nuff to make ya chew on a 10penny nail...
Posted on 09/08/2006 5:15:04 PM PDT by Ex-Dem
nuff to make ya chew on a 10penny nail...
When we got back from Buffalo, my father was glued to the tv and they were panning (sp?) all the troopers and some of them were quite portly. What a difference a couple of decades can make! In my memory, once stopped, and they started amblin towards your car, you were filled with a mixture of fear and desire. NYS Troopers were fine specimens of Law Enforcement, and very impressive looking. Not that the guys on tv aren't good Law Enforcement guys, they just don't look anywhere near as fit as the Troopers I remember.
heard that...
Let it be well noted:
This well known criminal was on the loose in within a very well known area of Central-Western New York State for the past FIVE months. He has been "seen", left "evidence" and other ways for all the police forces of New York and the nation to trail him. Nevertheless, it took FIVE MONTHS for us to finally capture him even though pulling out all the stops. He had, possibly, as many as 10-20 people helping him at some time or other along the way, yet he managed to elude Law Enforcement.
Contrast this quite small and civilized area to the wilds of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Add to that the major restriction of not being able to traverse the area with impunity, and total lack of knowledge of the lay of the land. Add to that the probably 1,000,000 or more Islamofascists willing to help, and it gives some comparison to the magnitude of the task our peerless military forces are up against and what we have a right to expect of them, and why the AlQaeda vermin are able to elude them.
God bless our troops, their families, and the wonderful law enforcement officers who made this particular capture possible.
There is effectively no death penalty in NY. Too bad the guy didn't catch a round between the eyes. Now we get to pay for his state-sponsored defense, instead of a state-sponsored funeral.
Just wait until Eliot Spitzer is elected governor, and Little Andy Cuomo is elected Attorney General. Then you'll really get to see this state go down the sewerpipe. Hopefully I can get the hell out before things get really bad.
Really too bad the guy didn't do it to himself.
i live on Seneca lake, and i'll die here...
I'm glad he didn't get the "pleasure" of doing it to himself. While I guess no trooper ever wants to shoot someone, this is probably one guy who deserved a state-sanctioned hole in the head.
Start with the people wearing the "Run, Bucky, Run" T-shirts. And whoever was selling them. Anyone who thinks murdered police officers are a joke, and a great opportunity to make a quick buck off, is likely to have something in their past/present that warrants locking them up. Law-abiding citizens just don't see the humor.
Right on. I left too. BTW, I grew up in Frewsburg (Town of Carroll) where Bucky was today. My mom said it was mayhem with hundreds of troopers and helicopters.
You forgot one. I thought he looked like Buford T Justice. Maybe a little taller. On TV.
WHAM is hardly a "small town political interpretation." It's a television station at least at least 3 hours away.
Not in the northeast states. Even if he's sentenced to death in NY he'll die of old age before they get around to sticking the needle in his arm.
The best outcome to this situation would have been for one of the arresting cops to have mistakenly believed that one of his upraised hands was reaching for a weapon. That would not only have saved the state a million dollars in court expenses and millions more in food and housing costs over the next 40 years, justice would have been served. IMHO life in prison with all the amenities the prisons have to provide now isn't real justice for a cold blooded murderer who is said to have deliberately planned out an ambush to kill those 2 state police officers.
"You forgot one. I thought he looked like Buford T Justice. Maybe a little taller. On TV."
Actually, wasn't Buford Pusser (exuse the spelling) the name of the real-life character in Walking Tall?
Anyway, quite the he-man that state trooper was. Have a great weekend!
It won't be long before 500 scum-sucking ACLU lawyers line up to defend his sorry ass and the rest of the Leftonuts start chanting "Free Bucky!".
Buford T was the sheriff in McNairy County, TN. That's where Selmer is, where preacher's wife Mary Winkler shot her husband a few months ago.
Buford Pusser's daughter was in the crowd at Matthew Winkler's funeral and made some comments to the press.
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