Maybe just press the Life Alert button, eh ?

Post #396,190 by dmcarls 11/10/14 10:26:01 AM Reply	Maybe just press the Life Alert button, eh ? "After his Life Aid medical alert necklace was inadvertently triggered,] police came to his home and demanded that he open his front door. Despite his objections and statements that he did not need help, the police broke down Chamberlain's door, tasered him, and then shot him dead." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Kenneth_Chamberlain,_Sr.
Post #396,192 by drook 11/10/14 10:55:53 AM Reply	[boggle] There's audio of the whole incident. They spent an hour trying to break down his door, with him telling them the whole time that he didn't need help. (Verified by the audio.) The initial version of their incident report didn't include the fact that they were summoned as a result of a Life Alert call. <question class="rhetorical">How the actual fuck is no one being prosecuted for this. </question> -- Drew
Post #396,193 by a6l6e6x 11/10/14 11:43:08 AM Reply	Sometimes it does work, however. I knew a lady (now gone) that fell in her tub and used "Life Alert" kind of device. The local police from Pineville, NC had to break down the front door to get to her. After emergency care at hospital she went home and had the door repaired. She then sent the bill to the police department and got reimbursed for her repairs! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #396,203 by Ashton 11/10/14 3:59:55 PM Reply	Meld this story with lincoln's post today in 'Open' and the question of How? can such vicious misanthropes receive certification as Police Officers (?) becomes easier to deduce: some of those Texas students will become Cops. They will do so with the civilization-level of a feral child, abandoned in a city slum to the mercies of (the predecessors of) These Cops. It shall be all they know, as all the 'civics', history and related civilizing courses shall have gone ^Zoooom^, the lessons hourly over-written 24/7 by ear-bud-news: of Ashton cough* Kutcher, another new guitar player? or the winner of some sports spectacular. qed (All I know fershure is: pre-Shogunate, I could not have made this shit up.. while trying to pen The Great Dystopian Novel) --the plot would have made it to Laugh-In for the ripping off of my epaulets. Now, it is assumed that we shall continue to wring-hands, suck-it-up and clock-in to The Corporate Desk computer. Indefinitely. * Yeah.. who DID "win the civil war?" (Also: who were the players? forget: what it was about--that's post-grad stuff.) From whom did the US revolt (successfully)? Will they take US back, in our dotage???

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