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<\/p>\nBack when I worked as a nightclub DJ, it was easy to meet Green Berets, “Delta” members,\u00a0Navy SEALs, former fighter pilots, CIA agents, and – my favorite – uncercover narcotics officers – at the bar. \u00a0Especially around last call.<\/p>\n
My favorite? \u00a0One evening, a very aggressive little fella spent half an hour boasting about his physical prowess by the DJ booth (a gross misapplication of resources, if you catch my drift). \u00a0 Then a fight broke out. \u00a0 The bar’s staff – the bouncers and some of the bar staff – began moving toward the fight.<\/p>\n
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The little fella got up and joined them, telling people to move back or he’s arrest them, flashing a “badge” at bystanders, telling them – and at least one bouncer – that he’d arrest them if they interfered with him.<\/p>\n
I got a quick look; it was a badge for County Sheriff’s Department SCUBA volunteer – basically about as official for purposes of arrest powers as Dwight Schrute’s Lackawanna County Reserve Sheriff’s Reserve uniform.<\/p>\n
I pointed this out to the bouncers when the real police were on the way (as they were very often at that particular bar). \u00a0The little fella scampered away like he’d heard there was a steroid sale at GNC.<\/p>\n