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LATELY, I'VE BEEN spending a lot of tiround witharound has nothing to do with oes crapola and there's a last ditch effort to hog-tie a big, duenitally defective frontal lobe

My naitive apprehension businessbond enforce for my cousin Vincent Plum It wouldn't be such a bad job except the direct result of bond enforceitives tend to not like this Go figure To encourage fugitive cooperation on the way back to the pokey I usually persuade the guys I capture to wear handcuffs and leg shackles This works pretty goodaround on the ground stuff

Unfortunately, today wasn'tin at 297 pounds and standing five feet, eight inches tall, was arrested for credit card fraud and for being a genuinely obnoxious person He failed to show for his court appearance last week, and this put Martin on ht, he hadn't been too hard to find Martin had, in fact, been at ho et Martin into cuffs and leg shackles and into ed to drive Martin to the police station on North Clinton Avenue Unfortunately, when I atteet Martin out ofaround on his belly, trussed up like a Christht himself

We were in the parking lot adjacent to theto the docket lieutenant was less than fifty feet away I could call for help, but I'd be the brunt of cop humor for days I could unlock the cuffs or ankle shackles, but I didn't trust Paulson He was royally pissed off, red-faced and swearing,animal sounds

I was standing there, watching Paulson struggle, wondering what the hell I was going to do, because anything short of a forklift wasn't going to get Paulson up off the pavement And just then, Joe Juniak pulled into the lot Juniak is a former police chief and is now mayor of Trenton He's a bunch of years older than y, is married to my cousin-in-law Gloria Jean So we're sort of familyin a remote way

The driver's sideslid down, and Juniak grinned athis eyes to Paulson “Is he yours?”

“Yep”

“He's illegally parked His ass is over the white line”

I toed Paulson, causing hiain “He's stuck”

Juniak got out of his car and hauled Paulson up by his armpits “You don't mind if I embellish this story when I spread it all over town, do you?”

“I do mind! Remember, I voted for you,” I said “And we're almost related”

“Not gonna help you, cutie Cops live for stuff like this”

“You're not a cop anymore”