Are you f-ing kidding me?

my last comment was needlessly flip. I withdraw it.

More serious response:

quite a few years ago I was walking to my work downtown early on a Saturday.

I walked up on a car accident. The damage to the vehicles was bad, but apparently nobody was hurt. There was an ambulance there and a firefighter. The cars were off to the side of the road and the people from the cars were standing around casually with the firefighters and the ambulance guys. I walked through the intersection on the other side of the street from where the cars and people were so as not to interfere or distract them. It was no big deal. I kept walking down the street.

A couple of minutes later, I am at the heart of downtown. there are few people out because it is early. This police car barrels through the main intersection toward the accident against a red light with no lights and sirens. The vehicle almost hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk. I thought maybe the police car was going to something more urgent than the accident scene. So i turned arond and watched to see where the police car was going in such a hurry. Yup, he was just speeding to the scene of the cleared, no-injury accident and he almost killed somebody doing it.

This was one of those moments that really change how I feel about police in general.

It is not a dramatic as Packratt’s story (thank goodness), but I was definitely like “what in the haitch ee double hockey sticks was that?”

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What would any reasonable person have done if confronted with the same circumstances as the “highly trained” Officer Chase Calhoun?

Would the reasonable person have retreated back through the gate and closed it or pull a pistol and gun the dog down?

Are police officers in the US so poorly trained and/or caught up in a culture of uber machoism that they must resort to lethal violence as their first recourse?

Calhoun approached the front gate and opened it after seeing there were no dogs in the yard, Weaver said.

But as the officer opened the gate, two dogs came around the corner and “started snarling,” Weaver said. Calhoun tried to back up, but “they closed the gap on him almost immediately,” Weaver said.

Calhouns story doth reek like a month old pile of diaper fillings.

It would be nice to see some video/photos that capture the size and layout of the front yard with the fence and gate.

Calhoun told the family he was an animal lover and was sorry about what happened, Gregory said.

Such touching words. I’m sure the family was fully consoled.

http://www.njfishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47235

I read a story today about a bull moose in Utah that was running through town, scaring people. Those guys can weigh almost a ton, and they can easily kill a human if they want to.

This was a very dangerous situation. Naturally the police were called.

Guess what? They tranquilized it, and are going to relocate it to a canyon somewhere.

So, apparently, the police don’t hate all animals. Just dogs. Go figure.

The State has a stake in this because, way back when we were just figuring out how to bang rocks together to make fire, the Clan had a very significant stake in it. Marriage has been tied up with Societal approval since societal approval was crucial because the unity of the clan was one of the few things standing between the individual and getting eaten by bears.

The notion that the State does NOT stand in loco parentis is very new (as in, no older than the 18th century Age of Reason) and fairly radical even today. And disentangling the custom of marriage from the warp and woof of British Common Law (and thus from our own legal heritage) is probably impossible.

What I tell the Religiously Offended who want me to denounce Gay Marriage is “What’s wrong with our marriage customs has little or nothing to do with Gays. The problem isn’t that we are considering allowing Gays to marry, The problem is that it is easier to get out of a marriage contract than it is to get out of a cell-phone contract.”

The cops should talk to the people at Terminix. They have a canned voicemail msg they send couple of days before they come over for the regular outside treatment. One of things they mention is to please secure your pets. I guess it’s too hard for cops to do the same things. Maybe while they enjoy their free donut and coffee? OK, back to reality now…

I assume the prison drama department is not forced to only do Christian themes. Obviously that is important.

One of the areas I as a leftie use an example of Governments moralising where they have no business.

(I’m also personally religious and would expect to be married in any long-term relationship, I just fail to see why the state has a stake in this)

For that matter, afaik the state (as in the Nordic counties) should consider each person’s individual needs and not in pairs, making it hard for people to act as individuals via economic ties.

The police witness (the one who wasn’t killed) said that the dead policeman was only going to taser the dog.

This case not nearly enough coverage. It is an outrage.

Got to love the couple who put this man through this living hell using “for the children” excuse. I expect this sick “tactic” to be used more if gay couples adopting children increases. The easiest way to ruin people is to accuse them of harming children in a sexual way. This couple has some nice karma coming their way.

There was a Law and Order: SVU episode on this (sort of). A family was in a car accident and one of the doctors discovered molest signs in the daughter which led to the police being notified. The police dug up something on the father that he was falsely accused of molesting students but even though the charge was a farce, the notion that he was accused caused him to lose his job and leave town. In the episode the father is a coach After local people heard about the daughter, all of a sudden random complaints about children being molested flooded the department. Which lead to the department trying to get the daughter to point out who did it via a drawing which somehow implicated the father. The family’s house was raided and the father was arrested. Later on it’s discovered that it was older jock boy at the school who actually did the molesting. The father was clear of all chargers but at the end of the episode he tells the detective that he has been fired from his new school job and might have to moved to a different town again.

RE: Baltimore PD

Yea the DOJ is doing the right thing but it is an election year.