SA> Of course, you could always try calling 000 (911 etc) and wait for
SA> a patrol car to not attend. :)

Here's an interesting tale that might be good for an idea, for anybody here who
might, in the future, have need for quickest police response to a call:


George Phillips of Meridian Mississippi was going up to bed 
when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden 
shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. 

George opened the back door to go turn off the light but 
saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. 

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" 
and he said no. 

Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should 
simply lock his door and an officer would be along when 
available. 

George said "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the 
police again. 

"Hello. I just called you a few seconds ago because there 
were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about 
them now cause I've just shot them all." 

Then he hung up. 

Within five minutes three police! cars, an Armed Response 
unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips residence. 

Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed. 

One of the policemen said to George: "I thought you said that 
you'd shot them!" 

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!" 

(True Story) 


I don't understand why the cops are so slow to respond to actual crimes! I even
called the station once, when I had a business, to report that one of their
officers was having his face beaten into the wall by some JD goof he had come
out to arrest! :P

That cop must've been REALLY unpopular cuz I phoned in twice (the beating had
been going on for about 20 minutes by the second call!) and 20 minutes after
the second call they STILL hadn't responded, and the cop was STILL getting his
face hammered! :(

(so I called up the cabbie on that night, on the radio -- he arrived in about 7
minutes(with fare in the back!) and hauled the punk off, and bodily(without
much in the line of "due care and attention") muscled him into
the back of the
cop car, then the cabbie slammed the door closed, then grabbed the keys from
the ignition, and went to see to the officer, who was dazed and bleeding. . .

(This was the O.P.P. (Ontario Provincial Police) in a small-town(Nippigon)
detachment(a training detachment, I think I'd been told)

Yes, I heard, there had been their Xmas party going on at that time, but I
think an officer being beaten takes precedence! :P (or SHOULD!!) :P

That, of course, is an extreme example of cops not showing up to a call, but
even the regular ones (someone calling because someone is currently breaking
into their home, and they are a defenseless old woman), and there's no response
until well after the issue is resolved!

Is the whole thing that with the new quota standards for hiring cops, we don't
have any more of the REAL cops who are there to get the job done, and we're
stuck with a bunch of chickenspit WIMPS??? :(

Another example, known to me -- a lady friend of mine's ex-husband put a
home-made firebomb through the front door mailbox when she was sleeping --
luckily it fizzled out without doing serious damage!  She called the police...
a guy shows up, looks at the device and the char marks on the floor, takes a
few notes, fills out a card, which he hands to her, saying, "Here's the case#
so you can give it to your insurance company."

LUDICROUS!!

Is that all the cops are now, are public-paid investigators for rich, private
insurance companies? :P

I think the cop's job was to do all he could to determine who did it, and then
go forth to ensure it(or worse) doesn't happen again, and the damb insurance
company can well afford their own investigators, if they need to question a
claim (there was no claim -- the damage was less than the deductible!) :P

When did this happen?  (that the police stopped working for the
public/taxpayers, and started working for the private/rich, who usually don't
pay taxes, if they can help it!)? :(

Your friend,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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