[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Nice to know we now live in a country where a simple phone call can trigger a full blown SWAT response from 16 different police departments.

[George from New England]

The comments posted at that site are from people even more pissed than the average freeper!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Did they shoot his dog?

How much damage did they do to his house? Who’s gonna pay for the repairs and all that overtime???

Jack Booted SWAT Nazi:”Sir, please step away from the beer or we’ll have to kill you!”

[wally_bert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Rb3W8UTrg&feature=related

[Verginius Rufus]

The story reminds me of a “Far Side” cartoon where a man is sitting in a bar watching the news on TV and his friend says, “Hey, isn’t that your dog biting the President?”

[TribalPrincess2U]

let me guess...Chicago?

[Husker24]

Its a good thing, he wasn’t home pondering suicide. They would have busted in and killed him, and any family pets.

[loungitude]

He’s suicidal! Kick the door in and shoot him!

[allmost]

Guy gets another beer heads to the back by the pool table, wonders WTF?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

It's time for the city to start charging the police union pension funds for ostentatious mistakes such as this.

Hit them in the pocketbooks and maybe, just maybe they'll check the owner of the home like cops used to before the damned Patriot Act.

What the h*ll is so patriotic about suspending constitutional liberties?

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“well-being check”

Sounds like some kind of prison rules.

[RicocheT]

Lucky he was not at home, did the cops kill his dog in the raid?

[apillar]

Let me guess, they had no warrant for this “well being check”. Sounds like another loophole to get around the constitution, just like the “your papers please” fishing expeditions thinly disguised as DUI or road safety checkpoints. But I'm sure the sheeple don't mind, that heavily armed swat team breaking in your door is just there to check on your “well being” after all...

[dragnet2]

The bill to the tax payers was $75,000 -- Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. How many of these "well being checks" do they perform a year?

And why is this costing the tax payers this enormous amount of money to contact this person and speak with him about his well being, and to see if he's OK? They show up in armored cars, body armor, swat and paramilitary police troops?

[thecabal]

They’re just pissed that they didn’t get to execute a suicidal guy.

[spodefly]

Nothing would make me more suicidal than seeing the SWAT team pull up outside my house.

[eyedigress]

This one is quite ridiculous.

[brityank]

Seems we’re back in the same boat as the colonists of old:

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.”

We now have a standing army, immune to civilian oversight, as none of them can be held personally responsible for their policies or acts.

[Ezekiel]

It just goes to show how dated those Police Academy movies are. Stuff like this used to be considered "comedy" because it was relegated to absurd TV and movie plots.

Reminds me of the the TSA scene in the movie Airplane 2.

[Tainan]

I blame the “bin Laden Syndrome” for this one.