OT: Funny job story

I have to share, it is a shake your head while giggling saying "are you kidding me"

I work in a precinct that is in the heart of "little China/Korea" and get a lot of "you speaka chinese?" thus I have to use the translator phone which connects me with a translator at 1 police plaza.

A man walks into my office and asks "you speaka korean?" No. Get a translator and say "I am Police Administrative Assistant Interrante and I have a gentleman in my office who wants to file a complaint can you ask him what the nature of his complaint is? thanks."

Woman translates English into Korean and the man responds. I hear the woman inhale air and a giggle escapes. The man pauses and the woman translates korean into english for me.

She says the man's problem is this "he signed up with eHarmony for companionship and met a woman with whom he had a sexual encounter with. It was working out great until she moved to China for which they broke up over. He met another woman and is currently dating her. Old girlfriend has returned to America and wants to get back together with him which he doesn't want to. He wants to make a complaint against her as she is THREATENING TO TELL HIS WIFE about the affair."

I tell her to tell him that it isn't a Police matter and that he really has to deal with his ex and current girlfriend on his own. The translator does that and the Man responds at length for which she tells me that he "wants to know how he can get the ex-girlfriend to leave him alone and not tell his wife as his wife is too busy raising their four boys and has no time for him and needs to keep his girlfriends separate." At this time I'm choking because I'm trying really really hard not to laugh.

I tell the translator to tell him to "honor his marriage vows and drop the girlfriends. If he doesn't want to drop the girlfriends then get a divorce."

The translator tells him that and he says "thank you" and leaves deflated. Once he leaves the translator and I start to laugh so hard we both begin to choke.

I had to share. It must have been a full moon in new york city.

Kate

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a-scrapbooking-diva
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LOL. And google responds with helpful website suggestions like "Korean Translator" & "Local Girlfriends". Do you have his number? Maybe they can help him out.

Alicia

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Alicia

Oh my too funny! I have to share this one with Rick!

So is this all in a days work in NYC? I guess your job hasn't turned out to be too boring ;-)

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M-C

Oh Kate, Thank You! I needed a good laugh today!

~Crystal

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cware84

Kate, thanks for the good laugh. That is to funny. I am glad to see that your job is far from being boring.

Chrissy

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ChrissyM

Kate, your job sounds a lot like mine. I've worked for ten years in a county jail, where not only do the weird ones get dragged in the back, they come marching in through the front. These are the ones I hate having to deal with- the "my son is a good boy. How dare you arrest him for that?!" when "that" is anything from DUI to assault to drug dealing to murder. These are the folks we can't yell at no matter how much they deserve it. The inmates, on the other hand... (I love telling an unruly drunk in Intake, "All right, you go to the back of the line. We'll get to you sometime Wednesday." Today is Saturday, by the way.) Enjoy the nutty ones, and don't let the bad ones get to you. Think of how many more there would be if you and your guys weren't out there.

Mel K

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Mel K

Funny story Kate! LOL LOL Sometimes it IS funny what the general public calls the police for...We have a police scanner. Some of the calls that go through are hilarious. My DH loves to listen to the scanner because a lot of what happens in our town never makes the paper or the news. Most of the time I tune it out...but I heard a call the other day, that I just cracked up laughing when I heard it. Some lady called the police dept from one of the low income housing areas to speak to an officer about a theft. The dispatcher was trying to tell the officer what it was that she was claiming to be stolen. Dispatcher: "The subject is claiming someone stole a hotdog and a glass of Koolaid from her apartment"....big pause...no response from officer......then dispatcher says ..."she thought it must have been the maintenance man.....still no response from officer......."Officer, please contact communication!" I think the officer must have been laughing..I know I was! LOL

Linda

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Linda C

Oh Kate that is hilarious. Your job is far from boring. Thanks for sharing.

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Cathy

Sounds like she is blackmailing him.

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Scout Lady

I liked your response about honoring his wife and dropping the girlfriends. Was he even the slightest embarassed? Or was he perspiring with fear? Hilda

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Hilda

Hilda, No more like "entitled." By the time I got done with him this man who walked in with all the confidence in the world was slouched over and defeated. It was almost like he was looking for someone to enable him to cheat on his wife and that it is ok to do what he was doing.

I told Crime Analysis and they burst out laughing. I also get the people (mostly chinese who have a culture of helping out their fellow man) who lend money usually $50,000 to $100,000 to family "friends" to help them assimilate into this country with the promise of repaying and then DUH the family "friend" forgets to repay and has "embarrassed the family."

I have discovered that the chinese/korean culture is the most guilible of people. The eMails that you and I instantly know are spam "you have won the United Kingdom Lottery and you must send us $500 to cover shipping you the prize money and cover any and all USA taxes" but then give all your personal information to them through a "secure website" seems to be the biggest report my colleagues take in the overnight shifts.

I have also had a case where 6 women came in who had paid to an "INS Attorney" nearly $350,000 to become "legal" as each one are now considered "illegal" because the "english" speaker of the group's visitor visa expired in 1965 (the others had visas that expired anywhere from 1979 to 1985). They didn't want to get deported just wanted their money back. Unfortunately under the new Homeland Security rules and regulations I have to report them to INS, detain them, and start the report as EXPIRED VISA, MORE THAN 10 YEARS.

Elizabeth and Sarah were over yesterday and Elizabeth wanted to see my new cards and said "stressful week?" She said that because she knows the more detailed the card, the more stressful the week. I have one calendar almost done and she loves it. Except I'm out of glue. LOL.

If anything she wants a set.

Have fun this week and pray I get another funny story to share.

Kate

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a-scrapbooking-diva

It sounds funny... but if she was in bad enough straits financially, she might only have HAD one packet of hotdogs and one jug of koolaid to last her for a few days, and even one of them would be a huge loss... or maybe she was just nuts! lol

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Karen AKA Kajikit

ROFL That's too funny Kate! I'm glad you can find humor in your job.

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Deb in AR

That is just too funny!!! I've had many experiences like that at my previous job. Makes you wonder how people actually make it in the world huh! LOL

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Kenda

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