Editor’s Note: The following is a story taken from the book “Blue Salad” written by retired police officer Jeffry “J.D.” Justus. Mostly lighthearted in nature, the stories reflect life of a police officer in a small town during the 1980s and ’90s.

I was talking to the dispatcher while at the police station. A woman came running to the desk screaming, “There’s a man in a boat on the river, and it’s …