Meet the “Death panels”?
Good news, Comrades! That’s one diabetic who your tax money will never have to treat.
(Do I really need a sarc?)
A new Obamacare policy to keep expenses down.
I should think police would know a little about meds and their possible side effects, but I guess they leave that training to the paramedics.
About 4 years ago I went to a shooting class they advertised as being used by Portland, OR police.
They showed videos of armed criminals and we were graded on our response.
The sick one was one man, on the ground 20 feet from me holding a knife.
As I am an excellent shot, I just held fire and just waited for him to drop the knife.
I waited and waited and was told the correct response was to shoot him. I was shocked.
/johnny
“Thank you for calling ma’am. Next time just log into Obamacare, we’ll find you.”
...we’re from the gov’ment and we’ve come to help.
She also said "Nothing good happens after midnight, so be home by eleven". As a teen she also told me that if I ever drank alchohol and faced driving myself or in a car with anyone else who had been drinking, that I was to call her for a ride. No questions asked.
No elbows on the table. Eat what you shoot. Never go to bars. Cocktail hour is for the neighbors, and should stretch for several hours. Then dinner. That rule made for some fun relationships all up and down the block, with young and old alike. Kids playing kick the can, baseball, street hockey, skateboarding, bike riding, while the adult neighbors drank cocktails and socialized taught us how to consume alchohol in a responsible manner.
NEVER call the police for anything, ever. Stay as far away from them if you can. They are mostly a gang of thugs, and all citizens are their enemies. And your pets will become entertaining target practice for them, and you too if you miss a command.
If only she had a dog, her fiancé would still be alive...
A cop in '99 told me suicide was illegal. I learned this after getting pulled over doing 60 mph in a 50 zone.
He said my high rate of speed indicated I might be a danger to myself.
True story.
Why do the police assume bad intentions? Is it easier for them to shoot and kill rather than stop and question?
They aren’t prosecuted for killing - they just have to say they thought their lives were in danger - the TV remote looked like a gun - the 78 year old deaf guy looked like he was reaching for a gun and not his hearing aid -
Meanwhile, you’re dead and can’t ask why they did it.
This is especially difficult for the elderly, who always trusted the police and were on good terms with them. They don’t expect the cop to assume they’re a criminal with bad intentions.
How do you explain to your dad that he must always show his empty hands to the police, and not to make sudden motions, and to drop anything he has in his hands? He will say “but I’m not a crook!”
Question: what has changed in American society that has led to this ending of trust? It’s not the elderly White guy. Hmmmmm. What could it be?
I am old, and I remember when cops were big , and tough, and not scared of anything.
They would get out a billy club and whip your butt.
Today through Political Correctness and other means they do not have to be big any more or tough and not frightened of anything.
Today they are women and short guys with tasers, and guns, with backup and SWAT gear, and shoot anything that looks like it might be dangerous.
Suicide by cop?