Posted on 01/26/2019 4:32:48 AM PST by SMGFan
If true, this was stupidity beyond belief. The only thing with more remote odds is that the story is true.
There was some kind of intimidation / coercion going on and it resulted in the death of the officer, which may have been the original intended result, just not at this particular time and place.
I have no first hand knowledge as to how corrupt or incompetent SLPD may be, but unless they are the equivalent of MS-13 manned by Barney Fifes, it shouldn’t take more than a busy afternoon to get to the bottom of this and provide the truth.
‘She was cute...’
yep...yep she was; as a matter of fact, I’d say she was damned hot...
I'm betting a consensual threesome, not a sneaky side relationship. DNA evidence will tell part of the tale...
Great minds think alike.
According to Hellmeier, Hendren initially spun the cylinder and pointed the revolver away from Alix. But when he pulled the trigger, it did not fire. She took the gun and pointed it at Hendren, but again the gun did not fire.
Hendren took the gun back and pointed it at Alix, pulled the trigger and shot Alix in the chest. She was rushed to the hospital by the officers, where she died of her injuries.
They only spun the cylinder once.
The first pull was a one in six chance.
The second pull was one in five.
The pull that killed her was a one in four chance.
Not bad odds except when your life is on the line.
‘the odds of beads with the next clip’
I don’t know; seems to me if you’re flipping coins, the odds of getting beads with the clip is pretty darn low...
Not if you buy into the idea that they were actually playing Russian Roulette.
‘Reminds me of a story I heard about an actor in the 80’s’
Jan Erik Hexum, I believe...
Damn. Can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Nice catch.
She was described as a bright and shining officer. Holy crap. They are idiots from the bottom to the top in that department.
The on duty guys when right to the house after roll call, and she met them there. Hard to say if the whole story is true, but you can be sure drugs and alcohol were involved.. By the way, the dead cop just married another STL City cop in October. He was on duty in another precinct that night.
The Sargent in room should not have that delusion. He ignored his responsibility to stop a dangerous activity going on with officers under his command.
At minimum he should lose his job.
I’m not buying it either, there’s more to the story than is being told.
I’d like to say that nobody would be that stupid but of course we all know that’s not true. Still, this doesn’t pass the smell test.
The curriculum at the police academy will now change. Instead of teaching important things they will now spend 8 hours on Russian roulette.
A coin doesn't have a finite number of heads and tails inside it.
History[edit]
The term Russian roulette was possibly first used in a 1937 short story of the same name by Georges Surdez. However, the story describes using a gun with one empty chamber out of six, instead of five empty chambers out of six:
‘Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?’ ... with the Russian army in Romania, around 1917... some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, remove a cartridge from the cylinder, spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head and pull the trigger. There were five chances to one that the hammer would set off a live cartridge and blow his brains all over the place.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette
Isn’t that what snap-caps are for?
It has nothing to do with a "duty to protect."
It has everything to do with giving the police the legal authority to break down your door without a warrant if a family member calls the police and reports that you have made suicidal threats and are not answering your phone.
If suicide was legal, the police response would have to be: "So what?"
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Sick.
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