Drunk Woman in the woods
During my first year in construction, I frequently slept out of town frequently while I was getting used to the fucked up schedule. I lived over an hour away, and I'd regularly have to show up at 4AM and work until 9PM. This meant that on many days, id get practically no sleep if I were to go back home. I had permission to sleep inside of the yard as it's a fenced in area, but at that point (third week), I still hadnt opened up the gate myself, so I thought the gate code simply didn't work.
This meant that I was sleeping in a nearby park and ride area, which I didn't think a was much of an issue at the time. A little secluded and creepy, but not really bad since it was in the middle of nowhere. One night, I went out and got a couple of drinks from a bar, I got an Uber back to the area with my car, and tried sleeping off the booze before I had to be up in a few hours. Shortly after, I hear a woman wailing. It wasn't a cougar as she was calling for help and screaming out in what sounded like pain and desperation. I called 911 after a few minutes, and the officers came by, and told me to stay in my car while they investigated. It turns out there really was a woman, whom I believed was being assaulted for obvious reasons. I was terrified the entire time and full of guilt for not going out to confront whatever person did this.
One cop left, and to clear my conscience, I went to ask the other cop if there was anything I could have done. He told me to not get into the driver seat at all the next time I drink, and that the woman had mistaken me for a friend whom she was calling for a ride. Her friend got there immediately after he says that and I walk past her, as she asks me for a smoke. The cop, the woman, and her friend left, so I was alone and crashing down from the rollercoaster. I pulled a black and mild I kept for a rainy day from under the driver's seat, and I began laughing hysterically between puffs.
I think I would have been severely traumatized had I not made the potentially stupid decision to talk to that cop. I stopped sleeping outside of the yard shortly after that.