Spoken by a Miami cop describing a situation:

[Martin Kaminer]

My favorite along those lines was always

"The perpetrator then secreted himself under the bed."


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "He kept hurling one _explicative_ after another!"
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