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Former RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman, author of Policing the The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie , is back with the same wry humour and a new collection of incredible stories drawn from his twenty-seven years of patrolling the small communities of the interior of British Columbia. These new adventures have him re-polishing his boots and relaying untold tales, such as the lone officer who takes on three legendary hard-fighting drunks, earning him the respect of the citizens of Prince George including the louts he single-handedly flattened. An escape from a youth detention centre takes a troubled young man to new heights--in a stolen airplane--that he narrowly survives after crashing into a mountainside. Here too are stories conveying the sad truth and tragic consequences of all-too-common alcohol abuse, such as when an innocent man survives an alcohol-induced multi-vehicle accident on Jackass Mountain--twice--only to be taken by a determined Grim Reaper as he aids another motorist. Scheideman illustrates that "fate looks after some of us" in another story where the extremely drunk driver and passengers of a violent single car accident miraculously survive. The strangest thin

Author

Scheideman, Charles

Publisher

Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781550175509

Subjects

Social Science, Memoir, Biography