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BING BING BING

Franco wins the second question also. Congrate Franco on retaining such useless knowledge as I did.

Willy: Congrats on your retirement. I hope you enjoy it and spend lots of time with your family. I would like to say thank you to you and all the honest cops out there who work for our peace of mind. ;)

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Hmmmm good for ya willy .... congrats...... I will be retireing when I turn 75 ... 28 more yrs for me..... lol , self employed guys have all the fun thank god my wifes a school teacher

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congratulations Willy, the people of Whitehouse Sta. , N.J. owe you a pat on the back for a job well done. ;)

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Willy: I'm Glad you made it but I have to tell ya its hard to forget the horrible things that you see in police work so be prepared for bad dreams on down the line...I was a G-Man and retired in 2003 with 33years at mandatory 57 . I miss the excitement of big drug strike forces etc but the family trade offs , police funerals , murdered informants and witnesses , ******* US Attorneys and pathetic sentencing judges takes their toll..You will always wonder if you could of done it better but I think its just the business ..On a happier note I saw on TV where a guy serving 22 years for Federal jury tampering and killing a mob witness just got his law degree in prison courtesy of the US tax payers....Frank

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Hey brother Willy, should I be stocking up on the Killians now that your gonna have some free time?

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Thanks guys, and Phes I actually work in Scotch Plains and live in Whitehouse Sta.. Moved out there 20 years ago.
We get 65% @ 25 years completed, and 1% for each year after that to a max of 70% @ 30 years. Full medical as long as you don't get picked up with medical in another job.
It is a good system, but we pay for it big time along the way, the contributions per pay period are steep.
Never the less I am leaving with 28 years done 68% of my salary and medical and I wont be 52 until march 10th. So I am not complaining at all. My two brothers are contractors so I know I know I hear it all the time what are you off again 4 days on 4 days off what the h@ll kind of work week is that etc etc.
One day many years ago I went to a 911 call with some one screaming on the phone in the back ground, I pulled up lights out and parked a couple houses down the street. Walked up on the house and heard a crash of some kind. Called it in send some help something going on went to the back of the house found the homeowner lying on the ground outside a sliding glass door and the wife screaming upstairs, he was OK, he confronted a burglar and tried to stop him leaving, the guy used the homeowner as a battering ram and smashed out the door with him and took off into the woods behind the home. He described him as a big black guy dressed all in black.
I arrived just a few seconds after he fled so I gave chase in the direction he said. Pitch black night, heard him running way ahead inthe woods. Other uniits were driving around the surrounding streets but the areas woods were about 60 acres total. Played cat and mouse with that son of a B!tch for one and a half hours. I was cut up, scratched up uniform ripped and had stepped in every hole that God ever created. My flashlight battery had died after about half an hour and I was now on full night vision.
Eventually I got to a point where other officers had the area blocked off and I had just heard the guy a few minutes before breaking some sticks.
I found him, he was big, he was black and he was pissed. I think I hit that guy 30-40 times and had no effect on him and it got bad because he decided he wanted my gun and he was a lot stronger than I was. But I was the Cop, I don't lose, and I just got nastier, stuck a stick into his mouth so he started gagging and used it as a pry tool and swung him around and grabbed his privates and squeezed harder than I ever squeezed anything. He blacked out, I was more scared cause I thought I killed him , here he was with a hunk of rotten wood in his throat. But I cleared his airway AFTER I CUFFED HIM and he was breathing. Started screaming into the radio for all the dead a$$ senior officers who were driving around waiting for the suspect to walk up and shake their hand and introduce himself. Took a while to get him out but we did.
Went home after all the freaking paper work and it was now 0800 hrs and my electrician brother is leaving and he says, well you slept all night and now I guess you are going to sleep all day huh
One thing though, went back the next day to see the victim, he apparently was some type of stock broker and made decent money, looked at me and said there is not enough money in the entire world they could pay to do what you did last night. Shook my hand and said thanks.

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Willy man, nothing but happy for you. I know a few in your shoes. Get out and enjoy yourself. Most that I know have moved a little south to a small town and eventually gotten back into the field working parttime, dispatch and stuff. Whatever you do you got to stay active and keep the old noodle working. Make the best of every day. I've seen way too many times what happens to a guy that retires to nothing. You don't want to go there...

Airslot

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Oh don't worry Air, retirement is a misnomer.
I am just taking my pension, I got one in college and three coming behind him so it will be several years before I can become a full time sportsman.
Started looking for a job a couple of weeks ago. I gotta earn and the only way it really pays off for me is if I get a decent paying job.
Maybe the Grand Puhbah will hire me on as a mate ;D

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Hey Willy, I'm about 3/4's pissed at my current proffession. Been thinking of looking for something to do my self. Ain't many guy's I would trust with my back like I trust you. If I ever pull it off your hired!

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Let me know brother, I remember a nice little bait shop down there right near the launch. Maybe we can have Blue come down there and make him one of his offers he can't refuse and take it over.
I would have to convince the CEO but who knows maybe if I show her that pic of you I got it will fly ;D