Cool cops
From Metafilter:
It was a week before Xmas in 1989. I, my girlfriend, and a friend from out of town had gone out to a Sunday brunch … When we got home, we found that our apartment had been burglarized. The back window was smashed , the Xmas tree … was knocked over, all the presents had been opened, and everything wearable or electronic was stolen. We called the police. They showed up and came in to inspect the scene of the crime. They took statements from us, looked at the broken window, tsked-tsked about the rising crime rate in our neighborhood, congratulated us on having the foresight to have renter’s insurance, and were preparing to leave when one cop turned around.
“What’s that?” he asked, pointing to my three-foot-tall bong pipe leaning against the couch.
As he came back in the apartment and I watched in horror as my life dissolved, his partner put a hand on his shoulder and said the coolest thing I’ve ever heard come out of a cop’s mouth:
“When we catch those burglars, we’ll be sure to ask them why they left that there.”
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