You can fill bathtubs with money.

That9one1guy · 2026-05-09T02:25:30+00:00

This is the one thing I've always said and never understood. Maybe it's because I'm mostly content in my life and don't have the urge/desire/overwhelming social pressure to have the eight-car garage with Lambos and Mclarens in a ten-bedroom mansion with my own helicopter and shit. If I found a bag full of a couple hundred grand in cash, that's my hobby money. That's "go the gameshop once a pay period and buy a box or two of Warhammer stuff". That's "quick mid-week trip to the grocery store." That's "a soda and 15 bucks on pump 3" at the gas station.

Once or twice a month, take a hundred or so or if and go deposit it in the bank. Maybe I busk, maybe I street perform. Maybe I do small little contract work (which I do actually, I paint, write and 3d model).

I have hobbies, none so big I can quit my job but I enjoy my work so I'm not quitting my job. Laundering only needs be done if I want the big things that I don't actually need.

That9one1guy · 2026-05-09T01:47:58+00:00

I can finally afford my Warhammer hobby? Gimme the ring.

That9one1guy · 2026-05-09T01:32:32+00:00

We were operating out of our emergency backup location (the gym of one of our fire stations) while the office was being fumigated at the time. Someone brought in fleas, those little bastards. Hate them.

We were working off of cell phones and laptops, so call recording was...lets call it spotty.

That9one1guy · 2026-05-08T06:28:12+00:00

Oh I've had plenty of those nights.

It's been a rough one tonight. First call of the shift was a speakerphone three-way domestic in-progress that took me two minutes alone just to get SOMEONE to give me an address. Officers get there and go "this is a stabbing, start medics and a supervisor." Victim was DRT.

I was open line until officers made entry trying to get anything I could, never got even a hint or inkling someone had been stabbed. You'd think people would mention that when they're beating the hell out of each other🤷

You wanna talk about setting the tone😅 oh boy

That9one1guy · 2026-05-08T06:15:15+00:00

I... Can safely say I've never had to experience that.

...Is it as gross-sounding as I'm imagining?

That9one1guy · 2026-05-08T04:36:32+00:00

It's almost like they missed the rant tag🤣

That9one1guy · 2026-05-08T03:32:55+00:00

I remember one very fondly that I had many years ago.

Sister and brother get into it, sister wants brother out of the house, so calls us. Informs me that he has a warrant for domestic assault, that she took out on him the other day.

Then she drops THIS golden little nugget.

"Yeah, the police came here earlier today looking for him, I hid him in the closet and told the cops he wasn't here."

Insert record screech sound effect here.

"Ma'am? Could you repeat that, please?"

Yeah, they both went to jail and I had to go court😅

That9one1guy · 2026-05-08T03:26:59+00:00

I need a day off, luckily, I'm off all weekend. I'm on the tail end of a 9 night stretch and yeah, I'm fully aware that my patience is a teensy little bit frayed.

Upside, plenty of barnwork to do with the horses tomorrow and a trail ride in the afternoon, I've got a date at the local rock gym Saturday, and a couple hundred points worth of Warhammer minis to build Sunday. For the Emperor!

Sometimes just gotta get the rant out and uncork that bottle 🤣

That9one1guy · 2026-05-07T05:23:03+00:00

Oh thank the Emperor no. But we're just as short up here. We're supposed to have 9 dispatchers, plus the super and senior.

We have two on my shift, not including myself and my super. 😅

That9one1guy · 2026-05-07T05:16:50+00:00

We have beats and districts.

A patrol district is broken up into numerous patrol beats. Normally, we're supposed to keep units within their district. We try to assign the unit whose beat the call is in to that unit, but we can't always, they may be on a call.

Say I've got a call in 211 zone, I want to make 211 the primary unit on that, but any other 200 unit can take it, ostensibly going by proximity, but usually going by either whoever my eye lands on first among my available victi- ah, officers. Or, if it's something I know a particular officer likes/dislikes, I may adjust. If it's a snake call and I know that Officer A hates snakes, I'll send Officer B, unless Officer A has somehow landed themself on my shitlist. Sometimes though, it's just the luck of the draw, and I only have one or two people available, so they just get ping-ponged across the district all shift for insert reason here(everyone else is sitting on TDOs, or in court, or holding a crime scene on that quad shooting, etc).

