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Ein Polizist sollte hier alle Stunde oder so aufkreuzen, aber er war etwa zwei Meilen entfernt in einem Nebenweg hinter einem Kaufhaus der Western Electric am Schnurcheln. Schnurcheln war Polizei-Slang für Schlafen im Dienst.
A policeman was supposed to cruise by about once every hour or so, but he was cooping in an alley behind a Western Electric warehouse about two miles away. Cooping was police slang for sleeping on the job.
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