what a great way to win friends and influence people... these doughnut eaters are begging for itThis joint is starting to look like pre-WWII Germany. I wonder what’s up.
Stupid hopped-up cops with too many toys acting foolishly.
One of these days some idiot SWAT team is going to hit the wrong address and run into someone who knows what he’s doing and all of them are going to end up dead.
When that happens I’m going to stand up and cheer.
Hope they get a lawyer and sue. I know it’ll probably have littlee effect, but I would at least expect them to recover damages.
Whatever happened to staking the place out or knocking on the door first? Good thing they didn’t have a dog.
Scant effort at explanation, but it’s hinted that someone else might have glommed a connection on to her unprotected wireless home internet network. So the SWATties did home in on the address where the network was, but of course were eluded by whoever used her network to send the threats, whether by war driving or by being in a neighboring house. There are so many open networks today that using them unseen to do something nefarious on the internet, from uploading kiddie porn to committing frauds (let alone threatening police) is a burgeoning problem. And an article linked from this one suggests that, especially with rent-a-cloud computing services, even poorly password protected wireless internet networks are vulnerable — if you use something that’s in a dictionary, the dictionary can be bounced against a sample of your data transmission in seconds. (Of course a dedicated home computer could be used as well. The cloud is just one way.) I’d suggest using at minimum WPA2 with a password that is randomly typed gibberish to the maximum field length you can get.
You’d think someone called the White House and made credible terrorist threats.
Or someone from the home called and reported people shot and hostages were being held at gun point.
This is not our parents America.
SWAT- Stupid Wussies Acting Tough
This is the price for living in a free country.
what a great way to win friends and influence people... these doughnut eaters are begging for it———The Courier & Press said the police had been investigating “anonymous and specific online threats made against police and their families on the website topix.com,” and had obtained a search warrant for the Milan house-——
Wait a damn minute.... A judge issued a search warrant on “anonymous” threats made online ?
I smell a big ass lawsuit coming & if done right a new command staff for the police dept.
This isn’t rocket science, people. The SWAT raid is an indicator of a bad police chief.
You organize the local VFW and American Legion and get involved. Then you attend the local town council meeting with about 200 vets and demand that the chief be fired.
That’s how we fired two police chiefs in my town. They were a-holes and needed to go, and we got rid of them.
The key operative phrase is GET INVOLVED. That means for two nights a month you don’t go fishing, you don’t work on the kitchen addition and you don’t watch pre-season football. You lift your fat, lazy butt off the couch or flotation cushion and start controlling what’s going on in your local government.