A Nice Evening Drive

Many departments require their patrol officers to maintain a vehicle log which includes their miles driven on any particular turn. On a shift that lacks activity such as arrests or reports, an officer is expected to be "patrolling the borough." One officer, after being reprimanded for low mileage on his assigned police car during a night-turn shift decided to use some imagination. He drove into the borough's garage, jacked up the back of the police car, put it in drive and, with a brick on the accelerator, took a little nap. The problem was that he over-slept and upon awaking, found that he had put nearly 200 miles on the car. Not too bad considering that the size of the borough was a little less that 1 mile square! Seeing this error, he of course put the car in reverse and placed the brick back on the gas peddle. Not knowing that an odometer will NOT go backwards even if the car is in reverse, he quickly racked up a total of 380 miles during his 8 hour shift! He was terminated for "Abuse of borough property."