Police surround house in five-hour standoff, but nobody home

Peninsula Daily News ^ | 7/17/06 | ANDREW BINION

[Millee]

[Slings and Arrows]

ROFLing!

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why would an assault rifle be necessary for a potential suicide with a knife?

It wouldn't. For handling an unruly and disobedient citizen, however, whose loyalty to the very state might even be in question, an assault rifle is an absolutely necessary tool to ensure the continued peace and safety of all the other loyal citizens. ;)

[The SISU kid]

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

[nhoward14]

You won't see this on A&Es "Dallas SWAT".

[JRios1968]

Have you ever gone to a police standoff where the only thing missing was the looney?

[sionnsar]

Thanks to The SISU kid for the ping.

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

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[Paperdoll]

>Why would an asault rifle be necessary for a potential suicide with a knife?<

Sounds like severe over reaction to me - Perhaps an indication of where the police are coming from these days.
Was the mother contacted later?

[Paperdoll]

>She cut her whole body off!<

LOL! That's a good 'un!

[bigfootbob]

They bought all this really cool stuff with asset forfeiture plunder, have to use it...right?

Port Angeles, Washington, LOL. Has about 1,000 residents.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Could have been worse... they could have stormed the empty house....

[Horatio Gates]

Exactly right ...they didn't storm the house. Seems to me they did the right thing here. Isolated, contained and secured the scene acting on the info they had at the time, atempted to establish contact with the woman to see if she was okay then verify if she was home.

I'm a former SWAT cop and I've been on more than a few scenes where the bad guy was able to slip out of a house before everything was in place. It happens alot and besides this was probably the most excitement this town has had in a long time...8>)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It happens alot and besides this was probably the most excitement this town has had in a long time...8>)

It would be quite a sight!! ;)

[Froufrou]

Well, spit, Millee, they gotta look busy while Mikey goes for donuts...

[eeman]

I lived in Port Angeles for about five years. Although there are many things to not like about Port Angeles, I thought the police were pretty professional. I dealt with them when my office was burglarized and I also belonged to a couple of civic orgnizations where we interacted with the local police.

I live in Spokane now and there have been several local incidents recently that question the professional quality of the police force here. Mark Furhman, of OJ fame, has local radio show and he frequently is critical of the local police

[Feiny]

It was Marla Singer from Fight Club.
She does that to the cops all the time.

[Slings and Arrows]

Could have been worse... they could have stormed the empty house....

Ahaghd - Keystone Kops with heavy weaponry.