Justice: Better Late Than Never

Erickson wasn’t the kind of cop you’d see on TV. Lazy would be an understatement. His aversion to work was remarkable; the man wasted irrational amounts of time and energy in comical attempts to get out of work.

If assigned to a call requiring a police report, Erickson typically spent an hour trying to talk the victim out of a report that would have taken ten minutes to write.

When retirement day finally arrived, he failed to convince a perplexed clerk that he didn’t need to complete the extensive retirement forms the city required.

Erickson would be around for another year.


Prompt: Ingenuity of complete fools