Its a song and a headline
By Was (Not Was). [link|http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,182839,00.html|http://www.artistdir...0,,182839,00.html]
and the headline:
Los Angeles, Calif. On August 27, 1989, Maria Navarro called the sheriff's office to report that her former husband was again threatening to kill her, despite a restraining order she had obtained against him. The dispatcher instructed her, "If he comes over, don't let him in. Then call us." Fifteen minutes later he burst in on her twenty seventh birthday party and shot her and three others dead. Noting that Ms. Navarro's call was part of a perennial overload of 2,000 or more 911 calls that the sheriff's office receives daily, a spokesman frankly admitted, "Faced with the same situation again, in all probability, the response would be the same.
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A ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals involving the murder of a Los Angeles woman will change the way law enforcement handles 9-1-1 domestic violence calls. The case began in August 1989, when Maria Navarro and four family members were fatally shot by her estranged husband. Navarro had called 9-1-1 when her estranged husband's brother called to tell her that her husband, Raymond Navarro, was on his way to her home to kill her and her family. The call-taker told her to call back when Raymond Navarro arrived. Fifteen minutes later, Raymond Navarro shot her and four others. The Court ruled in favor of the woman's family finding the failure to dispatch police personnel was responsible for the woman's death. The case now will proceed to the United States Federal Court. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department claimed the dispatcher did not send an officer because it was the department practice to not classify a domestic violence threat as an in-progress emergency. The 9th Circuit Court stated in its reversal that "police must provide bodyguards against threats of domestic violence unless they can prove that victims of such threats are less likely to be killed or seriously injured than victims of robberies and 'shots-fired' crimes".
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So much for depending on the cops.
Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
