Last Thursday after crashing a car half a dozen times I was fired upon by a burglar who I later shot. All those things happened -- sort of -- during an open house at the Law Enforcement Training Academy Range in Bismarck. Highway Patrol Sgt. Chad Hermanson demonstrated emergency driving techniques on the facilityâs driving pad and then let me take the wheel to try my hand. Later, Sgts. Derek Arndt and Wade Kadrmas put me through two scenarios on the new use-of-force simulator. I donât know which of them was more entertained. Hermanson didnât have to tell Tribune photographer Tom Stromme and me to buckle up when we got in the car. His only request -- more of a warning, really -- was that we should tell him if we were going to get sick. I chuckled, thinking no car ride could be that intense. I was wrong.