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"Nobody is Available Right Now"

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
"Nobody is Available Right Now"



I was going to bed the other night when my wife told me that she could see from the bedroom window that I'd left the light on in the shed. As I looked for myself, I saw that there were people in the shed taking things. I phoned the police, who told me that no one was in this area to help at this time, but they would send someone over as soon as they were available. I said OK, hung up, and waited one minute, then phoned the police back.

"Hello. I just called you a minute ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to hurry now cause I've shot them all." Within five minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, an Armed Response unit, the works. Of course, they caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the officers said: "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

I replied with "I thought you said there was nobody available!" http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3363


"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Comments

  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I guess thats one way to get a cop to your location quick
  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What do you bet he was arrested for supplying false information or reporting a situation that didn't exist.
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I dunno, muley. Depends on the prosecuter / LEOs involved. I suspect the potential negative publicity / public ridicule would temper that inclination. I think if I had received that reply on my first call, I would have asked if they could dispatch an ambulance with EMTs trained to handle gunshot wounds in the meantime just in case it would be needed, as I was about to go out w/ the shotgun. No mis-reporting there!
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