he asked him, hey, would you mind being in a
music video for us?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Are you no?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Asked this officer and uh so he asked this off
and he's telling us this sterre in the interview and
he tells him, you know, yeah, yeah, he's like, yeah,
I'll do that. And what the he wanted him to
do was him and his wife to chase him down
in the video in uniform, tackling, handcuffing, and you know,
haul him off to jail. And he's like, yeah, sure,
(32:29):
I'll do that because you know, sign this waiver. Yeah,
because basically, h he wasn't that known, and you know,
the officer thought this video is not going anywhere. Well,
he does the video and then about two months later,
on CMT television one of the number one videos, and
(32:49):
it's uh, Casey don hue, how do I not know
that video?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I don't have to look that video up.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Trailer parkueen or something like that, something like yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But anyway, so he's on national TV in his Fort
Worth police uniform with his wife.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, knock knock.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Hey, it's I ed, yeah, which is completely against our
general orders. So h During the interview, we were like really,
and we all pull open our laptops and his entire
interview is best watching the video of him.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yeah, Well did he do it right? And was that
like a good interview for him? The video? Where is
he tactically correct?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
He actually was, And we laughed because his wife even
double locked the handcuffs on case.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Well the way you get around the chief and the
I a part on that so well. They said they
were going to put now hiring fort work.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You know, it's supposed to put an advertisement in.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
There, supposed to be ad at the bottom is actually
recruiting music video. So luckily he didn't get into that's good.
Now something else that you would you showed with the
Steve you work a lot of extra assignments and you
may or may not take some of your own entertainment
in the former an iPad there with you.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, all right, Uh, try to be clean on this
one as I can. We had a job where police
officers we work a lot of extra jobs, you know,
and it can be a parking lot security, working at
a church, doing pretty much anything. And this one time
I was working on the freeway because we were building
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a toll way right through the center.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Of Fort Worth.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
So yeah, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
And so we're just we have officers out there blocking
freeways down. Well, I'm at a spot where you can't
you shouldn't be able to get to me, you know,
like a citizen, because it's all the exits are blocked.
I'm just there watching some vehicles or something. We're gonna
have place emphasis on the word shouldn't. Yeah, should yeah, shouldn't.
And so I'm sitting there and this is about the time,
(34:54):
you know, the awesome TV series Game of Thrones came out,
woh okay, And so I'm watching it and I'm just
sitting there and I start texting my wife and you know,
I'm sitting here texting on my phone and this big
iPad is sitting right on my computer right here.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
So you get the iPad with are you watching? You're
watching this new show text?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Do you think you're liking the your Heidi hole? And
no one can get to you.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Or see you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
He's on easy money, is.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Not even sleeping like One of our other guests told
a story about sleeping.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah he was this time.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Okay, don't write yourself out, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Again he was a place where the public shouldn't be
able to get to him. Right.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So we're sitting or I'm sitting there and I'm not
really paying attention to what's on the TV show.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But have you seen Game of Thrones? No?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think I'm probably one of the few that haven't.
My Karen, you haven't either. I don't have those channels.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Going on here.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
But anyway, I have to have like a general basis
of like what it is. And I've seen the clips.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, lots of dragons. I don't know
if I lots of penises in this show.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, hang on, Oscar, that's why you're watching this. The
way you know in Game of Thrones is how far
you're into it is a little more.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
And so I don't know if I could even say it,
But so anyway, I'm sitting here watching this and texting
my wife and about that time a scene comes up
and it's two of these guys and it is very graphic,
and yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I didn't know that about it.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I knew that there was like the red wedding and
the dragons, and I knew there was some like some
kind of like cinemac stuff in it, but I did
not know.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
That, yes, there there are some scenes that are rough,
and uh so.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You got you guys in a.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Compromising yeah position, and uh so, but I'm kind of
on my phone and about that time, I look up
at the screen and I see it and also here
I knock on my window and so I look real
quick and it's this elderly lady and she's looking and
she can stare right up my screen and I'm like,
(37:07):
oh my, and I slam it down real quick and
I rolled the window down.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I'm like, man, I am that that is Game of
and she's like, I don't judge.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I'm making a phone call later, right, and I am
just freaking out.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I'm like, man, I'm being serious. This it's a TV show.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And she's like, she goes, son, we're all different, you
know whatever, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Just totally remembered it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And then finally I'm like, what are you doing here?
