Posted on 05/06/2011 7:43:43 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Police surrounded a man’s house after one of his “friends” warned the cops that he might be suicidal. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective) the guy was down the street at a bar watching the whole thing on TV.
The mayor is calling it a very expensive ($75,000) hoax, but the cops are still investigating:
Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:
(Excerpt) Read more at theagitator.com ...
Outrageous. Are there no murders, no rapes, no burglaries in those seventeen districts that all those officers have time for THIS?
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“Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:”
“Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”
And why is this costing the tax payers this enormous amount of money to contact this person and speak with him about his well being, and to see if he's OK? They show up in armored cars, body armor, swat and paramilitary police troops?
If the owner was home, the SWAT team would have issued a "well beating check", cashed on the poor bugger's a$$.
Art came back on minutes later, saying that he had to deal with a
pounding on his door, and found a deputy following up a
report about a "person in distress". I think some wannabe
dogooder in Oregon or Washington called the Pahrump police.
I believe there was a case not long ago of a man out on a ledge, threatening to jump. A rookie cop leaned out a window and used a taser on the man in an effort to subdue him.
In hindsight, this wasn't a smart move.
Did they bother to ask him if he was OK or if he needed any help?
Officers were called in from 16 districts?
Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.
“Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.”
Not to mention the French Foreign Legion!/s;)
They’re just pissed that they didn’t get to execute a suicidal guy.
Nothing would make me more suicidal than seeing the SWAT team pull up outside my house.
Hmmmm....I wonder how drunk the megalomaniacal idiot up the hill is, by now?
He ~has~ been looking pretty dejected, lately.
This one is quite ridiculous.
If someone is suicidal, a social worker would have been appropriate.
Sending in the cops seems a guarantee of suicide by cop, whether the man wanted to live or not.
Seems we’re back in the same boat as the colonists of old:
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.”
We now have a standing army, immune to civilian oversight, as none of them can be held personally responsible for their policies or acts.
I necver understood (or approved) of the forced entry in the case of a “man barricaded inside his home “.Let him sleep it off or whatever.When a bunch of oversize egos and guns are involved no good will come of any situation.
Reminds me of the the TSA scene in the movie Airplane 2.
Otherwise it’s hard to keep all those cops with $100K salaries and pension ‘busy.’
I blame the “bin Laden Syndrome” for this one.
Here are a few fine examples...
local law enforcement has changed so much in my adult life it is virtually unrecognizable as being from the same locale/country.
Stuff like this (and tsa) makes me not un-sad to permanently live outside the US.
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