Posted on 10/19/2011 2:13:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Isn’t “dialing” 911 the same thing as calling the police?
If I see somebody breaking into my neighbor’s shed or garage or house and I know they’re not at home, who or what is it I should call? My neighbor could be a family member living next door...
If the police say that they can’t do much unless the perps are observed in the act or found to be in possession, etc...
Who should I call? Who can I shoot?
You would have to ask the Oakland PD department - but I think I know what they would tell you. “Don’t get involved.” After all, that is THEIR policy and I doubt they would expect more from you.
As Robert Zimmerman observed a long time ago “Because the cops they don’t need you and man they expect the same.”
It took three cops in two cars to answer a call by a “concerned” resident that I was hitting golf balls into a twenty acre field just beyond my back porch.
He was concerned about the golf balls upsetting the ecosystem. There were no signs posted, no fence, nothing that sets the property apart as a wetland or to be otherwise protected.
I had done this for three years in a row at the onset of the golfing season. When I first moved in, I went for a walk out on the property and picked up 25-30 balls that had been sitting out there for who knows how long. Each time, when I’d finished hitting 10 or 20 balls out there, I’d walk out there with a bag and pick up as many balls as I could and put them away until the next spring.
The neighbor jerk was so upset that I did not obey his command that he ran back to his place and came back armed with a camera and tape recorder. He held the tape recorder with one hand while taking pics with the other.
The cops came over to me and said they’d heard everything “verbatim” (playback) and were concerned that I might attack the guy because as he was taking my picture, I was gesticulating with my driver while ripping the guy a new one for being such an assh*le about it. Then he told me that my golf swing sucked. I know that most looney tunes like him hate golfers so all I did was tee up yet another practice ball.
The cops and I stood on the sidewalk and talked about it for 10 minutes and then they left without even giving me a warning. They said they have to respond to calls like that.
That particular neighbor was not a shrimp of a guy and he made himself out to be some kind of a victim...He misrepresented the entire confrontation just like a girl in her 20’s or 30’s might and the cops bought into it but in the end they just hopped into their cars and drove away in procession ever so slowly.
I felt lucky they didn’t show up in fear for their own lives and I know what can happen when cops claim they’re in fear for their own lives.
“That’s nice work, boys!”
-Clancy Wiggam, Chief of Police- Springfield, USA
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