OT - Stupid things

[Targan]

Wow. If he'd accidentally shot someone maybe they would have given him an all-expenses-paid visit to Disneyland.

[dragoon500ly]

Don't know about the trip to Disneyland, and by no means do I agree with the "punishment" this officer received. But it a perfect example of what is wrong in police departments, at least in my part of the country. Officers have a great deal of responsibility, and it is certainly not a profession that I would ever want to have, but should police officers not be held to a high standard of ethics and behavior

An accidental discharge is just that, an accident, but it also warrants a more serious examination of what happened. Did it deserve a suspension Probably not, but administrative duty and retraining sessions, possibly even have his Lieutenant write him a warning letter would have been warranted IMHO.

But suspension with pay and then recall back to duty, in effect canceling out the "punishment"

[Targan]

An accidental discharge is just that, an accident, but it also warrants a more serious examination of what happened. Did it deserve a suspension Probably not, but administrative duty and retraining sessions, possibly even have his Lieutenant write him a warning letter would have been warranted IMHO.

But it was a bit more than an accidental discharge wasn't it It was an accidental discharge immediately followed by the officer turning around from the firing line and pointing a loaded, chambered firearm with the safety off at "a dozen government employees" who "promptly dive for cover while screaming "SAFE THAT WEAPON!!!!".

To me that's not an accident, that's a series of mistakes that suggest poor concentration or poor training, probably both. At the very least someone else should be the sgt in charge of the range.

[ArmySGT.]

Sometimes my co-workers here in the civilian world can be astoundingly dumb.

Ok we all work from two or shared folders. One is on the desktop of my workstation and another is on a shared machine.

Recently a position was deleted and on weekends to cover down everyone works in another part of the building.

So to recap during the week my office is the focal point and the shift supervisors work there. There are more drones during the week. The weekend one less on staff now. My office is then closed and workstations are turned off to conserve electricity.

For a month now I am getting complaints that I am not doing things right, and the desk top short cuts won't work.

I work M-F, but since I was going to be in the area I brought my work thumb drive and stopped in to see the problem first hand.

So yeah the short cuts don't work. I am baffled the same exact short cuts work during the week. Trying one essentially locks up the machine for a minute until you get an error code. I re-install the short cuts twice re-booting each time. No Joy.

Then my co-worker casually mentions that working here is ok, but restarting the workstations in the main office it can take twenty minutes for the remote monitoring to acquire everything.

Me = What!.

Of course the short cut to a file in a shared desktop file doesn't work if that PC is turned off.

Dazed expression is returned. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

[dragoon500ly]

But it was a bit more than an accidental discharge wasn't it It was an accidental discharge immediately followed by the officer turning around from the firing line and pointing a loaded, chambered firearm with the safety off at "a dozen government employees" who "promptly dive for cover while screaming "SAFE THAT WEAPON!!!!".

To me that's not an accident, that's a series of mistakes that suggest poor concentration or poor training, probably both. At the very least someone else should be the sgt in charge of the range.

Have to agree with you, but IRL...I reported his punishment. It wasn't right but it is indicative of the standards of the local police departments where I live.

If you want real horror stories, you simply have to travel westwards and visit the New Orleans Police Department. To give you an idea of how bad the NOPD is...the FBI has maintained over 50 agents in NO since the 1970s, investigating police midconduct by the NOPD. No other city in the US can make that claim!

Or as the locals semi-joke, the New Orleans Police Department, the best law money can buy!

[Ronin]

This quote from "Chesty" Puller has always brought a smile to my face.
"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"

[Legbreaker]

There's no way these could possibly get published in today's PC world...



Check out those prices!!!

[Legbreaker]

That's one hell of a tall curb!

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

This quote from "Chesty" Puller has always brought a smile to my face.
"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"

OOO RAHHH Chesty is awesome.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

[ATTACH]1685[/ATTACH]

Q. How many Marines does it take to push a knife-wielding thief off a kerb
A. None, he slipped.

Serves the idiot right for stabbing a military man

[Targan]

Too right. He's lucky they didn't kill him.

[dragoon500ly]

My wife works as a paralegal....she dropped this on me earlier today...WARNING!!!

PUT THE CUP DOWN BEFORE READING!

Top Ten Silly Sex Laws In The United States

1. Oral sex is illegal in 18 states.

2. In Virginia, it is illegal to make love with the lights on.

3. It is illegal for husbands in Willowdale, Oregon to talk dirty during intercourse.

4. Sexual intercourse between unmarried couples is illegal in Georgia.

5. Engaging in any sexual position other than missionary is illegal in Washington D.C.

6. In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner is having an orgasm.

7. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

8. Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal in Florida.

9. It is illegal in Utah to marry your first cousin before the age of 65.

10. Sex with animals is perfectly legal for men in Washington state, as long as the animal weighs less than 40 pounds.

After reviewing this list, one is left with the impression that local governments have waaaayyy too much free time on their hands; that some of the special interest groups really need to get a life; and that somewhere, in some police department, some poor shmuck has to investigate these "crimes".

[pmulcahy11b]

We had a West Point "Third Lieutenant" join us for his summer training. Since we were about to go through the machine gun tables and our ringknocker had proved himself to by an utter pissant, so some NCOs decided to make an example of him.

"You had the bolt in upside down sir!"



Gotta love lieutenants!

And I'm sure he immediately tried to place the blame on someone else!

[pmulcahy11b]

My wife works as a paralegal....she dropped this on me earlier today...WARNING!!!

These aren't sex laws, but...

1) In San Antonio, it's actually legal to own an alligator as a pet. But it's illegal to walk him downtown, and when you walk him in your neighborhood or a public park, he must be leashed.

2) It's illegal in Texas to hunt with a sword, a sword being defined as being a weapon with a blade of more than 15 inches or a total length of 24 inches or greater.

[Schone23666]

These aren't sex laws, but...

1) In San Antonio, it's actually legal to own an alligator as a pet. But it's illegal to walk him downtown, and when you walk him in your neighborhood or a public park, he must be leashed.

2) It's illegal in Texas to hunt with a sword, a sword being defined as being a weapon with a blade of more than 15 inches or a total length of 24 inches or greater.

The heat must do weird things to people in Texas, that's the only logical explanation I can come up with.

Oh, and was stuck in Texas at both Lackland and Sheppard for close to a year just for training way back when....not too anxious to go back, no offense.