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A Copper Talks
Lisa Wanttaja and I took ourselves to the Greater Seattle RWA Chapter's monthly meeting today. The scheduled speaker was Ali Mosa, a retired police officer, but she was unable to attend due to a death in the family. Her husband Mike kindly took her place and treated us to a lively and informative session.

One of the things that stuck with me was that Mike said most "coppers", as he calls them, don't watch CSI. Can you imagine? My OB-GYN says she watches "Scrubs" because that's closest to reality--hooohaaa! In any case, Mike proceeded to tell us why he didn't watch CSI. The reality is--with all that DNA and fingerprint collecting that CSI does in seconds, in actuality takes months. And according to Mike, DNA isn't even collected/processed except for the most high profile cases because it's too expensive and time consuming to process. Of course, you have to realize that on TV they must get those CSI heroes to solve the crime in about 45 minutes, so that kinda speeds things up. Ahhh, if real life crime fighting only imitated art . . .

Lunch was fascinating in so many ways, the most interesting of which was when Mike pulled a two inch long piece of wire out of his burger. You'll be glad to know that he didn't have to pay for it and they offered to give him whatever else he wanted to eat. He stuck with coleslaw and we made him order a piece of Boston creme pie. But turns out he was safe there, too, as they were out of Boston creme pie.

Fun, huh!?

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