E09【纯英朗读】Parking duty for Judy

E09 Parking duty for Judy

“Hey. Officer Hopps,” Judy extended her paw to a gigantic rhino whose name tag read MCHORN. “You ready to make the world a better place?” she asked sincerely.

McHorn snorted and reluctantly gave her a fist bump, nearly knocking her off her chair.

“TEN-HUT!” shouted one of the officers as Police Chief Bogo, a gruff Cape buffalo, entered the room. Everyone instantly fell in line and started stomping on the floor.

“All right, all right. Everybody sit,” said Bogo. “I’ve got three items on the docket. First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room.” He nodded toward an elephant officer. “Francine, happy birthday.”

The shy elephant blushed as the cops clapped, snorted, and hooted. “Number two: there are some new recruits with us I should introduce. But I’m not going to, because I don’t care.”

Bogo moved toward a map. “Finally, we have fourteen missing mammal cases,” he said, gesturing to the pushpin-covered map. “FOURTEEN CASES. Now, that’s more than we’ve ever had, and City Hall is right up my tail to solve them. This is priority one. Assignments!”

Bogo began barking out assignments as one of the officers handed out case files. “Officers Grizzoli, Fangmeyer, Delgato: your teams take missing mammals from the Rainforest District. Officers McHorn, Rhinowitz, Wolfard: your teams take Sahara Square. Officers Higgins, Snarlov, Trunkaby: Tundratown. And finally, our first bunny, Officer Hopps.”

Judy sat up, she’d been waiting anxiously for her assignment. Bogo grabbed the last case file from Higgins and held it dramatically in the air as he looked at Judy.

“Parking duty. Dismissed!”

“Parking duty?” asked Judy quietly. She hurried after Bogo. “Uh, Chief? Chief Bogo?”

Bogo looked around and saw no one until he looked down to see Judy at his ankles.

“Sir, you said there are fourteen missing mammal cases.”

“So?”

“So I can handle one. You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy.”

“Didn’t forget. Just don’t care.”

“Sir, I’m not just some token bunny.”

“Well, then writing a hundred tickets a day should be easy,” said Bogo, walking out and slamming the door behind him.

“A hundred tickets,” said Judy, stomping her foot. She turned toward the closed door and shouted, “I’m gonna write two hundred tickets! Before noon!”