I'll lay it out as it happened, and then ask my question.
Last night on graves, we had a report of an assault by biting. I arrive right in front of the other two units to find an intoxicated male sitting on the tailgate of a p/u truck, bleeding from the face and neck, being tended to by 2 females. There's also 3 other females milling around crying and wringing their hands (BTW, everyone there was drunk). I contact the victim while the other 3 officers work crowd control, starting to interview the females. I manage to disentangle the vic from his nearest helper and start talking to him. Now, I've spoken with him several times before, and he was completely cool. This time, he starts out ok, but loses it really quick. I mean like within 2 seconds he does a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde transformation.
Now I'm standing interview style, bladed and all, but you still look at someone to talk with them. He answers the question I'm asking him (birthdate) and suddenly hocks the biggest, nastiest mouthful of bloody spit I've ever seen at me, catching me square in the face, eyes and mouth (ew).
Of course, I drop him, and the crowd of women does the expected screaming thing.
Once I had him down, he flip-flopped back over to Dr. Jekyll and became completely passive, apologetic and cooperative, eventually refusing EMS treatment and then changing his mind and going to the hospital (where I'm told he had a partial breath PBT of something like .310).
After all was said and done, the biter went for Assault-4 and the bitee is getting disorderly conduct (recklessly creating a hazardous condition...).
I of course did the workman's comp for possible exposure and got a gallon of blood drawn
I went home right after I cleared the scene and changed my clothes, showered and gargled with a pint of Listerine, and right now I'm off and attempting to kill any remaining germs with a rather nice single malt....er...medicine.
Question is this: Have any of you had an experience like this, or known someone who has, where they actually caught something? If so, what?
The doc told me I probably didn't get enough in the mouth to worry about HIV, but Hep is pretty prevalent around here.
Last night on graves, we had a report of an assault by biting. I arrive right in front of the other two units to find an intoxicated male sitting on the tailgate of a p/u truck, bleeding from the face and neck, being tended to by 2 females. There's also 3 other females milling around crying and wringing their hands (BTW, everyone there was drunk). I contact the victim while the other 3 officers work crowd control, starting to interview the females. I manage to disentangle the vic from his nearest helper and start talking to him. Now, I've spoken with him several times before, and he was completely cool. This time, he starts out ok, but loses it really quick. I mean like within 2 seconds he does a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde transformation.
Now I'm standing interview style, bladed and all, but you still look at someone to talk with them. He answers the question I'm asking him (birthdate) and suddenly hocks the biggest, nastiest mouthful of bloody spit I've ever seen at me, catching me square in the face, eyes and mouth (ew).
Of course, I drop him, and the crowd of women does the expected screaming thing.
Once I had him down, he flip-flopped back over to Dr. Jekyll and became completely passive, apologetic and cooperative, eventually refusing EMS treatment and then changing his mind and going to the hospital (where I'm told he had a partial breath PBT of something like .310).
After all was said and done, the biter went for Assault-4 and the bitee is getting disorderly conduct (recklessly creating a hazardous condition...).
I of course did the workman's comp for possible exposure and got a gallon of blood drawn

I went home right after I cleared the scene and changed my clothes, showered and gargled with a pint of Listerine, and right now I'm off and attempting to kill any remaining germs with a rather nice single malt....er...medicine.
Question is this: Have any of you had an experience like this, or known someone who has, where they actually caught something? If so, what?
The doc told me I probably didn't get enough in the mouth to worry about HIV, but Hep is pretty prevalent around here.
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