HOOO BOY. Ok fair citizens, don't get too worked up over this. Do yall remember the year of those creepy clowns & you'd call us and we'd bravely take the call & handle it, despite the re-imagining of Stephen King's IT Part 2 out around that time?! This is nothing like that.

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https://twitter.com/DFWscanner/status/1587236584751075330

We saw there were over 2,500 reactions on this story within a small amount of time, so let us put down our Halloween buckets, take a step back, and explain.

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HARROWING, TEETH CLENCHING, SNAKE GRATE RESCUE THREAD! Isn’t it nice to live in a city so safe that this is the big event of the week? Yesterday Tori and Carly were in the final days of a two-week quarantine at home.

1/ Mom was working inside, and as the rules of the house state, after lunch and after homework, both girls were able to play outside.

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REUNION! Many things bring us joy in this profession, but certain things make our hearts want to burst. One such instance happened over the holidays, when our friend Jacob Thompson visited us and thanked us for saving his life. We hadn’t seen him in over a year.

1/ On December 5th, 2020, Jacob left his job in Irving and drove home on Highway 114.

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TEXT SCAM ALERT THREAD! This has been a wild September for these fraudulent texts trying to get us to clicky click one of these links! It might be a good time to remind Gram Gram and Pop Pop to not click on any random text link, even if they do claim to be from AT&T.

1/ Show them the clues that these texts may not be from who they say they’re from. Like how no one has said “symbolic gift” in like 100 years. Or how “Arely” isn’t their name, or any name.

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Maybe it was all that art talk this past weekend. Maybe it’s because we heard K-Ci & JoJo’s “All My Life” on Sirius XM this morning & hoo boy, the feels that come with that opening “oooooooooh.” We don’t know what it is that has us a little artsy & a little reflective today.

1/ But as we came to work this morning, right where a large bag of nasty trash sat outside of our door at HQ is now what looks like a nice little heart.

That’s a nice way to look at things, right? Where gross, repugnant, stinky trash once sat, now sits a heart.

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EVENT ADDED! Youve asked over and over, "WHEN IS THE CRUD CRUISER COMING BACK?!" Boom shaka laka, it's finally here. We hope your excitement for it eclipses this graphic Blayke the Intern made (we're working on a huge video project & punted to him). But YAY CRUD CRUISER!

1/ Now look. COVID forced so many cancellations of these events and we gander a chunk of you spent the last year at home cleaning and organizing, cleaning and organizing. That's fantastic.

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MUTUAL AID! Earlier this month, the Southlake Fire Department was contacted concerning a wildland deployment to West Texas through the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS).

1/ They requested a brush truck and two wildland firefighters, along with other units in the TIFMAS region. TIFMAS serves as the primary response force for any wildland event that could occur.

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YET ANOTHER NEW ONLINE CLASS FOR TEENS! Traffic Sergeant Sewell will continue our traffic & driving education with an online distracted driving presentation, though you don't have to be a #cool #teen to attend!

1/ Our previous traffic & driving class from early March highlighted the top reasons our officers respond to an accident (speeding and distractions). This new class will continue the education and show a real-life scenario and the real-life consequences.

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Hey there fair citizen. Come over and sit down next to us.

*looks up to the sky, shakes head, and takes a deep sigh*

This hasn’t been a good year so far, has it? A lot has happened.

1/ Now here we all are with so many different emotions ever-changing by the minute. Anger. Fear. Hate. Hope. Confusion.

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BE WEATHER AWARE TONIGHT! Just like we eventually had to add ALLEGEDLY to all of our bad guy posts, so now the Southlake DPS has decided to add POSSIBLY to all of our weather posts.

1/ Why? Because we’re over here relaying weather information to you that we hear from other places and sometimes it doesn’t pan out and we don’t want that on our impeccable record.

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HELP US IDENTIFY THIS PILFERING PREPSTER THREAD! Way back on July 31st at around 11:40pm, this cool dude (probably named Brad or Chad or Kev, but obviously not confirmed) waltzed into our 7-11 at 2100 East Southlake Boulevard.

1/ He wore a blue Polo shirt with fancy colors around the collar and some khaki shorts.

He walked to the back of the store and then came up the aisle and asked for a Juul vape pen and pod. So basically he was the Juul of the Aisle. ANYWAY.

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On Monday at around 7:30pm, Southlake officers were dispatched to the Ten Bar court area. A caller stated there were four males with assault weapons taking photos in front of a house. Officers arrived quickly, located the suspects and secured the scene.

1/ The suspects complied with officers’ commands and were detained.

As the officers investigated, they located a myriad of air soft replica assault rifles, fake bullet proof vests, and bags of sugar mocked up to look like narcotics.

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HELP US IDENTIFY THIS SWOLE SWINDLER! On May 22nd at around 3:30pm, these two bad guys (seemingly brand ambassadors for Nike and Adidas, respectively) entered our Home Goods at 200 North Kimball and browsed around.

1/ They walked past our sweet older victim, ALLEGEDLY reached into her purse when she wasn’t looking, & stole her black Chanel wallet.

Our bad guy looks super jacked (check out those pecs) and wore horn rimmed glasses like that dad did on the TV show Heroes. Remember that one?

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