Animal-rescuing Cop Becomes Baltimore's Most Eligible Bachelor

[joeybee12]

Jon Boyer is probably going to take a lot of heat for this -- we’re sorry, Jon. But it’s really our duty to report your utter fabulousness and rock-star status as an animal rescuer. Not that the ladies of Baltimore need any reminding, apparently.

Homeless and injured animals seem to have something of a magnetic attraction to Boyer, who’s a Baltimore police officer. He says police rescue cats and dogs all the time -- comes with the job. But he’s a little flummoxed that his occasional drop-off at the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) has also made him a magnet for instantly lovestruck women. There’s apparently something about a handsome guy cuddling a little creature that makes the female heart go pitter-pat.

“It’s kind of weird,” he says, taking some good-natured ribbing from his partner in their patrol car. “It’s been a little different. I wasn’t expecting this, being a police officer.”

It all started about a year ago, when someone at BARCS snapped a photo of Boyer with a kitten he’d rescued, and sent it to the folks at Baltimore's Show Your Soft Side (SYSS) campaign, which works to help abused pets.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/pets/unleashed/bal-animalrescuing-cop-becomes-baltimores-top-eligible-bachelor-20140306,0,984615.story#ixzz2vCgVB3sv

The photos are great but I can't link them...hell, we post cop stories all the time here...here's a different one.

[Common Sense Party]

1. Screw the cops! They're ALL bad!

Oh...wait.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Yeah, after a story like that

he's going to be wearing out every single woman in the Washington-Baltimore corridor...Slim pickings for everyone else

[joeybee12]

3. Have you seen the photos? The guy's adorable, too...

His dance card will definitely be full!

[3catwoman3]

4. Gotta love a guy...

...who is man enough to love cats.

[geek tragedy]

5. .

[joeybee12]

8. Especially a guy as cute as this guy!

Did you see the photos?

[Common Sense Party]

9. Objection: Objectification.

Penalty 15 yards.

[joeybee12]

11. Oh...if you only knew what I was thinking...

You'd give me a stiffer penalty than that!

[magical thyme]

6. How adorable....

and the guy holding the kitty is pretty cute too!

Wow, he is quite a hunk! If only I was 30 years young and pretty....

[joeybee12]

7. My feelings exactly!

I think I'll have to win Powerball in order to make a play!

[1000words]

10. First, they're assuming he's straight.

Furthermore, why isn't anyone taking issue with this statement?

“I mean, what’s not to love about a big, tough, gun-toting guy who is a sucker for anything that barks or purrs?”

[joeybee12]

12. Yeah, poorly written...

But the guy's a doll!

[Iliyah]

13. K & R

[smokey nj]

14. I can't speak for anyone else, but there's nothing sexier than a man who loves animals.

Compassion is a huge turn-on!

[illachick]

15. A fine strapping young man

Oh he saved an aminal too? Oh that's good too..

[mopinko]

16. a man who is kind to animals sends a very, very strong signal.

and to many that signal comes in as "weak". but he is a cop, so that can't be it.

perfect combo.

[justiceischeap]

17. I was in Baltimore this past weekend

doing some exploring in some not so nice neighborhoods (I take pictures of abandoned buildings). There was a cop patrolling the neighborhood and was looking at my friend and I for a while from a stop sign. After we snuck out of an abandoned building there was an older RV just sitting across the street that I had to photograph, at this point, my smaller, inconspicuous camera's battery died, so I had to pull out the big gun (I don't usually do that in sketchy neighborhoods). I'm clicking away and I notice a car pull up behind me and stop. I finish my shot (priorities, I got 'em) and turn around.

It's the same cop from earlier. He asks if I'm interested in buying the RV and I say, "Heck no! I just wanna photograph it." He asks why my friend and I are out there taking pictures and I say, "To document Baltimore!" Tells me to be careful and says if I have any questions, to let him know. Of course, I couldn't be like, "You know anymore abandoned buildings my friend and I can trespass in?" So I thanked him and he went on his way.

The moral to this entire story? I think he was looking out for us. I think he knew exactly why we were there and what we had been doing and stuck around to make sure we were okay. You're right, we post stories about bad cops all the time but there are some good ones out there. Too few but they're there.

[joeybee12]

18. I was in Seattle this past August, saw a homeless guy on the side of the freeway, stopped

by a cop, talking to him...later I'm at a rest stop a few miles up and the cop had given him a ride and was showing him where the volunteers were offering free coffee, etc.

[snooper2]

19. I wonder if he would be getting all this attention if he was butt ugly

Pretty Privilege!

[joeybee12]

20. Only shallow people would feel that way...

Oh wait, that would be me!