September 17, 2025 • 52 mins
Wrong number! Lewisville Police Officer Rachel Roberts shares hilarious stories about people calling the police for all the wrong reasons, the benefit of a resting happy face, and MORE!
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome, Welcome to Off feat the Light Side of Law
Enforcement for the Treehos podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
On today's show, Oh oh yeah, on today's show, we'll
care about weed sales, scrotums, breastfeeding, and believe it or not,
probably more.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Steve, what are you doing wheat sales and retirement?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No, and I'm not doing And it's just one scrotum
unless you have another.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay, okay, scrotum's singular. Thanks for listening, guys, Steve here
co host for today, Josh Jackson, How do y'all? And
we're joining with one guest today. We've got returning guest
officer Rachel Roberts. Welcome Rachel. Uh yeah, that opening there.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Sounds like a winning show. All right, Maybe it's the
one we get kicked off.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The No, no, don't, don't, don't say that, Josh, Rachel.
I do want to thank you. You sent us a
Lewisville PD patch, then today you showed up with a
Louisville Police Department coin. I know that's hard to see
if you're watching the show on YouTube, but much appreciated.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you, even harder if you're listening on podcasts.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you can see this while listening to the audio,
only use your imagination.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, we have a new coin coming as well, so
I'll see if I can get my hands on one
of those.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Awesome. Now, Josh, good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Haven't seen you in a while, so we sent out
a search party. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Man, retirement's busy. So I've been telling people that, yeah,
it's it's it's busy, but you do it on your
own terms. So that's really where the winning comes. Agreed,
So agreed. I still I still encourage people.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I highly highly recommend it, highly recommend retirement.
But it's not a you sit on the couch watch
TV kind of gig.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
If it is. I didn't know. I didn't write the
right or read the right book, so I screwed up somewhere.
You read a book? Well, I think Team Rust sent
me something.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yes, yeah, highly important there.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, Rachel, again, let's remind our listeners you were on
a previous episode. You are an officer with the Lewisville
Police Department, and how long you've been an officer.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I've been an officer sixteen years in two different states
and four different agencies. Don't worry, it wasn't for bad reasons.
I just needed to find the right place, and Louisville
PD is the right place. We're currently hiring. Feel free
to apply. If you have any questions, give me a call.
But I'm also the vice president of the Louisville Police Foundation,
(03:16):
which supports our brotherhood sisterhood internally with benevolence, morale boosting,
sponsorships and scholarships.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Good also, good deal. And I understand you've got event
coming up.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, it's not coming up right away, but October twenty
fifth in Lewisville at Harmon High School, we're doing the J.
Powell Memorial Car Show. Our Assistant Chief J. Powell, longtime
member of the Louisville Police Department, passed away unexpectedly a
couple of years ago at the very young age of
fifty two, and we wanted to keep his memory alive
(03:53):
and all of the memories of all of our lost
Louisville Police Department members.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Absolutely, so we're going to be doing a memorial.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Car show with his name, but we will have a
memorial table set up for all the people we've lost.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Nice yeah, classy's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And again the Offbeat we started doing Offbeat on the
Street and we we were at the Cops and Rogers
car show this the last weekend that was out there
benefit of the Farmersville Police Officers Association. And it's a
fundraiser they use in order to be able to get
out the community and be able to serve their purpose
to increase their community relations between officers and and their
(04:30):
associating with the officers and the community in which they serve.
So that that was a lot of fun. It's a
good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Is that where the weed sales come in? We all
transitioning to weed sales. Now, Josh, you got beat on
the brain here, I will you know, I'm retired, so
always always looking for another business.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Wow, always looking for that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Absolutely. Hey, how was in New Mexico this summer?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I mean, yeah, Josh, we're gonna have to it
looks like your mic doesn't work anymore. When to put
you off here? Yeah, now I understand you two actually
know each other. Rachel, you know Josh. Now you mentioned
earlier that something about Josh on it. Let's remind everybody
(05:16):
Josh was a motor officer for the city of Copel.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Sure it was fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Apparently he's had issues with his motorcycle on his way.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
To work, apparently, so because I work weekend nights for
quite some time. And I got a call a capel officer,
motor officer is in need of assistance. So there I go,
and then I found out he was something was broke.
They needed help with a fight or something.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So now you show up, lights and sirens, stand out,
grow tickets. I didn't fight it. That's crazy. That's that's
that's for the patrol guys.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I was coming in work and I was on
one twenty one and some truck had lost a bunch
of like four by fours and so they were all
over the road and at seventy something miles an hour
hit that bent my rim on my motorcycle and they
were like, I think two or three other cars that
have blown tires along the way, and I mean these
(06:12):
four by fours are just shredded all over the road,
and uh yeah, called my sergeant like, so here's the deal.
And I was headed in early because I was worked
out before my shift, and so it was super early
in the morning. And yeah, it was it was real fun.
It was dark, it was dark.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It got light as we stood there together.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, and then Grahams came out and towed the
bike and took the Harley dealership. And to be fair,
the Harley Dealership was very familiar with me. Yeah, Slavery
placed everything, I mean everything just about.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Did he put a kickstand on?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No? No, I still kept that off, but we hit it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Down and he wouldn't as fast we had light it
up once removed the kickstand sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So they're like, I don't think we've ever seen this
and somebody not go down. But that is the reason
that motorcycle officers do all these trainings and the rodeos
and everything else, because that teaches you how to react, Yeah,
how to how to react to when the fan.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I was about to ask you about that, I mean,
how did you not wreck out? I just grip the
grip the handlebars and hold on tight for the ride.
So it's a there's there's some agencies and for the
life of me, I think it's Garland, but I I
can't remember for sure, but I think they actually throw
logs out in front of the bikes and like you
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either have to ride over it and maneuver through it.
And it would make sense for Garland to do something
that intense and they were they were a very good
motorcycle team when they came to compete.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And it's because of stuff like that. But in my mind, now,
mind you, time has passed, you know, since since we've
done this. But I want to say some agencies would
go trained with Garland and then told they could no
longer train with Garland because they trained so intensely that
there was a lot of damage to the bikes after.
So yeah, I mean, you know, you gotta you gotta
(08:13):
train for what you're gonna see on the street. And uh,
and some of the rodeos we'd ride in like the
Canadians the way that they do their motorcycle competition. So
for us in the US, if you hit a cone,
not I think if it was a brush, you got
a second, and if it was a knockdown, you got
three seconds added to your score. Lowest time is your
(08:34):
best time is how you win, right. But in Canada,
if you even touch a cone, you're out. Oh yeah,
And so it like it dwindles down to the end
and then at the end that is to speak, competition
where you can hit cones and and you get points
or seconds added to your store but it's it's pretty intense.
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So they competed with us in Baton Rouge, and they
compete with us in Austin.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So dumb question. How did they get the bikes from Canada?
They just jump, throw them on a trailer and I'll drive.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
No good question. So Austin was Travis County Sheriff's office,
and then Baton Rouge. They would land them bikes. Oh wow,
they wouldn't hit the car. They would lend them bikes
and lend them guns because they weren't allowed to bring
their guns across the border. So yeah, because their bikes.
Uh so Baton Rouge is in October, November something like that,
(09:30):
and so their bikes are underground in storage because of
the cold.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
The cold and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well no, no, no, no, no, Canada, Canada.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, that makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't think there is cold and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So yeah, no, that was It was a lot of fun.
So they're they're good folks.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Now moving on from motorcycles, Rachel, you brought several stories
with you today.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh yeah, and I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, I in the titles you gave us, I couldn't
even get you the intro.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Was trying to get that shock in awe.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I'm thinking you got it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yeah, I don't know where to start. Let's go from
the bottom up.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Wow, you will start scrotum scrotam sales.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm sorry, weed sales. Sorry, we're starting.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
From the bottom up. We're gonna start with scrotum. Yeah, Rachel,
go ahead with your scrotum story.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
All right. So we got a like reverse in time here.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So back in the day, even when I was growing up,
there was a phone number you could call for information,
like if you'd wanted to know what time it was,
if you need a direction somewhere. Right, But the only
one that knew thisbody. This is way before Google or
asked you not on a cell phone.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Or the internet.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, there was no internet, no cell phone, but there
was an information number. There was even a TV show
I think called Herman's Head and he worked as the
person that did the information right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But yeah, there was New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It might be in a different age bracket.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I am a grandparent, So somehow that that disappeared. It's
not a thing anymore. There is no information number, even
with the Google and the cell phones and computers and libraries.
Apparently we've lost the ability to be able to find
information on our own. So we have a whole clientele
(11:23):
of residents in people that utilized nine one one and
police services to get information information like what time does
bingos start? When does the bus pick people up? Yeah,
you must have seen those calls come through, right. So
another one of those calls that we received at my department,
specifically my unit, was a gentleman who went to use
(11:47):
the restroom in the city's rec center and said the
water was too high in the toilet bowl, and he
then went on to describe how his scrotum touched the
water and how unsanitary it was and wanted us to
correct the issue.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Are you sure that wasn't a cop playing a fun
game on a dispatcher.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So that I didn't go through dispatch, I went through
another outlet that we serve. With that being said, that
is what all of us did, because he wrote scrotum
over and over and over and detailed like, hey, how
how far the water was, which you know, this very
graphic picture of this, this scrotum dipping into the unsanitary water.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
We did think it was a joke.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Totally not a joke, totally not Wow, this this this
gentleman has many complaints about many things, and this was
a legitimate complaint for him.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Begs the question.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, was the water level high or was it low?
