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The car was probably traveling faster than safety would dictate.\u00a0 It had almost made it.\u00a0 The sign on the mountain road had read \u201cFalling Rocks\u201d and showed a cliff with rocks in mid air.\u00a0 It certainly didn\u2019t show a little car next to the cliff.<\/p>\n
The ambulance showed up fifteen minutes after the call was received.\u00a0 Why the other cops hadn\u2019t intercepted it, we\u2019ll never know.\u00a0 There was no need for medical attention.\u00a0 The coroner\u2019s office could send someone up to scrape the bodies out of the car after the jaws of life were finished.\u00a0 My partner was still looking a bit green around the gills, but he soldiered on like a trooper.\u00a0 We had finished interviewing the students who found the car and called the incident in.\u00a0 The poor kids were a bit green themselves, and I sent them on their way as soon as I could.<\/p>\n
Harry, my new partner, was poking around the car still.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey,\u201d I said, \u201cyou\u2019ll wanna be careful there.\u00a0 The cliff was unstable enough for those poor schlubs.\u00a0 I\u2019d hate to lose a partner to a rock slide on his first day.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked up at the cliff, then back at the rear seat of the car.\u00a0 The roof had been peeled back to expose the bodies, and the interior was wide open.\u00a0 \u201cYo, Fred, you\u2019ll wanna see this.\u201d<\/p>\n
I walked up beside Harry and looked down at an arsenal.\u00a0 These mooks were carrying more firepower than our entire department had.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t seen some of these weapons since Viet Nam.\u00a0 Piled on the back seat of the unidentifiable sedan were M-16s, a couple of heavier M-60s, and a crate of claymores.\u00a0 The claymore is one of the best anti-personnel weapons ever invented.\u00a0 It\u2019s a plastic rectangular box with a curved front face with a little note saying \u201cThis side toward enemy.\u201d\u00a0 The plastic is filled with explosives and ball bearings.\u00a0 On the floor were ammo crates for the .223 and .30 cal weapons.\u00a0 What the hell had we stepped into here?<\/p>\n
It seems that these two guys (I think they were guys, from the length of the hairs sticking up out of the mush in the front seats.\u00a0 These days, who knew.)\u00a0 Anyways, it seems these two were on their way to do something very bad when mother nature or fate stepped in and stopped them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarry, do me a favor and call this in from the car.\u00a0 We\u2019ll need a CSI team and some higher ups .\u201d\u00a0 Harry headed over to our unit, and I started taking pictures with the camera.\u00a0 I did a complete 360 around the car, and included the mush brothers.\u00a0 Then I did something I thought I\u2019d never do.\u00a0 I reached in and grabbed one of the claymores.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s every boys dream to blow something up with a loud \u201cBoom!\u201d and a hail of ball bearings.\u00a0 I made sure that I got the box with the tripod and igniter grip.\u00a0 I stashed it in my scene bag resting at my feet.<\/p>\n
Harry came back and let me know they were on their way.\u00a0 He started poking around the weapons and I waved him away.\u00a0 \u201cBetter wait for the Crime Scene boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry said \u201cI told dispatch to get the Feds in on this.\u00a0 I suspect the Feebies will take it over, and then ATF will take it out of their hands, and then Homeland Security will throw a blanket over it and we won\u2019t have to do so much paperwork.\u00a0 How\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lord help me.\u00a0 I finally got a smart one.<\/p>\n
\u201cYo, Freddie, do you think they would miss it if I just happened to disappear one of those?\u00a0 I suspect one of those machine guns would look pretty cool above the fireplace out at the deer camp. What do ya say? \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, go ahead, but be quick about it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to re-shoot the photos so they don\u2019t get the inventory screwed up.\u00a0 Put it in the trunk.\u00a0 And hey, put the crime scene bag in there with it.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure we won\u2019t be needing the kit with all of the alphabet soup boys on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
I liked this kid.\u00a0 He thought a lot like me.<\/p>\n
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