police at my house

S

starcrafttom

Active member
Well what fun I had today. First I had a surveyor at the house looking at the 22 for a buyer from Alaska. After he left I went inside to have a diet coke and take a break. I left the boat open because I was right in the house and heading out in a minute to clean up and lock it.

As I'm sitting in side on the phone I hear my dog , shadow, in the front yard barking his head off. Well shadow does not bark at most folks, in fact he dont bark much at all. So I get up and out the front door to find 5 to 7 cops with guns drawn in my yard around my dog.???? I knew he can be a pain but dam. The cops told me to grab the dog and get inside. I snatched the dog and tossed him in the house. At that point the police surrounded my boat, with guns drawn, and ordered the twikker hiding in my boat to come out.

Now I had no idea there was someone in my boat. Seems this guy ran from a traffic stop because of his numerous warrants, great. I am just glad he did not have a gun. If he would have fought back I would have a holey boat. He came out with his hands up and was taken into custody in my front yard. after wards the police had me search my own boat to make sure he did not dump any drugs in my boat.

It seems the local driving school car , which used my road for parking and driver switch's, saw the guy go into my boat and called 911. Glad he did because in 5 minutes I was going out to clean and lock the boat. me in the door way and some twikker in the bow??/ someone was going to a get ass kicking and I hope it would not have been me, and I am glad not to find out.

here's a video of the guy giving up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMo0XFd2po
 
That's incredible! The sad part is that after he is released from jail tomorrow, he'll probably be back so he can crawl into your v-berth for a good nights sleep. (Too bad our fellow citizens won't allow the legal system to lock him up somewhere and throw the key away!).
 
starcrafttom":7o5ujqaf said:
He came out with his hands up and was taken into custody in my front yard. after wards the police had me search my own boat to make sure he did not dump any drugs in my boat.

[/url]
Click to expand...

Neat story Tom, glad they let you go in first so you could hide your own stash.... :roll:

Glad no one was hurt, particularly the pup! :dog

Charlie
 
Geez! Good for Shadow! We just started locking Daydream in the driveway this week after we had car prowls in our remote rural neighborhood last week...Only difference here is that Sheriff Roar (OK, Mark, it is Rahr, I know, I know) says the King County cops won't come out for property crimes any more until we pass a tax increase. At least your cops show up...
 
The talks is all to get folks to vote for a tax increase. Here is a transcript of a KUOW report.


Public safety took a big hit in the budget. It makes up more than three–quarters of the county's spending. King County Sheriff Sue Rahr says what that means is that so–called low–level crimes will not be investigated. Say your wallet or car were stolen. Sheriff Rahr says none of those crimes will be assigned to a detective for a follow–up investigation.

Rahr: "I've had to make a choice between some very, very bad choices. And I had to choose between crimes against persons or crimes against property; it's a terrible place to be because common sense — history shows when you stop investigating property crimes, everything else gets worse."

RProffer":1avwqsmn said:
The cops won't show up for property crimes? That sounds like a law suite waiting to happen.
Click to expand...
 
hi tom,
better for you and the crook that the police got him rather than you and your dog! could you imagine the mess you'd be stuck with cleaning up all of his blood, as well as patching the 6 or 7 bullet holes?
glad a positive outcome occurred
pat
 
Tom, it sounds like the police handled the situation well and I'm glad nobody was hurt.

Our police department doesn't seem to have any budget trouble these days. They are constantly buying new equipment (they recently got some Toyota Highlander Hybrids), have a nearly new 30+ foot SAFE boat with triple Merc Verado's in addition to two other nice boats, and I'm sure they've got the greatest radar guns imaginable (which they love to use!).

Thankfully we have very little crime to speak of, especially the violent sort. And the police recently did well by quickly finding and arresting the kids who spray painted anti-semitic remarks on local schools. Ordinarily, though, reading the weekly police report in the newspaper is almost comical and the police seem to have plenty of time on their hands.
 
The cops yesterday did a good job and keep the situation in control.

I have noticed a lot of local police departments do not want to be bothered with property crimes. a fishing friend had a motor stolen. you could see a hand print on the other motor but the cops refused to take prints. Told him to take it up with his insurance. I got the same dumb commit when my radar was stolen.

Ignoring small crimes just leads to more and bigger crimes. when Rudy was in charge in new york he started a policy that no crime was two small. As they arrested people for small stuff they found most had warrants for bigger stuff or got linked to larger crimes. also as more criminals spent more time in jail the crime rates across the board dropped. its like fishing, 10 % of fisherman catch 90% of the fish. well if your in jail you can't fish or steal in this case.
 
Wow. Tom, a good ending, I'm glad you didn't get in an altercation with that tweaker just before heading off to Hawaii. Injuries would have put a crimp in your scuba diving!

Warren
 
Great video--shows that you never know what is going to happen! Glad that no one was hurt or your property damaged. Around here most of us older folks have some protection--as well as a Sheriff who put in what he needed; and got it.
 
Ah...just another day at the office. :lol: Yes indeed...you got a small peek into my world. Why just yesterday I got into a little "scuffle" w/ a young lad who was too stupid to realize that if you return to the same Safeway you just shoplifted from 5 days ago, chances are SOMEONE, an employee or two perhaps, may recognize you. Especially when you run into, literally, an employee while making your escape last week and that same employee is now assisting you while looking at your surveillance picture on the wall adjacent to the counter you're standing at! And to make matters worse...or better, he was wearing the SAME SHIRT as in the surveillance pics. :lol: :lol: :lol: God I love dumb criminals. Seems the young lad had an illicit drug problem (crack) along with several felony warrants out for his arrest for said illicit drug problem (crack). When I spoke to the young man he did not want to "cooperate". He is now sitting in King County Jail and I am home, uninjured.

Glad it worked out Tom and the good guys won one. Was kinda hoping the K9 would get a good chomp in, but alas, the crumb gave up. On a positive note; no good guys were injured, which includes you. Your boat remains water tight :wink: and one less douche-bag is on the streets, although as Dave said, not for a long enough time, I'm sure.

As regards my dear Sheriff (Rahr) and King County in general, I will bit my tounge...suffice it to say you all know how I feel about taxes and sometimes we reap what we sew. The County is home to Seattle after all and let's just say many of those residents have no love lost for "the man".
 
Mark, Glad you made it home safe again. Prayers for that to continue, everyday, for you and all your "Brothers in Blue".

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
Back
Top