Police officers are hardly known for their sense of humor, but that has not always been the case. Back in 1993, the police held a ballot to vote on a rather intriguing issue concerning a police officer by the name of Bob Geary.
Was the ballot to give him some award for an amazing moment of bravery? Was it to have him brought back into the police force after being suspended for having done something wrong?
Nope.
Instead, the ballot was to decide if he was going to be allowed to go on foot patrol while carrying a ventriloquist dummy. The surprising thing was that the ballot passed the motion, so off Bob went with his hand up the dummy who went by the name of Brendan O’Smarty.
Until he retired, both Officer Geary and Brendan became familiar faces as they patrolled the streets of San Francisco. However, you do wonder how on earth he would have been able to arrest someone when he had a dummy on his arm.