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Man watches massive SWAT style raid on his house from local bar (cops call it a “well-being check”)
The Agitator ^ | 05/06/2011 | Dave Krueger

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:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bar; donutwatch; illinois; jackbootthugs; oakforest; suicidal; wellbeingcheck
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21 posted on 05/06/2011 8:28:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (Navy SEALs: They'll shoot your eyes out.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

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.”


22 posted on 05/06/2011 8:29:46 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The bill to the tax payers was $75,000 -- Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. How many of these "well being checks" do they perform a year?

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?

23 posted on 05/06/2011 8:31:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: apillar
" . . . “well being check”."

If the owner was home, the SWAT team would have issued a "well beating check", cashed on the poor bugger's a$$.

24 posted on 05/06/2011 8:32:49 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
When Art Bell returned to the air - this time, it was after his wife
Ramona's untimely demise - he was waxing on about how he had
kept staring at a big bottle of drugs after the funeral, and suddenly
the show was interrupted with some sort of filler.

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.

25 posted on 05/06/2011 8:33:18 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: loungitude
He’s suicidal! Kick the door in and shoot him!

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.

26 posted on 05/06/2011 8:36:32 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: Immerito
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.”

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.

27 posted on 05/06/2011 8:36:43 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

“Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.”

Not to mention the French Foreign Legion!/s;)


28 posted on 05/06/2011 8:56:43 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

They’re just pissed that they didn’t get to execute a suicidal guy.


29 posted on 05/06/2011 8:58:56 PM PDT by thecabal (The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Nothing would make me more suicidal than seeing the SWAT team pull up outside my house.


30 posted on 05/06/2011 9:08:03 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Hmmmm....I wonder how drunk the megalomaniacal idiot up the hill is, by now?

He ~has~ been looking pretty dejected, lately.


31 posted on 05/06/2011 9:15:28 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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This one is quite ridiculous.


32 posted on 05/06/2011 9:19:29 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: dragnet2

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.


33 posted on 05/06/2011 9:28:17 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

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.


34 posted on 05/06/2011 9:29:37 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: tbw2

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.


35 posted on 05/06/2011 9:35:05 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
It just goes to show how dated those Police Academy movies are. Stuff like this used to be considered "comedy" because it was relegated to absurd TV and movie plots.

Reminds me of the the TSA scene in the movie Airplane 2.

36 posted on 05/06/2011 9:46:11 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Otherwise it’s hard to keep all those cops with $100K salaries and pension ‘busy.’


37 posted on 05/06/2011 9:58:42 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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I blame the “bin Laden Syndrome” for this one.


38 posted on 05/06/2011 10:12:14 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: Tainan
Sadly I think you might be on to something, something worth watching over the next few weeks and months... cops already think they are DELTA or the SEALs so they get dressed up and play commando...

Here are a few fine examples...


39 posted on 05/06/2011 10:16:57 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

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.


40 posted on 05/06/2011 10:17:35 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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