ER Waiting Room and Back Yard Searches

I started out my shift with an Emergency Custody Order (ECO). The guy was really cooperative and didn't cause any trouble. He refuses to take some medication for blood pressure, so his wife obtained the ECO. Not really a mental health issue, just medical.

The hospital was slammed. We sat in the waiting room for 4 hours, before they put him in a bed. The waiting room kept filling up the whole time. There were no available beds in the Emergency Room, someone would get called back only after somebody else was discharged.

While we were in the waiting room a family brought in their hysterical mother. They got a wheel chair for her and she sat in it wailing and moaning. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" News flash: If you can't breathe, you can't talk. Or wail and moan. It was quite the dramatic performance.

A guy came through the area who absolutely stunk. He did not appear to have showered for several weeks and evidently routinely urinates himself as well. I almost vomited from the smell. Even after he walked past and left my area the air was severely polluted from him.

About three minutes before the end of my four hour guard duty they got my guy a bed. The ER staff is always helpful and they tried for me but they were just too busy, beyond their capacity to handle anything quickly.

After I got out of the hospital I grabbed some dinner and then started taking calls. It was busy for a little while but then tapered off in volume. I went and ran some RADAR and got a ticket.

We got a call for a vehicle hit and run and shots fired. It was in a quiet neighborhood which was odd. A car slammed into a parked vehicle. The first car careened off the road, through a yard, and into another car. The driver pounded on the front door of the house there and told the homeowner that someone was shooting at him. He then ran off through yards.

The first officer went to the massive mess of the crash and I went and started looking through the yards the driver ran through. A bunch of houses had their motion sensor security lights on, indicating a path of travel. He was turning them on running through the yard. The trail went cold though when I got to houses where there were no security lights. I didn't know if he bedded down in a hiding spot or kept running. Another officer joined me and we looked around for the guy. Most of the houses had locked sheds which is good, we knew he wasn't hiding in there unless he could padlock the outside after he was inside it.

No luck finding him. Evidently though, the genius left his picture behind in the car he ran from.