Because there's two factors here.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was a reasonable amount. I
think he had the unreasonable scrotum if I'm allowed to
Is that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
A reasonable That sounds like a T shirt design?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Out here I say that nasonable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yeah, I do not know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know if the water level was ever adjusted
with this complaint being launched.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It never received any subsequent.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The police department did not adjust the water or check
the average scroll them.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And this was where at what facility?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
At one of our rec centers.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I was going to say, y'all, just redid the PD.
Is that the reason you redid the PD?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Scrotum's hitting the water.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
There's a reason to keep it so cold in the
locker room. That won't happen.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Keep it all shrunk up, No problem with that. Hey, now,
cold plunge, I love it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
We have a coed locker room, by the way.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Do you really we have?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I mean that's the way colleges are going, so why not.
It's great, It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So yeah, I mean know whether scrotum touching, scrotum.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Tipping, that went that went south. So I can just
see Steve all right, sit on the toilet. I'm gonna
measure the water level all right, I'm thinking is it
six inches or eight? Well, I mean you're gonna need
to lower the temperature in this room.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
So so, I mean, it's as funny as it is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I bring it out because unfortunately, we're at a place
in time in life where people do not know how
to manage. They don't know how to manage themselves or
their life or even their information. Forget trying to figure
out news outlets, something as simple as a complaint like
why are you calling the police?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You know, I used to have a spiel.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I'd tell people, you know, we're the last person on
the list to call, Like you got a friend, your
husband called you a bad name, call your mom, call
your sister, call a counselor call a preacher.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
We should be the last person on the list.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We should be the person you call when things are
going so bad you can't do it yourself, which just.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Made me think of Okay, so this guy with a
scrut and touching the water, he should have called his
mom and said, mom my, scirtum is touching the water.
There's toilet.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Maybe maybe not that guy, but maybe there's another entity
he could have reached out to.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You know what, Maybe you need like a vending machine
with like a rubber bands, like a soup spoon so
you can hold it up there, you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
A ladle, Yeah, like the one with a little dinosaur
on the Yeah, scrotum ladle.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Hey, hey, you're into new businesses.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, absolutely, yes, So that's gonna be Josh's scrotum ladles
dot com. Don't search it. This is Offbeat, the light
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Speaker 1 (18:26):
Welcome Back, Welcome Back, to Offbeat, the light side of
law enforcement. Steve Here co host for Today Josh Jackson
Hoby were joined with one guest in the studio. We've
got officer Rachel roberts Hey. Now, this segment of Offbeat
sponsored by our good friends at Alexander Financial Management. If
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Speaker 3 (19:03):
Your first dot com it's on Curtis.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Again. That address alex f M dot com. I like it.
We're gonna have a dot calm.
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Yes, Joe An will be and then Curtis and me
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Speaker 1 (19:34):
Number one, if you would please say dot com and
then yeah we can we can do like a lineup.
Number two if you step forward and say dot com.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
So did you uh? I might have missed something?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Did you say that Alexander Financial is supporting this next
segment about weed sales.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We're going to clarify some things here.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, you work for them, don't.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You see yes, I help out.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
With that's why you live on acres now. It all
make wow.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
We appreciate their support for the show. Has nothing to
do with the stories that we're telling them, no disclaimer.
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I'd like the way you taper that off to com.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, Oh it's like paddle easy dot com. Oh was
that shameless plug? I'm sorry that was That was shameless bit.
Josh sales noorth Texas dot com.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh well, sorry sorry, what happened is a Ladle's sor
I forgot that address. But it's a dot com as well.
Scrotm Ladels Josh's scrot him label La La Ladles dot com.
This is not alcohol. By the way, it's still funny.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, problem saying ladele, but no problem seeing scrot them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well I wasn't cap for twenty years.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, well, well that's what she says, does Josh?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, we need to go to stories. Yeah, let's go
to our safe place here safe Rachel. You you brought
several stores and I got mad stories. We got mad stories.
Let's go to your weed sales.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So this is not news to most in law enforcement,
but I think like, if we ever have any listeners
here that are not in law enforcement and you want
to hear some of the things we go through, like
that's what you get to hear on that light side.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Of law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
The last weed call I received as an officer was
a young lady calling in that her neighbor sold her
weed and she paid him, and when he went to
go get it and brought it back, he only gave
her some some some of it. Yes, so she wanted
to report that, So in law enforcement we have to
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look at it from a lot of angles.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Is that a civil matter?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, I think that stuffed under one hundred. How much
was she How much was she trying to buy?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So apparently not much, just about about an eighth which
I think at the time was fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Dollars, So like a hit. Is there maybe two? I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Once we started discussing it, the report started quickly disappearing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, can I see what he gave you?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yeah, she didn't want to provide that, so she had.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No custody of it. It was in somebody else's pants.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yes, yes, okay, another thing people say. So The funny
The funny part about it is this is a common call.
This isn't like a one off. It happens all the time.
People get ripped off doing illegal activity and still want
to report the crime of theft or whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I mean, I can't be the only one to get that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Well, you know, I mean that you got to think
about it. A criminal has to have somebody to call too. Yeah,
I mean if they get cheated, that somebody's violated their rights,
I mean they they need to be able to call somebody. Yeah,
even if.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What mistaken was illegal to possessed, I mean, still theft.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
If any if anyone has that case that has actually
gone all the way through, because I've never had one
go all the way through. We've never arrested a suspect
for ripping someone off, and at least in my police.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
History, that'd be interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But if it does occur and it does go to trial,
can you please call me?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, well, I would like to be there. I'd like
to attend. Yeah, you wonder what county that would actually
fly in. I'm thinking it's going to be outside the state. Yeah, really, Yeah,
I don't know that Texans Well no, okay.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
No nobody else cares about weed. It's just Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So here's a question. Then if it's federally illegal, right
still yeah, but New Mexico and all these other states
that legalized it, in so many calls and says they
got ripped off, would an officer have to take that
report if.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's legalized, because then it's no different.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But it's not on the federal size, which is legal
in the state.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Ass Yeah, but if they're going to prosecute, it depends
on how much.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What if they steal your sowd off shotgun, you know,
like four years ago. What if they sole your brass knuckles?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, true, they better not. Oh sorry, sere legit.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Now we're good.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I still think. I still think you're the victim
of a crime. Hey, I paid for this much and
I got this much. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know, we'll have a conversation with guy. If you
could take us to that guy who ripped you off,
we would really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah. Yeah, I got his name, Alvin.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
The Chipmunk, So I think he's the weed dealer.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Wait wait, did he get ripped ripped off by Theodore assignment?
He didn't get ripped off, he did off? Yeah, yeah,
of the leader, I guess the neighbor, Alvin. You got
your number, Alvin? You know, I'm every once in a
while you'll see one of these like police departments that say, hey,
let us check the consistency or the of your drugs,
(25:48):
your poison meth. Bring it in and we'll check it
for you. And I always wonder does anybody actually bring
stuff in? Yeah, they have to, I would think so.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
If you've got a story about that, we want to
hear about it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I mean they can the smartest.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know, Well, if you're already high, it seems like
a and then you become paranoid, it might seem like
a very reasonable.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thing to you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yes, yeah, reason I think this is a good opportunity
for us who say, don't do drugs.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yes, don't do drugs. Yes. Remember the fried egg commercials.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Listen, that's a good one. But I learned it from
watching you. It's my favorite one. The dad not me, No,
not Josh Jackson, Josh Jackson, Rachel Roberts.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'm tired that much.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
So I love that commercial for so many reasons where
dad finds his box in this kid's room. I mean,
it's got everything. That kid free bases. He shoots stuff up,
he smokes crack pipes, he's got he's got everything. He's
like fourteen years old. I'm like, man, the kid went
to my high school. Uh, And and Dad's shaking the
(26:58):
box in his face and and he's like where did
you get this?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And the kids like from you? I learned it from watching.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You, I do remember that.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
That replaces in my head often and I chuckle and
giggle right along with I got a hankering for a
hunker of a chunk of cheese that I wish they
ingrained something really important in my mind growing up.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
But those are the things I have left.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
So so you know, it begs the question, So that's
what sticks with you back back when we were kids,
Right back when we were kids, you who were forced
to watch commercials. Yeah, yeah, Now you can just fast
forward through commercials or you don't watch commercials at all, right,
I mean Netflix and all those others. So is there
still creative advertising out there like that?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
The commercials have to be so intense and engaging, like
you can't like not watch it, okay, Right, and.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Then then crumbs Across is like more of a real
or something than a commercial, like like the was it
the doctor? Squash soap?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Squatch?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, squatch, that's it. Yeah, they I mean they do
a good juh so uh, Steve got an alert.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I like commercials, but it could be a generational thing.
