LA is one of the most unpredictable places to work in as a police officer. One moment your helping an old lady who is worried about a group of kids playing basketball in the street, the next minute you’re in a shootout. As exhausting as it is, it certainly creates good stories for police officers.
Today for Officer Bradford was a perfect example of that chaos. After booking a drunk driver at nine in the morning, he then received two codes from dispatch: 10-91h and 10-91V: vicious or dangerous horse on the loose in Pan Pacific Park. Officers were trying to calm them, but any time anyone came within fifteen feet, it would cause all three to bolt – kicking around as they ran and endangering those in the proximity.
By the time he arrived on scene, other officers had closed the gates to the park and gotten all civilians out. And… sure as hell, there was not one, but three horses running rampant. According to the owner, they jumped out of the trailer – which was not closed properly, nor big enough for three horses to be in. But that was currently an issue for the other officers. He needed to find a way to calm down and contain three horses that were now running around in a park in the middle of LA.
Eventually, one of the officers’ calls backup – telling a somewhat desperate and completely over it Bradford that they’d be able to offer help. A trailer rolls up twenty minutes later, and you get out, walking over.
“You here to help with the horses?” Bradford asks, seeming about as pissed off as you’d probably expect.