damn, this article is full of stupid!

So you just hand the phone to the intruder and say, "the cops would like to have a word with you" ?

"Hey, pig, can I help you with that flat tire?"

"... and the other cop replied, 'Yeah, what were the odds that we'd get lots of calls on New Year's Eve?'"

"Um, no, we never arrest homeless people. Can't fill out the arrest report if the suspect doesn't have a home address and a phone number."

"...so the editor asks the report, 'was alcohol involved?' but the reporter says, 'i don't know. I didn't remember to ask.'"

Gyrfalcon: Well, you know, in the Bay Area, a guy in a spiked suit in one's bedroom really isn't that odd, or necessarily against the law.

That'd be just what I was thinking when I saw the SFGate.com link...

\dispatcher was probably trying to hook up or something

Hmm...

California: Call 911 and wait with the intruder in the Kitchen till the cops arrive. Perhaps share a cappuccino?

Texas: Shoot the guy dead, call the cops, wait for hearse and medical examiner.

Shocktopus: Misdemeanor? MISDEMEANOR? Kicking in someone's door while they are home is a freaking MISDEMEANOR?

So if he got shot, would the homeowner be in trouble for using deadly force to prevent a misdemeanor?

I have to say, THIS. If that happened in Florida the cops could come at their leisure to take the fecking body away. Why would the call taker want to speak with the home invading burglar. Why would any idiot let the burglar use his phone.

I know many Californians perfer not to own guns, but it sure would be hard for the guy to talk to the dispatcher after I stuck a freaking fondue fork in his eye.

I was in San Jose a month or so ago and the cops were looking for someone as I was walking a few blocks back from First Street to the hotel at the convention center. They stopped me and asked for ID and I gave them my license. They called it in (I suppose many middle aged CPA looking guys are the criminals they seek) and found that I have a Florida weapons permit. They asked to see it and then asked why I brought it (not a weapon the freaking card) to California. They were all bent out of shape that I was allowed to carry a gun in Florida. Why did I bring the card? Because it is in my fecking wallet. Very, very strange place that California.

It has been 9 years since I was there last, and frankly I will be pleased if I never have to go there again. I went there for meetings for two days and since the firm I work for has an office there I have had $63 sucked out of my pay for Californa Income tax, which I have to file a form to get it refunded. Even NYC does not tax me on the week or so a year I spend in the city for meetings.

California is a cesspool of freaks and perverts.

"SF's Finest" come from the same pool of halfway-house rejects who can't get jobs @ Muni.

The same "law enforcement" officers who will ticket you for "speeding" on market street while ignoring bums stagger through traffic causing panic stops. The same who ignore traffic laws while looking for "revenue opportunities" on the way to a coffee shop to nap.

Morans.

AquaX: feckingmorons: California is a cesspool of freaks and perverts.

I'll trade you. You go visit my grandparents in Englewood, FL and I'll go to conventions in San Jose for you. Then neither of us has to experience the crapfest that is each other's state.

Sounds great to me, but I'll be back home in Dublin as of next week. Dublin at the end of January is so.... where do they live in Engelwood?

There has to be a state that is not a crapfest, they just keep it quiet. Idaho, Wyoming?