I'm not gonna And I'm constantly amazed at the alcohol
commercials because I swear for a long time they were banned,
Like there was no liquor commercials on TV. There was beer,
but there was no liquor. But now I see like
Crown Royal and all these other things. I'm like, when
did they When did they lighten that up? Like I
miss things sometimes all of a sudden, something that was
(28:25):
not normal and okay, it's totally normal and okay.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Do you remember the cigarette vending machines?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, yeah, bucking a quarter, a bucket a quarter at
the Chinese food place in the in the back door,
not the front door.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I saw one of.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Those not long ago.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I think it's in Frisco, the Green Gator, the Green
Gater in Frisco. It's right off Main Street. It's a
like a Bayou place whatever that food ocasion. They got
a vending machine in there. I don't know how you
put like eleven dollars in quarters in it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, it takes credit cards. Well, and how do you
verify it? I mean I guess they do it with
the lottery machines. They verify, but.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
They have you have to scan your idea's license.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah huh.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, you know we talk about rights and age restrictions
and all that Rachel, I understand you. You have brought
up the First Amendment in one of your stories.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I did, I did, and and and you know, these
are the questions that come up in law enforcement. State
of Texas doesn't have an adjourned Attorney General's Manual, so
some other smaller states, the attorney General's like, Hey, this
is the laws. This is what I'm telling you the
law means, and follow these rules, like it's a guideline,
so you know what to do as an officer. Texas
we all kind of wing it. Every agency, every county, Right, Hey,
(29:44):
that's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
H we get the CCP Criminal proceeds.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, but there's a lot of ways, like, okay, case
in point had nothing to do with the First Amendment.
Someone's walking a dog, and did I talk about this
last time?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't. I don't think we covered well the dog.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So someone's walking their dog on a leash and their
dog urinates on your mailbox? Is that criminal mischief?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Can the dog be held culpably?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It can't because in the law it says a person
a person. It's the offense.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Did that dog intentionally, knowingly or recklessly urinate on your mailbox?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Either way, a dog's not a person, right, So I
can read it says a person commits this offense. And
I have to argue with people I work with that
that's not an offense, and they say it is. So
the fact we have discrepancies throughout law enforcement about letter
of law wording of law, well, we believe a.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Lot of mean is a little bit crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
So here's where one comes in. We've got a guy
calling in many times he wants someone arrested.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
What for for throwing a newspaper on his yard?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Sounds reasonable?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So, I mean, he doesn't buy the newspaper, he doesn't
order it. He's asked the newspaper to stop throwing it there.
He's tried to tell the guy that throws it to stop.
And it came down to a long, lengthy discussion that
that's a First Amendment right to throw a newspaper in
someone's yard, and I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Sure it is. I'm not sure who clarifies that.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Okay, wait, wait a minute, are we going to get
into curtilage here in what's the you know, right to reasonable?
You know?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
But if it's what if it's like, well, I don't
want to blast out a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I was the p IO for a short time.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
But what if what if it's a paper that might
not have accurate or fair information, then that would be littering, right,
because it's garbage.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Josh, is good to be retired, what do you?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah? Yeah, because I'm trying to think that through. And yeah, interesting, I.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Think it depends on where the paper lands. If it
lands twin the sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The curve, Yeah, what if it's like on your like
front step, Like, let's play a newspaper boy on Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Remember that I got a reasonable right price.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
There's a guy in a car, are there?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know? I didn't work a lot of nights because
I was on motors, But I remember, right motors by
the way, and uh, but I remember those newspaper drivers.
I always thought they were drunks. And and of course
it's like three or four o'clock in the morning, right,
and you're like, thatt's kind of late for a drunk,
but maybe because they are freaking all over the road.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah, yeah, and they're throwing things out the window. So
I went to pull one over one night because I
thought he was throwing my beer cans out And then
I felt so dumb. I'm so glad I saw what
he threw. I'm like, okay, I gotta go a different way.
Before I realized it might be littering based on the
calls for service we're getting.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, well we've we've received a call before because some
of them went out to retrieve their newspaper and apparently
then they got the wrong one because this one had
a baggy of cocaine rolled up inside it.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah, yeah, just like you know, that's what parents worry
about when you go trigg or treating.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, and which is coming up?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Someone's gonna give you a bucket of drugs.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
There's another one that needs giving away their drugs. I mean,
come on, remember those commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Yeah, well I figured it out.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I mean it took me a delayed time in life,
Like maybe I'm a slow learner, but the whole razor
blade in the candy that was always in recey cups.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Oh it's sorry, I'm allergic to peanuts.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Well that's I'm pretty I realized finally it's because my
parents were stealing the recy cups and they wanted to
eat them all nice. Oh wait, thats res Yes, those
are the ones with the most razor blades. So those
always got taken out of our bags. Yeah, I'm I'm
a slow learner.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I guess damn it. I didn't even know that until
just now. I was thinking. I'm sitting here thinking, how
do you get a razor blade inside a piece of candy?
You're always worried about that as a kid, you were,
but that they were still candy, they were still in
the candy.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, yeah, son of a bitch. I guess we're all
slow learners.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah, okay, you're in good company.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean they never took those orange, orange and black
wrapper gross things.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'd like to file a theft report statue statue.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, well, if you look at totality, so how many times,
how many years over ongoing, it could be like a
like one hundred thousand dollars of candy over my lifetime
because I still took a treat?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Wow you got? Do you go as a firefighter?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I go as a variety of things in this year.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
My husband's not happy with my selection, and I believe
he's going to end up talking me out of it,
even though I don't want to change.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
We Herman this year in tribute tribute, Now, how many
people would know.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's the like, how many I.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Mean old people will know, old people will know?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Are you calling those old people?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
How many people are retired on this panel right now? Yes, yes,
we're old people.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, it's c B to the studio, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
No, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I never used the sounds in here. Yeah, that would
have been a great one. Yeah no, that's uh. I
guess you're gonna be looking for your bicycle in the
basement of the Alamo or.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Okay, straight up.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
When I moved here from New Hampshire, the only thing
I knew about the Alamo was that Pewe's Herman's bicycle
was in the basement.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
I didn't know anything.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
They don't teach us that we don't care about Texas history.
We care about the Boston Tea Party. The Red Coats
are coming like actual things, actual.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Things, actual things, things.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That created this country. And then I come.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Here Rachel Country.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Now I know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Now I didn't know. This is the old Rachel, the
new Rachel's of Texan. I went to the Alamo. I
went to the Haunted Hotel there, the Crockett Hotel, it's
right next to Alamo.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The there's like three haunted ones down there.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, yeah, so I tried.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You know, I took the Texas government class Texas History.
I learned a lot of things I did not know
were a thing because I grew up on the other side.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
So on the other side.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I didn't know about a lot of the Union uh stuff. Okay, yeah,
it was scary anyway. O, wait forget that.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Let's go back to happy stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So again and glittering speaking about happy stuff. You you
gave me one title, resting happy Face?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Oh my god. Okay, everyone's heard about RBF? Right, Ever
heard about resting happy face before today? No, it's a thing,
so I have it. Uh, it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
What kind of what's probably? So?
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah, it's the opposite of RBF. It is a is
a pleasant approachable face. Where what I have learned through
my entire life, strangers love to talk to me, ask
me for directions.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
If I'm in a grocery store, people ask me for help.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
It's just a constant barrage of other people feeling comfortable
enough to come over and speak to me. Now, with
that being said, I didn't know till I was mid twenties.
My practice husband pointed it out and grocery store, standing
there looking at food, and this little old lady comes
over comes over. I'm like, Hi, grabs me, hugs me,
(37:08):
kisses me on the face.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, yeah, totally assaulted you.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I don't know her.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I'm like, hey, so she her husband comes over, grabs her,
drags away. I'm just sitting there doing what I do.
My ex husband was laughing so hard, and I'm like,
why are you laughing? And he goes, because You're the
only person in my entire life I've ever met that
happens to you all the time. And I'm like, what do
you mean? He goes, it happens to you. I go, no, No,
(37:33):
doesn't it happen to everyone. Don't Small children run up
to you and like climb up your leg and want
you to carry them around, and handicapped people like grab
on your arm and want to hang out, and little
old people kiss you.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
That's not normal.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Okay, So this.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Is what I learned resting happy face. That's what happens
to us.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And so becoming into law enforcement, that's where things get weird, right,
Because what's good is I also have a pretty good
sense of, you know, predatory behavior. So I got an
inkling that lady with I mean they sh had a
lot of gray hair hair on her chin. When she
got that closed to kiss me, I had a pretty
good inkling. She wasn't a threat, right, But I have
(38:15):
had some instances in this business where being in crisis
intervention team, we deal with people that are mentally ill
or in crisis. And I had another seasoned woman, as
I like to call my older folks in need of services,
and so they called me to come and help, and
of course it's all all my buddies are there, and
I'm like, a cool cop crisis intervention, I'll take care
(38:36):
of this lady.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
You guys can't handle. So I go over. I'm like, hey, ma'am,
I'm here to help you.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Excuse me, she's doing this, and I'm like, I don't
know what she's doing. So I lean closed because I
thought she was going to whisper something. It wasn't a whisper.
