William T Moyer: 21 books

I had never seen loose bricks before and now I had to become an overnight brick mason. I thought about the wall all day as I mowed lawns and sort of got a little enthusiasm for the project. I was sort of flattered that mom thought I could do it. I decided to start the next day. After all how long...

A collection of exciting and humorous true police stories from my years as a police officer. They show the reader what it is really like to work in law enforcement. If you have a good sense of humor you might even keep your sanity. You just can't make this stuff up, because no one would believe it could actually happened.

Abner was wearing a “Coca Cola’ uniform and was apparently walking to work at the bottling company a few yards away from where he died. He never made it to work, because a large “Pepsi” truck’s passenger side mirror hit him in the back of his head and killed him as he walked on the shoulder....

"The Stakeout" is another hilarious story in the "Nine Lives Series" of true police adventures. It is an account of one of the most unusual police stakeouts that I was ever assigned to. The full force and high technology of the police department was brought to bare to apprehend the culprit that was...

“If you read this book you might learn a little, but I know you will laugh a lot. You just can’t make this stuff up and besides the statute of limitations has expired on most of it by now”.“When I was young it was all about running from the police, chasing wild women, egging houses, breaking...

I had walked about seventy five feet, when I came upon something in the middle of the median. There in the light from my flashlight was what appeared to be a human leg. The leg was from mid thigh on down to the foot. It was fully clothed with pants, sock and shoe. It looked like it had been surgically...

Mom decided that the best way to get my mind off of being abandoned for the year was to have me circumcised the first day that I arrived at Granny and Papa’s house. Why this procedure was not done right when I was born is still a mystery to me. Evidently the whole family just wanted to have a good laugh at my expense.

I discovered that I liked girls one afternoon that summer. I was on my way home after mowing a couple of yards, when I ran into two older girls from my elementary school. I could tell that they were far wiser than I was. They were very pretty and I was impressed, because they were both smoking cigarettes....

When we arrived all the customers and employees were standing outside of the restaurant on the sidewalk. The short order cook, with his white apron and his white cook’s hat, cocked at a jaunty angle, told us that a big black guy was in the diner and he had been using Kung Fu on everyone. He had...

After the local government made her shut the nudist colony down she decided to get her revenge by turning it into a summer camp for juvenile delinquents from New York City.I was looking forward to meeting some New York City hoodlums, especially the girl hoodlums. I assumed they were much wiser than...

Back then the big old house was heated with an old coal furnace. One of my winter chores each morning before walking to school, which was only one block away, was to go down to the basement and shovel coal into the furnace fire box from the coal bin. It was a big responsibility for a six year old boy.

His wounds were nearly healed from the unfortunate beating he had suffered at the hands of an old blind man with his white cane in the bus station waiting room last month. He was still getting a hard time about it from the other officers. A sharp pain briefly crossed his forehead over his left eye....

It's hard being a rookie police officer when your training officer is insane. A humorous story about what it was really like to become a police officer back in 1970.

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.