Posted on 09/18/2014 8:26:47 PM PDT by rey
Windsor police responded in force Thursday afternoon to a residential neighborhood on Alden Lane after a prank 911 call reported a shooting in a home there.
Officers swarmed the quiet residential block just before 6 p.m., when elementary school-aged kids and parents were attending an evening program at the nearby Mary Agatha Furth Center.
Police showed up at the home where a retired man and his wife live with one of their daughters and her child, after receiving a 911 call that appeared to come from the their address. The caller said a grandfather at the home had shot someone there and was “walking around with a shotgun,” Windsor Sgt. Shawn Murphy said.
“There were several people in the home,” he said. “We were able to get them out and confirm that the call was basically made up.”
The type of prank is called “SWATting,” as callers often spoof another person’s phone number in an effort to get a police SWAT team called to a home.
The homeowner, who asked that his name not be used, said the family had been getting prank calls for the past few weeks, ever since one of his grandsons had gotten into an argument online while playing the video game “Minecraft.”
But after Thursday afternoon’s experience, he said he was going to change his phone number.
“I knew I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said after describing how the police handcuffed him and placed him in the backseat of a police car while they searched his house. “But boy, was I scared.”
I like the other quote: “I knew I didn’t do anything wrong,” As if that matters.
You have nothing to be afraid of if you’re not doing anything wrong.
IBTBL
Windsor where? Windsor Castle? Great Park?
Technically, it matters. Michael Brown knew that he had done something wrong. When a LEO spoke to him about an entirely unrelated business, he was tense and ready to fight. That shouldn't be the case if one has no reason to suspect an imminent arrest.
Windsor where?
Windsor CA. CA stands for Crazy America.
US? India? Australia?
NY? NJ? Nebraska?
911 is to my knowledge only used in the US and Canada. The rest of the world have their own unique emergency numbers.
Oh, see now, deductive reasoning. And there I thought that was just for Agatha Christie novels and the Sunday Crossword.
Haven’t read an Agatha Christie novel in decades, but I do enjoy a crossword puzzle.
“Windsor where? Windsor Castle? Great Park?”
Windsor, CA It’s just north of Santa Rosa
“CA”
That’s a fact. Normal people are on home detention while the lunatics run things.
BS. Humans go into flight-or-fight reflex.
Confront me over anything, and I'll get tense and ready to fight.
Bet on it, hero.
/johnny
Hey Johnny re-read his post, he was talking about Michael Brown. I thought the same thing too til I re-read it
Don't care who you talk about.
If you CONFRONT any human you will get fight or flight response.
It's the way we're wired.
/johnny
/johnny
So, If like Brown you were walking in the middle of the street, and a LEO tells you to move to the sidewalk, you are ready to confront said LEO? You are wound pretty tight.
Every time.
Don't care who it is.
A dog will roll over on it's back and pee itself.
That's what dogs do... they submit.
/johnny
Try again. It isn't working.
I'm still attending budget meetings and trying to get LE budget reduced by 30%.
/johnny
Someone’s been listening to the Jerky Boys CD’s.
Indeed - poor writing on my part. Too many pronouns.
With regard to "getting tense and ready to fight" when spoken to by an LEO, if the complaint is valid (like "don't walk in the road") I'd feel only shame and guilt. It would never occur to me to fight anyone, be it a neighbor or an LEO, because they pointed out a fault in my behavior. It's not even a debatable fault; many dogs died to prove that walking in the street is dangerous. (A debatable fault would be, for example, smoking in an empty bus shelter - it is legally wrong (in some places,) but not actually harmful to anyone.)
Fighting (or fleeing) is reserved for life-threatening situations. An LEO is one of least likely persons to kill someone - on par with a schoolgirl, perhaps :-) When that happens, it's national news.
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