It was a kiss, a big wet one.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
No I turned. I turned.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I was trying to listen to her, so luckily it
was a side of my face, but it was very big,
very wet, and I understand there's a crisis there, and
she said, so I can manage it, but I'll never
live it down. My co workers same thing as my
ex husband laughing there took uses off.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
They just thought it was the funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
But uh, the worst part of that kiss is uh,
I to feel it. You know how you know what
what triggers your memories in life and in this job.
You know, it's sights, sounds, feelings, and smells. Because when
she got that closed and she she laid that one
(39:41):
up on me because of my resting happy face, I
had the smell. Well I found out what the smell was.
It's gang green. She had an infected surgery on her
abdomen and it had gone gang green. And uh, now
now I know what that is. Like, that's in the toolbox. Yeah,
right up there, hankering for a hunk of cheese. So,
(40:03):
but I just want to share A resting happy face
is a real thing.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Google it.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
It's uh, it's it's opposite of the other one and
it's not a bad thing, but it it can be
very hard to uh make people go away.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, so again another learning another learning tool.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Yeah, I'm a teacher.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Just because someone looks approachable, don't go up and kiss
him on the face and I found out I'm old
who knew?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:28):
I mean.
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Speaker 4 (42:11):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Here, there's a website.
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(43:32):
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Speaker 3 (43:34):
Thank goodness. It's not dot org. That doesn't roll, right, dot.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
Let's practice it.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Dot that's pretty creepy.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
That's pretty creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
But since I didn't count, it is dot com all right,
So dot com dot.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Dot com com.
Speaker 5 (43:57):
We think we're funny.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Really matter, right, I say, don't quit your day job, Josh,
but you already did. Yeah, okay, I filled it. Don't worry,
okay the ladle sorry, Yeah, you always gotta go back.
I always go back. All right, Rachel, you have we've
(44:19):
got one final story here. And in law enforcement, many
times in the job you come across vehicles that are
obstructing the roadway. Yeah, and I understand you've got a
got one of those stories. And many times we the
explanation of the people. You know, you just really never
know what you're going to get for why someone would
park in the roadway. Wait, wait, go ahead and share
(44:42):
your story with us.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Oh man, So I really wish my buddy from work
was here with me because he was driving and I'm
in the car with him. We're on our way back
to the police department for what have you. And I'll
even like line it up, tell you where we're at.
So if people are local in the DFW area, what
Sam Rayburn toll Ways pretty big fast road and even
the front edge road is three lanes wide, sixty miles
(45:06):
an hour.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
So we're tooling down that and.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Going southbound and there is a vehicle like a little
sedan in a in the right hand lane with their
hazards on.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Bonus just stopped. So we're the police, right, We get
up behind it, turn.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
On the lights, does everything okay?
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Yeah, yeah, my partner.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
Joe goes out there and and uh, Joe's gonna have
to come on the show because we work together.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
So we h so Joe's endo it a lot, then, yes,
he has.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
We went on another podcast together too, and it was
I had a different name there, but.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
We don't names here because of statue limitations.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
No, that's why I didn't become a cop. Tell I
was in my thirties.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
Oh okay, yeah, So, so Joe's getting out of the car.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
I'm on the radio.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
I'm putting it so prior to having to call out
all the radio traffic, Like, I like to put in
all the information myself to make sure it's accurate, and
just I put in more, he tells the others because
I believe in information gathering.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
So I'm in there. I'm typing away getting everything in.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Told him where we're at car here, I'm thinking we're
gonna need a tow truck.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
I look up and I see, for the people watching.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
This, this head like bobbing left, bobbing right, and a
lot of movement. But but Joe is standing at the
passenger window, hands hands up in the air like he's praying.
He's like Sunday masks like hear me, Lord hellelujah. And
so to me, that means he's something's going on and
(46:32):
it's not.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
It's it can't be bad because he would be you.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Know, hand on guy rock and roll, like moving, you know,
getting to the B pillar. No, he's standing there, hands
up the air, like what the heck is going on?
And I finishing up, and then he just starts walking
back to me, and the car's hazards are still on.
The car drives up, goes thirty feet up the road
and pulls into the parking lotch nice, And I'm like, Joe,
(46:55):
what was that? And he You'll never believe it? What
she stopped to breastfeed.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
In Atlanta traffic?
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Is that safe?
Speaker 4 (47:04):
Sixty miles an hour with a parking lot thirty feet away? So, like,
I just want to, you know, let everyone know. I'm
totally cool with breastfeeding. I think that's fine. I think
that's a good thing for families to do.
Speaker 5 (47:16):
People do.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
It's your decision, Josh, you're good with breastfeeding as well.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Sure, I have never done it.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
I'm not going to shame you. There's no intent to
shame any females at breastfeed. But I will shame the
dummy that stops in a sixty mile an hour roadway
in the road to breastfeed their child, taking them out
of a child seat to breastfeed them when there is
a parking lot thirty feet in front of you.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
You know, that's the youny think about law enforcement. There
are so many times that you come across and throw
your hands up and go really, yeah, really, this this
was a good idea to you?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, well whose idea was this? Was it the mom's
idea or was it the baby's idea?
Speaker 4 (47:54):
So this is where a missed opportunity occurred, Like I
really should have went up there too, but it happened
so quick because he quickly let her know how you
need to pull in right there. And I would have
loved to hear her side of it, like what was
so horrible? Or my question, which neither one of us
thought to ask at the time or even ask each other.
(48:16):
Was she breastfeeding the whole time driving and then it
got too complicated or she needed to switch out and
decided to stop.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
That could have been it, because which does the driver's
seat the seat belt's going from left to right? I
mean the babies? Yeah, I mean, if you need a
shift to the left.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
So she would take she would wear a seatbelt, but
baby is okay not being seatbelt.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah, well the air bag will hold them when it's
you know, because car crash. Hold on yeah, yes, yeah,
you can just hold on. Yeah, I mean it should
be funny, but it is terrifying that the poor decisions
people make, and and luckily were there to like move
them along without without making them feel ignorant or inferior,
just letting them know this isn't safe. You need to
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move along, and then we can come on the show
and laugh about it all day.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, and I'm still I you know, we we don't
know this baby's intake. Maybe he was he needed to
get hydrated, you know, maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
Well, there's mom brain too, right, so like after you
have a child, you're not getting sleep, You're like, I'm
so tired. This kid won't stop crying. So there could
be a variety of reasons. It definitely wasn't drugs or alcohol.
But still even even impaired, even without sleep, even when
you have a child in need, never a good idea.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
Not a good idea, just stop in the middle of
the roadway soon. So after our first was born, Yeah,
obviously we're not sleeping, and she wakes up crying, and
because that's what kids do, and my I get out
of bed to check on her. And I looked at
my wife, who I guess had woken up to probably
(49:51):
hit me, and said, hey, go check on the baby.
And I said, which number is she?
Speaker 5 (49:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
No, no, idea, there's there's just one. I said, which
number is she? And she got up and got to
get take care of her. I went back to bed. Yeah,
that's the currently. I was pretty tired, lost your mind,
But she's reminded me of that time and time again
over the years.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
What number?
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Which number is she?
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well? Is she now number one?
Speaker 3 (50:23):
She is the oldest? No, no, no, you don't call
him number one because then the other two siblings say, oh,
she's number one. So becomes a competition.
Speaker 5 (50:32):
We're gonna have to talk about that another time.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
Like the law of favorites, Yes, and I do have favorites,
and I let it be well known because this is
what I found all of you can be the favorite,
but you all have to act like that one nice.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
So it's up to them, it's not.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Up to me.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Wow, right, okay, guarantee kIPS, Yeah, pull over to breastfeed.
Tell which kid you like the most, their your favorite,
get the other ones fighting for competitiveness to be the
favored list mad skills, Wow.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Off Beat the parenting side of things. Very educational show today.
Don't do drugs. Don't do drugs. This is how a
parent commercials can be good.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Check the water level with something else, yes, yes, check
the water level and if you need to adjust and
canna just the water level, then just.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Get the room temperature.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
Get the litter, get the weed before you give them
the money.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
Yes, ye, yeah, don't litter, don't throw paper in from
my yard.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
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Light side of Law Enforcement dot com.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Dot com thanks for listening today, guys, Rachel dot com,
your Rachel. Thanks for coming on the show again today.
Speaker 5 (51:54):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
It's always a pleasure for having you in here. Guys,
until next time, keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe,
and watch each other.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Six h
Welcome, Welcome to Off feat the Light Side of Law
Enforcement for the Treehos podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
On today's show, Oh oh yeah, on today's show, we'll
care about weed sales, scrotums, breastfeeding, and believe it or not,
probably more.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Steve, what are you doing wheat sales and retirement?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No, and I'm not doing And it's just one scrotum
unless you have another.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay, okay, scrotum's singular. Thanks for listening, guys, Steve here
co host for today, Josh Jackson, How do y'all? And
we're joining with one guest today. We've got returning guest
officer Rachel Roberts. Welcome Rachel. Uh yeah, that opening there.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Sounds like a winning show. All right, Maybe it's the
one we get kicked off.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The No, no, don't, don't, don't say that, Josh, Rachel.
