Probably my most embarrassing experience was as a probationer one night shift i was in the office transcribing one of my taped interviews (in those days you did it yourself) so I had headphones on..
Just down the corridor was the snooker room which had a fruit machine and a table tennis table.
At around 3am I heard a loud bang, and I thought, 'blimey, somebody just hit something very hard against something very hard-they must be in a mood.'..and carried on doing my transcript..
About 5am, I went out for a dive before the Inspector shouted up and wanted everyone back in the nick quick smart.
He was fuming-somebody had burgled the nick-climbed up the drainpipe in through the toilet window and then smashed open the fruit machine (turns out it was 3 of them using a sledge hammer) and made off with all the money..
'Bert!! Weren't you in the room next door?'..
'Never heard a thing Sir!'