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  I agree that a larger candidate pool would improve the odds. Getting more Andy Griffith's would be great, but he'd get killed in a life-threatening situation. Maybe road cops that write tickets and accident reports need to be more like him and we have some tougher cops for felony arrests and kicking in doors? I don't know what the answer is. I just know that  whole police force full of officer friendlies aren't always enough.      I'm not against monetary punishment for "actual" damages done, I am emphatically against it in this case, however, because no actual damages occurred. It just looks bad on TV and that's not enough to ruin the life of an officer, who may not have ever done anything wrong before now as far as we know, or cripple a whole department's annual budget over.   If this lady's shoulder had been dislocated, spinal injury worsened, skin burnt by asphalt, etc. I'd be right there with. Barring any of those damages, it needs to at least be a learning opportunity, but that's all. We can't throw the baby out with the bath water just because of baggage we bring to the table from what OTHER cops did in OTHER situations.   We don't punish one cop/department for all that wrongs that every cop/department has ever done.

  I am not arguing that ANY public official (LEO or otherwise) be allowed to operate with impunity. I am also not suggesting that they never do things they shouldn't. I'm only saying that in this single incident, showing up to the table with the baggage of all the things we don't like about cops is wrong. Read through this thread again and look at some of the comments in which people want the cops to lose everything over what could have happened in a worst-case scenario.

All those other "zero tolerance" policies are working out REAL well so far, huh?   There'll come a point, if we aren't careful, when nobody wants to be a cop due to lawsuits, persecution, and outright hatred of LEOs. Those that will do the job will be paid ridiculous salaries, because that will be the only way to entice candidates. Then the salary will get so high that the worst possible people become cops, just for the salary instead of the sense of duty.   If that doesn't happen, we'll have the equivalent of cops walking around with long checklist they have to run through to do the most mundane tasks out of fear of law suits and getting fired. Look at the damage this mentality has done to the medical industry. You walk into an ER for 3 stitches and walk out with a $5K bill for half a dozen "CYA" tests the doc has to run to minimize the chances of being sued.   Bottom line: the cop's assessment of her injuries turned out to be CORRECT. She was NOT burned/injured by HIS actions. The assessment about her med condition vs DUI was wrong, however. So, some want the cops fired/sued/strung up over "What-Ifs"...all because of a video that tells a fraction of a story. Sounds to me JUST like the public reaction to the doctored dispatch tapes from the Zimmerman trial.

None of us know all the facts, just what the media wanted us to see. They successfully make it appear that a potentially injured victim was man-handled by the cops and her flesh seared on the scalding pavement and the lynch mob takes the bait every time.   I'm not even going to dignify the "scalding pavement" claim with a response beyond saying the avg. temp that day was 10 degrees hotter in Nashville than it was in Santa Fe and my flesh would not be seared to the pavement in 60 seconds. I'm not saying it was cool and soothing, but it wasn't "fry an egg on it" hot either.   Those few seconds of footage don't show everything that happened. If anyone thinks it's SOP for cops to drag accident victims from a car and cuff them, I don't think we can continue to communicate on an intelligent level. The worst cops out there would not risk further injury to someone just because they thought she was drunk.  Some of you act like it's impossible that they observed signs of her being ambulatory and/or seemingly uninjured inside the car.   For all we know she may have been moving around inside, appearing to almost anyone to be drunk, too drunk to open the door or comply with commands. Regardless, she wasn't dragged out roughly and slammed on the ground. I guess they're supposed to ask a non-responsive suspect (which is what she appeared to be to them) until they finally comply and remove themselves from their vehicle?

Looking forward to more facts before I join the lynch mob. I'm most curious to know: 1) How severe the wreck was. I see her hood is buckled, but can't see any damage to the truck. Is this amount of damage consistent with head/spinal injury? Seat belt? Air bags? 3) Does she have a known history of this condition? Was this an unforeseen first time attack? If not, should she be driving with such a condition? Public safety? Was she wearing a Med-Alert bracelet? 4) Did she show any signs of being burnt by the asphalt? Was it really too hot or is this just overreaction? 5) Assume a drunk had been pulled from the car instead, would this be inappropriate? Maybe I'm desensitized, but it didn't look overly rough to me.

I added that Grip Force Adapter to my Gen 4 Glock 17. It works great, but it chewed up my hand pretty bad until I took a Dremel to it.

that was too freakin' close

  Very sage advise here. ^^^   I've bought a total of four T-53's since January using my C&R none had matching numbers of course. Luckily the headspace was in spec on all 4 of them. One of the worst looking ones was the one I paid to have hand-picked. Ironically, it's the best shooter, though.   Sadly the one I sanded down, painstakingly applied a 16 coats of BLO, and reblued is the worst shooter of the bunch. This is despite having a beautiful bore and crown. I'm hoping it just needs the sights adjusted.

