[Daffynition]

Historic population

Population Statistics from the U.S. Census

* 1930: 471
* 1940: 475
* 1950: 457
* 1960: 463
* 1979: 426
* 1980: 373
* 1990: 336
* 2000: 380

[tgusa]

That dumb@ss is lucky nobody had any hot tar and chicken feathers.

[Loud Mime]

a. So in the middle of La Crosse's main street Lee sat hog-tied until the police arrived 20 minutes later.

b. The sheriff said that they don't recommend citizens taking these kinds of measures to apprehend someone.

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riiiigghht!

[rockprof]

It's a shame. Most of us want to help someone in distress.

The problem is when someone comes up to me on the street with a sob story I just assume they're a lying piece of $#& con man and tell them to get lost.

[magslinger]

The sheriff said that they don't recommend citizens taking these kinds of measures to apprehend someone but in this case it did help them collar a criminal.

Of course the sheriff said that. There are two reasons:

1. Actions like this tend to result in real reductions in crime. That makes it harder to justify budget increases for law enforcement.

2. An officer spent at least forty minutes picking up the trash that would have been better spent writing tickets.

[WashStateGirl]

Well, Whitman is a Large county. A large one and it probably takes the Whitman Co. sheriff a good while to drive all the way out to Lacrosse from say Colfax (the county seat) or Pullman (home of washington state university).

This story reminds me of how the cowboys rope the little doggies at a rodeo and leave them hogtied. O.o

[JoeProBono]

[ShadowAce]

I've been to La Crosse (just last winter).

It is much larger than those numbers you gave.