Comments on: Missing The Obvious

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:20:35 +0000

They were lighting off the ordnance anyway, the birds were already airborne, it was in the Army’s Ranger training area on the base, and with the new sighting system in a rural setting that had been rained on for two days, it would have been fire safe.

The county would have saved all the court and incarceration costs. A few sponges for the suspect and a flat bed for the vehicle would have been about it.

The SPs use GPS on the base because the backroads tend to be “informal” and not necessarily what you see on the maps, especially around the training area. So sighting would not have been a problem.

Of course, if they had the guy boxed in they could have made a full scale training mission and have a forward air controller parachute in to direct fire. They also train in the base.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:59:09 +0000

Ermmmm… That would have been a tad extreme doncha think? 😉 LOL Whole new meaning to ‘collateral damage’. 😉 I don’t think it woulda saved money… woulda cost a bundle I betcha! LOL

That assumes of course that the pilot’s and gunners actually get pointed to the correct address, etc… 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:43:04 +0000

There might be an innocent explanation for what she did [yeah, right], but little doubt as to why Mr. Macho went all Rambo.

The AC-130s were on the range last night, the Security Police should have called in a fire mission and the county would have been saved a lot more money.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:20:29 +0000

Well, there might be an innocent explanation for being dropped off at 3AM. Such as, say, Bridgeway Center is some sort of facility where people get off work at that time of the morning and the wife caught a ride with a co-worker because her car wouldn't start or something. But as you say, absent that, this one looks pretty obvious :-). Badtux´s last blog post..God Hates Figs

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:44:51 +0000

The local courts will let it pass, but it will get lost on appeal. Without the paperwork, the hospital can’t hold him without his consent, and if there is a guard there, he’s in detention.

In addition, the hospital can sue the county for reimbursement, regardless. They aren’t in this county, and don’t have to get along with us.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:28:18 +0000

Yep! Agree with that. 🙂 Stupid… That law is pretty much the same here BTW (regarding what constitutes ‘arrest’.) I had to learn all that to get my security license. Only the police can question (interrogate) a suspect or caution them and that is supposed to happen as soon as a suspect has been taken into custody (which is basically as soon as a security person or police touches a suspect, normally on the arm, and they are supposed to then tell them they are under arrest.) This is so there is no ambiguity later about who was actually arrested. I could see that case being thrown out on a technicality, it happens often when a LEO tries to get cute with the Law, Justices tend not to have a sense of humor about things like that, unless they are a ‘hanging Judge’ of course. 😉