Cops Respond to the Wrong House at 2 am, Shoot Homeowner Protecting His Family

Lights are for my benefit not theirs. This way I can see who is there and well lit areas discourage prowlers. I’m in a rural wooded area so it would take a special kind of stupid to try it LOL. But yeah the address should have been double checked at the 911 center especially if computer had auto complete. No auto complete would have meant operator would have had to enter all info and that would lessen chance of wrong address. And Cops should have announced their presence before attempting entry. Again One officer doing so in a loud voice not a half dozen yelling Police over yelling each other. Some tactics by creating confusion put more at unneeded risk.

Lights are for my benefit not theirs.

Sure. That's why the lights point away from, not toward the house.

But yeah the address should have been double checked

Yes ... because when you approach the supposed scene of a supposed disturbance ... and there's no disturbance going on ... maybe you should check to see if you're even at the right place?

One officer doing so in a loud voice

Yes ... multiple voices shouting multiple (possibly contradictory) things so loud as to be distorted beyond recognition should be restricted to Boot Camp ... Police must be trained to reduce, rather than increase, chaos and confusion.

One night due to a bad phone line the phone line {wet} managed to call 911. That happened because landlines still operate on rotary as well as tones to call out. About 2:00am my Lab was barking and I knew it was someone coming up the driveway. I looked out and saw it was a Sheriffs Department SUV. So I went out to get my dog and the deputy was a K-9 officer. So our dogs were having their conversation same time we were trying to have ours LOL.

I put my dog in the house and the deputy said I got a 911 hang up from your house. I said that's weird it's just me and my wife and I know it wasn't us. I said hang on let me get the cordless phone. I got it and put it on speaker and it sounded like Rice Krispies and I knew what was happening. I explained to him in technical terms what happened as my dad was 45 year Bell Service. The wet lines were acting as a rotary phone. We had a good laugh and told him to have dispatch note what was happening. I never had an issue in my county. My son in law is a retired county sheriff. My dad used to work on 911 system data circuits and phone lines.

we a have buried fiber optic internet so that can’t be cut either.

Yes it can. Magic backhoe’s happen all the time to take out fiber. (I’m a network guy, and have been since 1993... it most certainly happens).

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