Hey, Lori is awesome peeps!!!!!!!!! She knew me back during my crazy days... Lori Hardage....
She was dispatched to back me up on a family disturbance one night. I get there and the front door is kicked in. Middle of the night, east side house, everyone in the sector was busy so Lori was a few minutes away. I see the guy and his wife going at it and I go in, grab the guy and wrap him and take him down. Then his stupid wife decided to try and whoop my ass. Then their 14 year old daughter decided to hit me over the head with an end table. I keyed up my radio and said, "Step it up". Meanwhile, hell is descending down on me. I handcuff the guy as the wife is hitting me. I've got him face down on the floor so I stand up, put my foot on the back of his neck and grab his pissed off, cussing at me in Spanish wife and handcuff her as the daughter decides to try and zombie bite my forearm. I get the woman handcuffed and throw her on the floor. I grab the 14 year old girl and decide the best place for all 4 of us is on the floor. I drop straight down on top of the man, pull the woman over to us, grab the kid by the neck and jerk her face down on the floor while she flailing away. I didn't want any officers getting in a wreck rushing to my location so I keyed up my radio and said, "It's Code 4 (all is ok), just keep one backup coming." Lori arrives about 2 minutes later, sees all of us on the living room floor, and says, "So, this is what you call Code 4? You think everything is in control?"
"Yes. Now help me get these a-holes to jail."
She was also there at 11th Street/Olive street when I was chasing a crack dealer over fences, through yards and trying not to get bitten by family dogs. He goes over a 6' chain link fence and I am about 20' behind him. I go over the fence, land awkwardly and keep running. He runs in a storage shed and as he turns around to hide, he realizes that he didn't lose me. I hit him at about 100 mph with a flying shoulder. I was 240 lbs with 7% body fat back then and used to compete in the Police Olympics (special division
).... Anyway, when I hit him, we both flew to the back of the storage shed and knocked out a few panels of wood. I drug him out and Duane, Lori and Tim were there. We got him handcuffed (he cough-cough resisted) and when I went to walk him to a patrol car, I realized my leg wasn't working right.
I had torn the ACL in my right knee when I went over that chain link fence. STILL CAUGHT THAT BASTARD THOUGH!
I was on injury duty for 3 months.
2 weeks after I got back on the streets in January 23, 1999, I shot and killed a guy.
9 weeks on admin duty.
Came back from that in March 1999 and in August I fought a guy who had shot at me 5 times and was high on a massive amount of cocaine. He was in a truck and I was on foot and chased him 5 blocks before he bailed out of the truck. He ran a couple of blocks and I caught him. Then he had a heart attack and died while we were fighting. He had just served 18 years in prison in California and had been out less than a month. He was a monster.
Lori showed up on that one also. I was sitting on the bumper of my patrol car drinking a cup of coffee and getting tended to by a cute lady EMT when Lori came up. My trophy for that episode was 2 broken fingers, a couple of busted ribs and several cuts and contusions.
I used to have a bit of a reputation on the streets of Austin.. Charie 700s, "WE OWN THE NIGHT!"... As my wife (at that time) used to say, "Every morning you come home alive is a f------ miracle."
Charlie 702 is 10-42.
Yeah, Lori is definitely cool people and is great to hang out with and drink a few cool beverages.... I think she should have retired by now.
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I think it's about 1-2 miles up from dead man's canyon is where the clear part is.