[DavidI]

I used to wear my wedding band everyday. As a street cop, I chased a gangsters through backyards and over chain link fences. During one of the chases, as I climbed over the last fence into a backyard, my ring got caught on the twisty top portion of the chain link fence and ripped my finger open. In that last backyard, I caught up with the gangster and we were involved in a fight to take him into custody. He sustained some injuries that made him bleed and during the fight we exchanged blood. This was in the mid-1990s when AIDS and Hepatitis were the major diseases floating around. This was terrifying for me and decided to stop wearing my ring.