From: kurt@eskimo.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum)
Subject: Re: How do you get fast police action?
Summary: I just take these magic pills!  *ting!*
Organization: >>> Eskimo North (206)-FOR-EVER <<<
Distribution: seattle
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:40:43 GMT

In article <NEAL.92Aug17143636@eos-airsea.atmos.washington.edu> neal@atmos.washington.edu (Neal Johnson) writes:
>
>>>   In article <1992Aug17.023339.16421@u.washington.edu> 
>>>ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan) writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>	Saturday early morning I was on my way home on bicycle when I
>>>	spotted the strange sight of a young man on a bike with a TV
>>>	carton balanced on the handlebar about to begin descending
>>>	a rather steep street. It struck me as foolish that anyone 
>>>	would haul such a large object in so dangerous a fashion at 
>>>	dark (It was only 4 am). [...]
>
>>In article <1992Aug17.153645.27176@eskimo.celestial.com> 
>>kurt@eskimo.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum) writes:
>>
>>   Well, you know what the police priorities are these days.
>>   They are all out doing highly visible, glamorous, easy stuff
>>   that has a high return for effort expended (even though it
>>   backfires sometimes, like the Everett SWAT team that killed
>>   that lady).
>
>Well, you're knee-JERK (with appropriate emphasis on the JERK)
>response was enough to make my already high blood pressure take a
>jump.

Well, you're a dumb Friday-geek.  Dumm-da-DUMM-dumm!
So there!

>I have been frustrated by lack of police response on the few occasions
>where I wanted them but I never thought to criticize their priorities.
>
>It never occured to me that they ought to drop everything they're doing
>to attend to my needs.  I don't pay enough taxes to warrant this
>attention AND I don't want to!  

So then what *did* you expect?  Were you just helping them collect
statistics?  Did you just want your hand held? (BTW, that's not altogether
a bad public function, as public functions go -- that's what CSO's do).

>I think it is too bad that an officer wasn't sitting right around the
>corner (at Winchell's or Westernco) to bust the misguided youth
>mentioned above but I don't think that the officer's should be yanked
>from life or death matters to chase such a suspect down.

Actually, I have a contract from the police department to flame guys
like you, so the cops can devote their attention to more important
matters... :)

>In a perfect world this wouldn't be required but then again in a
>perfect world we wouldn't have bugs like you making idle criticisms
>with zero supporting evidence.

Yeah, yeah, we'd all be rounded up, wouldn't we?  Might not be as easy
as you think.  What's the bug business, anyway?  Are you likening me to
an insect, as an insignificant creature, or in the sense of the SLA, whose
slogan was, "death to the Fascist insect that preys on the life of the
people"?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Zero supporting evidence??  With civil confiscations taking place right
and left?  Police brutality in LA? Florida cops manufacturing crack for
stings?  Jeez, what do you want?  It looks like you have a textbook
case of cerebroanal anastomosis.

So what's *your* idea of the perfect world??

>Do you say these things merely to elicit response or do you actually
>believe some of it?

Gosh, Neal, I've been puzzled for some time about that, myself.
It's been going on for about a year now.  Gee, what do you suppose is
happening???  Since you monitor *your* body-functions so well, perhaps
you can devote a little attention to *your* head, instead of mine.
First, try extricating it from where it is tightly wedged.  Now you
should be able to see enough to RTFM...
-- 
kurt@grogatch.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum)
e-mail me at kurt@eskimo.celestial.com for a copy of Bob Black's essay,
"The Abolition of Work"
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