You know what? What? What can I help you with?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And somehow she had gotten on the freeway and yeah,
So I learned a lesson that day to kind of
maybe not watch certain movies and I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Sure you weren't expecting that to show up.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Yeah, And then it was even worse because I had
to call my supervisor because I just knew I'm about
to get a phone call.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Hey, listen, lady, one of our citizens caught me watching this.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, and Thrones.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I swear it was Game of Thrones, but yeah, so
it it definitely it was a bad moment.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, I was just I was so embarrassed. Is this
I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And she was this nice little like she could be
because I was even in a truck and she could
barely see up over the and she's this eide level
with these two guys that are just and and like
I said, this is it's early on, and you know,
there's not as many dragons, and there's way more penises.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
I didn't know the ratio, like more of this and
less of that.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, the way you know how far you are. If
you're seeing a whole lot of dragons, then you're getting
towards the end of it. If you're seeing a whole
lot of other stuff here in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Of it, Oh, okay, goot to know.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
People are gonna go back and watch it and go
He's right. You don't need credits or anything. You can
tell right where you're at.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Now, what season to win? How many dragons were there
last time?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah? So they were, but there were four?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Yeah so, And that's funny.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Sometimes you just do things that are embarrassing. Absolutely. Now
you let off in the first segment talking about some
of the practical jokes you guys have done on fellow officers.
And I understand he had one to involved a bridge.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Oh yes, yes, we had a he's a sergeant. Now
I wish I could say his name.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
You should have called an ask for permission.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
He'll know exactly they called him. I think they called
him cupcake after this. But anyway is yeah, yeah, somehow,
that's I'm going to go back to work and everyone's.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Going to be a bunch of hot dogs on your desk.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Bill parked in the parking lot. Well, at least we'll
know where we're at in the series.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
They'll get that in a second, all right, but uh,
we're got to keep it clean, right. So anyway, this
brand new officer, he he comes work for us, and
like I said, he's a sergeant. Now love this guy.
And we had decided to do this practical joke on him,
and so we got another officer to tell him to hey,
(40:08):
fifty four with us or that that means meet us.
And uh so they met up, but they were right
under a bridge. And all the rest of the officers
in Georgia District we had had missions. We set out
with a mission.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
One officer had to go to the store. Now we
couldn't do this because the price of eggs, but back
then we were talking twenty five years ago, went and
bought like six dozen eggs.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's like seventy five cents back then.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
And another officer his mission, he had to go buy
like thirty pounds of flour. And we you know, we're
trying to find something that's gooey, but we can't think
of anything. We're like baseline. But it's not gonna you know,
it's not going to work for what we wanted. So
one of the officers stopped in this little convenience store
(40:56):
and he just tells the clerk what we're doing. And
the clerks, oh, you want afrochine And he's like what
And he's like afrochine and he goes, how much of
it do you need? He goes, how much do you have?
You know, how expensive is afro? She I don't know
what this is and it's this massive bucket of hair product.
