“Thank you Mr. Policeman” – IOTW Report

“Thank you Mr. Policeman”

Thankful fawn licks patrolman after rescue from California wildfires.

ht/ annie

10 Comments on “Thank you Mr. Policeman”

  1. @The Gunny: Bambi’s mother if still alive, is having a $hit fit looking for her baby. When fawns get separated from their mother, the mother will find their baby. The CHP officer thought maybe the mother left it, but the shelter will care for it then release it.

    They’re turning down donations of clothing, food, dog food/cat food and only want cash or gift cards. I had already purchased dog and cat food and baby diapers for the drive. Now the drive only wants cash. The cash gets stuck in the pockets of those collecting it. So, I donated the dog and cat food to our local SPCA for the animals here, I donated the clothing to PAWS, and I got my money back on the diapers and baby wipes. Dang! Who can afford to have a kid and buy baby diapers? If I lost my home and had only the clothes on my back, I wouldn’t be particular about donated clothing. It would get me by until I somewhat started to recover. But the Salvation Army only wants new clothing donated. Sorry, I haven’t bought myself a piece of new clothing in months.

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  2. “Goldenfoxx”

    ” Bambi’s mother if still alive, is having a $hit fit looking for her baby. ”

    Exactly and odds are moms made it out. This fawn would stand a much better chance of survival if they would have left it there.

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  3. @Goldenfoxx: Since when has the Salvation Army gotten so uppity that they only accept new clothing? Thank goodness the SA here hasn’t lost track of their roots like that. Must be a Cali thing.

    P.S. – New clothing is what you buy after you’ve donated your old clothing to the Salvation Army.

    P.P.S. – You’re right about the cash. When I worked at a bank (back in the Jurassic era) we used to volunteer our services after hours to process and deposit Red Cross drive collections, most of which at the time were in cash. The deposits would come in to us in stapled paper bags with the money, any checks, and the deposit slips filled out. Right off the bat we noticed that many, if not most, of the deposit amounts would be off by 10, 20, 50 dollars or more, so we would set them aside and notify the RC (through the bank) that the deposits were short. After getting numerous authorizations from them to correct the wrong amounts (supposedly due to “counting errors”), they finally told us to just make the deposits for whatever amount was there, regardless of what the deposit slip said. Translation: Somebody (or some bodies) was skimming the difference and the Red Cross didn’t care. Because they didn’t care, the bank didn’t care. And because the bank didn’t care, why should we care? After all, we were donating our time for free anyway. Plus, back then, raising a big stink about corruption that nobody seemed to care about could cost you your job, and nobody wanted that. Kinda like things are today, huh?

    Anyway, what the Red Cross didn’t realize was that they had left the door wide open for any unscrupulous bank employees to skim a little more money off for themselves. And no, I didn’t do that, but I can’t say for sure that no one else did either.

    Maybe some of us weren’t working for free after all.

    😉

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