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911 tells 80-year-old woman to put gun down during home invasion
EAG News ^
| Aug 7, 2014
| Michael Dorstewitz
Posted on 08/07/2014 7:29:52 AM PDT by Innovative
HOLMES BEACH, Fla. – An 80-year-old Florida woman grabbed her gun and called 911 during a home invasion. While the burglars were breaking a window to her residence, the police dispatcher told her to “put the gun down.” Huh?
Logan was all alone — her husband was playing bridge at a friend’s house. That’s when she took matters into her own hands. She grabbed her gun and dialed the police emergency number as she headed downstairs.
“When I called 911 she kept saying put the gun down, put the gun down, and I said I’ll put the gun down when I see the police,” Logan told the station.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; homeinvasion; selfdefense
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Smart lady! Would the idiot 911 operator be willing to take responsibility if the old lady had been killed by the burglar?!
To: Innovative
Makes me think of Zimmerman....
To: Innovative
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:32:02 AM PDT
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Innovative
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:32:11 AM PDT
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Innovative
What did this 911 operator think putting the gun down was going to accomplish?
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:33:00 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
To: Innovative
911 operator: minimum wage, minority, could care less about some old w**** woman??
My, I sound cynical.
To: Oberon
What did this 911 operator think putting the gun down was going to accomplish? It would keep any Trayvons in the vicinity safe from harm.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:35:37 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: Innovative
The British have had a lot of experience with this type of law enforcement advice. If you are being mugged or robbed, don’t resist, give the thug what he wants, then call the police later. Its a view of the population as passive sheep who not only need to be taken care of, but should be discouraged from taking care of themselves.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:36:24 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Oberon
What did this 911 operator think putting the gun down was going to accomplish?
Didn't want the burglars to get hurt, or the poor woman to shoot herself. Or something like that.
Guns are BAD, dontcha know.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:37:54 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Innovative
Wouldn’t want to be a danger to murderers and rapists, would we?
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:38:58 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Innovative
My first reaction was, “That lady is 80?”
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:41:05 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: Innovative
Who was the dispatcher, and does this dispatcher still have a job? (And, if so, why?!)
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:41:19 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Innovative
It was so the police would feel safe.
Wait a minute - when I was a kid it was the job of the police to make the PUBLIC feel safe.
When did that turn around?
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:42:27 AM PDT
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: Innovative
Women her age are raped and murdered by feral Obama voters. Only a moron (an Obama voter) would tell her to put down her only means of protection when an intruder is in her home.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:43:05 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Oberon
Maybe the 911 operator gets a kick back from a fencing operation.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:43:05 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: Innovative
Put the gun down? Response: BANG!BANG!
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:43:19 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: coloradan
Dispatcher was worried it was her brother or just another brother on the other side of the door. The h-ll with the victim.
To: BitWielder1
Guns are BAD, dontcha know. Yeah. Got it.
One would then like to ask the operator why she was sending in cops with guns.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:44:14 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
To: tgusa
first I’ll Put The Burglar Down....
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:44:58 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
You fight back and you’ll be the one arrested for assault.
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posted on
08/07/2014 7:45:11 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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