This is my first newspaper article i saved about Policemen. i have
hundreds of other Police related newspaper articles too.
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This is my first newspaper article i saved about Policemen. i have hundreds of other Police related newspaper articles too. |
| © Post-Star, Glens
Falls, N.Y. Friday, Sept 3, 1976 | |
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NEW YORK (AP) "Sarge, an order is [an] order, but this is going too far. I'm supposed to be driving." "I'll drive -- you get out and apprehend that horse." That's just about how it went between officer William Lohse and Sgt. Edwin Stevens shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday while the two were on what was supposed to be a routine patrol of the Bushwick Market Terminal in Brooklyn. Reconstructing the conversation later, Lohse and Stevens recalled the events. "We were just riding around when we spot this white horse," Lohse said. "I said, 'Sarge, do you see what I see?'" "I think so -- well we just can't leave it here. Go get it." "But Sarge, I don't know anything about horses." "There's no time like the present to learn -- get the horse." At this point, said Lohse, an 11-year veteran with more than a dozen citations for excellent police work, "It starts to rain -- the horse gets jumpy, not to mention me getting wet. "I talked very softly -- like in the movies. All this time the sarge is sitting in the car, nice and dry. "There was a rope around the horse's neck, and once I got hold of that he just followed. But then the real problem developed. How the hell were we going to get the horse to the station house?" Stevens had the answer: "Sit on the fender -- hold the rope and I'll drive slow." In the rain, Lohse sat, perched on the trunk of the car, holding the end of the rope attached to the horse. Lohse said, "We were about half way to the station when this car drives down the street. He sees the lights flashing, me on the fender -- and then the horse. The guy jams on the brakes, throws his car into reverse, and takes off." Meanwhile, the police radio was buzzing with questions about the horse. At the station house, the cops displayed "horspitality" -- walking the animal to the front desk. A number of other policemen volunteered their help. Some had sugar. Others had apples. But no one had enough papers to put down under the horse. "We never really thought about that," Lohse said after he got into some dry clothes. Shortly after 7 a.m., a man walked into the station to make a missing-horse report. The man keeps horses in a makeshift barn at First Avenue and 50th Street. The police officers called the ASPCA. They wanted to make sure the horse was well-treated because, in Lohse's opinion, "he looked a little on the thin side, and if he is being abused, we want to know about it." The ASPCA gave the okay and the horse was released in the custody of its owner. Stevens, a 20-year veteran of the department thought the whole operation went well. "We did a fine job, Bill." "We sure did, Sarge." | |
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