I DONT KNOW if law enfort work is more dangerous now than what it used to be or not. I know when I first took office youd have a fistfight somewheres and youd go to break it up and theyd offer to fight you. And sometimes you had to aodate em.
They wouldnt have it no other way. And youd better not lose, her. You dohat so muore, but maybe you see worse. I had a man pull a gun on me oime and it happehat I grabbed it just as he went to fire and the plunger on the hammer went right through the fleshy part of my thumb. You see the mark of it there. But that man had ever iion of killin me. A few years ago and it wasnt that maher I was goin out one of these little two lane blacktop roads of a night and I e up on a pickup truck that they was two old boys settin in the bed of it. They kindly blinked in the lights and I backed off some but the truck had Coahuila plates on it and I thought, well, I o stop these old boys and take a look. So I hit the lights and whenever I dohat I seen the slider window in the back of the cab open and here e somebody passin a shotgun out the window to the old boy settin in the bed of the truck. Ill tell yht now I hit them brakes with both feet. It skidded the unit sideways to where the lights was goin out into the brush but the last thing I seen in the bed of the truck was the old boy puttin that shotgun to his shoulder. I hit the seat and I just had hit it when here e the windshield all over me in them little bitty pieces they break up into. I still had one foot on the brake and I could feel the cruiser slidin down into the bar ditd I thought it was goin to roll but it didnt. It filled the car just full of dirt. The old boy he opened up owice more and shot all the glass out of one side of the cruiser and by then Id e to a stop and I laid there in the seat, had my pistol out, and I heard that pickup leave out and I raised up and fired several shots at the taillights but they was long gone.
Point bein you dont know what all youre stoppin when you do stop somebody. You take out on the highway. You walk up to a car and you dont know what youre liable to find. I set there in that cruiser for a long time. The motor had died but the lights was still on.
Cab full of glass and dirt. I got out and kindly shook myself off and got ba and just set there. Just kindly colle my thoughts. Windshield wipers hangin in on the dashboard. I turned off the lights and I just set there. You take somebody that will actually throw down on a law enfort officer and open fire, you have got some very serious people. I never saw that truck again. Nobody else did her. Or not them plates noways. Maybe I should of took out after it. Or tried to. I dont know. I drove back to Sanderson and pulled in at the cafe and Ill tell you they e from all over to see that cruiser. It was shot just full of holes. Looked like the Bonnie and Clyde car. I didnt have a mark on me. Not even from all that glass. I was criticized for that too. Parkin there like I dohey said I was showin out. Well, maybe I was. But I hat cup of coffee too, Ill tell you.
I read the papers ever mornin. Mostly I suppose just to try and figure out what might be headed this way. Not that Ive done all that good a job at headin it off. It keeps gettin harder. Here a while back they was two boys run into one another and one of em was from California and one from Florida. And they met somewheres or other iween.
And then they set