Black/gallows humor can help to relieve the stress of a daily unremitting job of tedious boredom relieved by adrenaline rushes of terror you get from time to time.

EVERY LEO out on patrol knows that.

~~~
Joseph Wambaugh, a retired Los Angeles Police Sergeant wrote a number of fictional books about LA cops, but his anecdotes are almost all truth-based.. In one of them - "The Blue Knight" I believe it was - several officers are working a horrific car accident. One of the cops at the scene checks the cars going by until he sees the "perfect one" A station wagon full of a family of tourists, with a license plate from Nebraska or somewhere far away, and suitcases of luggage strapped to the roof, people that would never have a the time or inclination to file a formal complaint against the LAPD. As this "perfect" car finally creeps past him, a pleasant middle aged Midwestern woman in the front passenger seat buzzes down her window, and asks, "Is everthing ok, officer? Was anybody seriously hurt?". The officer holds up a severed human head by its hair, in front of her and and says "Well, this one's banged up a little."

__________________
1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)