Hilarity Ensued
This story comes from a family friend who was a Sergeant in a major West Coast city:
One of his new officers was late for roll call one night. After about 45 minutes, the Sergeant gets a call from another station asking if he was the commander the missing officer. Hilarity ensues.
Apparently, the missing officer was getting ready to leave his apartment for roll call for the night shift. As he walked out to the stairs, he sees a guy in a ski mask hop through his neighbor’s window. Cop radios the burglary in progress and runs back to his apartment to get his shotgun.
When he gets back to neighbor’s house, he heard a female screaming and the sounds of a struggle. Cop announces himself, kicks open the front door, runs to the kitchen and sees what he thinks is ski mask guy assaulting the neighbor.
The neighbor sees cop with shotgun screaming at ski mask guy and she completely freaks out. Turns out ski mask guy was neighbor’s boyfriend/husband doing some sort of roleplay fantasy at neighbor’s request. At least nobody got shot and apparently, the cop was known thereafter as Officer C—block. Story credit: Reddit / dawglaw09