Hostage released, suspect still holed up in mail truck

[PhiKapMom]

Fox and MSNBC reporting there is postal truck being driven by a woman postal employee that has been hijacked. People are actually approaching the truck as it slows down and one guy just threw his hands in the air as the postal truck drove off!

Carol City!

[JimRic54]

**Riiight...**

It's true. Someone has to clean up after the robot is done with the suspect.

[PhiKapMom]

Does anyone know anything about this neighborhood? Shep reported a lot of people were gathering around this scene. Could the number of cops have been there to protect what was happening in case something got out of control?

[Catspaw]

I'm okay--he was on the street & I was in my car--saw him take off out of the store, saw him take off down the block followed by the store owner (someone I know), so I followed the guy down the block (in my car), turned into the lot & got his front plate number (he bent up the back plate). He probably thought I was just a shopper going to one of the stores in the strip mall. When a friend of mine asked me, "did he have a gun?" I said, "I don't know." That's when the shivers started.

[Mo1]

Had a phone call come in .. what did I miss?

[Diddle E. Squat]

As they have explained over and over, this passed through numerous jurisdictions. Some of those are probably just sticking around to see it to its conclusion. Police are staffed to have an excess at any normal time, so if an emergency arises, there is enough manpower to deal with it. So the extra police are not draining protection from other areas. You wouldn't want police to staff at the most efficient level for average circumstance, since they would be understaffed in the extreme instances. Remember, this is a metro of 5+ million. 100 police is a drop in the bucket for that metro.

Further, its better to have too many than too few. As I understand it, this isn't the best of neighborhoods, and the police/community(troublemakers) relations are already strained down there. The last thing you need is too few police and a large crowd that has a chance to turn into a mob if this situation is perceived to turn the wrong way. Remember Liberty City?

But hey, you are not an LEO, but someone sitting at a keyboard miles away, so obviously you know better than the police on the scene.

[Libertina]

A big ROTFLOL from CPAC!

[momofsixgirls]

Shep must have worked for WSVN at one time.

[Sacajaweau]

Why do I think the robot will make the front page tomorrow and the postal worker will become a postage stamp size photo on page 8?

[HairOfTheDog]

The hundred cops are there for the same reason we are! If you were a cop, would you say, "Well, I guess I am not needed here, think I'll go write some speeding tickets...."

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh yeah, sure...now you come along with that reasoned logic thing again....

[HairOfTheDog]

You missed the tricky shift back from seven-second-delay to real-time.

[JimRic54]

**Why do I think the robot will make the front page tomorrow and the postal worker will become a postage stamp size photo on page 8?**

Exactly. The robots are too POWERFUL and MEAN. They will take over the human race.

STOP THE INSANITY!

:-)

[RansomOttawa]

Why do I think the robot will make the front page tomorrow and the postal worker will become a postage stamp size photo on page 8?

Figure a typesetting machine owes him a favour or something?

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

**Does anyone know anything about this neighborhood?**

I have some family that live somewhere in that state(don't pass that around). But I don't know anything about that town.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, it is a pretty cool robot.

[LO_IQ]

For the record, I consider myself pro-Law Enforcement Officers.

So far this operation was executed flawlessly:

1. The car chase was conducted at low speed, and police cars backed off every time the mail truck accelerated. No car wrecks were caused by incompetent police actions.

2. Spikes were placed at an intersection where it was the safest area for a police shoot out, away from private residences and schools.

3. Negotiators were given all the time they requested to get the lady out safely.

4. Negotiators are currently still working for a peaceful surrounder, and the police officers are in no rush to create any violent end to the stand off.

The only item that seems out of proportion is the amount of police vehicles and officers assigned to this particular crime.

[Mo1]

Thanks for the update

[CFW]

From some of the posts on this thread, I beginning to think some people starting their Friday evening drinking without me. I'm still at work typing squiggles.