Starting a new job is always a little tough. The first day, you're off balance -- meeting your coworkers, trying to figure out the power structure -- and you're always pushing to make a good impression. But sometimes it just doesn't go the way you'd hoped.Take heed: Police officer Tim Pochron, 26, was only on the job for 29 minutes in Hobart, Ind., before wrecking his squad car.
To be fair, it wasn't really his fault. Pochron was inside his house when an intoxicated driver slammed into the brand new car parked outside, before also hitting a tree.
Pochron, who was sworn in last week, "was just heartbroken," said Deputy Chief Jeff White.
Tell us: Do you have a good story about your first day on the job?
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Thursday 17 July
By Robert Stillson
Shouldn't the headline read' "Drunk wrecks Polceofficer's car.
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Thursday 17 July
By Mark
Interestingly my first job story also is a police related saga.
My first day on a new police force (I had previous experience), I was riding along with one of the long time officers to learn the towns streets and boundaries. We pulled up to a traffic light and whle waiting for the light to change there was a middle aged woman sitting on a hotel porch and she decided to initiate me into the area by opening her legs and "show me she wasn't wearing anything underneath."
My only comment to my partner was, "what am I getting myself into!"
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Thursday 17 July
By Curious Taxpayer
What is that cop doing at home after being on the clock for 29 minutes ????..... Shouldn't he be writing speeding tickets, flirting with gas station cashiers, taking bribes from Drug dealers, and shopping in the evidence room fighting crime ??
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Thursday 17 July
By Lori
On the first day of my first job EVER, I broke the only coffee pot in my first five minutes. As each of the 15 people came to work, I had to explain who I was and that I broke the pot. I have never been so embarassed.
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Thursday 17 July
By Walt
I was an Army MP in Germany in 1968. We had two "newbies" sign into the company and the Detachment SGT assigned these 'cruits their first assignment, to wash the company M151A1s (Jeeps). Clemente, from NJ, announced, "I can drive one of these". He jumped behind the wheel and drove it straight thru the side of the barracks, into the latrine (bathroom). We never let him forget it.
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Thursday 17 July
By Jeff
are you kidding? Talk about a twisted headline for a mminor lame story.
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Thursday 17 July
By lakecntyguy
What a misleading headline. I agree with the other poster headline should read-Drunk Slams Parked Squad Car. Guess you have to mislead people to get them to read here.
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Thursday 17 July
By Debra Brand
I agree - misleading title, not his fault at all. I do have a question though, if he was "on the clock," why was he at his own house and not at work???
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Friday 18 July
By Roy
Wait... he is 29 minutes into a new job and the first place he goes is HOME??? nice.
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