Posted on 07/25/2007 12:30:01 PM PDT by Spktyr
The old joke is true. Call the police, call Domino's. See who gets there first. Hint: Have change for the pizza boy.
From the “Dial 911 And Die” file - another reason to own guns.
90% of police work is reactive. Buy a gun, get a dog.
Get a gun and know how to use it. The police will not protect you. They will, however, be able to bring the crime scene yellow tape and the chalk to outline your body. The horrible home invasion story from Connecticut ought to be a wake-up call to everyone who thinks they are safe in their homes these days.
Tell them you are going to shoot the perp. They’ll show up immediately.
I have many guns - no need to worry about me. :)
I also have a *special* present for any would-be home invaders - a large Kalashnikov-type magazine fed 12 gauge shotgun loaded with 00 Buck magnum rounds.
Just pay your taxes and shut up.
That’s pretty much what the liberals want, yeah.
Also why I moved from CA - among other reasons.
Wish the NYS legislature would grow a brain.
I do volunteer work in the DFW area and we had an incident with our alarm system and the company was unable, for whatever reason to contact us. It took 90 minutes for the police to show up and they didn’t come to the door right away, they cruised outside looking into the windows. Could have been laying on the floor in a pool of blood...way to go guys.
Key words to use if you really want a policeman.
Some one actually called 911 and died yesterday in Detroit. A guy collapsed on his front porch and all the neighbors called 911. They waited over an hour for the ambulance to show. One of the cops who was waiting was related to the guy and he pulled some strings and got a private ambulance from the neighboring county to show up. But it was too late, the guy died on the way to the hospital.
A major problem with, and the main reason response priority is so low is due to the alarm owners and companies themselves. In the real world, about 99% are false alarms.
That doesn’t always help. There was a recent incident in Garland where a crazy man with an illegal AK rifle kicked in the front door of a random apartment and started shooting. The neighbors called 911, the police took over 10 minutes to get there. By then, the inhabitants (a dating couple, I believe) had actually successfully executed a fighting retreat with their handguns. While the couple were wounded and had been driven out of their home, the nutcase was dead.
Of course, the police didn’t get there until it was all over.
The New Jersey Supremes ruled that there is no right to police protection. Dialing 911 does not guarantee a response. The case concerned a man who dialed 911 when he saw a woman getting abducted. They answered but never shower up. She was raped and murdered and the police were probably facing some kind of wrongful death (negligence) suit.
Keywords to use if you REALLY want a policeman, “I think he shot an officer!”.
I hope that Chuck Rosenthal READS the state law this time.
Better one: “I own a Krispy Kreme and have lots of free doughnuts here that the burglar might steal!”
Snort.
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