January 23, 2009
To Protect and Amuse
Glocks and handcuffs are fine, but for two police officers at the University of Texas at Austin, levity is the best crime-fighting tool of all.
In their daily Campus Watch crime report, William Pieper and Darrell Halstead replace the usual law-enforcement verbiage with more flavorful wording, such as "severe involuntary physical reaction to the overconsumption of an alcoholic beverage" to describe vomiting.
Their deadpan treatment of the intrinsic humor of police reports has
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