[Andy]

Your phone company wants a badge number so they can verify that a report was made to the police, even if the report is only a log entry. Something like ( ? Fred came in on this date and this time and reported he recently discovered his phone is missing. He also asked for directions home.?) If you lost something, a phone, a wallet, maybe a car, most people would report that in the State and maybe even in the Town where you live or where it happened.

If I walked in the station and said I needed to make a log entry on a friend's lost phone, lost somewhere in the general area of Johnson Tenn. I?m sure all the guys would be saying, ?Looks like Sergeant Andy got into the bad mushrooms, again.? Besides, only our patrolmen/women have badge numbers. Aint had a badge number since ?79. Back then it was 13.

Stay healthy my friend,
Andy