So a crazed killer comes to your house, you call 911 "as many as 20 times," and even after 3 hours, no police come to your rescue.
Oh well, at least the bad guy had finished shooting innocent people. No reason for concern here.
Of course, the answer to all of this is to disarm law abiding gun owners. That's really the only logical response. Jesse and Snuffy should be jetting to Wisconsin as we speak, to protest something or other.
Shooter sought refuge with friend's family
By RAQUEL RUTLEDGE
rrutledge@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Oct. 8, 2007
Tyler Peterson showed up at Mike Kegley's door at 7:30 Sunday morning as the rest of Crandon awoke to the grisly news of a mass slaying.
With blood on his pants, his semiautomatic rifle in hand and pistol under the back of his shirt, Peterson started talking about how he lost control. How he went to his on-again, off-again girlfriend's house in the middle of the night and instead of patching up their relationship, argued with her. How others, gathered at her home for a movie-and-pizza party, called him a "worthless pig."
The Forest County sheriff's deputy and part-time Crandon police officer said he was sorry, that he had just "lost it." He'd shot seven of his friends, including two of his best childhood buddies.
Kegley's wife, Mary, discreetly called 911. She and her son, a lifelong friend of Peterson's, coaxed the work-issued assault rifle he had proudly shown off just days earlier from his hand. He wouldn't part with his police-issued pistol, though.
He assured the Kegleys he wouldn't hurt them.
After talking with the Kegleys for a little while, Peterson said he wanted to see his mom and his grandmother. He arranged to meet them on a rural highway.
He promised the Kegleys he'd come right back, and then left, pistol still down the back of his pants.
Kegley thought about taking his family and leaving, but his son refused.
"He wanted to be his friend and try to help," Kegley said.
So Kegley hid several guns around his property, just in case he needed them to defend himself.
Again, they called 911.
Calm and lucid
About an hour later, Kegley estimated, Peterson returned to the house. He said he had met with his mom and grandmother and that his mom spoke softly to him.
"She told him she loved him, no matter what happened," Kegley said.
Peterson said he had called all the victims' families to say how sorry he was. He talked about what he should do, how he would surrender only to his boss, Crandon Police Chief John Dennee, and how he wanted to speak with District Attorney Leon Stenz.
The Kegleys again quietly called 911.
Mary Kegley arranged for Peterson to speak with an attorney. She fed him and gave him coffee.
Mike Kegley talked with him about school, life on the police force.
"Every time we started talking about what happened, he got kind of hyper," Kegley said.
But otherwise he was fairly calm and lucid and didn't seem to be afraid.
"He wasn't running around crazy or anything," Kegley said. "He was very, very sorry for what he did."
Kegley owns a construction and roofing company housed on his property. Three of his workers were at the house, and as Peterson lingered, they called 911 "as many as 20 times," Kegley said.
Sometime around 10:30 a.m. when there was still no apparent sign of police, Mike Kegley left the house to "find out where the hell they were," he said.
Another great victory for gun-control in New York City.
Only two innocent people hurt, so I guess Mayor Bloomberg will just give a silent chuckle, rather than a full out press conference loudly proclaiming how safe the city is when innocent people are denied the means to defend themselves against "psychos."
Woman fights for life after psycho goes on knife rampage
Sunday, October 7th 2007, 4:00 AM
A shirtless madman wielding stolen knives went on a bloody midtown rampage yesterday - stabbing a restaurant worker and a psychologist walking her dog before being shot by an off-duty cop, authorities said.
Deranged Lee Coleman stood wild-eyed over the dog-walker, methodically plunging a knife into her body and face over and over - even pausing to change knives as the woman lay in a pool of blood, screaming for help.
Interesting story from Farnam's Quips:
26 Sept 07
Close-call creates a convert! This from the wife of one of our students:
"Until yesterday, I good-naturedly tolerated my husband's interest in Operator skills and lifestyle. However, when I worked outside at our place in the country, I chose not to carry a pistol, even though he gently encouraged me to do so.
Again and again, I told him it is just not convenient to lug that pistol around while stacking wood. After all, I would continue, we live in this sleepy, little town where nothing bad ever happens. I would then give him the old ' whatever-eye-roll'
That all changed yesterday! I'm writing to you, John, to proclaim that he, and you, are SO RIGHT, and always have been!
Early yesterday one morning, we were our walking our two dogs in our large back yard. We both caught a glimpse of something running across our driveway. We started moving back toward our house. Then, we saw them all!
A group of six, large, wild dogs were running in a pack, digging wildly under a fence in an effort to get at the neighbors' horses. At once, they noticed us and all began running in our direction. Luckily, we, and the dogs, got back to the house in time. My heroic husband, pistol at the ready, brought up the rear, covering me.