I do want to thank you. You sent us a
Lewisville PD patch, then today you showed up with a
Louisville Police Department coin. I know that's hard to see
if you're watching the show on YouTube, but much appreciated.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you, even harder if you're listening on podcasts.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you can see this while listening to the audio,
only use your imagination.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, we have a new coin coming as well, so
I'll see if I can get my hands on one
of those.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Awesome. Now, Josh, good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Haven't seen you in a while, so we sent out
a search party. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Man, retirement's busy. So I've been telling people that, yeah,
it's it's it's busy, but you do it on your
own terms. So that's really where the winning comes. Agreed,
So agreed. I still I still encourage people.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I highly highly recommend it, highly recommend retirement.
But it's not a you sit on the couch watch
TV kind of gig.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
If it is. I didn't know. I didn't write the
right or read the right book, so I screwed up somewhere.
You read a book? Well, I think Team Rust sent
me something.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yes, yeah, highly important there.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, Rachel, again, let's remind our listeners you were on
a previous episode. You are an officer with the Lewisville
Police Department, and how long you've been an officer.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I've been an officer sixteen years in two different states
and four different agencies. Don't worry, it wasn't for bad reasons.
I just needed to find the right place, and Louisville
PD is the right place. We're currently hiring. Feel free
to apply. If you have any questions, give me a call.
But I'm also the vice president of the Louisville Police Foundation,
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which supports our brotherhood sisterhood internally with benevolence, morale boosting,
sponsorships and scholarships.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Good also, good deal. And I understand you've got event
coming up.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, it's not coming up right away, but October twenty
fifth in Lewisville at Harmon High School, we're doing the J.
Powell Memorial Car Show. Our Assistant Chief J. Powell, longtime
member of the Louisville Police Department, passed away unexpectedly a
couple of years ago at the very young age of
fifty two, and we wanted to keep his memory alive
(03:53):
and all of the memories of all of our lost
Louisville Police Department members.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Absolutely, so we're going to be doing a memorial.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Car show with his name, but we will have a
memorial table set up for all the people we've lost.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Nice yeah, classy's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And again the Offbeat we started doing Offbeat on the
Street and we we were at the Cops and Rogers
car show this the last weekend that was out there
benefit of the Farmersville Police Officers Association. And it's a
fundraiser they use in order to be able to get
out the community and be able to serve their purpose
to increase their community relations between officers and and their
(04:30):
associating with the officers and the community in which they serve.
So that that was a lot of fun. It's a
good deal.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Is that where the weed sales come in? We all
transitioning to weed sales. Now, Josh, you got beat on
the brain here, I will you know, I'm retired, so
always always looking for another business.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Wow, always looking for that opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Absolutely. Hey, how was in New Mexico this summer?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And I mean, yeah, Josh, we're gonna have to it
looks like your mic doesn't work anymore. When to put
you off here? Yeah, now I understand you two actually
know each other. Rachel, you know Josh. Now you mentioned
earlier that something about Josh on it. Let's remind everybody
(05:16):
Josh was a motor officer for the city of Copel.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Sure it was fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Apparently he's had issues with his motorcycle on his way.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
To work, apparently, so because I work weekend nights for
quite some time. And I got a call a capel officer,
motor officer is in need of assistance. So there I go,
and then I found out he was something was broke.
They needed help with a fight or something.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So now you show up, lights and sirens, stand out,
grow tickets. I didn't fight it. That's crazy. That's that's
that's for the patrol guys.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I was coming in work and I was on
one twenty one and some truck had lost a bunch
of like four by fours and so they were all
over the road and at seventy something miles an hour
hit that bent my rim on my motorcycle and they
were like, I think two or three other cars that
have blown tires along the way, and I mean these
(06:12):
four by fours are just shredded all over the road,
and uh yeah, called my sergeant like, so here's the deal.
And I was headed in early because I was worked
out before my shift, and so it was super early
in the morning. And yeah, it was it was real fun.
It was dark, it was dark.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It got light as we stood there together.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, and then Grahams came out and towed the
bike and took the Harley dealership. And to be fair,
the Harley Dealership was very familiar with me. Yeah, Slavery
placed everything, I mean everything just about.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Did he put a kickstand on?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
No? No, I still kept that off, but we hit it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Down and he wouldn't as fast we had light it
up once removed the kickstand sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So they're like, I don't think we've ever seen this
and somebody not go down. But that is the reason
that motorcycle officers do all these trainings and the rodeos
and everything else, because that teaches you how to react, Yeah,
how to how to react to when the fan.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I was about to ask you about that, I mean,
how did you not wreck out? I just grip the
grip the handlebars and hold on tight for the ride.
So it's a there's there's some agencies and for the
life of me, I think it's Garland, but I I
can't remember for sure, but I think they actually throw
logs out in front of the bikes and like you
(07:38):
either have to ride over it and maneuver through it.
And it would make sense for Garland to do something
that intense and they were they were a very good
motorcycle team when they came to compete.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
And it's because of stuff like that. But in my mind, now,
mind you, time has passed, you know, since since we've
done this. But I want to say some agencies would
go trained with Garland and then told they could no
longer train with Garland because they trained so intensely that
there was a lot of damage to the bikes after.
So yeah, I mean, you know, you gotta you gotta
(08:13):
train for what you're gonna see on the street. And uh,
and some of the rodeos we'd ride in like the
Canadians the way that they do their motorcycle competition. So
for us in the US, if you hit a cone,
not I think if it was a brush, you got
a second, and if it was a knockdown, you got
three seconds added to your score. Lowest time is your
(08:34):
best time is how you win, right. But in Canada,
if you even touch a cone, you're out. Oh yeah,
And so it like it dwindles down to the end
and then at the end that is to speak, competition
where you can hit cones and and you get points
or seconds added to your store but it's it's pretty intense.
(08:57):
So they competed with us in Baton Rouge, and they
compete with us in Austin.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
So dumb question. How did they get the bikes from Canada?
They just jump, throw them on a trailer and I'll drive.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
No good question. So Austin was Travis County Sheriff's office,
and then Baton Rouge. They would land them bikes. Oh wow,
they wouldn't hit the car. They would lend them bikes
and lend them guns because they weren't allowed to bring
their guns across the border. So yeah, because their bikes.
Uh so Baton Rouge is in October, November something like that,
(09:30):
and so their bikes are underground in storage because of
the cold.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
The cold and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well no, no, no, no, no, Canada, Canada.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, that makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I don't think there is cold and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So yeah, no, that was It was a lot of fun.
So they're they're good folks.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Now moving on from motorcycles, Rachel, you brought several stories
with you today.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh yeah, and I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, I in the titles you gave us, I couldn't
even get you the intro.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Was trying to get that shock in awe.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I'm thinking you got it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Yeah, I don't know where to start. Let's go from
the bottom up.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Wow, you will start scrotum scrotam sales.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm sorry, weed sales. Sorry, we're starting.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
From the bottom up. We're gonna start with scrotum. Yeah, Rachel,
go ahead with your scrotum story.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
All right. So we got a like reverse in time here.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So back in the day, even when I was growing up,
there was a phone number you could call for information,
like if you'd wanted to know what time it was,
if you need a direction somewhere. Right, But the only
one that knew thisbody. This is way before Google or
asked you not on a cell phone.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Or the internet.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, there was no internet, no cell phone, but there
was an information number. There was even a TV show
I think called Herman's Head and he worked as the
person that did the information right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But yeah, there was New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It might be in a different age bracket.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I am a grandparent, So somehow that that disappeared. It's
not a thing anymore. There is no information number, even
with the Google and the cell phones and computers and libraries.
Apparently we've lost the ability to be able to find
information on our own. So we have a whole clientele
(11:23):
of residents in people that utilized nine one one and
police services to get information information like what time does
bingos start? When does the bus pick people up? Yeah,
you must have seen those calls come through, right. So
another one of those calls that we received at my department,
specifically my unit, was a gentleman who went to use
(11:47):
the restroom in the city's rec center and said the
water was too high in the toilet bowl, and he
then went on to describe how his scrotum touched the
water and how unsanitary it was and wanted us to
correct the issue.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Are you sure that wasn't a cop playing a fun
game on a dispatcher.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So that I didn't go through dispatch, I went through
another outlet that we serve. With that being said, that
is what all of us did, because he wrote scrotum
over and over and over and detailed like, hey, how
how far the water was, which you know, this very
graphic picture of this, this scrotum dipping into the unsanitary water.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
We did think it was a joke.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Totally not a joke, totally not Wow, this this this
gentleman has many complaints about many things, and this was
a legitimate complaint for him.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Begs the question.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, was the water level high or was it low?
