No, they will apparently issue a court order directing the USPS to halt delivery and collection of your mail.

Of course, they could just use OC spray (if they are issued it and carrying it), but there is a very small possibility that it will prove to be ineffective. I suspect many LEOs use that small possibility as an excuse to not even reach for OC when a dangerous (or perceived dangerous) canine is involved.

We need to maintain some objectivity about these incidents, however. Every time that a cop shoots a dog, there is always going to be some owner or person from the neighborhood that is more than happy to tell the local media what an “angel” the dog was, blah-blah-blah, and the local media will be more than happy to publish those comments. That doesn’t make it true.

Yes, attempted puppycide it is. This is so, because we all know that police officers shoot to kill when shooting at dogs.

One thing that came to mind: Google must have scads of dormant accounts, throw-aways, forgotten temporary accounts, etc. They are free, after all.

It would be interesting to know whether the account in question has been in active use.

I’m not sure I’d object if Google deleted a dormant account with an unreachable owner, especially if the only contents of the account were the email in question.

Just think, a couple of years ago and she wouldn’t have been allowed to have the weapon she needed to defend herself.

“Remember, folks: police officers are nature’s perfect miracle. Rainbows shoot from their hindquarters after a baked bean banquet. Their every action, without exception, is an example of judicious, sanctified transcendence so pure in its beauty that the angels themselves are overcome with emotion and weep torrential tears of ecstatic joy.

They should never be questioned. Just as you – not being a trained gourmet chef – are unable to tell rotten eggs from fresh ones, so too are you, the civilian, simply incapable of determining whether a police officer’s actions are justified or not.

Nay! We must ensure that police officers are always held apart from the common riff-raff. They should not be burdened by our silly laws or troublesome regulations, nor by our primitive notions of ethics and civility. They are truly the master race, and it is our duty to bow down to their infallibility.”

saw this on instapundit. nice to see cops getting speeding tickets and actually paying the fines.

Because now that they have, they’ve shown that the end user – the unintended mail recipient – had partial liability in this breach of privacy. All that remains in the future is to successfully argue that the end user has *more* liability than the bank, and now they’ve fairly-well insulated themselves against civil lawsuits.

Just pondering.

A 43-year-old woman fatally shot a purse snatcher who confronted her at a northwest Detroit gas station early Friday, according to police.

Two men approached the Detroit woman around 5:30 a.m. at the Schoolcraft and Southfield Mobil station, Detroit police spokesman John Roach said.

The woman was licensed to carry a concealed gun for self-defense, Roach said.

* Good news that the woman defended herself. Should I feel guilty that the punk dying brought a smile to my face?

This extraordinary film dares to do something no other safety short has ever dreamed of: killing its 9-year-old title character and sending him to hell; a hell run by two doughy, charisma-free demons wearing sensible jackets. Yes, Tommy Tucker, our protagonist, is a whiny, friendless little twerp who devotes himself to the petty hectoring of his fellow citizen. His dream of transforming his local institutions into an all powerful nanny state is cut short, however, when one fed-up individual decides to polish his bumper on Tommy’s midsection. And so Tommy goes to hell (which would have been a fine and fitting end to the matter, but alas, it’s not to be), and instead of reacting with horror and regret at his eternal separation from God, Tommy sizes the place up and finds it not half bad, but all things considered, he’d rather be home bothering folks.

Kevin, Bill and Mike try their best to find a reason, just one reason, that Tommy shouldn’t, in fact, spend a nice long eternity in hell.

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/case-tommy-tucker-part-1

http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/case-tommy-tucker-part-2