We found out later that our neighbors tried, mostly unsuccessfully, fighting off the dogs with a shovel and trash-can lid. Their horses were seriously injured. Local deputies, when they finally arrived, were far more concerned about having to pay the dog catcher overtime than they were about protecting any of us.
I, at long last, learned to put what you and my husband teach into my heart and mind forever! As you've reminded us, we are all individually responsible for our own safety. That now has special meaning for me!"
Comment: Fortunately, an important lesson was learned without a painful price, this time!
Threats seldom come at us in "expected" forms, nor at "convenient" times.
"Hope" is not a strategy!
Women should have the means and training to defend themselves. Because the husband isn't always there:
A few weeks ago my husband was out of town for a few nights. A few minutes after I had turned the lights out on his last night away, there was a knock on my door. I turned on my light, grabbed my pistol and the telephone and called the police. There is no reason someone would be at my door at midnight.
I called 911 and informed them of the situation. While I was waiting for police to come, the man at my door opened the screen door. I yelled at him to get off my porch. He told me he was just trying to deliver a pizza. I told him I hadn't ordered a pizza and he needs to get off my porch NOW! He told me there was no need to yell, he was just trying to deliver a pizza and still would not get off my porch. Things were adding up here.
Finally, after a few more reminders, he got off my porch and drove away. I don't think he was trying to deliver a pizza. After he left, the police got there. The elapsed time from my call to their arrival was about 4 or 5 minutes. What if my words had not stopped him? What if I had not awakened to his knock? What if he didn't care that I was awake standing there just inside the door? The police would likely have found a crime scene instead of a shaken woman when they finally arrived had I not been armed.
Yes, it would be a lovely world if no guns existed, money grew on trees and unicorns danced in the fields. But sorry folks, that just ain't the way things are. And I refuse to be a helpless victim.
Apparently, giving birth, should be on the list of medical procedures that would better not be done in the UK.
A young mother had to deliver her own baby in the lavatory of a flagship hospital because there were no trained midwives available.
Surveyor Catherine Brown had made the agonising decision to undergo a chemically-induced abortion after being told her 18-week pregnancy was risking her life.
But when the time came to give birth she was on an ear, nose and throat ward and had only her mother to help her through the ordeal. Her premature son Edward died in her arms minutes later.
The traumatised mother-of-one said: "I just howled and howled. I remember sitting there looking at him and thinking, 'What do I do next?'. I just sat there on the toilet looking at my dead baby.
"It was dreadful - a terrible nightmare. Then I started crying my eyes out and repeating, 'I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry'. I still can't believe the hospital had no trained staff who could help me."
What to do if you've got equity in your home, but fear the value of your home is going to decline?
This mortgage broker/blogger (not me) suggests borrowing the equity, and investing it.
Personally, I think he's on crack. But I don't get paid to make mortgage loans.
I don't know what's worse about New Jersey:
1. the contempt the NJ politicians have for law-abiding citizens, or
2. that most of the residents of the state just lay back and take it.
From the NY Post description of the criminal record of one of the suspects in the execution of 3 students:
* Carranza was first arrested on Oct. 1 after a bar fight and charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession (using a bottle on three men in the fight). The processing judge set bail at $50,000.
Three days later, Judge JoAnne Watson reduced bail to $20,000, with the consent of the Essex County prosecutor's office. After posting $2,000 cash bond, Carranza was set free that day.
* On Jan. 18, he was arrested on 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, 15 counts of child endangerment and five counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of five.
The same Judge Watson set bail at $200,000.
On Jan. 29, Superior Court Judge John Kennedy reduced bail to $150,000 with the consent of Essex Assistant Prosecutor Dawn Scott.
Carranza posted a $150,000 bond on Feb. 6 and was out the next day.
* On May 3, Carranza was arrested on six counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child, two counts of sexual assault on a four-year-old and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.
Judge Michael Ravin set bail at $300,000.
On May 17, Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena consolidated Carranza's two sexual-abuse cases - and lowered bail to $150,000.
As The Newark Star-Ledger reported, the vacationing Vena dropped by his chambers - with neither defense attorneys nor prosecutors present - to reduce and consolidate the bail.
Having already posted $150,000, Carranza walked without having to put up an additional dime.
What's the solution offered by the NJ elected elite? More gun control (of course).Because further sticking it to the legal gun owners in that state is obviously the solution for keeping illegal alien criminals from killing people.
Canada has a great healthcare system, unless you really need it:
From the BBC:
A Canadian woman has given birth to extremely rare identical quadruplets.
The four girls were born at a US hospital because there was no space available at Canadian neonatal intensive care units.
