Robert Kirby at his Finest

In the Deseret News this time:

Following an LDS mission, he returned to Utah and became a police officer in Tooele County. "I tell people that's where God practiced making people before he got really good at it," he said. Next he moved to Utah County, where he was an officer for about ten years.

His sense of humor kept getting him in trouble, according to Kirby. At a roadblock, searching for drunk drivers, he would be asked by people what the problem was.

"I'd tell 'em, 'We're looking for Democrats,' and because it was Utah County, they'd say, 'Heck, we don't even know any Democrats. We hope you catch them, though.'"

In one incident, a speeder he pulled over handed him his driver's license and his LDS temple recommend. He wasn't impressed, as he had one himself, Kirby said. He issued a ticket, "and on his Temple recommend I wrote, 'void.' ...

"So I got two days off without pay for that one." However, he still thinks it was funny.