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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 07:57 AM Original message |
Damnit. Regarding the police and use of deadly force. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. Seems to me this is the sort of situation a taser was meant for. |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Perhaps, but... |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:15 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. When they have to take them down hand to hand people do get hurt |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I understand your point, and I am not a cop basher, but... |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I agree with you |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Good point. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Yes- that was a horribly bad decision |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Learning how to "talk down" my much bigger mentally ill husband |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. How is anyone with a hockey stick a threat to anyone more than 5 yards away? |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. As somebody who played organized hockey for ten years (as a kid and teen ager) |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Believe it. Back in 1997 in Lincoln RI they shot a guy carrying a bamboo walking stick. |
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Possumpoint (937 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. Tell That To A Cop |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. But, but, but.............. |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. That's the problem... |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:54 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Correct. Taser = Gun. |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
7. I will tell this story again: |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Thank you for this post. n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. And before that, it was coke. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
12. The police can't have it both ways |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:48 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Excellent. Thanks. n/t |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 09:00 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Look, the sad reality is... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 09:05 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yes, I get this, and it is true |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Excellent, your post should have it's own thread...no one has said it better. |
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screembloodymurder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. Don't call the police unless you need lethal force. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:42 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. The family with hockey stick didn't call the police, they called |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. Talking somebody down, used to be SOP, |
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