[Calvin Locke]

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.

[goat granny]

or a neighbor that was concerned about him. Back in the 80's my father was visiting and started home just after dark cause he wasn't feeling well...I told him to call me when he got home (In Detroit, one of only about 3 whites that still lived in his area),

When he didn't call me by a hour after he left, I called him home and got no answer. These is the calls I made.

Every hospital between his house and mine...

The police departments in the suburbs he pass through asking about any accidents...

Called him again and no answer..

Called the Detroit police to find out what precinct he lived in...

Called the precinct and talked with the Sargent...told them the story and who I had already call...

Told them he was a retired cop and after dark might answer the door with a gun in his hand..they said they would check...

Called my father and this time he answered the phone, I told him to expect a call from the cops and why. While we were still on the phone I heard him cuss and say they were in front of the house now...(with their lights going).

I could hear him talking with the cops and thanking them for checking on him.....Lesson for my dad.

If you don't call when your are suppose to expect your daughter to call the cops....he never forgot to call me after that....but I think he was pleased that his daughter didn't just forget about him when he left the house....

Lots of bad crap from swat, but cops do good work that no one knows about....

PS my father would not tolerate the crap that goes on now when he was in command...but there have always been some cops that are crappy. We just didn't always hear about them and they didn't last long if they screwed up...go up the chain of command and find the idiot in charge of such actions. The ultimate responsibility lie's with the commander...