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Posted on 03/23/2005 8:06:16 AM PST by Al Gator
Trooper Says 'Too Bad' To 911 Caller After Deadly Crash 21-Year-Old Died Of Severe Head Injury
POSTED: 7:39 am EST March 23, 2005
LISBON, Conn. -- A Connecticut state trooper has been suspended for 15 days without pay after he was heard on a 911 tape saying "too bad" to a caller seeking help for a man injured in a motorcycle accident. SURVEY Do you think this trooper's punishment was appropriate for his comments to two people who called 911 to report a motorcycle crash? Yes, a 15-day suspension is a fitting punishment. No, that punishment is not harsh enough. No, that punishment is too harsh.
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State police said the dismissive answer by Trooper Robert Peasley did not affect the response time to the accident. Justin Sawyer, 21, died of a severe head injury a week after the crash last August.
Peasley was suspended on Monday.
I've been riding long enough to know that this is a common attitude.
Unfathomable.
What was the context of "too bad" and follow-up actions of the Trooper? Did he dismissively say "Too bad" and hang up, or was he expressing concern as in "Wow, too bad" and then got help sent right away?
You disagree? Too bad...
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He hung up the phone. They had to call back. He said the same thing and hung up again.
Need clarification on this.... "too bad" can be taken a number of ways...
I heard the tape on the news. It sounded clearly like a "don't bother me" tone of voice, followed by a hang-up.
Suspension? Make this guy a US Judge.
do we have a transcript of the 911 tapes?
The article makes it out to be something like.
caller: "Help! My budy was in a wreck can you send help"
Trooper: "Too bad"
I doubt that's the case, but i dunno. I've only Called 911 twice in my life.
Yeah, but then he hung up the phone.
How do you know that?
At least he didn't say "you better put some ice on that."
The 911 call was played on Good Morning America. It was not a "wow, too bad" response. But they said he did dispatch an officer and ambulance eventually. Apparently didn't believe the call was legit because it was placed by a young guy.
No, that's exactly the case.
"Too bad, don't bother me. Click."
If the wit doesn't fit, you must acquit.
It was a joke, I was mocking the trooper, he should be fired.
I heard it on TV this morning.
He needs to be canned, it was bad.
If he hung up on the caller, the question posed is part of a whitewash. "Should he punished for his comments?" is not the guiding question. "Should he be punished for hanging up on a 911 call?" seems better to cut to his infraction.
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