Update on showing a late night druggie my 27-2 in 3.5"

[Smoke]

I think whenever we post a story on the net especially on a forum like this it’s going to turn into an AAR, that's just the nature of the beast.

As Feral Merrill said, even if I might have done it a little differently I can’t deny the fact that what the OP did worked.

For my part I apologize for pulling the thread off track

 

[The Big D]

Dangerous?

Is being a cop dangerous? Sure, somewhat...

There are moments of sheer terror, and it's quite okay to be scared...but one cannot be afraid. Every LEO will find moments when one wonders just why he/she chose such a profession. But he/she always answers the bell and heads toward trouble...never away (That's why you cannot be afraid.) That's what makes it fun!

Think those who responded to the Navy Yard weren't scared? But they did their job!!!!

Be safe.

 

[feralmerril]

There was a large wild family of boys that I grew up with and some of them got in the high rise window washing business. Two of them fell to their death. They were crazy. I seen them chase each other going hand over hand on the top rail in a high barn that they put hay in the hay mow with.
I wouldnt do that job or high rise steel work for all the money in the world!

 

[doublesharp]

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From reading your post I think you are under the mistaken impression that I am a cop. I am a security guard and every response I made to this little off shoot of the main topic was as a security guard.

Speaking as a security guard about security guards I can tell you that security work and police work are two entirely different fields with two entirely different sets of responsibilities.

Police are charged with keeping the peace and responding to criminal activity where my number one mission at work is “to deliver world class customer service”.

For a security guard to claim that our job equals law enforcement is extremely pretentious and i make a habit of correcting that bit of misinformation where ever I see it.

Disagree. A mall cop isn't the same as a member of Lockheed Martin's private security force. You are poking a long time and well respected forum member that was adding a little flavor to this thread with some personal experience. You are a newbie around here but if you hang around awhile you'll find out F M is the real deal. He doesn't need me to speak for him but I choose to.

 

[model70hunter]

Not only that but there do exist places where you could be charged for brandishing. Sounds like the first doper doesn't get it yet either, if he is back for more & talking with the wife...

Both events were the same person.

Luckily the good states have a Castle law going for us.

I do not have a garage, folks see me carrying cased guns to the truck anyway. I do have a nice gun safe.

And he told his friends do not mess around there... My point was made.

He got it. My wife played the good cop and he fessed up. It seems he is fearful of me. Point made x 2.

And for all the hindsight gents when the City PD came by to inspect our vehicles so we could register them in KS I spoke with 2 officers about the incident. They knew who he was immediately. One mentioned showing no fear to him will make him steer clear of your house.

 

[feralmerril]

Thanks. I never thought my job hard or dangerous. The funny thing is I had several close friends that I worked with and they would have me over to their house for dinner or we might all eat out together. They would tell their wives about the job and I would sit there thinking, do we have the same job?
Except for accidents I never knew a guard that I worked with that got hurt on the job by a person. Wait, I just recalled one. We were working together and he went on his rounds checking a credit union and got practicly brained by someone that came down through the roof! He seen a door ajar with a light on in the room. He reached through the door to shut the light off and got hit with a iron bar or whatever across his forearm. He actualy thought he got a shock off the light switch and stuck in his head! He almost got killed and it affected him mentaly.
The biggest qualification for a job like that is a clean record. Lockheed pays a fortune to clear you for secret clearances. Its not a one shot deal either. You might have to pass the same clearances for say, the air force and navy etc. And they still update them through the years. I am sure a minimum wage store guard job would be more dangerous. The biggest PITA though is knowing you will be tested by goverment security spooks every once in awhile on setting alarms off, trying to penitrait high security areas, try to get in with phony badges etc. I had one idiot on a air base yell, freeze! I got a gun on yah. I was in a unlit hanger that was suppose to be deserted. He was betting his life that I didnt have a gun since we werent allowed guns on base. The job is boreing but if you like airplanes and BSing with people it can be interesting. While boreing, when you spend 35 years at it looking back, things do happen.

 

[Smoke]

Disagree. A mall cop isn't the same as a member of Lockheed Martin's private security force. You are poking a long time and well respected forum member that was adding a little flavor to this thread with some personal experience. You are a newbie around here but if you hang around awhile you'll find out F M is the real deal. He doesn't need me to speak for him but I choose to.

Yeah, I'm not a mall cop. I work for the city utility I do essentially the same thing FM did at Lockheed and it's still not police work

 

[Nframecollector]

Sure wish we could meet in person. I belive the conversation would get more friendly if we met.

I wasn't being unfriendly.

 

[rags]

.....and, we're done here too. Come on folks.