Lagniappe the dog captures two miscreants

So today is a nice, sunny day and I decide to blow off my errands and go to the park for a few hours with Lagniappe. We hang around by the river for a couple of hours and I read my book while Lagniappe chews on a stick. Then we leave, and on the way out I see one of my ranger pals so I pull over and talk to him for a while. We're shooting the breeze when he gets a call for two people climbing on a nearby rock formation that's off-limits to climbers. He heads over there, and as I've nothing better to do, I follow. When I get there, I see him out of his car looking at two teenagers that are about half way up this rather imposing but climbable steep rock hill. He's ordering the teens to come down, and the teens are predictably trying to flee to the top where they doubtless think that they can get away. And admittedly it's not a bad plan because there's no way that either of us can run up there before they reach the top.
"Damn," says my ranger pal. "There's no way we'll get them."
"Hang on," I tell him. "Let's give Lagniappe a try."

Now Lagniappe hasn't been anywhere near any sort of police work in years but I pull him out of my vehicle and I yell up at the climbing teens: "POLICE OFFICER! COME DOWN OR I RELEASE THE DOG!"

One stops and looks back apprehensively. The other keeps climbing. I yell it again.
"POLICE OFFICER! COME DOWN OR I RELEASE THE DOG!"

This call stops the second one too, and they both look back down at us. Lagniappe has pretty much figured out the he's the dog I'm talking about and he's jumping and pulling at his leash and looking at me as if to say "yeah, come on! Release the dog! Release the dog!" He wants to run loose and he's keying in on these two and I think that if I unleash him he'll be up there with them in about three seconds, no doubt inquiring as to whether or not either of them has a tennis ball. But he obviously looked mean to them because they immediately slid right back down and apologized.

So my pal docks these two with citations for being on the rock formation as it's clearly posted for people to keep off. As neither of us work here, Lagniappe and I depart and on the way out we swing by the local ice cream shop where Lagniappe gets a cup of free ice cream from the nice lady who runs it. She's a dog lover and Lagniappe knows this and shamlessly abuses it. We can't pass this shop day or night without him crying and wanting to go in. Of course I still have to shell out $1.75 for a cup of coffee to drink while he's going to town on his two scoops of vanilla ice cream. Sometimes I guess it's good to be the dog.