Best price I've seen recently on a T-53 was Bud's. With shipping (if you have a C&R license) it's $130. If you have it shipped to and FFL it'll be even more.

I like the idea of one, but not sure if I'll pony up the dough.   I'm putting a LER scope on a Mosin. If I like the setup, I could definitely see a Ruger in my future.

The practice of promoting/graduating students despite their performance is the reason a HS diploma is barely worth the paper it's written on nowadays.   I think the quality of educators has only slightly diminished. I believe the real problem is two-fold: 1) parents aren't involved (as several others have mentioned) and 2) the education system is mired in red tape, artificial standards, and budgetary incentives.    The first problem is only compounded by the growing number of single-parent households. God bless single moms. Many can do a fine job without a husband, but let's be real...2 sets of hands/eyes/ears/incomes is better than one.   The second problem is an ongoing failure of the gov't to find it's own ass with both hands. Everything they try to fix just becomes worse and damn near irreparable.

:shake: These new laws will really cripple the activities of gangs and other criminals.  :shake:

if there's a college somewhere in the U.S. that she is capable of graduating from, a diploma from there is as worthless as used toilet paper

  As a zombie purist, I agree. Seems Hollywood is playing fast and loose with the term "zombie".   Whatever you call the rage/virus infected "zombies" they are scary as hell and I, for one, want no part of them.

[url="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16003-alabama-adopts-race-based-standards-for-school-students"]Alabama Adopts Race-based Standards for School Students[/url]   For once, Jesse, Al, and their ilk should be throwing a hissy fit over something. This is the most racist thing the Federal gov't has come up with since Affirmative Action.   For example: the article says 93.6% of Asians, 91.5% of white, 85.5% of poor, and only 79% of black students have to pass the new math standards. Only special needs children have lower standards than black kids.   Sounds dangerously close to saying a black person's diploma is only worth 4/5 of a regular diploma to me.    

  I've only had one cup of coffee this morning, please excuse me. My filter is not on yet.

  Heck yeah!!   "in case I catch somebody stealing my cows/tree stands...I also keep a shovel in my truck for burying the bodies" LOL

Welcome GuitaRx. Enjoy that Lee Turret press and if you need help setting it up or have questions, you've come to the right place.        ...and some people with better taste. :)

I agree, overall good movie. We as the movie-consuming public have to get over this "it's not like the book" thing. You'll never find a good producer/director that wants to work on a film where there's no creative freedom. If all movies were rigid copies of the book, there'd be no great directors, only good/bad authors. I, for one, am thankful the movie wasn't like the book. The book was cool and I like the perspectives, but that would make for a terrible and boring translation to film. The way they did it in the film was pretty darn good. I saw it two weekends in a row...once with friends, once with family. I didn't hear any complaints from either group on the way out of the theater. I'm looking forward to WWZ II to see the sweeping crews do battle with the zeds. Also, to see the zeds in the cold and/or water. Mostly the Battle of Yonkers, though. Leaving it out of the first one gives me something to look forward to.

This is pretty darn funny....   Basically, a teacher split class into pairs and had one start a story then the next adds a paragraph and they go back and forth.   http://themetapicture.com/a-prime-example-of-men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus/  

I'll chip in for a bus ticket to Canada or Mexico.

  OMG...that's too funny. All I could think about when I was reading it was this scene in Men In Black where Will Smith shoots little Tiffany instead of the monsters.   [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXNNqNfQBs[/media]

  I'm with you on this one, man. I'm scared what I might do if someone (including a cop) kicked in my door and shot one of my dogs.   I love my dogs JUST EXACTLY as if they are human members of my family...you mess with my dog, you're messing with my family. I'd defend them just like I'd defend my wife/kids.

There's an interesting show on one of the "make you smarter" channels called Brain Games. One of the things they demonstrate uses a series of 100 pictures of random things. They cycle through them rapidly and ask what images stuck in your mind. Hardly anything did.   The next time they cycle through about every 10th or 15th pic is a spider or a snake. You "see" them and only them regardless of how fast they cycle the pics. Their explanation is that the brain is awesome at identifying threats. Our brains have "learned" that spiders and snakes are dangerous and it is constantly scanning for them via our subconscious.   Similarly, we learn to tell a friendly dog from one that is more likely to bite using visual cues and behavior markers. I see some types of profiling the same way. A guy in a hoodie lurking in a dark alley is way scarier than a guy in a 3-pc suit in that same dark alley.

I had the same dilemma last fall when I was truck shopping. GM and Chrysler didn't make my long list due to politics.   The Titan, Tundra, and F-150 stacked up pretty even on performance for what I needed. So, I ended up picking based on looks, comfort, and aftermarket parts availability. It got real easy at the bargaining table when price came into play. The F-150 was CONSIDERABLY less expensive.