Because there's two factors here.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was a reasonable amount. I
think he had the unreasonable scrotum if I'm allowed to
Is that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
A reasonable That sounds like a T shirt design?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Out here I say that nasonable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yeah, I do not know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know if the water level was ever adjusted
with this complaint being launched.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It never received any subsequent.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
The police department did not adjust the water or check
the average scroll them.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And this was where at what facility?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
At one of our rec centers.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I was going to say, y'all, just redid the PD.
Is that the reason you redid the PD?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Scrotum's hitting the water.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
There's a reason to keep it so cold in the
locker room. That won't happen.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Keep it all shrunk up, No problem with that. Hey, now,
cold plunge, I love it.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
We have a coed locker room, by the way.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Do you really we have?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I mean that's the way colleges are going, so why not.
It's great, It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So yeah, I mean know whether scrotum touching, scrotum.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Tipping, that went that went south. So I can just
see Steve all right, sit on the toilet. I'm gonna
measure the water level all right, I'm thinking is it
six inches or eight? Well, I mean you're gonna need
to lower the temperature in this room.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
So so, I mean, it's as funny as it is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I bring it out because unfortunately, we're at a place
in time in life where people do not know how
to manage. They don't know how to manage themselves or
their life or even their information. Forget trying to figure
out news outlets, something as simple as a complaint like
why are you calling the police?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You know, I used to have a spiel.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I'd tell people, you know, we're the last person on
the list to call, Like you got a friend, your
husband called you a bad name, call your mom, call
your sister, call a counselor call a preacher.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
We should be the last person on the list.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
We should be the person you call when things are
going so bad you can't do it yourself, which just.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Made me think of Okay, so this guy with a
scrut and touching the water, he should have called his
mom and said, mom my, scirtum is touching the water.
There's toilet.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Maybe maybe not that guy, but maybe there's another entity
he could have reached out to.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You know what, Maybe you need like a vending machine
with like a rubber bands, like a soup spoon so
you can hold it up there, you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
A ladle, Yeah, like the one with a little dinosaur
on the Yeah, scrotum ladle.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Hey, hey, you're into new businesses.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, absolutely, yes, So that's gonna be Josh's scrotum ladles
dot com. Don't search it. This is Offbeat, the light
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Eight three three Cook df W is the phone number,
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Speaker 6 (15:59):
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Speaker 1 (16:01):
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to have large gatherings in their homes and you know,
a lot of a lot of folks have you know,
they might have that one little project around the house.
(16:22):
They've been putting off for a couple of repairs they need,
but it's now a good time for them to reach
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and and then they they're thinking about you know, they
get into oh, man, you know, I think we're having
relatives come over for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Are doing this?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
And all of a sudden you go up to some
bedrooms or some rooms that you haven't looked at me
and go, oh no, there's paint feeling off the walls,
or I've got big cracks in my sheet rock.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Are you know this has happened?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
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Welcome Back, Welcome Back, to Offbeat, the light side of
law enforcement. Steve Here co host for Today Josh Jackson
Hoby were joined with one guest in the studio. We've
got officer Rachel roberts Hey. Now, this segment of Offbeat
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then yeah we can we can do like a lineup.
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Speaker 5 (19:43):
So did you uh? I might have missed something?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
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Speaker 5 (19:55):
We're going to clarify some things here.
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And you know, the one thing, the one thing I
like about Alexander is the fact that they were founded
by a former Mesquite officer in ninety two. They've been
around the block, been around for a long time, and
there's no charge for them to sit down and help
out first responders. You know, whether it be something as
simple as you need to help with a budget, you
need a plan to pay off debt, or whether or
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not you're looking at investment and or retirement planning. And
I will say I'm a client. I know several officers
that are and as well as survivors have fallen officers,
So it's awesome by all means. If you have any
questions and got any financial questions stuff like that, then
give those guys Alexander Financial Management a call or check
them out on Facebook. Their web address alex f m Doc.
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I'd like the way you taper that off to com.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, Oh it's like paddle easy dot com. Oh was
that shameless plug? I'm sorry that was That was shameless bit.
Josh sales noorth Texas dot com.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh well, sorry sorry, what happened is a Ladle's sor
I forgot that address. But it's a dot com as well.
Scrotm Ladels Josh's scrot him label La La Ladles dot com.
This is not alcohol. By the way, it's still funny.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You know, problem saying ladele, but no problem seeing scrot them.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well I wasn't cap for twenty years.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, well, well that's what she says, does Josh?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, we need to go to stories. Yeah, let's go
to our safe place here safe Rachel. You you brought
several stores and I got mad stories. We got mad stories.
Let's go to your weed sales.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So this is not news to most in law enforcement,
but I think like, if we ever have any listeners
here that are not in law enforcement and you want
to hear some of the things we go through, like
that's what you get to hear on that light side.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Of law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
The last weed call I received as an officer was
a young lady calling in that her neighbor sold her
weed and she paid him, and when he went to
go get it and brought it back, he only gave
her some some some of it. Yes, so she wanted
to report that, So in law enforcement we have to
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look at it from a lot of angles.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Is that a civil matter?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, I think that stuffed under one hundred. How much
was she How much was she trying to buy?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
So apparently not much, just about about an eighth which
I think at the time was fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Dollars, So like a hit. Is there maybe two? I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Once we started discussing it, the report started quickly disappearing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Shocking.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, can I see what he gave you?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yeah, she didn't want to provide that, so she had.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
No custody of it. It was in somebody else's pants.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yes, yes, okay, another thing people say. So The funny
The funny part about it is this is a common call.
This isn't like a one off. It happens all the time.
People get ripped off doing illegal activity and still want
to report the crime of theft or whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I mean, I can't be the only one to get that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Well, you know, I mean that you got to think
about it. A criminal has to have somebody to call too. Yeah,
I mean if they get cheated, that somebody's violated their rights,
I mean they they need to be able to call somebody. Yeah,
even if.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
What mistaken was illegal to possessed, I mean, still theft.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
If any if anyone has that case that has actually
gone all the way through, because I've never had one
go all the way through. We've never arrested a suspect
for ripping someone off, and at least in my police.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
History, that'd be interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But if it does occur and it does go to trial,
can you please call me?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, well, I would like to be there. I'd like
to attend. Yeah, you wonder what county that would actually
fly in. I'm thinking it's going to be outside the state. Yeah, really, Yeah,
I don't know that Texans Well no, okay.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
No nobody else cares about weed. It's just Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So here's a question. Then if it's federally illegal, right
still yeah, but New Mexico and all these other states
that legalized it, in so many calls and says they
got ripped off, would an officer have to take that
report if.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's legalized, because then it's no different.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But it's not on the federal size, which is legal
in the state.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Ass Yeah, but if they're going to prosecute, it depends
on how much.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What if they steal your sowd off shotgun, you know,
like four years ago. What if they sole your brass knuckles?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, true, they better not. Oh sorry, sere legit.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Now we're good.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I still think. I still think you're the victim
of a crime. Hey, I paid for this much and
I got this much. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know, we'll have a conversation with guy. If you
could take us to that guy who ripped you off,
we would really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah. Yeah, I got his name, Alvin.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
The Chipmunk, So I think he's the weed dealer.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Wait wait, did he get ripped ripped off by Theodore assignment?
He didn't get ripped off, he did off? Yeah, yeah,
of the leader, I guess the neighbor, Alvin. You got
your number, Alvin? You know, I'm every once in a
while you'll see one of these like police departments that say, hey,
let us check the consistency or the of your drugs,
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your poison meth. Bring it in and we'll check it
for you. And I always wonder does anybody actually bring
stuff in? Yeah, they have to, I would think so.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
If you've got a story about that, we want to
hear about it.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I mean they can the smartest.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know, Well, if you're already high, it seems like
a and then you become paranoid, it might seem like
a very reasonable.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thing to you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yes, yeah, reason I think this is a good opportunity
for us who say, don't do drugs.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yes, don't do drugs. Yes. Remember the fried egg commercials.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Listen, that's a good one. But I learned it from
watching you. It's my favorite one. The dad not me, No,
not Josh Jackson, Josh Jackson, Rachel Roberts.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'm tired that much.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
So I love that commercial for so many reasons where
dad finds his box in this kid's room. I mean,
it's got everything. That kid free bases. He shoots stuff up,
he smokes crack pipes, he's got he's got everything. He's
like fourteen years old. I'm like, man, the kid went
to my high school. Uh, And and Dad's shaking the
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box in his face and and he's like where did
you get this?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And the kids like from you? I learned it from watching.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You, I do remember that.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
That replaces in my head often and I chuckle and
giggle right along with I got a hankering for a
hunker of a chunk of cheese that I wish they
ingrained something really important in my mind growing up.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
But those are the things I have left.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
So so you know, it begs the question, So that's
what sticks with you back back when we were kids,
Right back when we were kids, you who were forced
to watch commercials. Yeah, yeah, Now you can just fast
forward through commercials or you don't watch commercials at all, right,
I mean Netflix and all those others. So is there
still creative advertising out there like that?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
The commercials have to be so intense and engaging, like
you can't like not watch it, okay, Right, and.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Then then crumbs Across is like more of a real
or something than a commercial, like like the was it
the doctor? Squash soap?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Squatch?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, squatch, that's it. Yeah, they I mean they do
a good juh so uh, Steve got an alert.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
I like commercials, but it could be a generational thing.
