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You had to be there Hawk, kinda a private joke from the TN get together.

BTW, so do I and have been most of my adult life.

Likely none, since it blows a hole in your BS position, right at the waterline.

Of course, you already knew that, Chris....

I know it. Only sensible way to carry a 1911.

Yep, yep, and yep.

Of course, that'd require Chris actually meet with someone from the 'fire; which he has avoided doing thus far, even though offers and proximity would make such an easy problem to remedy.

Cops occassionally screw up, and or are just bad or wrong. However, it makes it difficult to not view any story about such posted by TRH with some skepticism. A lot of it, in fact.

If you're a credulous enough sort to believe one-tenth of anything that Nimrod has to say (apt name, by the way), then I guess that perspective is 100% understandable, and you ought not be held to blame for it.

All I know is you clearly have a hard on for cops in general. Just sayin'.

I'll take my chances with .280 calling BS on me when necessary, as he and I have been a mile or two.

Nice attempted dodge (well, not really), Chris....

Almost too ridiculous for a response. I have no problem with cops serving in their appropriate role in society.

Your choice of thread topics and war stories belies this. You only care about the double standard if the police officer ends up getting better treatment than the non-police. You are a psychologist, so you obviously realize this.

No, you have no problem with cops serving in their appropriate role in society as you define it.

The fact is that the people of NH most likely don't care how you want the police to function. The folks in my AO most likely don't care how the police in Keene, NH function. Local policing is a local issue as long as it's done in an ethical/legal manner.

George

He's also damned near perfect living proof that the only reason most people go into psychology is because they are too [bleep] up with their own problems to fix them, so they have to concentrate on someone else's.

You really have to wonder, wtf he defines THAT as....

The role of the police officer in society is, by nature, a great potential threat to liberty. I know that partly because I understand human psychology within the context of arbitrary power in combination with muted responsibility for personal conduct.

I won't even touch that one.

In other words, he hasn't a clue, and stepped on his dik, again.

Arbitrary power in combination with muted responsbility? That's downright funny right there.

hmmm, imagine that

I am flattered, thanks. I'm glad to hear George doesn't do dog parks too. I was about to start stocking up on Zima for the December hunt.

MONROE, Wash. - Violence at a Monroe dog park this week has kicked emotions into high gear for two dog owners who both tell different versions of what happened.

One owner, Cassie Dee, is livid that someone shot her beloved bulldog, Bella, in the neck while it wrestled with another dog.

"I just feel - I just feel angry," she says.

She says Bella was shot in the neck at a place where she was supposed to be having fun - a Monroe dog park.

"It was used with deadly force - it was meant to kill my dog," she says.

The incident all started Tuesday afternoon when Bella and her pup, Lee-Lu, started wrestling with Deever, a golden retriever, at Wiggly Field.

Cassie Dee says Deever's owner, David Rasmussen, overreacted.

"Frantically, he said, 'Leave the park, and I am going to shoot your dog,'" she says.

Dee says Rasmussen tried to separate the dogs, yelling, hitting Bella with his gun, and then shooting her.

But Dee says Rasmussen's retriever was never in danger.

"They were scrapping - that was it. With two adults there to take care of it," she says.

But there are two sides to every story.

Rasmussen says the bulldog grabbed on to Deever's throat and wouldn't let go. He says he pistol-whipped Bella trying to get her off of Deever and says the gun accidentally went off.

"That's what it took to to get him off my dog," Rasmussen says.

He denies telling Dee to leave the park and that he would shoot her dog.

"No, no. What I said to her was, 'Get him off. Get him off my dog,'" he says.

Deever was also injured during the fracas.

Now police are investigating and say the shooting was an accident. Rasmussen has a concealed weapons permit.

"It appears that (Rasmussen) was attempting to break up a fight and believed the bulldog would kill his dog," says Debbie Willis of the Monroe police.

Officers will wrap up their investigation and forward the case on to the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office.

As for Bella, she'll be released from the veterinarian and go home by Thursday night.