Book One · In Progress

No S**t
There I Was…

Twenty-five true stories from the calls that don't leave you — told by the first responder who lived them, radio traffic and all.

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25Stories in Book One
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02Books Planned
The Book

Every shift has a story.
This one has twenty-five.

No S**t There I Was… collects twenty-five true, first-person accounts from a career spent answering calls nobody else wants to take. Some are harrowing. Some are absurd. All of them happened — radio traffic and all, the version you'd get if you sat down at the kitchen table and asked, "okay, but what was the worst one?"

Written between shifts, training days, and family life by a working OPOTA-certified instructor, the collection trades polish for truth: dispatch chatter, dark humor, hard-earned lessons, and the calls that still show up at 3 a.m.

Real calls. Real consequences. Zero filter.

Worn duty radio, notepad, gloves, and flashlight laid out on a wooden table
The tools of the trade — twenty-five stories in the making.
Behind The Scenes

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“No s**t, there I was — a brand-new boot less than a week out of the academy, walking straight into the deep end.”

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First Pages — Story One

A boot's first domestic call.

We got dispatched to a domestic disturbance at a notorious local crack house. I barely had time to adjust my gear before we were at the front door. A woman pulled it open — and nothing about what happened next was covered in any academy scenario.

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The Author

Written by the person who answered the call

The author is a full-time public-safety professional and OPOTA-certified instructor based in Ohio, with a career spanning multiple first-responder specialties — patrol, training, and everything in between.

Years spent teaching cadets and coaching fellow instructors led to a simple realization: the best training stories were the true ones nobody had written down yet. No S**t There I Was… is that collection, written in the same voice used to brief a cadet class — direct, a little dark, and allergic to sugar-coating.

Career First Responder OPOTA-Certified Instructor Ohio-Based Veteran
Up Next

No S**t There I Was… Again

Book One isn't even finished, and there are already more stories queued for round two. Book Two picks up where the first twenty-five leave off — same voice, same honesty, more calls.

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