Posted on 09/08/2006 6:39:24 PM PDT by buccaneer81
If you really think the various police agencies aren't joined more closely than Siamese twins, you need a reality check. Sure the sheriff's office was watching over the county jail, but when one agency is embarrassed, they all feel the sting and react (publicly) as if they're one. Later, after things settle down, there may be some snide cross-talk between them, but cases like this one tend to bring them even more closely together.
He was definitely embarrassing somebody ~ then 3 state troopers went after him and he got the drop on them first.
You ever have 3 state troopers come after you?
That's a lot of 'em in any state.
The troopers were correct to be exceptionally frightend of this guy later on but I'm not sure over 1,000 cops after one guy was all that necessary. Think of all the other criminals who got away with what they were doing because the cops distracted themselves for one guy.
Here in NC, quite a few years back, we had a guy escape from jail, and when recaptured some 24 hours later was charged with all sorts of things he was supposed to have done while running around loose. Turned out he had immediately broken into a local beer distributors warehouse and gotten totally, completely, falling-down passed-out drunk, and stayed that way all weekend. He couldn't even walk when they came to get him.
The judge had some really biting things to say about the local police attempting to clear all the backlog of unsolved crimes on the books.
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