Posted on 07/07/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
cough-bullshit reality-cough.
There. Fixed it.
Uhmmm...okay...
"After being booked, supervisors became aware of the circumstances and immediately released the woman and returned her to her home on the basis that there were other options available to handle this situation besides making an arrest and holding the woman in jail," Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards wrote in the news release.
Bzzz! Thanks for playing.
Are old women merely easier to manage than real police work?
That’s just what the Nazi’s said.
Yet even after she fell and cut her nose, and the "threat" was eliminated, he still felt the need to arrest her. Let's be honest with ourselves - this incident occurred because the cop got PO'd that she didn't bow to his authority. His supervisors certainly understood that, as they (1) released the lady quickly and (2) said it will serve as a "learning experience" for him.
Let's brainstorm the ways he could've avoided this incident:
1. Given her a week to get the lawn in order, and told her failing that he'd have to cite her
2. Told her she'd be receiving a citation in the mail
3. Waited to his truck while she called her son (to protect himself from a shotgun-wielding 70 year old)
4. Called his dispatcher, got her name, and left the citation in her mailbox
“You noticed how natural that came out of his mouth!”
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I don't think so.
Actually no lol. I'm a geriactric advocate. I'm in someones face if I think they are mistreating the elderly.(by the way 70 isn't necessarily old:') That said, I try to look at both sides of the parties involved.
No. Just a conservative adult in appropriate clothing that can participate in a conversation without calling others names.
You are dumber than you appear.
See #210.
I've seen it myself. Had to go behind the BIG METAL DOOR they keep locked at the May's Landing NJ PD. I entered the inner sanctum to give a statement in an accident I saw.
My first reaction when I saw the line of 6'-62, beefed up (not fat, but not cut either), bald or Marine cut cops in Black & Grey and polished black boots was "Neo Nazis".
That and 75% of the cops I have personally known in the last 20 years (I am 40) fit the description (and worse) as well.
She’s on her own property and, unless she’s actually under arrest, talking to the cop is a mere courtesy. She’s under no obligation to continue the conversation.
Do you have a special brown shirt you put on before you post, or do you just wear one all the time?
Fact of life also.
From the article:
Perry, an avid cross-country RV-driver who recently got back from a trip to Florida, said she has never had a run-in with the law, not even a traffic ticket.
Wonder what they would think about lawns in the South in the 1960’s. People did not have lawn movers. There yards were stripped of all grass and you would sweep them with a broom. LOL.
True, but irrelevant.
Whoops
"She was treated in a local hospital for the cut to her nose and for other bruises before being taken to jail".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6282348.stm
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