Orange Swan Story #58.5: Quick on the Draw Some years back a cop I knew told me this story...

→[More:]"Mike" and his partner and a third cop got called to a house because of a "domestic dispute" - read, an asshole beating up his wife.

When the three cops got to the house, the man ran out the back door and through his back yard, simultaneously letting his three pit bulls out into the fenced back yard as well.

Mike and the other two cops along the side of the house to the back yard, with the third cop in the middle and Mike and his partner running on either side of him.

The pit bulls were completely freaking out, and one of them jumped the fence and came running towards the three cops.

Mike and his partner drew their guns, but the third cop shouted at the dog, "FREEZE! POLICE!"

In the instant before Mike and his partner shot the dog, they looked at the third cop and snickered. The dog, incidentally, had not stopped nor put his paws in the air.

When Mike told me this story, I said, "And no one will ever let him forget it, will they?"

Mike said, "No way. Someone will bring it up at his retirement dinner."