And so he buys like three of these. So now
(41:19):
we've got eggs, we've got flour and afrochine. And understand also,
this is probably three days after our lieutenant just tore
into us about practical jokes. So uh so, yeah, yeah,
So we were keeping it within our division. So the
(41:39):
plan was he's going to pull up under this bridge
and he's going to be talking to the other officer,
and we would text the other officer a little signal
and she was going to pull up, act like she
had to take a phone call and tell him just
to hold there. So everything works. We got about nine
officers up on this bridge. We're about three stories above
him and goes off with that hitch. She pulls up,
(42:03):
gets out of the way. First is the eggs, and
they just start just I mean it's a lot of
the car. No, he's in the car, okay, and so
these are just covering his windshield, his hood, all over
this car.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
And then he's probably thinking of turre ad aptel just
flew over. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yeah, and this guy.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Give him credit. He didn't even move. He was just like, yeah,
he knew. And then just take it. Right after the
eggs the flower, you know, and we're talking like thirty
pounds of flour, it just covers this car and or no,
I'm sorry. Right after that was the afrochine and it
just I mean it hits the car with this thud
because it was super hot out that day, I mean
(42:43):
over one hundred degrees We're in August, so it's melted
and it just covers his car in this goop. And
then we dropped the flower across the car and we
all laugh, have a good time, drive off and kind
of just go about our bit our day.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Never even think about him again. You guys go do
police work at that point.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Yeah, and someone was kind of like, you know, hey,
worst you know Scott, you know, we don't see him.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
We're like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
And at the end of the shift, we're talking like
ten o'clock at night, he comes pulling up and this
car is coated in this stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Still it has.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Went down in the engine. Uh, it is cooked into
the car. And this poor guy all he had in
his car was this little bitty seven to eleven cup
and nothing, no, and he s e eleven cup and
one napkin and he turned the windshield wipers on and
what do you think that did, Yeah, just coated his windshield.
(43:44):
So he's out there just with this one napkin and
he had one little cup and he would have to
run like one hundred yards to a water fountain and
fill it up and then come back. And uh yeah.
So three days after our lieutenant just got onto us
about a joke, we actually destroyed a car.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Because if you do not know that eggs and car going.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
On, Oh yeah, it'll bake, It'll bake right on there.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
And yeah, so yeah, we destroyed a car. So you
guys learned your lesson three days after you get talked
to you by your supervisor from the chiefs visit for
practical jokes. You guys destroyed a car.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
I'm glad to say that. You guys follow orders.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well yeah, well I think the order was keep it
within your division.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Okay, you kept it within your division.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
Yeah you did. They didn't say don't destroy anything.
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Speaker 1 (45:52):
And we're back back to more offbeat the light side
of law enforcement. Johanne, you got that time.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Or down the buttons don't work.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I don't know if it's just me, but I've pushed
every single of those buttons like eight times before they work.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
You pushed, you pushed all the buttons I did.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Stupid remote.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Don't take it out on the remote. So much aggression
built up.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Well, it frustrates me because I know I'm pushing the
right button and it just doesn't work. Okay, That's why
I'm like, this is it? Is it something in the way,
you know?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Like all right, And for those not watching on YouTube,
those listening, we've got a timer here in the studio
and Johann's in charge of the timer with the remote,
and the timer's not cooperating with her today, so we
might have to send you back to remedial remote training.
Speaker 4 (46:41):
I guess so apparently.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Ah well, guys, thanks for listening today. We got one
guest joining us in the studio. We've got Lieutenant Steve
Myers from the Fort Worth Police Department. Now, if you've
not checked out the website, we got something new going
on there. Off we do Offbeat Cop Show Offbeatcopshow dot Com. Again,
that's Offbeatcopshow dot Com on the website. You can listen
(47:06):
to all episodes. There's also a link at the top
of the web page for the RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation.
Click on that link, it'll take you over to the
foundation's page. Of course. The RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation, established
many years ago, covers ten counties here in the North
Texas area and helps provide monetary assistance to the families
(47:27):
of following police officers and firefighters here in the Dallas
Fort Worth area. So i'd invite you to make a
donation there to the foundation. Also on the website, if
you check it out, there's a new icon on there.
It's a little microphone and you can click on that
microphone and you can either leave us a voicemail message
or you can leave a funny story. You leave us
(47:49):
a funny story on there, then by all means leave
your name what agency you're with, and we'll get those
we can go over them on the show right on.
So very cool, very cool. Yeah, Now, if you want
to be a guest on the show, then send us
an email at Offbeatcopshow at gmail dot com. Again, Offbeatcopshow
(48:09):
at gmail dot com. We'd love to have you here
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North Texas area, you can still be on the show.