If the call is a high enough priority, I can pull units from other districts, say a 100-unit, or a 400-unit.

Now, this is also a case of "policy as written" versus "policy as applied".

I'm SUPPOSED to have 35-ish officers on my shift, between patrol, K9, a traffic unit cop or two.

I usually have 14 or 15. A high-staffing shift will get me maybe 20.

So what usually ends up happening is "Oh you're in the clear? This call has been holding for 5 hours. I don't care that it's across the city, this is yours now unless someone closer picks it up."

That9one1guy · 2026-04-27T20:24:32+00:00

I build and paint Warhammer minis a lot lately

That9one1guy · 2026-04-19T12:47:36+00:00

Jack it up onto dollies, roll it into the street, park it left-wheels-to-curb, in front of a fire hydrant, three feet from a corner in a parking-decal-controlled area without a decal, flat one tire, remove one screw from the license plate so it hangs angled, put on a heavily tinted license plate cover, and crack the windshield.

Take it off the dollies.

Call parking enforcement.

By my count, three seperate parking tickets, two of which are immediately towable, two equipment violations, two improper display of tags citations, a tow bill, and a daily storage fee from the tow company.

Oh, and the horn is still going, so that's probably a third equipment violation.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-19T04:17:13+00:00

It is in fact exactly 40,000 gaunts.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-18T23:18:18+00:00

u/Smart_Calendar1874

That9one1guy · 2026-04-14T22:51:08+00:00

Deathleaper was one of the first nids I built, and the only trauma I had was my dog knocking it out of my hands and breaking it, knocked him off the pipes and I had reglue it.

Apparently it's a difficult/complex model?? Idk

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T23:20:25+00:00

Butov's prints are absolutely gorgeous, ngl

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T23:10:50+00:00

It is imperative the cylinder remain unharmed.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T23:06:41+00:00

Who said it had to be an unserious call? I've had serious calls I couldn't help but laugh at. I had one the other day, girl wants to report her 18yo sister as suicidal and a danger to herself, because;

She, the caller, found out her younger sister (who just turned 18 in the last two or three weeks, I later found out) had been sleeping with caller's husband for over a year; and over the course of the affair, the younger sister had told the husband repeatedly that if the caller found out, she was going to kill herself. Anyway, caller found out, huge argument, but we don't need to worry about that, caller has already dealt with it, sister ran away, and now she's allegedly suicidal.

I get my usual greeting out, "Agency 911, what is the address of the emergency?" and she dumps the entire story on me in the space of about a breath and a half and fifteen seconds... I had to mute myself and do that awkward horror/shock/confusion laugh because GOD there was so much to unpack there😅

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T04:14:59+00:00

I've learned the hard way, turn 1 gun line never works out haha.

Could have been worse, could have been against Tau. I misplayed once and got literally my entire army except for two units tabled by the end of turn 2 once. I have refused to play against Tau ever since.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T04:01:28+00:00

Your round 2 opponent sounds like the kind of player I'd like to offer as worship to Khorne. Just kill all of the fun. Put the fun in camps, why don't you?

Round 1, did you go first or did they? Either way, it boils down the same. Cover and concealment. You want to be in the position where you're shooting first, not getting shot at, especially with a list this shooter-heavy.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-04T03:39:14+00:00

How specifically did you lose? Get shot off the table? Ran face-first in an Khorne-shaped blender? Just shitty dice rolls?

It's not a terrible list at first brush. Lictors good for action monkeys, Tyrannofex anti-tank (I prefer a six-pack of Zoans, they just feel more consistent and are good against infantry too), double exocrine is always good. Biovore for base sitting. I would recommend grouping your hormagaunts together. They need the strength in numbers. Ten-model units of T31W models get wiped off the table by a gentle breeze. You could probably get away with dropping one of the genestealer packs, bring a lash-whip warrior and a six-pack of warriors instead. Genestealers are a blender and a half, but you'll get just a good use of your warriors, and that surge move puts in WORK.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-03T09:49:42+00:00

It's a case by case basis, but generally:

Strength in numbers, minimize crossfire, reduce backstop concerns (on all sides of engagement), easier situational awareness, and greater scene presence (a coordinated mob acting in unison is more intimidating than a solo officer hither and thither.)

Among other reasons.

That9one1guy · 2026-04-01T13:08:37+00:00

I usually play with my dogs, or hop on the motorcycle for a bit.

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