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COP Earnings: A snapshot of ConocoPhillips’ Q4 2023 results
Energy exploration company ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) on Thursday reported a decline in profit and revenues for the fourth quarter of 2023. Net income, adjusted for special items, decreased 11% year-over-year […]
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Retired Cop Describes SASQUATCH ENCOUNTER at Montana Truck Stop
A retired police officer, now a long-haul tucker, describes his encounter with a supposed Sasquatch while parked for the night in Barretts, Montana.
“I was a cop for 27 years, which kind of brings me to what I experienced last year in Barretts, Montana. As a cop, I approached things with open-minded cynicism. In other words, I like evidence. I want to see it, touch it, feel it, test it, and then make my decision.
I retired from the department three years ago. I’m from northern Arizona. I decided I needed a second career. I taught school for a semester and really didn’t like it. On a fluke my best friend and competitive shooting buddy said let’s go to truck driving school, so we did. We drove as a team and spent all of last winter in the mountain states, running from Phoenix, Arizona, near where I live, to Shelby, Montana. We used to overnight in Barretts, Montana at a Sinclair station with a cafe, a small store, and parking for about 20 semis. It was a regular stop for us, so I was familiar with the area.
We stopped this night and I was in the driver’s seat. My buddy was sitting on the lower bunk in the sleeper. We had a movie on the DVD player and I was paying half attention to that and half attention to my laptop when I caught some movement past the driver’s window. Bear in mind this is a small facility and it is 100 yards from the freeway but generally surrounded by a large field with three to four-foot tall grass and thicket that goes right into foothills and mountains. I looked in the mirror and saw the biggest presumed man I had ever seen step behind my trailer which was about 70 feet behind me. I said, “Jesus, that’s the biggest MFer I’ve ever seen. Damn!” My buddy popped up and looked out the passenger mirror. It walked between the space between the rear of our trailer and a truck that was parked next to us. I didn’t think any more of it for a while but then realized that when I caught the movement next to me the head of the guy was nearly at my shoulder level which was 10 feet off the ground. I was in my 2019 Freightliner Cascadia tractor. The bottom of the window line of my door is nine and a half feet from ground level. My cop brain went into assessment mode and I thought it couldn’t have been that tall. There must have been a shadow casting on my window. I wasn’t even considering Sasquatch.
I was tired and put it out of my mind. I finished up and my partner and I went back to our bunks and killed the TV. The only noise is from my heater running. I fell into a very light sleep which was unusual because I usually sleep like a baby. I’m totally comfortable in my truck but not this night. It’s like I felt like I was hovering between sleep and wakefulness.
Around midnight I really had to pee since the cafe was already closed by 9 pm. I climbed out of the passenger side of my tractor. For some reason, I felt like I was being hunted or watched. Maybe not actively hunted like prey but I definitely was aware of something predatory being aware of me. I’ve been hunted by criminals and I’ve been around predatory animals but I have never felt like this before.
I finished quickly and looked around and scanned the grass field in the quarter moonlight and had a deep down feeling that I should not move toward the field. My instincts signaled that danger existed. I got back into the truck and locked the door. I felt like there was something out there that was dangerous but only if I did something to trigger an aggressive response. I got back into my bunk and made sure that my Glock 10 pistol was in the cubby by my head. Being a retired police officer I could legally carry in all 50 states but I also made sure two spare magazines were close to hand as well. I tried to put it out of my mind and listen to a podcast while trying to go back to sleep. I slept a little bit but I had a sense of foreboding.
At 3 am I bolted upright reaching for my Glock. I saw it, whatever it was, go by the front of the truck, this time in the space between the building and my truck. I moved out of my bunk to the passenger side window and only caught a faint and fading shadow moving into the darkness out of the faint glow of the low sodium lighting on the building 75 yards away. There was no way I was going back to sleep. I got my coffeemaker and started a pot of coffee and got dressed. I still had 90 minutes on my electronic log before I could go back on duty and drive us out of there. But all I wanted to do was leave ASAP. I kept looking up the windows of the truck but I didn’t see anything else. The sun started coming up and with the light, the sense of foreboding retreated.
I could see all around the truck and the few other trucks parked in the lot and out into the grass field and up to the building. My buddy asked why I was up so early. I told him what I had felt all night and he quietly said, “Me too.”
When the sun was fully up I walked all around the places where I’d seen it. I was using my cop brain again and realized that the hard-pack gravel would hold no tracks especially as cold as it was. I walk to the edge of the grass field and there was a trail. It was a game trail where I’m sure deer moved through. There were no large footprints visible.
When the cafe opened for breakfast my buddy and I went in to eat. We tried to figure out what we’d experienced and seen. I am firmly convinced that I saw a Sasquatch. I took the known and the unknown and the puzzle pieces and put them into one logical assumption that could be made. At any rate, we decided to put a day of driving between us and Barretts and get to a larger truck stop or terminal.”
NOTE: The location, I later discovered, was the Gateway Canyon Travel Plaza. Lon
Transcribed Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGLz0-aCoc
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Sophie’s agony as motorcycle escort cop smashes into OAP
I’m a female cop – people love the ‘fupa chalupa’ dance I do in uniform when I’m off the clock
A FEMALE cop has shown her excitement to get off the clock in the form of a happy dance.
She gave it a hilarious title, naming it the “fupa chalupa” dance.
Hanna, a female cop, showed off her moves after she clocked out of work[/caption]
Hanna Christiansen (@flabtofit1) shared her dance in a video with over 30,000 TikTok followers.
After clocking out of work, the officer showed off her moves with a little encouragement from her followers.
Rearing up with Soulja Boy’s Donk, she shook her booty in a circle in uniform.
“Since y’all love my ‘fupua chalupa’ so much,” she said.
“P.S. I’m off the clock,” she added with the hashtags #womaninlawenforcement and #bodypositivity.
People took to the comments to share their thoughts on her dance — many loved it.
“You go girl, you look amazing,” said one admirer.
“DAMN YOU GOT IT GOING ON BABY,” said another.
“Yes you do!! Nice very impressed,” said a third.
“Love police women,” said a fourth.
“Very beautiful officer and great moves,” complimented a fifth.
“Be safe out there,” they added.
The plus-size officer joked that she loves her ‘fupa chalupa’[/caption]
Met Police gun cop could face charges over fatal shooting of unarmed man
A MET Police gun cop could face charges over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
Chris Kaba, 24, was shot in the head through the windscreen of a car.
Unarmed Chris Kaba, 24, was shot in the head through the windscreen of a car[/caption]
It is understood the cop believed Mr Kaba was about to run him down in Streatham, South London last September.
The officer, codenamed NX121, is suspended from duty and was probed for alleged murder.
Yesterday the case was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service by the police watchdog.
Independent Office for Police Conduct director Amanda Rowe said: “A referral to the CPS does not necessarily mean criminal charges follow.”
Mr Kaba’s family welcomed the decision, and “very much hope” the officer faces prosecution.
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