Man arrested for assault in CG

Just read the article (Finally) as I said before, there are always smart criminals who figure to get away with it, have met many of them and made hotel arrangements for many many more in my time as a police dispatcher. (The Gray Bar hotel that is).

In this case.. I think I'd be inclined to demonstrate to the suspect one manner in which his knife might be used.. (I will not describe that manner here, leave it to your imagination) But in truth.. Once he is convicted and sent to prison..... They will take care of that demonstration, no need for me to lift a finger.

I may be one of those over-protective parents...My kids are always within eye-view, and if they go to any public restroom, my wife goes with the girls, and I go with the boys...Always....Our oldest is 10.

coolbreeze01 wrote:
Yesterday the PD here shot a guy that threatened them with a knife. Good job.

One strike, you're out!

Escargot wrote:
Good thing she didn't feel threatened and just shoot them under the "stand your ground" laws.

Really?

Good thing she didn't feel threatened and just shoot them under the "stand your ground" laws.

This happened just two days ago at Buffalo Bill State Park. Two 14 yr old boys went hiking and trespassed inadvertently on private property adjacent to the park. The public trailhead was nearby but they took a wrong turn. The property owner (she)called me; We are camp hosts here and just arrived 5 days ago. The property owner has eight cabins they rent and I had stopped in earlier wanting to rent one for our son & family, who are visiting later this summer, so the owner had my phone number. She said two of my campers trespassed and was calling the sheriff. I explained we were new and was not familiar with this, but would call park police. I did that, and he called her back right away. Later, the boys mothers stopped by our host site and told us the following: The property owner forced the boys to walk back to their camp site about 1 mile, while she followed right behind on her ATV. On the way she kept telling the boys they were going to jail. She was very irate and rude to the parents and took all their pictures with her phone camera, as well as the car license plates. The boys were frightened and crying. Our final contact with park police was that he explained trespass laws to the boys and parents, but also laws to the property owner regarding her handling of the situation . He told them he could issue citations to the boys and the property owner or none at all if everyone agreed; apparently this is the choice they made. Needless to say, there is no way I will expose my family to this lady and her cabin rental; she had a legal right to enforce trespass laws, but no right to March those kids past her property line.

There are criminals everywhere, And there is always some idiot who thinks he has the perfect plan to outsmart those dumb cops.. Yup, those cops are so dumb they will never catch me if I stay in campgrounds and move alot, No way.. Oh, Hello officer,, Under ARREST, Surely you jest. (And do not call him Shirley unless that's the name on the name bar).

Yup, the prisons are just bursting at the seams with folks who thought they were smarter than those "Dumb Cops".... Actually, some of them were,, (But the Dispatcher got 'em he he he) (yup, I was a dispatcher and there are indeed a few convicts that have ME to thank for their ability to sleep secure in the knowledge that the stupid police are not going to toss their sorry ... backs,,, into the slammer... Course they are sleeping IN the slammer, but that's their problem).

Well, at least the kids were astute enough to give the cops a good description and his life won’t be pleasant for some time. Though, I admit I would call 911, but my preference would be that they take him away on a stretcher unable to stand trial for months. Unfortunately, in this era you do need to keep a closer watch on your kids than in my day. Apparently, we haven’t done a very good job of keeping the gene pool cleaned out. I recall when I was a young boy that happened to a local kid and they had the perp down at the jail. My uncle was a lieutenant on the police force and they had to slip him out the back and spirit him away. There was an angry mob outside preparing to force their way in and drag him out and lynch him.

Some parents do baffle me. Our granddaughter brought a friend out for a month to travel and camp with us a few years ago. We had only met the parents briefly when they dropped her off at my granddaughter’s house a couple of times and never had a conversation with them. Yet they allowed her to go 1000 miles and spend a month with people they didn’t really know. That still freaks out my DW. She would talk to them; know their entire history and their blood type before she would even remotely consider doing something like that.

Yesterday the PD here shot a guy that threatened them with a knife. Good job.

I almost forgot this.

One summer weekend a nude man wandered around the bathrooms until the camp police "arrested" him. The loop was alive with talk of whose child(ren) could or had been accosted.

Turned out he was certainly drunk (as were much of the rest of his party) and someone took his towel as a practical joke.
Got to have friends I suppose.

Hope this incident turns out similarly for the child mentioned.