Hi All,
As everyone knows I work in the 124 Room (a.k.a. complaint room) of the 109 pct. Language barrier is rediculous but the stuff these people come up with can be funny.
yesterday two women came in to make a complaint, both came with translators and both VERY VERY SERIOUS.
1) Woman comes in with her lawyer/translator who wants to make a report for assault charges and has photographs. Problem is that the assault happened in February. It seems her boyfriend/lover was upset with her and beat her up severely. I asked her what took nearly two months to come in. She responded "I didn't want my husband to know that I'm having an affair and I had to wait for him to leave on business trip." Pressing charges not an option. My detective even asked me if this was a set up. No it wasn't. Out the door she went.2) Another woman came in stating she lost her Tawainese passport and wanted to report it lost. As required she brought in a letter from the Tawainese government stating she was indeed given a passport but here is the kicker IT EXPIRED IN 1973. She got very angry with me that I wouldn't take the report as she was going to her country to vote and didn't want to use her American Passport (which by the way is valid until 2009). I told her she should have made the report in the early 1970's not 35 years later. She left cursing me in Tawainese. Oh well.
3) A friend, police officer, caught a bank robber within seconds of stealing several thousands of dollars from a local bank. The bank robber said he didn't go into that bank to steal he made a deposit. Boom. The enclosed die pack with the money explodes and blue dye starts dripping down the perps' legs. Problem is that my friend was "frisking" him and got the full brunt of the explosion of dye in the face so he came in with a 6' 6" black man with blue/white pants in cuffs and shackles and my colleague 5' 9" white man came in looking like a smurf. So we call him smurfy. LOL. the good thing is that the bank robber was wanted in 17 robberies (+/-) and is off the street.Hugs, Kate