We'd love to have you. Check out our Facebook and Instagram,
also on YouTube, give us a like, a share, a follow,
and make sure whatever wherever you're listening to us, you
(48:31):
hit that subscribe button.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
Hey, you had my mic turned off, as like, subscribe, Now.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
That's started off. Okay, you're back.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Okay, Russ to do that to you a lot, yeah,
mic off.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay. Now we've got one final story here, Steve. You
you with your the Zero Tolerance team. You you know,
you guys are out there. You you guys are looking
for any kind of gang activity stuff like that, checking
out suspicious vehicles. What is one of the strangest suspicious
(49:09):
vehicles you've come across?
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Oh, lordie. One thing to Zero Tolerance. You know, we
would work like six at night till two in the morning,
and basically you just go out hunting, you know, trying
to look for criminals and all this. So one night
I was driving around and I kind of saw this car,
you know, and I could tell I had four people
(49:31):
in it, And right when I got behind it, I
could swear I saw all four of them pull their
hoods up. Oh someone's got something to hut. Yeah, and
they you know, and I swear I saw that, you know,
they bring their hoods up. And so immediately my partner,
Hank Nova, I keep up on the radio and I'm like, hey, Hank,
(49:52):
I got I got something over here.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
I need you to get over here.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
And so I'm following them around and these people they're
not too in their heads nothing, They're just looking forward,
which a lot of cops, you know, two o'clock in
the morning, there's a car behind you. People are gonna
turn their head, they're gonna look. So I was like,
all right, something's up with this. So I stop them,
and you know, still hoods are up. So I'm telling them.
(50:16):
I'm like, you know, so I start ordering I need
you to get your hands up, you know, because I'm
not going to approach this vehicle, try to get the
driver out. Driver won't get out. I'm saying it English, Spanish,
you know, every way I can. And you know, so
I tell the guys, hey, I need you all to
get up with me now. So everyone's running code, so
step step it up, lights and sirn get here.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
So and you know, We're in a residential neighborhood, you know,
two o'clock in the morning. Everyone flies gets to me.
So we have probably half the SRT team there at
the time. You know, there's like eight of us, and
we've got the whole road blocked. We've got lights, I mean,
air one gets there, helicopter, We've got a canine with us,
and I'm just like screaming at this car. I'm like,
(51:01):
you know, get your hands up. And finally, uh, you know,
with all the commotion, I think, you know, these you know,
gang members in the car finally decide they need to
get out of this car. So the driver door opens,
you know, we start relaying, okay, driver door is opening,
you know, and I'm giving commands. I need you to stand.
(51:21):
And when this heinous gang member gets out of the
car and kind of turned sideways, I realize that there's
something really.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Odd about this gang member.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
This gang member is a nun. She stands up, and
when she faces me, I can't I think it's called
a habit, I don't know, and she's got this habit on,
and immediately I recognize the other three have these same
identifying gang attire, and I remember I just look across
(51:59):
at the other guy and immediately their guns are pointing
at the ground. And I remember Hank, he just looked
at He's like nice, nice and uh so, you know
they only spoke Spanish. We you know, got an interpreter
there told him the story and they were super happy.
I think I got blessed and uh and everything. Yeah,
(52:22):
I hope so. And uh even Air one was uh
because you know in that radio voice they have, pilot's laughing. Well,
he's like, you know, because we don't want everyone to know,
and he's like, one does one nineteen go ahead?
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Well was that a nun? And I was like yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
And uh so for weeks after that, you know, whatever
reason they could come up with on the radio to
you know, do you have any Nope, I got none.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
It took a while to live that one down. But uh,
that was probably the weirdest suspicious vehicle.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Uh yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
What you do last night?
Speaker 3 (53:06):
I pulled over a bunch of UN's at gun point
out at two o'clock in the morning, when you know,
no one's asking this.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Question, Well, and what part of town were they in?
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Too? More side where all the Catholic churches are Okay, Yeah,
I struck out on that one. Okay, so I should
have been watching Game of Throne through something.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
She would have definitely blessed you that.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Well, yeah, my night and talk to him now. Yeah,
might have drug you over to the church. Well, Steve,
it's it's been a pleasure for having you in the
studio today. Thanks for coming in. Thank you, Thank you guys,
thanks for listening. Until next time, keep it real, keep
it funny, stay safe, and watch each other. Six
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