I'm not gonna And I'm constantly amazed at the alcohol
commercials because I swear for a long time they were banned,
Like there was no liquor commercials on TV. There was beer,
but there was no liquor. But now I see like
Crown Royal and all these other things. I'm like, when
did they When did they lighten that up? Like I
miss things sometimes all of a sudden, something that was
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not normal and okay, it's totally normal and okay.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Do you remember the cigarette vending machines?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, yeah, bucking a quarter, a bucket a quarter at
the Chinese food place in the in the back door,
not the front door.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I saw one of.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Those not long ago.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I think it's in Frisco, the Green Gator, the Green
Gater in Frisco. It's right off Main Street. It's a
like a Bayou place whatever that food ocasion. They got
a vending machine in there. I don't know how you
put like eleven dollars in quarters in it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, it takes credit cards. Well, and how do you
verify it? I mean I guess they do it with
the lottery machines. They verify, but.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
They have you have to scan your idea's license.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah huh.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, you know we talk about rights and age restrictions
and all that Rachel, I understand you. You have brought
up the First Amendment in one of your stories.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I did, I did, and and and you know, these
are the questions that come up in law enforcement. State
of Texas doesn't have an adjourned Attorney General's Manual, so
some other smaller states, the attorney General's like, Hey, this
is the laws. This is what I'm telling you the
law means, and follow these rules, like it's a guideline,
so you know what to do as an officer. Texas
we all kind of wing it. Every agency, every county, Right, Hey,
(29:44):
that's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
H we get the CCP Criminal proceeds.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, but there's a lot of ways, like, okay, case
in point had nothing to do with the First Amendment.
Someone's walking a dog, and did I talk about this
last time?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't. I don't think we covered well the dog.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So someone's walking their dog on a leash and their
dog urinates on your mailbox? Is that criminal mischief?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Can the dog be held culpably?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It can't because in the law it says a person
a person. It's the offense.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Did that dog intentionally, knowingly or recklessly urinate on your mailbox?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Either way, a dog's not a person, right, So I
can read it says a person commits this offense. And
I have to argue with people I work with that
that's not an offense, and they say it is. So
the fact we have discrepancies throughout law enforcement about letter
of law wording of law, well, we believe a.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Lot of mean is a little bit crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
So here's where one comes in. We've got a guy
calling in many times he wants someone arrested.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
What for for throwing a newspaper on his yard?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Sounds reasonable?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So, I mean, he doesn't buy the newspaper, he doesn't
order it. He's asked the newspaper to stop throwing it there.
He's tried to tell the guy that throws it to stop.
And it came down to a long, lengthy discussion that
that's a First Amendment right to throw a newspaper in
someone's yard, and I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Sure it is. I'm not sure who clarifies that.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Okay, wait, wait a minute, are we going to get
into curtilage here in what's the you know, right to reasonable?
You know?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
But if it's what if it's like, well, I don't
want to blast out a newspaper.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I was the p IO for a short time.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
But what if what if it's a paper that might
not have accurate or fair information, then that would be littering, right,
because it's garbage.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Josh, is good to be retired, what do you?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah? Yeah, because I'm trying to think that through. And yeah, interesting, I.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Think it depends on where the paper lands. If it
lands twin the sidewalk.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The curve, Yeah, what if it's like on your like
front step, Like, let's play a newspaper boy on Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Remember that I got a reasonable right price.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
There's a guy in a car, are there?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You know? I didn't work a lot of nights because
I was on motors, But I remember, right motors by
the way, and uh, but I remember those newspaper drivers.
I always thought they were drunks. And and of course
it's like three or four o'clock in the morning, right,
and you're like, thatt's kind of late for a drunk,
but maybe because they are freaking all over the road.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah, yeah, and they're throwing things out the window. So
I went to pull one over one night because I
thought he was throwing my beer cans out And then
I felt so dumb. I'm so glad I saw what
he threw. I'm like, okay, I gotta go a different way.
Before I realized it might be littering based on the
calls for service we're getting.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, well we've we've received a call before because some
of them went out to retrieve their newspaper and apparently
then they got the wrong one because this one had
a baggy of cocaine rolled up inside it.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah, yeah, just like you know, that's what parents worry
about when you go trigg or treating.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, and which is coming up?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Someone's gonna give you a bucket of drugs.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
There's another one that needs giving away their drugs. I mean,
come on, remember those commercials.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Yeah, well I figured it out.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I mean it took me a delayed time in life,
Like maybe I'm a slow learner, but the whole razor
blade in the candy that was always in recey cups.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Oh it's sorry, I'm allergic to peanuts.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Well that's I'm pretty I realized finally it's because my
parents were stealing the recy cups and they wanted to
eat them all nice. Oh wait, thats res Yes, those
are the ones with the most razor blades. So those
always got taken out of our bags. Yeah, I'm I'm
a slow learner.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I guess damn it. I didn't even know that until
just now. I was thinking. I'm sitting here thinking, how
do you get a razor blade inside a piece of candy?
You're always worried about that as a kid, you were,
but that they were still candy, they were still in
the candy.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, yeah, son of a bitch. I guess we're all
slow learners.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Yeah, okay, you're in good company.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean they never took those orange, orange and black
wrapper gross things.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'd like to file a theft report statue statue.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, well, if you look at totality, so how many times,
how many years over ongoing, it could be like a
like one hundred thousand dollars of candy over my lifetime
because I still took a treat?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Wow you got? Do you go as a firefighter?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I go as a variety of things in this year.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
My husband's not happy with my selection, and I believe
he's going to end up talking me out of it,
even though I don't want to change.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
We Herman this year in tribute tribute, Now, how many
people would know.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
That's the like, how many I.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Mean old people will know, old people will know?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Are you calling those old people?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
How many people are retired on this panel right now? Yes, yes,
we're old people.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, it's c B to the studio, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
No, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I never used the sounds in here. Yeah, that would
have been a great one. Yeah no, that's uh. I
guess you're gonna be looking for your bicycle in the
basement of the Alamo or.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Okay, straight up.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
When I moved here from New Hampshire, the only thing
I knew about the Alamo was that Pewe's Herman's bicycle
was in the basement.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
I didn't know anything.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
They don't teach us that we don't care about Texas history.
We care about the Boston Tea Party. The Red Coats
are coming like actual things, actual.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Things, actual things, things.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That created this country. And then I come.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Here Rachel Country.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Now I know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Now I didn't know. This is the old Rachel, the
new Rachel's of Texan. I went to the Alamo. I
went to the Haunted Hotel there, the Crockett Hotel, it's
right next to Alamo.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
The there's like three haunted ones down there.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, yeah, so I tried.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You know, I took the Texas government class Texas History.
I learned a lot of things I did not know
were a thing because I grew up on the other side.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
So on the other side.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I didn't know about a lot of the Union uh stuff. Okay, yeah,
it was scary anyway. O, wait forget that.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Let's go back to happy stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So again and glittering speaking about happy stuff. You you
gave me one title, resting happy Face?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Oh my god. Okay, everyone's heard about RBF? Right, Ever
heard about resting happy face before today? No, it's a thing,
so I have it. Uh, it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
What kind of what's probably? So?
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah, it's the opposite of RBF. It is a is
a pleasant approachable face. Where what I have learned through
my entire life, strangers love to talk to me, ask
me for directions.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
If I'm in a grocery store, people ask me for help.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
It's just a constant barrage of other people feeling comfortable
enough to come over and speak to me. Now, with
that being said, I didn't know till I was mid twenties.
My practice husband pointed it out and grocery store, standing
there looking at food, and this little old lady comes
over comes over. I'm like, Hi, grabs me, hugs me,
(37:08):
kisses me on the face.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, yeah, totally assaulted you.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I don't know her.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I'm like, hey, so she her husband comes over, grabs her,
drags away. I'm just sitting there doing what I do.
My ex husband was laughing so hard, and I'm like,
why are you laughing? And he goes, because You're the
only person in my entire life I've ever met that
happens to you all the time. And I'm like, what do
you mean? He goes, it happens to you. I go, no, No,
(37:33):
doesn't it happen to everyone. Don't Small children run up
to you and like climb up your leg and want
you to carry them around, and handicapped people like grab
on your arm and want to hang out, and little
old people kiss you.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
That's not normal.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Okay, So this.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Is what I learned resting happy face. That's what happens
to us.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
And so becoming into law enforcement, that's where things get weird, right,
Because what's good is I also have a pretty good
sense of, you know, predatory behavior. So I got an
inkling that lady with I mean they sh had a
lot of gray hair hair on her chin. When she
got that closed to kiss me, I had a pretty
good inkling. She wasn't a threat, right, But I have
(38:15):
had some instances in this business where being in crisis
intervention team, we deal with people that are mentally ill
or in crisis. And I had another seasoned woman, as
I like to call my older folks in need of services,
and so they called me to come and help, and
of course it's all all my buddies are there, and
I'm like, a cool cop crisis intervention, I'll take care
(38:36):
of this lady.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
You guys can't handle. So I go over. I'm like, hey, ma'am,
I'm here to help you.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Excuse me, she's doing this, and I'm like, I don't
know what she's doing. So I lean closed because I
thought she was going to whisper something. It wasn't a whisper.
