Posted on 07/24/2010 5:01:55 AM PDT by show me state
You should be ashamed of yourself going to Costco.
Lib owned like Progressive Insurance.
spend your cash locally when you can.
I certainly hope there's a similar 'glitch' when somebody hunts these cops down.
But clean stores, nice selection, good prices, and a staff that doesn't look like a bunch of extras from a "Men In Black" movie.
And other accounts contradict that.
Post them.
Here's another one which describes the exchange with store personnel as 'heated'.
The description given the of the victim in the transcript of the police communications also does not paint the picture of a customer being helped by the store staff.
I have no idea what really happened in that store. But by most accounts given by people unrelated to the victim or Costco, it was anything but 'cordial'.
From your first link: A Costco employee confronted Scott in the aisle, and the witness said Scott's voice was "elevated." He couldn't hear what was being said.
His voice was "elevated" but the old man couldn't hear what was being said as they walked by?! WHY do you always take the opposite view on everything. And you do. It's why so many insist you're a troll. No matter the evidence, no matter what conservatives believe, you argue the opposite. Everytime.
spot on !
Some predictions don’t require devine help to nail dead on.
Your post is typical of non marksmen who have never worn body armor.
If encounters are anticipated at close range, hitting the head where there is no armor isn't that difficult.
Body armor protects you to an extent in a crutch (that's why you wear it), but it is hot to wear all the time. We are talking about the Nevada desert in July.
Which is more likely, an encounter where you get shot at, or heat exhaustion?
Everything is a compromise. Body armor for most people has more negatives than positives.
I have a completely clean record. I've never been busted for anything. Nothing good ever comes from dealing with a cop, and I know a lot of cops. I don't trust them. Cops plant weapons. Cops deliberately provoke people. Cops lie on reports. Cops look for reasons to bust heads. Cops shoot people who didn't do anything wrong. Not all of them, but enough that the fact that someone is a cop makes them suspect to me.
I agree 100%. I've NEVER found a cop even remotely helpful at a time when he could/should've been. I've only really sought them out for help once - when I drove home from work one night and caught a bunch of thuggish teenagers dealing drugs in the bushes around the back of my lot. I recognized some of them as the neighbor kids one of those houses that every street has where the yard is always a mess, the kids are always in trouble, the parents generally don't care, and the family is just generally trash. These same kids had been a recurring problem on our street too, and in trouble with the law all the time. When I caught them they all bolted and hopped in a junky old car parked at the corner of my driveway. I called the cops within seconds, described who they were and where they lived, and basically said "they're in a car right now, red sedan, license plate XYZ headed north on whatever-street." The cop who answered the phone was generally annoyed that I was imposing on his time and refused to even bother with the case although I had given him all the information he needed.
It hit me how completely worthless my town's cops are a few weeks later when the very same police department that could not be bothered to lift a finger for an actual crime had three guys on motorcycles staking out the intersection up the road for a speed trap...something they also do all the time.
As for my house, I installed a security camera the next week and haven't had any problems since, though the dumpy house down the block is still there and its trashy residents are still a blight on the neighborhood.
I'm SHOCKED! They probably used an experimental magnet-rubbing procedure to try to recover the data.
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