How to call the police........

This is "supposed" to be a true story. Whether it is or not; it's still a good one. Might be worth tryin' sometime.


George Phillips , an elderly man, from 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?"
He said "No," but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.

Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available.."

George said, "Okay."

He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again.

"Hello,I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot and killed them both, the dogs are eating them right now." and he hung up.

Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team,a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and 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!"



Doug...

Sounds about right

Real or not I still like it. I have several friends that are in law enforcement and they are great guys doing an almost impossible job. I have spent the better part of this week helping one of them build a shop, we joke around and have a great time, although he is local PD, there were a couple of State P's there helping also, great bunch of guys, and best of all they really like to talk about guns. Make it a point to get to know at least a couple of officers in your town or county, they are people too, that is what we need to remember.

That's my home town!! That's just how we do things around here.

Let me tell you a little story from last weekend.


The wife and I was sitting in a local resturant waiting for our order to come out. While we wait I was watching TV from across the room. I notice a man walk past me a hollar "wassup man" I just nodded and continued to watch tv. Next thing I know their is a lot of action going on at his table as waitors and staff walk back and forth.
So I turn my attention to their conversation and I start hearing certian key words that make me believe they are talking about me! Words like "big boy", "tiny", "better stop", "I'm going to go off" etc... So I ask the waitress to come over and tell me what is going on. She says " Oh, he is just drunk and high! He thinks you are staring at him and we are trying to explain that their is a TV above him, that you are watching tv".
Now filled in with what is going on I start keeping my eye on him. He keeps on acting out so I decide that I'm not going to get in a fight with a high / drunk, no telling what life threating deseases he has. So I step outside and apply my mini cannon to my side and walk back in. Thankfully he must have noticed because he becae a totaly different person.

Just a little bite of Saturday night action while I try to eat at a local resturant. I asked the owner later why he allowed the man to stay in if he is such a problem. His reply "Oh he's ok I've known him forever." I said, "that doesn't mean that one day he won't come in hear and rob you".

Josh , think that drunk thoght it's best to stay a two eye drunk than a three eyed cold one

schmitty wrote:Real or not I still like it. I have several friends that are in law enforcement and they are great guys doing an almost impossible job. I have spent the better part of this week helping one of them build a shop, we joke around and have a great time, although he is local PD, there were a couple of State P's there helping also, great bunch of guys, and best of all they really like to talk about guns. Make it a point to get to know at least a couple of officers in your town or county, they are people too, that is what we need to remember.

schmitty, that right there is my problem with them here. I DO know (too) many of them.

All I can say is they aren't gonna have to worry about me wanting their job.

I can beleive it. They dont want you to protect your own property. Mention guns, and they come out like a dog in heat.

good story Doug i enjoyed it

Very true if u need them in a hurry you have to give a little white lie like that, the start of summer we had a problem with my buddys girlfriend he brought down for the weekend to his moms next store to us, anyway we were having a cookout and she decides to go to the store right when we were sitting down to eat,well she went and bought three bottles of wine and chugged them down in the parking lot.When she came back 40 minutes later we were just finishing up and she was in rare form and flipped out on him in the yard so he went inside his moms house and called the police after she was swinging a shovel at him and ripped a few of her screens out trying to get him. Then she came over to our house beating on the windows and doors all bloody from cutting her hands up trying to get in so my wife called the police also and 35 minutes later still no cops and they kept saying we have to wait for the state police cause ocean view stops at the bridge half a mile from our house. Well after she cracked our front bay window beating on it with her cell phone which then pissed me off so i went outside and told her to get the f outta of my yard she then stepped up on the steps and started swinging at me well i grabbed her arm then her other arm then she tried to knee me in the nads so i pulled her down in the yard and held her while she was going nuts trying to head butt and bite me ,well when my wife called them again and said now my husbans wrestling her in the front yard then right away you could hear the sirens across town and within a few minutes the ocean view cops pull up and grab her

As the son of a retired officer I must say. Most times the officers do not agree with the policies some cities/counties/states have in place. My bet is any officer would be glad to go handle the situation wether it's in the "so called area or not" . As schmitty says they are people and most times on a personal stand they will agree with you, but as an officer they are bound by rules just like on your job.

Just to give you an idea of what cops deal with, a good buudy of my dads rolls up to a domestic abuse call, the lady comes running out obviously beat up and screaming he's gonna kill me. The guy comes out with a gun and the officer get's into a wrestling match with the guy. The officer is getting the upper hand but the chick get's mad cause the officer is hurting her boyfriend so she then jumps on the officer and starts hitting him. Mind you this is the same chick that just came out screaming he's gonna kill me if you don't stop him. That's the kind of stuff cops deal with everyday and people think there job is easy. When people are being shot at who do they call, then they bitch when they do show up. As schmitty said I definitely don't want there job.

I for one know their job isn't easy and if anybody thinks it is there nutz ,i think they have about the hardest job possible not to mention dangerous as hell.