It was a kiss, a big wet one.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
No I turned. I turned.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I was trying to listen to her, so luckily it
was a side of my face, but it was very big,
very wet, and I understand there's a crisis there, and
she said, so I can manage it, but I'll never
live it down. My co workers same thing as my
ex husband laughing there took uses off.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
They just thought it was the funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
But uh, the worst part of that kiss is uh,
I to feel it. You know how you know what
what triggers your memories in life and in this job.
You know, it's sights, sounds, feelings, and smells. Because when
she got that closed and she she laid that one
(39:41):
up on me because of my resting happy face, I
had the smell. Well I found out what the smell was.
It's gang green. She had an infected surgery on her
abdomen and it had gone gang green. And uh, now
now I know what that is. Like, that's in the toolbox. Yeah,
right up there, hankering for a hunk of cheese. So,
(40:03):
but I just want to share A resting happy face
is a real thing.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Google it.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
It's uh, it's it's opposite of the other one and
it's not a bad thing, but it it can be
very hard to uh make people go away.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, so again another learning another learning tool.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Yeah, I'm a teacher.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Just because someone looks approachable, don't go up and kiss
him on the face and I found out I'm old
who knew?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:28):
I mean.
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(43:32):
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Speaker 3 (43:34):
Thank goodness. It's not dot org. That doesn't roll, right, dot.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
Let's practice it.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Dot that's pretty creepy.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
That's pretty creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
But since I didn't count, it is dot com all right,
So dot com dot.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Dot com com.
Speaker 5 (43:57):
We think we're funny.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Really matter, right, I say, don't quit your day job, Josh,
but you already did. Yeah, okay, I filled it. Don't worry,
okay the ladle sorry, Yeah, you always gotta go back.
I always go back. All right, Rachel, you have we've
(44:19):
got one final story here. And in law enforcement, many
times in the job you come across vehicles that are
obstructing the roadway. Yeah, and I understand you've got a
got one of those stories. And many times we the
explanation of the people. You know, you just really never
know what you're going to get for why someone would
park in the roadway. Wait, wait, go ahead and share
(44:42):
your story with us.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Oh man, So I really wish my buddy from work
was here with me because he was driving and I'm
in the car with him. We're on our way back
to the police department for what have you. And I'll
even like line it up, tell you where we're at.
So if people are local in the DFW area, what
Sam Rayburn toll Ways pretty big fast road and even
the front edge road is three lanes wide, sixty miles
(45:06):
an hour.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
So we're tooling down that and.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Going southbound and there is a vehicle like a little
sedan in a in the right hand lane with their
hazards on.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Bonus just stopped. So we're the police, right, We get
up behind it, turn.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
On the lights, does everything okay?
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Yeah, yeah, my partner.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
Joe goes out there and and uh, Joe's gonna have
to come on the show because we work together.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
So we h so Joe's endo it a lot, then, yes,
he has.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
We went on another podcast together too, and it was
I had a different name there, but.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
We don't names here because of statue limitations.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
No, that's why I didn't become a cop. Tell I
was in my thirties.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
Oh okay, yeah, So, so Joe's getting out of the car.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
I'm on the radio.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
I'm putting it so prior to having to call out
all the radio traffic, Like, I like to put in
all the information myself to make sure it's accurate, and
just I put in more, he tells the others because
I believe in information gathering.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
So I'm in there. I'm typing away getting everything in.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Told him where we're at car here, I'm thinking we're
gonna need a tow truck.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
I look up and I see, for the people watching.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
This, this head like bobbing left, bobbing right, and a
lot of movement. But but Joe is standing at the
passenger window, hands hands up in the air like he's praying.
He's like Sunday masks like hear me, Lord hellelujah. And
so to me, that means he's something's going on and
(46:32):
it's not.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
It's it can't be bad because he would be you.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Know, hand on guy rock and roll, like moving, you know,
getting to the B pillar. No, he's standing there, hands
up the air, like what the heck is going on?
And I finishing up, and then he just starts walking
back to me, and the car's hazards are still on.
The car drives up, goes thirty feet up the road
and pulls into the parking lotch nice, And I'm like, Joe,
(46:55):
what was that? And he You'll never believe it? What
she stopped to breastfeed.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
In Atlanta traffic?
Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Is that safe?
Speaker 4 (47:04):
Sixty miles an hour with a parking lot thirty feet away? So, like,
I just want to, you know, let everyone know. I'm
totally cool with breastfeeding. I think that's fine. I think
that's a good thing for families to do.
Speaker 5 (47:16):
People do.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
It's your decision, Josh, you're good with breastfeeding as well.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Sure, I have never done it.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
I'm not going to shame you. There's no intent to
shame any females at breastfeed. But I will shame the
dummy that stops in a sixty mile an hour roadway
in the road to breastfeed their child, taking them out
of a child seat to breastfeed them when there is
a parking lot thirty feet in front of you.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
You know, that's the youny think about law enforcement. There
are so many times that you come across and throw
your hands up and go really, yeah, really, this this
was a good idea to you?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, well whose idea was this? Was it the mom's
idea or was it the baby's idea?
Speaker 4 (47:54):
So this is where a missed opportunity occurred, Like I
really should have went up there too, but it happened
so quick because he quickly let her know how you
need to pull in right there. And I would have
loved to hear her side of it, like what was
so horrible? Or my question, which neither one of us
thought to ask at the time or even ask each other.
(48:16):
Was she breastfeeding the whole time driving and then it
got too complicated or she needed to switch out and
decided to stop.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
That could have been it, because which does the driver's
seat the seat belt's going from left to right? I
mean the babies? Yeah, I mean, if you need a
shift to the left.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
So she would take she would wear a seatbelt, but
baby is okay not being seatbelt.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah, well the air bag will hold them when it's
you know, because car crash. Hold on yeah, yes, yeah,
you can just hold on. Yeah, I mean it should
be funny, but it is terrifying that the poor decisions
people make, and and luckily were there to like move
them along without without making them feel ignorant or inferior,
just letting them know this isn't safe. You need to
(49:00):
move along, and then we can come on the show
and laugh about it all day.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, and I'm still I you know, we we don't
know this baby's intake. Maybe he was he needed to
get hydrated, you know, maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (49:13):
Well, there's mom brain too, right, so like after you
have a child, you're not getting sleep, You're like, I'm
so tired. This kid won't stop crying. So there could
be a variety of reasons. It definitely wasn't drugs or alcohol.
But still even even impaired, even without sleep, even when
you have a child in need, never a good idea.
Speaker 3 (49:30):
Not a good idea, just stop in the middle of
the roadway soon. So after our first was born, Yeah,
obviously we're not sleeping, and she wakes up crying, and
because that's what kids do, and my I get out
of bed to check on her. And I looked at
my wife, who I guess had woken up to probably
(49:51):
hit me, and said, hey, go check on the baby.
And I said, which number is she?
Speaker 5 (49:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
No, no, idea, there's there's just one. I said, which
number is she? And she got up and got to
get take care of her. I went back to bed. Yeah,
that's the currently. I was pretty tired, lost your mind,
But she's reminded me of that time and time again
over the years.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
What number?
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Which number is she?
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well? Is she now number one?
Speaker 3 (50:23):
She is the oldest? No, no, no, you don't call
him number one because then the other two siblings say, oh,
she's number one. So becomes a competition.
Speaker 5 (50:32):
We're gonna have to talk about that another time.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
Like the law of favorites, Yes, and I do have favorites,
and I let it be well known because this is
what I found all of you can be the favorite,
but you all have to act like that one nice.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
So it's up to them, it's not.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
Up to me.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
Wow, right, okay, guarantee kIPS, Yeah, pull over to breastfeed.
Tell which kid you like the most, their your favorite,
get the other ones fighting for competitiveness to be the
favored list mad skills, Wow.
Speaker 3 (51:04):
Off Beat the parenting side of things. Very educational show today.
Don't do drugs. Don't do drugs. This is how a
parent commercials can be good.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Check the water level with something else, yes, yes, check
the water level and if you need to adjust and
canna just the water level, then just.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Get the room temperature.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
Get the litter, get the weed before you give them
the money.
Speaker 1 (51:28):
Yes, ye, yeah, don't litter, don't throw paper in from
my yard.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
Everybody is smarter today because you listen to Offbeat The
Light side of Law Enforcement dot com.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
Dot com thanks for listening today, guys, Rachel dot com,
your Rachel. Thanks for coming on the show again today.
Speaker 5 (51:54):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
It's always a pleasure for having you in here. Guys,
until next time, keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe,
and watch each other.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
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