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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3994020" data-attributes="member: 44288">Watonga P.D. did that one night.  He was on the GE Portamobile clearing a business with an open door he found walking the alleys.  I was just a ride-along from Kingfisher.  I wasn't even a deputy yet just a dispatcher.  We were inside and in the office area of the furniture store.  The local cop knew the owner who lived over an hour away and didn't want to bother him if it was nothing but an open door.The desk was an absolute mess with the metal lock box upside down on the floor and papers on the floor and hanging halfway out of the drawers.  The lock box had the hasp torn off and it was just hanging by a rivet.We both heard a thump thump!  We both froze in our tracks and just listened.  Thump thump!  We determined the store had a basement and the noise was coming from there.  He had me go out to the car, grab the shotgun out of the rack and call out the situation to dispatch since we had no backup.  When I got back with the shotgun he returned it to me and told me he was going down to look around.  He said, "If I don't come back up, shoot whoever does."  I told him I would.  Knowing in my own mind that was a stupid thing for him to say, I knew what he meant and I gave him the answer he wanted.He all but crawled downstairs and about halfway down, THUMP!  THUMP!   We both looked at each other half grinning and half scared to death.  He was down there about 5 minutes and THUMP! THUMP!  "POLICE!  DON'T"... BLAM! BLAM! then the sound of shattering glass and "OHHHH FU****!"I hollered down the stairs, "YOU OK?"  Then I heard him laughing.  He climbed back up the stairs, "I shot myself!"  I thought, oh Lord, I better call the ambulance. Then thinking to myself, this is Watonga and they have volunteer ambulance drivers that have to drive to the fire station to get an ambulance... hell, I better get him in the car for me to drive him to the hospital. I said where did you shoot yourself? are you bleeding badly?  He started laughing harder.I was perplexed!  He said, "No, I shot my reflection in the full length mirror, hell, he had a gun and pointed it at me so... Me interrupting, "You did what?"  "I shot myself in the mirror."It turned out there was a basement transom open and a breeze was blowing slightly.  The closet door was on overhead rollers and the breeze blew it just enough to bump the sides of the pocket wall it was installed in.  He heard the noise, saw a dude with a gun and was warning him, then killed him.Oh yeah, the desk area... that was his normal day-to-day working area and they kept it that messy all the time.  He had just forgotten to lock the back door.  Due to the initial investigation we performed and the sounds we heard, we didn't have time to call and wait on a keyholder to arrive from that far away.Oh yeah again, I was walking doors in Medicine Lodge and almost shot the full sized mechanical waving Maytag Man.</blockquote>

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